![]() I'm sure some of the progressive metal grooves that I have will be better for some things, but playing them myself is also giving me more of an idea of what I would need to do to edit the loops for more interesting and varied fills. I may not be a great drummer, but it is a helluva a lot more fun to play your own drums than it is to do things the way I used to. I wish now I had upgraded at Christmas just for all the Prochannel goodies, but no sense crying over missed opportunities. I already had Toontrack's Superior Drummer 2.3, so I figured I'd just go with Studio. ![]() More recently I have been triggering the SD3 kits with my Roland TD25. I thought about getting Producer back then, but it seemed the biggest difference was the inclusion of Addictive Drums. I have also used it as a writing tool by just auditioning various MIDI loops and putting them into a song format and then jamming with the song until I come up with a few ideas on what I want to play with them. I used to use the Tap-to-find feature to find grooves that fit a pattern I was looking for and it can really save you some time when you have a basic rhythmic idea. And there's no limit to how many slots you can load, whereas in AD you have a fixed number of instrument slots. Oh and SD3's user interface is spectacular. I think my task for today will be to check out the Death presets and waste the day on that. SD3 is using uncompressed samples, AD2 uses compression, like EZD too. Darkness has a lot of good starting points and I have already added my own tweaks to a couple of different variations. ![]() I just picked up the Death and Darkness SDX and I haven't even gotten around to checking out any of the Death presets yet. ![]() (the first electronic one for when I want electronic drums, for example.) I have a few that cover my needs, as well as a couple of EZ Drummer packs that fit in now and then. ![]()
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