[Anthony Alexander]

I’d be happy with $149 USD instead of the currently listed $209 USD.

[Anthony Alexander]

+1 again. I’ve owned pretty much everything going back to the original SD, original EZD, SD 2 and EZD 2, plus five of the SD expansions, 8 of the EZD expansions and some MIDI packs. So, I’m definitely grateful, but it would really be nice to get a bigger break here after all those years of patronage and $ spent. And not to make this too pathetic… but I purchased EZD 2 just 10 months ago after waiting for this upgrade to SD 3 for a few years and thinking it wasn’t coming.

[Anthony Alexander]

I’m another customer who owns SD 2 but thinks EZD 2 has better features for my needs. If SD is about to get some sort of update to include these features as in something like SD 3, please let us know now so that we don’t regret purchasing EZD 2 only to have an SD 3 come out shortly thereafter with the added songwriting features at a lower update cost for us. That wouldn’t be fair to not tell us if you’re already working on it. It’s not like you’d be tipping your hand to a competitor, so there’s no need for secrecy here.

[Anthony Alexander]

Although we haven’t heard anything, I think it’s pretty much guaranteed that there will be an SD3 on the way. There’s no way they would add all those great features to a lower level product and forget about the higher level product. The EZD line is marketed to songwriters and composers as an out-of-the-box solution for quick production that works, while SD2 is more for producers and studios that want extensive production flexibility. While I see where a pro studio might more frequently have SD2 hooked up to an electronic kit for use by a live drummer, meaning no need for many of the automated playing enhancements EZD2 features in that scenario, they’ve already developed the technology so why not add it to an SD3 product? Lots of composers who don’t play electronic kits, me being one, also like to work with very flexible production capabilities rather than limited ones. We want the best possible situation without having to call a session drummer and don’t have space for a kit. A new SD3 with the added EZD2 features, plus any other unrevealed enhancements, is a no-brainer purchase for us.

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