I’ve wondered about his for a while. I just now played the Legacy of Rock SDX – Jet Black Plate Preset located here to demo the Dark Rock Midi on sale: https://www.toontrack.com/product/dark-rock-midi/
The kit sounds great. Very punchy. The cymbals and ride are particularly present and crisp. I load up the same preset in the same SDX, use a puncy rock midi pack I have from TT, and it sounds nothing like the Demo through the same speakers/sound card. The only variable is the MIDI; I don’t have the Dark Side Midi, but I’ve got a bunch of TT Rock/Classic Rock/Arena Rock midi, so I figure the dynamics are at least close to the Demo Midi. This my experience routinely with TT website Demos playing through presets in SDX’s I own. The presets sound very different.
Are the TT “presets” from the expansion packs tweaked for Demo purposes, so they’re not actually presets in our SDX’s? Anyone else experience this?
So: why do my SDX presets sound substantially different (not as good) as the same TT presets they use to Demo Midi packs?
SD3 3.4, EZK2.1.3, EZ Bass 1.3.1, Win11, i9/9900, all SSDs, 64g RAM, Cakewalk, Studio One
