

It sounds much better than the basic EZ Drummer kit. which of course is one of several good reasons why Toontrack and XLN Audio have a business.

During their current sale, All of the drums in SD are raw, so they need their own mix job Toontracks EZDrummer and Superior Drummer, Steven Slate Drums, Addictive Drums and several others of the paid variety The software provides full control over the leakage and bleeds between your percussion parts to fine-tune the tone. Maybe it's just me but I have always felt as if they lacked the kind of explosiveness of a real drum set.However, over the past 7 years, while recording everything from trip hop styles, and soft rock, jazz, and alt rock, to heavy hitting death metal, I've used the Seriously, I need some top of the line sounding drum samples for my recording setup. The reason for this is that I have never been that thrilled with the cymbals on Superior Drummer. Note: I originally had Superior Drummer and used it for a year or two before recently getting AD. I'm definitely no purist though as Superior Drummers velocity sensitivity on the snares and toms particularly seem more real to me. If I absolutely had to choose I would probably go with AD as it is less CPU heavy, has an interface that I find more fun to play around with, and has a wider range of "out of the box" possibilities. I really wanted to try and make my drum VST have that classic drum break sound and XLN AD gives you an amazing range of out of the box options that can sound both modern and dated. One thing I do prefer about AD is that you really get such a wide range of sounds out of the box.

Death & Darkness plus the newest Area 44 are awesome and can be used for almost any music style. Superior Drummer is a larger package and has some great SDX expansions.

I feel like I have good insight here as I have used both extensively.
