Last month’s release of Superior Drummer 3 may be a bit overdue, but was certainly worth the wait. Here are some of the features which make this VST offering a new benchmark.
SD3 is a standalone software product, and no longer requires a host such as the Solo product required to run SD2. One click, and you’re behind the kit and in the studio with SD3.
2) Samples galore
SD3 “ships” with more than 230 GB of raw, unprocessed sounds. That’s almost 15 times the size of SD2 (19 GB). Of course, this is an enormous download which would have taken more than 1,000 hours on my Internet connection, so thankfully, an SSD ‘hard copy’ version is also available. The samples are rich and detailed with up to 25 velocity layers per instrument.
3) Amazing instruments
The pack features seven kits, from bread-and-butter sets like Pearl, Yamaha and Gretsch to more exotic kits from Ayotte and a couple of Ludwigs. There are 25 snares and 16 kick drums, and toms range from 6” to 20”. Most of the kits come with brushes, rods and mallets articulations in addition to stick sounds. And for lovers of classic electronic drums, there are around 350 sounds from vintage and classic drum machines.
4) E-drum compatibility
This story is from the November 2017 edition of digitalDrummer.
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