If you are only playing live drums and not wanting to record or need features of a DAW, I think a VST host like Cantabile – there are many available – is great. A VST host allows you to do many things you can’t do in standalone SD3. For example, I have Cantabile configured so that I hit one dedicated key on my laptop and it shows all of my drum presets across all libraries so that I can click one and it loads. I don’t have to navigate several menus to load an SD3 preset. And I have some of these kits pre-loaded so that switching between them is instantaneous without the load time.
DWe six piece kit, Roland BT-1s w/WT-10s, RME Fireface interface, JH Audio IEMs w/Fiio Amp, Porter & Davies transducer, Razer 16 laptop, SD3 (State of the Art, Stockholm, Hitmaker, Legacy of Rock, Decades, Death & Darkness, Fields of Rock, Stories)
This post was modified 4 hours, 59 minutes ago by Tom Conner.
If you are not swapping kits, then keep it as simple as you can and use sd3 standalone. Less to go wrong. If you have an m.2 drive with the samples on they load in seconds so you could get away standalone and swapping kits. All depends if you have time between songs. I suspect for worship you will be using one kit only.
SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors
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