The course starts with a proper look at the foundations of the software, the drums themselves, showing how kits are loaded up, played and customised. Others would be Addictive Drums, Steven Slate and BFD.Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 3 is an unrivalled platform for the creation of acoustic, electronic or hybrid drums, incorporating a huge library of sampled kits, recorded by George Massenburg, with an intuitive mixer that includes 35 built-in effects, comprehensive groove manipulation and much more! On this detailed course by Joshua Casper, you’ll be guided through every part of the software, to get you well on your way to programming incredible drum tracks with this legendary virtual studio. SD2 or SD3 are on my list of potential candidates. I want go find a drum software that will allow me to work quicker while creating drums that sound real. Creating dynamics and trying to get the midi drums sounding natural is a ton of work!

There’s got to be a quicker way of doing midi drums than the way I’m doing it. I don’t like using the prefab tracks that come with the drum software. Right now I create a virtual midi track in Reaper and then I draw in the kick, snare, hi hats, toms, etc. I need to learn how to create my midi drum tracks a lot faster and better than I do now.

It sounds much better than the basic EZ Drummer kit. Recently I’ve been using the free Steven Slate kit. I don’t like the artificial sound of the Alesis/ Yamaha kit and I’m pretty unimpressed by EZ Drummer. In 20 I also did a few song recordings using EZ Drummer. I was recording drums with an acoustic kit between 20 and then I switched to an Alesis/ Yamaha electric drum kit. I think the expansion packs would provide more variety and probably better sounding samples but I’m not sold on EZ Drummer as of now. When I first got it I thought it’s drum sounds were pretty decent but now I find them to be quite weak and limited.

Mixing superior drummer 3