Probably the most asked question in the history of midi drums, but I’ve been playing a bit with the demos and would like to hear any user opinons. The AD 2 demo is limited to very few kit pieces so hard to evaluate fully. The EZDrummer 2 demo was full but worked for 10 days so could play around a little more.
Both sound good and have more control than I probably need 
. They seem to be pretty awesome pieces of software, but quite costly (and occupy lots of space), so I plan to buy only one of them. EZ Drummer seems more intuitive to use – for example, you can drag the loop on a MIDI track and plays just like in the interface, while for AD when I drag it, it sounds quite different than in the interface (seems to be using a different kit?); or it wasn’t immediate to me to understand which specific midi note was expected for which kit – info I need to program the pads.
EZ Drummer is marginally less expensive, but not so much to be really a factor.
My initial use is mostly for demo, but I’d like to learn to program realistic drums and in perspective even use them for actual productions, so long I manage to make them of the quality I need. Genre goes from acoustic songs to hard rock (no metal). Occasionally I do some fusion/jazz without the band, so there the plan would be to use the package for actual production work.
Basically the questions are like, what can I do with the one that I can’t with the other (I mean, without significantly more effort)? About the built-in libraries which come with the basic package, is one of the two more flexible than the other (that’s mainly for the demo angle of course). Any other aspects worth considering?
Cheers!
