Imagine...

...having access to some of the best drummers in the world playing the best drums available with the best possible sound 24 hours a day.

...that you decide how they should play and with what kind of tool. Brushes, drumsticks, rods or felt mallets. Felt, Plastic or Wood Bass drum beaters.

...60+ cymbals, 5 drumkits, 8 hihats, 17 snares to choose between, all in top quality, some signature instruments not available on the market.

...access to a massive percussionkit from MEINL percussion with different bongos, congas, tamburines, cowbells, triangales and much, much more, played by a world class percussionist + access to a small cocktail kit from Yamaha.

...All that recorded with the best mics from Royerlabs, Neumann, AudioTechnica, BeyerDynamics, Earthworks & Sennheiser through some of the best pre amps on the market without any pre or post processing of the sounds.

...each mic having its own designated output channel with natural bleeding from the rest of the drums.
...every hit randomized for a non-linear performance.

Produced by AWARD WINNING producers TOONTRACK® MUSIC

Overview
Upon the release of Drumkit From Hell Toontrack® Music found themselves defining drumsound quality both with the musicmakers and the critics.

SOS Magazine awarded their FIVE STAR AWARD to Drumkit from Hell and it's been the top selling library in the major territories throughout 2003. EQ Magazine finished this fantastic year by awarding Drumkit From Hell their newly created EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY AWARD.

No longer was it enough recording exceptional playing and sound quality to fit other software formats. So, to be able to take the vision of how sampled drums should sound beyond what was already achieved, Toontrack® had to take the process of creating the ultimate drumproduct one step further.

Toontrack® had to create their own definition, their own standard. Shortly after the release of Drumkit From Hell, They started the process of recording and developing the next natural level of Drumkit from Hell sound.

dfh SUPERIOR is a drumlibrary combined with the SUPERIOR-Plugin. Developed in Synergy to create real, life, live, drums.

The Idea...
Combining the bleed between microphones provides you with a recording situation that is equivalent to having the worlds best drummers & percussionists live in your studio.

The idea behind SUPERIOR is to make a programmable environment as close to a real studiosession as possible. All leakage, that are a big part of the soundin a drum recording bleeds naturally through all mics.

SUPERIOR lets you choose wether or not you want bleeding in each mic, and if you want less bleeding, say for example you need to lower the volume of the hihat bleeding through the snare microphone, or lower the snare in the overhead microphone. No problem, you can adjust the level of any instruments bleeding through any microphone.

We promise an entirely new world of playing styles, programming and mixing capabilities. We will actually fly those drummers into your computer whenever you could wish for them and that´s for a lot less than the price of an airline ticket.

We always design our products with what we need as musicproducers in mind. Here´s where you think:
Does the world need another drum/percussion library? Our answer would be no, and yes.

No as in: We don´t need another loopbased drum/percussion record that sounds amazingly much like the general midi in your 80:s synthesizer. Superior does not come with a bunch of ready made midigrooves in somebody elses style. Superior lets you choose how you want your drums to be played. Should you need midi to build a track from buliding blocks Superior is of course all compatible with the 8000+ midifiles available in Toontrack® Musics high end sound, compact resource, low price multi layer drumsampler dfh EZdrummer®, or with any third party midi groove library.

Yes as in: There is definetly need for a percussion product featuring great, clear percussion sounds played by a professional guy with a distinctive personal style for use in pop and rock productions. Together, the variety of drumkits offered on dfh SUPERIOR and the percussion from Mikael Emsing and Meinl will spell the most extensive hit, swish and boom library that money can buy.