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Great point to make difab4 and probably defines what a lot of SD users are experiencing, hence quite a bit of resentment given they are often the early adopters who are so important to the making or breaking of a software company. Those features could and should have been added to SD long ago and it’s purely a gouge decision. I can understand this as capitalism is our current disease, but it really sucks balls and I’ve lost some respect for the company. No skin for them I know!

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@ScottFB said:

No Tap To Find!?!….
AND
No Song Builder?!?!?
I grabbed an adult beverage and was ready to dig in to my newly purchased upgrade from EZ Drummer2 to Superior Drummer 2.0…I was excited about all of the wonderful options I was going to have to sift through in order to find some killer grooves to start replacing my old boring drum machine tracks with!

Then reality set in.

I guess I’m confused by semantics.

My education tells me that the word ‘Superior’ trumps the abbreviation EZ…especially since Superior is actually spelled out in a cool, chrome font and EZ is spelled simply EZ using a ‘hope to kind of impress you’ italicized, capitalized block font.

So…why is Superior Drummer 2.0 superior to EZDrummer2?

Or was I simply fooled by clever marketing?

Nice reply from Toontrack. The answer you’re looking for is that there are no reasons other than trying to force you to buy both products. I’ve had Superior from the start and like just about every other owner I fully expected an update with those features long ago when ez2 came out. After countless emails about gimmicky products and updates to everything but Superior I note that as of a few days ago they’re letting me know about how there’s tutorials for Superior on the website…gee, thanks. This coincides with their take on NI’s Service Centre which seems redundant but is clearly there to catch out anyone with pirated libraries. Absolutely fair enough but already someone has reported an issue with legit libraries and been told to fix it with a command line prompt!! Not only that but it was the wrong line and the client had to correct it. I love the library but I’m weirded out by the lack of love for SD2 adopters and the arrogance of the reps such as in this case. Rude and unprofessional. Logic’s free Drummer keeps getting better and better. Hope this was more helpful than the rudely dropped link.

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Too many SD users in here, guarantees no response or a surly one at best. Early adopters are like morbid uncles at the wedding of the fresh faced young pretties on the cusp of first mortgages and credit card adoption.

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@John Baker said:

…..a year later.

zzzzzzzz…..

I feel like I’m yelling insults among the ruins of a once vibrant citadel. This place is a tomb

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Nowhere. It’s a good product but an antisocial forum. Sadly I think that’s got to do with the lack of genuine participation from the company. Hi from 2016 btw

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I hope you got a private reply and if so would you mind letting the rest of us plebs know what happened? If you got no reply well that’s just rude. About as rude as sending hundreds of promo emails to Superior users trying to sell EZ crap packs but not a peep for years about the flagship product that we spent so much money on in the first place. So, not surprised.

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Henrik I don’t want to buy EZ Drummer 2, I’ve put hundreds of dollars into SD for years. I’d like the pro version to be updated to have features that the toy version has. To not be able to relocate midi has for years been the biggest PIA in what is otherwise a great piece of software. If you modernise SD you say “Thanks guys for staying the course and enabling us to develop our products and release countless sdx’s, we wouldn’t be here without your early adoption”. Etc

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