#Ezdrummer 3 vs superior drummer 3 full#

The mixing experience remains a simple and effective means of balancing the drums and amount of ambience. You can, of course, adjust the sound of your kit within EZdrummer 3’s Mixer, and you can also mix‑and‑match individual kit pieces across any of the rooms to build your own custom kits.

The percussion sounds - claps, shakers and tambourines included - sound great and, within the Drums window, the drum selection drop‑down menu for a particular kit piece now includes an Import Audio File option yes, it’s only a single sample per drum (although you do get velocity‑based volume response), but if you want to build a custom kit from your own 808 samples (for example), that’s perfectly possible. Yes, Toontrack will be more than happy to sell you some genre‑specific EZX sound expansions, but the core library will cover rock, pop, metal, singer‑songwriter, hip‑hop, country and, if you keep a light hand on the MIDI velocities, jazz, with absolute ease. The former go from super‑tight, through crisp and clean into deep and punchy, while the latter go from clicky and percussive, through to full, natural and punchy, and into big, deep and powerful. This is exemplified by the snares and kicks. in terms of both sonics and dynamic detail, these samples are absolutely good enough for even the most demanding of commercial contexts. Second, given the diverse selection of kits, and the different room combinations, the library can span a very broad range of musical styles. First, in terms of both sonics and dynamic detail, these samples are absolutely good enough for even the most demanding of commercial contexts. That’s almost modest in comparison with the Hansa SDX’s 122GB (which offers more kits, more rooms, more mics and, well, more of everything) but, having worked my way through EZdrummer’s new (and plentiful) kit presets, two things are very obvious. Three of Hansa’s rooms were used in these new recordings and the core library is divided on this basis into Main Room, Bright Room and Tight Room categories that provide three distinct natural ambiences.

#Ezdrummer 3 vs superior drummer 3 full#

Toontrack have returned to the same combination to generate new samples specifically for the EZdrummer 3 core library, recording seven full kits alongside some percussion and a number of additional snares, kicks and cymbals. My personal favourite SDX is The Rooms Of Hansa (see the June 2020 review), recorded in the various acoustic spaces of Berlin’s legendary Hansa Tonstudio with recording/mixing engineer Michael Ilbert in charge. In terms of the first of the fundamental elements outlined above, I think it’s safe to say EZdrummer 3 was placed into some very safe (read ‘exceptional’) hands. In addition, EZdrummer 2 and EZdrummer 3 can coexist quite happily, so older projects need not be disturbed by a change of drummer unless you choose to do so. However, existing users should feel reassured this is still very much EZdrummer, with a familiar workflow and full compatibility with all your existing EZdrummer 2 sample and MIDI groove content. This visual consistency will be welcomed from a workflow perspective, and the new UI is also fully resizable. Third, it provides tools that let you quickly finesse those preset grooves by changing their dynamics, intensity and timing to suit both your song’s structure and to dial the exact degree of ‘human’ required in the performance.Īs we will see in a minute, Toontrack have brought enhancements in all three of these key areas but, on first sight, the most obvious change is the visual refresh to bring the EZdrummer UI into line with that introduced by EZbass in 2020. Second, while you can obviously create your own drum patterns using your host sequencer, it provides the user with an excellent (and expandable) collection of genre‑based MIDI grooves that can easily be arranged into a song format. First, it offers high‑quality, sample‑based drum sounds (mostly various flavours of acoustic drums but there are electronic sounds available as expansion packs). So, how does EZdrummer 3 improve on EZdrummer 2? And, importantly, is it still EZ to use? EZ StyleĮZdrummer’s success has been built upon three fundamental elements. However, seven years is a long time, so it’s perhaps not surprising that Toontrack felt EZdrummer was due some R&D TLC. If I had to hazard a guess at the world’s most popular virtual drummer, I’d go with Toontrack‘s EZdrummer, and while its second incarnation was released back in 2014, it has remained a firm favourite ever since. Toontrack’s EZdrummer just gets better and better.