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[ChristopherDuncan]

Hi, x_name.

Thanks for the help.

I don’t have any trouble getting heavy 80s classic rock drums, e.g. Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, etc. from EZ. It ships with lots of good kits for that straight out of the box. The reason I upgraded to SD was to get the additional mix / mic breakout capabilities. If I use the EZX files from EZ (which you can do in SD), I get the sounds but am limited to EZ’s mix capabilities, so there would be no point staying in SD for that scenario.

Scott seemed mostly interested in demonstrating that SD was “more than metal,” but I still haven’t seen any recommendations for stock SD kits that have the same kind of heavy 80s classic rock drums that EZ had (blues / funk / jazz / dry aren’t really appropriate for Whitesnake). Building them from scratch appears to be the only option.

While I may one day go to the trouble of building a kit in SD from the ground up, part of the appeal of Toontrack products is ease of use. Both EZ and SD are excellent products and very, very easy to get good sounds without having to reinvent the wheel. Which types of sounds is another story.

EZ’s stock rock kits come prepared for heavy 80s rock right out of the box. SD’s stock rock kits come prepared for metal right out of the box. Unless I’m missing something, it completely neglects the 80s rock style I’m looking for, and that EZ has. So, in terms of the pre-built kits, it feels like paying for the flagship product and losing something that the entry level product included.

Admittedly, classic rock is an ancient art form these days. If 90% of your market wants metal, then it makes sense to heavily weight your product to metal. However, since EZ wasn’t so heavily weighted to metal, it was a surprise to me that SD is (something I didn’t discover until I’d spent the money and installed the product).

So far, the only options I see are to use the EZ kits and lose the additional capabilities that I bought SD for, or build a custom kit from scratch instead of using a pre-built stock kit, something I bought Toontrack products in general for.

That said, I do appreciate everyone’s feedback.

• This post was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by ChristopherDuncan.

[ChristopherDuncan]

Thanks, Scott.

I’m looking more for big 80s rock drums like Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, etc. than dry and tight / funky, but I’ll dig a little deeper.

I appreciate the effort.

[ChristopherDuncan]

Scott wrote:

I’m not in front of my studio computer at the moment but, not being a metal guy either, I use many of the ‘not metal’ presets in S3 all the time. I’ll try to put a list together.

Thanks, man. I appreciate the help.

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