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Chester Thompson
Drummer
I started playing around the age of 11 because I just had to play drums. School band was the first chance to play and a family friend started teaching me to play along with jazz albums. I got my fir...
www.chesterthompson.com
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Chris Adler
Lamb of God
Drummer
"I’ve struggled for years programming drums in my studio for writing purposes. There is nothing worse than waiting to program a simple beat to begin auditioning ideas. These products not...
www.lamb-of-god.com
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Chris Whitten
Drummer
When I was a small child I used to sing along to The Beatles. I also ‘drummed’ along to their records, tapping an old biscuit tin with a couple of kitchen knives. An early memory was bei...
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Dale Baker
Drummer
Chances are youve heard Dales drumming recently. Dales drumming propels the lilting melody of the hit song and perennial summer favorite "Kiss Me," by the group Sixpence None the Richer. Due to the so...
www.dalebakerdrummer.com
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David Haynes
Drummer
Well, I started playing my drum machine because I didnt have a drumset. Both of my brothers are musicians, one plays drums and the other singers, plays sax and keys.
Too many people to name; Vinnie...
thedrumnetwork.ning.com/profi...
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Dirk Verbeuren
Soilwork
Drummer
Born in Wilrijk, Belgium in 1975, Dirk Verbeuren began his musical training in elementary school with the violin which he played proficiently for seven years. His family moved to Paris, France in 1988...
www.dirkverbeuren.com
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Elijah “DD” Holt
Drummer
Elijah "D.D." Holt, is a dynamic musician, producer, arranger/creator. Known for his consistent "feel good" quality, he is constantly sought after to either supply the DEEP pocket ...
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Futureman
bela fleck and the flecktones
Drummer
Toontrack artist Futureman
Futureman (aka Roy Wooten) is a musician, composer and innovator with three Grammy Awards won (the latest one for Best Contemporary Jazz Album at the 49th Annual Grammy awa...
www.futuremanmusic.com
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Harry Stinson
Drummer
I couldn’t help but play. I think it’s something you’re called to do. My parents cultivated my musical seed when they bought a piano and started me on piano lessons. Then the Beatl...
www.myspace.com/harrystinson
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Matt Halpern
Periphery
Drummer
"If you're interested in programming drums do not waste your time looking elsewhere. Toontrack offers all of the products anyone needs for "in the box" and "out of the box&q...
www.facebook.com/PeripheryBand
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Michael Blair
Drummer
Grew up as a Navy brat in the US. Moved every year, pretty much. Learned how to make new friends, get involved in new situations. And I can sleep anywhere, anytime. Cars, buses, trains, airplanes. P...
myspace.com/michaelblairdrumm...
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Mikael Emsing
Drummer
Started out playing drumkit when I was ten or something. Previously I wasnt at all interested in music and when I was a kid Id start crying when ever I heard a stereo or something like that. Then du...
www.mikaelemsing.com
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Morgan Ågren
Drummer
I felt an attraction to the drums, and music in general when I was about three years old. I started to hit cans and buckets. Then my parents bought me a drum set when I was five. Inspiration was, an...
www.morganagren.com
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Nir Z
Drummer
I always knew that Music is what I wanted to do. I received my first drum set at the age of 12 and began studying music composition, drums, and percussion under Shaoul Shaval and then David Rich who...
www.nirz.com
www.myspace.com/nirzmusic
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Per Mikaelsson
Drummer
The first time I was behind a drum kit was at nine. I tried playing the ”I am sailing” melody on the drums. After the initial disappointment that drums weren’t really a melodic ins...
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Peter Fredlander
Drummer
I started playing drumset at the age of 7, before that I just played anything that could generate a pleasing sound. Groove, timing and sound has always been key elements in my way of making music. P...
www.myspace.com/peterfredland...
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Samuel Giers
Drummer
I started playing drums when I was 12. Back then I was mostly inspired by my neighbour who played the drums. I could stand for hours watching him play. All the older kids played in bands so I started ...
www.mandodiao.com
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Stephen Belans
Drummer
There was always music playing in our house growing up. My dad was a huge music fan. He taught me a few chords on the guitar, and he bought one of those cheesy home Hammond organs when I was probabl...
www.stephenbelans.com
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Sterling Campbell
Drummer
When i was growing up, my brothers were music fanatics and were always buying all the latest music of both rock and R&B.That was the early to mid seventies and the creative output was amazing fr...
www.sterling-campbell.com
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Tom Roady
Drummer
I started playing drums at 5 after being hooked by Spike Jones and his City Slickers... they were the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention of their day for sure... I got a piano and a drum... th...
www.tomroady.com
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Tomas Haake
Meshuggah
Drummer
"Keep checking into the Toontrack site! I’m sure there will be many great releases by these freaks over the coming years!!!"
www.meshuggah.net
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Zach Velmer
Drummer
Well i have always been into music since i can remember but started playing when i was 10. I took this coordination test to see if i could play in band and i scored really high on it. The instructor...
www.sts9.com
www.myspace.com/sts9
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Acle Kahney
Tesseract
Musician
I first started playing guitar when I was about 9 years old after hearing a Led Zeppelin song. My step brother owned a Stratocaster which was gathering dust in a corner and after finally teaching my...
www.myspace.com/tesseract
www.4dsounds.com
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Adam "Nolly" Getgood
Periphery
Musician
"Toontrack sample libraries and software present an amazing opportunity for enthusiasts and professionals alike to get access to incredible drum sounds with minimum hassle."
www.facebook.com/PeripheryBand
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Ben Sharp
CloudKicker
Musician
"If it werent for Toontrack I would still be using garbage-sounding samples through a woefully-inadequate interface that makes writing complex music effectively impossible, so I owe practicall...
http://blogkicker.tumblr.com/
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Brendan Benson
Musician
Late afternoon, Miami, and Iggy Pop and I were standing watching for a manatee that occasionally swims up along the river at the end of his garden. Pop was bare-chested in cerise trousers, talking abo...
Brendanbenson.com
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Chris Broderick
Megadeth
Musician
" I have used Toontrack products from the early 16 bit DFH, and have always been amazed with each next release. Now with S2.0 I have heard a ton of home recording musicians getting drum m...
www.chrisbroderick.com
www.megadeth.com
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Clint Lowery
Sevendust
Musician
"Toontrack software has been crucial in the songwriting and tracking process in and out of the studio for me. It provides the right tools to create the sounds and shape necessary for qua...
www.sevendust.com/
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Corey Beaulieu
Trivium
Musician
" ive used Drumkit from hell and now Superior drummer , both programs sound amazing! both have been huge in the process of songwriting for me. If you want amazing sounding d...
www.trivium.org/
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Devin Townsend
The Devin Townsend Project
Musician
"I have tried other similar type products, but as someone who is fascinated by drum recording, as well as current sounds, nothing has its ear to the ground in the way Toontrack does. This...
www.devintownsend.com
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Eric Bass
Shinedown
Musician
"I love it when people ask me, "Hey, who played drums on your demos?" I tell them I use Toontrack's Superior Drummer. Whether i'm writing with an artist, or produ...
www.shinedown.com/
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Evan Brewer
The Faceless
Musician
"The Toontrack products are absolutely vital to every phase of my music creation process. Whether it's pre-production or generating final product I can't fathom a way I could this kind...
www.facebook.com/OfficialEvan...
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Jay Graydon
Musician
At age 14, I played drum and quickly realized I had an aptitude for guitar. At that point one, guitar became a big part of my life and is the only stable thing (outside of being a human) that remain...
www.jaygraydon.com
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Jeff Loomis
Musician
I am the guitarist and main songwriter for the metal band Nevermore. Many people dont know that I actually started playing drums before guitar. My Father had an old classical guitar laying around th...
www.jeffloomis.com
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John Petrucci
Dream Theater
Musician
"Superior Drummer turned out to be an invaluable tool for me during the writing and demoing process for Dream Theater's latest album, "A Dramatic Turn of Events" Even durin...
www.dreamtheater.net/
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Jona Weinhofen
I Killed The Prom Queen
Musician
"EZdrummer makes programming phenomenal sounding drums on my song ideas quick and painless and saves a lot of time trying to express my ideas to my co-writers or a studio engineer"
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www.facebook.com/iktpq
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Jordan Rudess
Dream Theater
Musician
Jordan Rudess entered the pretigious Juilliard School of Music for classical piano training at age 9. At 19 he left Juilliard to pursue the world of synthesizers. In 1994 Jordan was voted Keyboard Mag...
www.jordanrudess.com
www.dreamtheater.net
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Marc
Veil of Maya
Musician
Hi! Im Marc. I play guitar for a band called Veil of Maya. My dad bought me my first guitar for my 13th birthday and I havent put it down since. As a kid I started listening to bands like Radi...
myspace.com/veilofmaya
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Mattias IA Eklundh
Freak Kitchen
Musician
"I was happy to jam with groovy Toontrack players Nir Z and David Haynes recently and I couldn’t believe the kick-ass audio (and chops) heard. I almost wet my pants. Hope you will too&he...
www.freakguitar.com
www.freakkitchen.com
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Paul Antonio Ortiz
Chimp Spanner
Musician
"Drums are one of the hardest things to get right, but Toontrack have nailed it. It’s easy to use, there’s an amazing range of sounds on offer and it’s a great community...
www.chimpspanner.com
www.basickrecords.com
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Timo Kotipelto
Musician
I got my drum kit when I was thirteen years old. After playing drums for 3 years I started singing in a local band. I joined Stratovarius in 1994 and since then I have recorded 15 albums.As a singer I...
www.stratovarius.com
www.kotipelto.com
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Waddy Wachtel
Musician
Robert "Waddy" Wachtel was born May 24, 1947 to Harry and Rhoda Wachtel in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, in New York City. "Bobby," as he was known at that time, already had a big brother, Ji...
myspace.com/thewaddywachtelba...
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Allen Morgan
Producer
Music has always been a central focus in my life. I started playing drums at 9 years old. Some of my first music memories are listening to Kiss, Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles with my older cousin. E...
www.allenmorganaudio.com
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Bob Bradley
Producer
"People like the Toontrack boys make life so much easier to get straight down to the creative process."
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Daniel Bergstrand
Producer
"Just love to have the possibility to choose between all these amazingly good sounding rooms and play around with that huge collection of snares that Toontrack offers…the only negative ...
www.dugoutproductions.com/
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George Massenburg
Producer
"I'd be stumped without Superior Drummer 2.0! It is now an essential tool in my production workflow. Its an exceptional product that clearly stands about the rest! Congratulati...
http://www.massenburg.com/
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Glenn Rosenstein
Producer
"In my early days as an assistant at the Power Station, I'd run and get coffee for Neil, hoping to catch a glimpse of the magic he's create behind the Neve 8068 in Studio A. Whil...
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Jason Suecof
Producer
"Toontrack has gone to some of the best studios around the world and provided awesome drumkits that anyone can use- whether you are a professional studio or just starting out toontrack makes i...
www.audiohammerstudios.com/
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Jeff Bova
Producer
"The tools we choose must support our intention to make great music. Superior 2.0 allows me to do just that. The powerful interface and brilliantly recorded sounds combine to deliver...
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Larry Mitchell
Producer
I started with a toy drum set that my mother later through out the third story window. I really could have used EZdrummer back then. :-) I started on Guitar at age 9. I was and still am into many styl...
www.larrymitchell.com
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Lee Major
Producer
Lee Major also known from "The Inkredibles". I get most of my inspiration from my family, because i come from a family of musicians, and also from my home state VA. We have some of the greatest music ...
www.leemajorkid.com
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Louis Biancaniello
Producer
I started playing and composing at age 7. I took classical piano but also had bands from age 8. I spent many years playing live as a sideman and Musical Director. I also worked as a studio musician. I...
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Mark Needham
Producer
I started as a guitar player/drummer/studio owner 40 years ago.What songwriters and musicians inspire you today and where do you see your musicianship in five or ten years from now?WOW, that is a lot ...
www.markneedham.com
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Michael Raphael
Producer
Michael Raphael Has co-wrote a smash for the Mitchell Musso cd (Oliver on Hannah Montana) on Walt Disney Records, The song Last Forever will be performed on the TV series Hannah Montana. Michael has a...
myspace.com/michaelraphaelmus...
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Neil Dorfsman
Producer
Everybody thinks Im some furry little British guy, as opposed to a tall, balding New Yorker, but I was born in Manhattan and grew up on Long Island.
I first went out to California to try to be an e...
www.neildorfsman.com
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Nik Roos
Noisia
Producer
"SD2 has been an essential VST in our drum making process for the last 3 years. The flexibility and control over the sound is far greater than using one shot samples. Instead of sampling them,...
http://www.noisia.nl/
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Pat Thrall
Producer
I was raised in in a family that was consumed with acting , art and music. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s when there was a huge music scene thriving there. I started as a drumm...
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Rob Davis
Producer
I started out as a guitarist in a band called mud in the 70s, we had 4 number 1s & were quite well know in europe, got into songwriting b-sides & album trax, in the 80s got more into writing...
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Warren McRae
Producer
Mr. McRae was born in Jamaica, Queens New York. He was always surrounded and inspired by other great musicians from the area, Marcus Miller, Omar Hakim, Bernard Wright and Lenny White to name a few. H...
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