Battery or EZDrummer

[Capt7]

I have been using Battery for about 4 years now however I have started looking at Ezdrummer recently , in Battery I like how I can customize my sounds as well as send each hit to a separate track in my mixer ( using Logic ) , can I do this in Ezdrummer and if anyone else has worked with Battery what’s your opinion on both

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[Scott]

You can route the mixer channels out in Logic. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oF7P92fnWiU

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
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[Prime Mover]

I think they’re about as different as two drum VIs can be, and they’re both great at their respective roles. Battery, IMO, is almost exclusively designed as an electronic and beat making synth. No, it’s not quite Maschine, but it’s strengths lie in heavy processing, extreme customizability, and a library FULL of all kinds of varying samples. It’s strengths in that area are also it’s weakness in the area of more traditional, realistic drums. It’s almost TOO customizable to the point that it’s hard to get a kit that sounds like a kit. Sure, there are a few stock ones, but they’re a few out of a hundred, and you can tell they didn’t spend a huge amount of time on them. They also suffer in terms of velocity layers and the types of control that real drum sets require. For that, you need something that’s a little more focused, and that’s where EZDrummer comes in. I’ll lay it out right now: if you’re interested in mixing dozens of instruments and samples, EZD may not be for you. Sure, the up coming EZD2 will feature kit mixing, but it’s still a focused assortment (albeit high quality) of traditional drum samples, except for the few libraries of electronic kits. Each kit is meant to have its own unified sound and it does that extremely well. Lots of velocity layers and expression controls for people like me who are using e-drum kits. But in terms of internal mixing and tweaking, there’s practically next to none. The nice thing is that it’s not really that far from mixing a normal kit. EZD is sort of like your dry mic feed. You can route each channel into your DAW and add whatever kind of processing you need there, but aside from that, EZD has almost no tweakability. To me, EZD and its assorted kits are sort of like a good compressor. The best ones don’t have a whole lot of nobs, they just sound good. If you don’t like it you use a different one.

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