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[ChristopherDuncan]

Scott wrote:

ChristopherDuncan wrote:

redlogic wrote:

Custom & Vintage SDX?

I appreciate the suggestion.

I have no doubt that there are lots of packs you can buy. My observation was that Superior Drummer seems to focus on metal with what’s included, which is great if you’re a metal guy. Dinosaurs like me who play classic rock, not so much. With EZ Drummer, there were lots of kits included that fit my genre nicely but that doesn’t seem to be the case with SD unless I’m missing something.

SDXs are, by design, raw. They can be mixed to sound many different ways given the type of MIDI that is sent to the sounds (velocity plays a big role). Mixing techniques (compression, eq, gating, et al) will, of course, make the drums for in various styles.

The kits that ship with S3 that were recorded by George Massenberg are very versatile. Also the Roots SDX, C&V SDX, Independent SDX, Music City SDX, are decidedly not metal (although, like i said above, can be mixed that way).

Hey, Scott.

Thanks for the feedback.

I do understand that the raw, basic SDXs are just very good recordings of how the drum kits actually sound. Certainly half the battle. However, in addition to that, when you buy SD there are a lot of mix ready, processed kits that you can just grab and go with. Like EZ before it, these processed kits give you a great sound right out of the box. Point your MIDI at it, rock and roll.

What I was asking about (and probably not phrasing it well enough) was my perception that of these processed offerings, they pretty much all seem to be geared to metal. If I want big classic rock style drums, the tools are certainly there for me to create them. However, I was looking for some good classic rock mix ready offerings side by side with all the metal stuff – without having to spend the time rolling my own. That’s what I meant when I said, “I’m hoping I’m just missing something in SD so that I don’t have to start from scratch and reinvent a number of wheels.”

[ChristopherDuncan]

redlogic wrote:

Custom & Vintage SDX?

I appreciate the suggestion.

I have no doubt that there are lots of packs you can buy. My observation was that Superior Drummer seems to focus on metal with what’s included, which is great if you’re a metal guy. Dinosaurs like me who play classic rock, not so much. With EZ Drummer, there were lots of kits included that fit my genre nicely but that doesn’t seem to be the case with SD unless I’m missing something.

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[ChristopherDuncan]

Antinet wrote:

You didn’t like what’s in the Bob Rock collection?

Is that one of the stock kits that ships with SD? If it’s an add on I’m not familiar with it.

I auditioned the stock kits in SD and as I mentioned, stylistically they seem to heavily favor the metal vibe. Nothing wrong with metal, of course. It’s just not what I play.

[ChristopherDuncan]

Scott wrote:

All EZXs load in S3 just fine and sound and work the same in S3 as they do in EZD2.

My EZ2 stuff loads fine in SD and sounds the same in SD as it does EZ, but they don’t have the same options, e.g. number of busses, etc. that the native SD kits do. And the additional busses and other mix features are why I bought SD in the first place.

That being the case, there’s no advantage to running them in SD, so I simply load EZ. Currently, SD sits unused.

• This post was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by ChristopherDuncan.

[ChristopherDuncan]

@gmontano said:

I put this together quickly – change the output and midi channel to taste

I didn’t include all of the alias notes, but this should be a good start

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_wd5fxB1bwPRUFfREcyWlNxdHM/edit?usp=sharing

From one Cubase user to another, thanks very much for taking the time to put this together and post it.

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