His credits read like a who’s who of music from the last seventy years, beginning with Duke Ellington, who he worked with as a recording apprentice. Duke, Steely, Jacko and friendsĪl Schmidt might not be a household name, but it’s absolutely guaranteed that you will have heard his work.

Billed as the bigger brother to the more modest EZ Drummer package, it offers access to a larger and more elaborate number of samples, while also allowing the exploitation of the EZ Drummer line, which caters for everything from Latin percussion to Junk kits, so any expansion library which further compliments the excellent in-house SD3 samples is going to be worth considering, especially when produced in conjunction with an industry legend. Toontrack’s Superior Drummer package has arguably changed the way that many producers work, when it comes to utilising live drums.

As for samples to use in Slate Trigger I really enjoy this setup, and it doesn't require you buying any extra samples other than the ones already mentioned.Price €159.00/£122.00 Contact: That way you'll have the best of both worlds. My recommendation would be to get SD + Metal Foundry and then later down the line buy Slate Trigger 2 Platinum. The MIDI pack that comes with Metal Foundry also happens to be fantastic. As you can hear the cymbals are definitely still good but they took quite a lot of work compared to Metal Foundry's cymbals, which are practically good to go out of the box. The kick and snare have been replaced with other direct and room samples and everything was mixed outside of Superior. Here's a sound sample of Metal Machinery's cymbals, rooms and toms. There are some good Combined Presets from good producers in the box when you buy Superior but to be honest it was made to be mixed properly in your DAW, not in Superiors own mixer.

I do however tend to replace the shells with samples I enjoy more and that aren't used quite as often in the metal community which often leads me to use Metal Foundry.Īs for a good sound right out of the box, the goal of Superior Drummer is to basically give you access to exactly what was recorded, meaning there will be flaws and imperfections which need to be adressed. After owning and using both for several years I've come to the conclusion that I really like the cymbals in Metal Foundry and the shells in Metal Machinery.

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