Can’t wait 💪🏿

I think it’s very unlikely that anyone from TT would comment, not a thing folks do in software development. The best thing maybe is to look at their other major (X.0.0) releases and see what the average gap is between them. For Superior drummer we only have two major releases to date: SD2 came out in 2008 (they never released SD1), and SD3 in 2017. So based on that 9 year gap, we might expect to see SD4 around 2017 + 9 = 2026.

SD3 is far superior to ezdrummer. The packs are better and the editing and edrum settings set it apart. I wouldn’t use bandmate or the midi packs anyway. SD3 is regularly updated as well. I’m sure an SD4 or whatever it may be called will appear at some point. I guess then those with ezdrummer will be moaning that they will want features from it.

50/50 chance that they anounce sd 4 soon for a 2025 release.

If its not ready for a 2025 landing they release sd4 100% 2026 for sure.

Last sdx released end of 2024 by the way…

No real pattern to this. Some years they seem to release two SDX’s near the end of the year and some years they are spread out. There’s also the rare year that they release three SDXs.

jord

Well, Superior September has just begun without an announcement for SD4. 🙁

What really bothers me about SD3 is that, although it is the flagship product, EZd3 still has the more functional Grid Editor. Why hasn’t SD3 been updated in this regard? What is Toontrack’s thinking here? Am I supposed to use EZd3 to create the grooves and then laboriously move everything back and forth between EZd3 and SD3 so that I can use the SDX libraries? As a customer, I expect the flagship product to be at least on par with the slimmed-down version in all respects. I was therefore hoping that SD4 would be released and close this gap. But I guess we’ll have to wait at least another year.

John wrote:

sveje77 wrote:

EZd3 still has the more functional Grid Editor. Why hasn’t SD3 been updated in this regard?

Hi, SD3 does indeed have a Grid Editor. Hit the ‘P’ key or double-click a groove on the SD3 Track.

BR,
John

Thank you for your reply, but I think we’ve misunderstood each other. I do know that SD3 also has a grid editor. What I meant was that the one in EZd3 has more functions (e.g. Humanize) than the one in SD3. Tap2Find and Edit Play Style are also better in EZd3. As Toontrack’s flagship product, shouldn’t SD3 be at least on par with the entry-level product in all aspects? I find it frustrating that Toontrack has never added the improved functionality of EZd3 to SD3.

SD3 is great, but I’m really hoping for some more self generating drums. I wish that all or any parts of the kit could be randomized every measure, to give an improvised feel instead of midi drum parts.

I would even love a randomize button just to spit out completely unorthodox drum parts.  Lock in parts that work, but keep randomizing other parts. Or maybe have one or two parts (kick, snare) that are a pattern, but randomize everything else.  Lock in each part until you generate something that no midi drum pack would throw at you.

Don’t get me wrong, I love SD3, but it seems rather uninspired at times. It would be nice if there were some experimental aspects to it.

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