Got eDrums (Roland, Yahama etc)? You need Superior 2.0
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Not sure how many eDrummers there are who hang around in this forum but...
I've spent the weekend playing around with Toontracks Superior Drummer 2.0 and I can't recommend it highly enough. You may think the sound of your TD10/20/DTX etc is good but Superior delivers on that claim to make eDrums sound like the real thing.
The sound quality and "feel" is quite simply in a different league to anything the Roland/Yahama etc stuff can put out natively.
Downsides? Well you will need some kind of audio interface and you'll not want to scrimp on this because latency is your enemy and you'll need a whole chunk of disk space to store the sample data. Cost is another one; Superior is not cheap, add on the cost of the other bits you will need (audio interface) and the cost starts to mount up but I'd dont begrudge a single penny.
The software itself is supplied with AU, RTAS and VST plugins (IIRC) which pretty much means you're covered for any sequencing software but you don't need to use a sequencing package because they also supply a utility called EzPlayer Solo which allows you to access the functionality outside of a sequencer environment.
I know some users are using this setup live and from my personal experience was that I had no mysterious failures, no bizarre popping noises blah blah at all during the, large, amount of time I spent playing around with it.
Finally, I'm not a Toontrack employee! This is just too good not to share with other eDrummers (although I'm probably massively behind the curve and you all already knew about this).
I've spent the weekend playing around with Toontracks Superior Drummer 2.0 and I can't recommend it highly enough. You may think the sound of your TD10/20/DTX etc is good but Superior delivers on that claim to make eDrums sound like the real thing.
The sound quality and "feel" is quite simply in a different league to anything the Roland/Yahama etc stuff can put out natively.
Downsides? Well you will need some kind of audio interface and you'll not want to scrimp on this because latency is your enemy and you'll need a whole chunk of disk space to store the sample data. Cost is another one; Superior is not cheap, add on the cost of the other bits you will need (audio interface) and the cost starts to mount up but I'd dont begrudge a single penny.
The software itself is supplied with AU, RTAS and VST plugins (IIRC) which pretty much means you're covered for any sequencing software but you don't need to use a sequencing package because they also supply a utility called EzPlayer Solo which allows you to access the functionality outside of a sequencer environment.
I know some users are using this setup live and from my personal experience was that I had no mysterious failures, no bizarre popping noises blah blah at all during the, large, amount of time I spent playing around with it.
Finally, I'm not a Toontrack employee! This is just too good not to share with other eDrummers (although I'm probably massively behind the curve and you all already knew about this).
GnuBee said:
Not sure how many eDrummers there are who hang around in this forum but...
I've spent the weekend playing around with Toontracks Superior Drummer 2.0 and I can't recommend it highly enough. You may think the sound of your TD10/20/DTX etc is good but Superior delivers on that claim to make eDrums sound like the real thing.
The sound quality and "feel" is quite simply in a different league to anything the Roland/Yahama etc stuff can put out natively.
Downsides? Well you will need some kind of audio interface and you'll not want to scrimp on this because latency is your enemy and you'll need a whole chunk of disk space to store the sample data. Cost is another one; Superior is not cheap, add on the cost of the other bits you will need (audio interface) and the cost starts to mount up but I'd dont begrudge a single penny.
The software itself is supplied with AU, RTAS and VST plugins (IIRC) which pretty much means you're covered for any sequencing software but you don't need to use a sequencing package because they also supply a utility called EzPlayer Solo which allows you to access the functionality outside of a sequencer environment.
I know some users are using this setup live and from my personal experience was that I had no mysterious failures, no bizarre popping noises blah blah at all during the, large, amount of time I spent playing around with it.
Finally, I'm not a Toontrack employee! This is just too good not to share with other eDrummers (although I'm probably massively behind the curve and you all already knew about this).
Hey just saw your post. I've just bought a TD12 and am running it through DFH (version 1.0) with a dual 1.25mhz G4. I use Logic 6.0 and run DFH through an EXS instrument.I've spent the weekend playing around with Toontracks Superior Drummer 2.0 and I can't recommend it highly enough. You may think the sound of your TD10/20/DTX etc is good but Superior delivers on that claim to make eDrums sound like the real thing.
The sound quality and "feel" is quite simply in a different league to anything the Roland/Yahama etc stuff can put out natively.
Downsides? Well you will need some kind of audio interface and you'll not want to scrimp on this because latency is your enemy and you'll need a whole chunk of disk space to store the sample data. Cost is another one; Superior is not cheap, add on the cost of the other bits you will need (audio interface) and the cost starts to mount up but I'd dont begrudge a single penny.
The software itself is supplied with AU, RTAS and VST plugins (IIRC) which pretty much means you're covered for any sequencing software but you don't need to use a sequencing package because they also supply a utility called EzPlayer Solo which allows you to access the functionality outside of a sequencer environment.
I know some users are using this setup live and from my personal experience was that I had no mysterious failures, no bizarre popping noises blah blah at all during the, large, amount of time I spent playing around with it.
Finally, I'm not a Toontrack employee! This is just too good not to share with other eDrummers (although I'm probably massively behind the curve and you all already knew about this).
How did you st up your sequencer to map the drum pads to SD 2.0
Do yo think my Mac is up to the job of SD2.0?
What system/s are you running?
Cheers
Driller said:
Hey just saw your post. I've just bought a TD12 and am running it through DFH (version 1.0) with a dual 1.25mhz G4. I use Logic 6.0 and run DFH through an EXS instrument.
How did you st up your sequencer to map the drum pads to SD 2.0
Do yo think my Mac is up to the job of SD2.0?
What system/s are you running?
Cheers
Ok a bunch of questions here so:How did you st up your sequencer to map the drum pads to SD 2.0
Do yo think my Mac is up to the job of SD2.0?
What system/s are you running?
Cheers
1) My system: MacBook Pro + Logic 8 Express. Drums are TD10/TDW-1 with a VH-11 hi hat. Software is Superior 2.0. I use a MOTU Ultralite MK3 firewire audio/midi interface
2) Superior 2.0 is run either as an AU within Logic 8 or using the Solo utility that comes with the software
3) MIDI mapping is done either in Solo where there is a drop down option "eDrum" that will work with most setups or do as I did and head over to www.vdrums.com and look for the Superior project files from a chap called Joe_K who has done the hard work already
4) The quoted minimum spec for Superior 2.0 is Dual G4 1.25Ghz with 1gb of ram or higher. You can reduce your memory requirements by using 16 bit samples, economising with kit setup and xDrums
5) Take a look at www.toontrack.com and check out what they say about compatibility with Logic 6 (I'm pretty sure it is but it's still worth a look)
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