- #Superior drummer 3 vs abbey road software
- #Superior drummer 3 vs abbey road plus
- #Superior drummer 3 vs abbey road free
I heard them on countless occasions, as well as the phenomenal difference the 20-bit machines made. The stair steps I spoke of were real, Michael dithering was introduced in order to smooth these things out, after all. But it's not very versatile (you will one day want to go back and be able to change that snare out or arrange the kit in mix space, etc)
#Superior drummer 3 vs abbey road free
And have money to purchase some third party libraries.Īnother alternative is you can get a cheap or free drumming plugin, create multi-tracks, purchase Slate Trigger, and have it auto replace the cheap sounding drums with much better wav file drum sounds which you can find free all over the place.īefore all this I just got a bunch of drum wav files (loved Drums on Demand) and used Sony Acid (the free version) to loop together a song and dang if it didn't sound fantastic. I think in terms of money AND time, EZ Drummer is a good start, since you can use it even after upping to a more powerful plugin. I has Track Assistant that auto-analyzes and puts togethers some settings in it's suite of abilities (i.e. SD2 and others are a deeper learning curve.īTW, I recently got Neutron by iZotope and I use that to finish my drum tracks for Superior Drummer. In the end, it has more to do with the patterns you put together than the software. I have Superior, EZ and Slate's and typically either use EZ for a quickie or port that finished MIDI drum file to a new track and add Superior Drummer 2.0 for it's better sounding drums (I like NYC 3 and Music City) but like said, BFD3 comes with a variety, SD2 doesn't not and you have to purchase them separately (expensive but you can get them cheaper on sales) I haven't used BFD3 but hear it's on par with Superior Drummer 2.0
#Superior drummer 3 vs abbey road software
Others are un-processed so that you can tweak to your hearts desire all the nuances of drumming that the software allows. AFTER that you can use any other drum VI you want.Īs said above, some are pre-processed so you can just get on with your song. So you use EZ to peruse MIDI, create more patterns, arrange the entire song, then you can drop-n-drag that song to your track. For both those reasons, many of us own EZ Drummer along with other Drum VI's that we use the better sounding libraries to "finish" the drum part.
#Superior drummer 3 vs abbey road plus
Plus it can create MIDI parts from one pattern so that you can create a song. I could be wrong, but I think only EZ Drummer has the ability to search third party MIDI libraries, or even it's own MIDI libraries, and pattern match to an imported pattern or one made on the spot. So you can either purchase their extension packs or get third party (much cheaper) All of the software companies that make Drum VI's have MIDI libraries but I find them rather scarce on variety of beats. You are wanting to do 4) so you need MIDI libraries. 3) use drum loops (wav files created or sampled)Ĥ) use MIDI and a Drum Virtual Instrument that interprets MIDI, typically a plugin but can be standalone