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[Lee Shapiro]

I got you. You’re frustrated and you were hoping my response would solve your problems. I’ve been there and I know. So I apologize for showing a little empathy. But I did not realize your download was taking THAT long. I thought that I had the slowest connection in the world, but 36 hours for one library, I agree that’s intolerable.

I hope one of the support team steps in and offers some help. If nothing else, my replies have kept your post near the top of the list, and might get more attention.
Good Luck!

[Lee Shapiro]

I feel your pain. But the Product Manager is just as fast as a “direct download”. I’m getting top speed on downloading right now. Which unfortunately for me is about 900 kB/s. (That’s the fastest my Internet service provides in my area) Each library part is going to take about 12 hours for me. I figure I’ll download one part a day. And in 5 days I’ll have everything. Unless I start a download before I go to bed, then I’ll have them all in about 2 and a half days.

[Lee Shapiro]

I have both Superior Drummer 2 and EZ Drummer 2, along with MANY sound packs for each. I had Superior Drummer first and it was my “go-to” drums whenever I recorded a song. But ever since EZdrummer 2 came out, I’m finding that I like many more of the sounds I get “out of the box” from EZD2. In fact a good portion of the sounds I get out of Superior Drummer, I don’t really care for. Even the most recent packs don’t sound as good as most of the EZD2 sounds.

And since I don’t do a lot of tweaking, except for maybe turning up the room mics in the mix, I use EZD2 almost exclusively now, with Superior Drummer just taking up space on my hard drive.

I agree with the person who said that Superior Drummer WAS ‘superior” before EZD2 came out (and its many sound packs), but I don’t think that’s true anymore, unless you are someone who likes to tweak endlessly or add producer presets to Superior Drummer (which is also a system hog, if you add to many of those producer presets).

But again, no griping here. Toontrack general offers quality sounds, in both it’s drum line and it’s keyboard line. I would love to see what they could do with a Hammond B3 organ. Ever since Native Instruments discontinued it’s “B4” and replaced it with “Vintage Organs”, there hasn’t been a decent Hammond organ. There are a couple of shareware and low-priced B3 emulators, but still nothing has matched the quality of NI’s B4.

Keep up the good work Toontrack!

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