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“For an AI future, I imagine, instead buying  midi packs you would buy a style or a “drummer”/“bassist”/“keyboard player” add-on.”

Yeah, I think the ‘groove’ section could be done better and that the ‘style’ maybe the key. It seems to me that the ‘Bandmate’ feature in EZdrummer 3 is going in that direction. At least for songwriters who do not want to spend much time going thru a whole bunch of grooves via the current options. Seems to me that Superior Drummer 3 has the best sounding library of drum samples but it uses an interface of tweaking options that is somewhat cumbersome to mess with unless you are really into it. I think AI tools could improve that quite a bit and get you much faster to a satisfying end point. Since Toontracks has a infringement clause about using AI training on their products, I assume that the best defense is going on offense and creating the AI tools in their own eco system. Not sure that they can really stop others from AI training of their products unless they have some method of identification of samples and midi grooves etc. To me it would be extremely hard to do this at this point in AI development.

 

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To: John Rammelt – Toontrack
Technical Advisor

I would agree with most of the commenters here that Bandmate should be in a product like SD3 . But because it was not a more recent release, understand why it is not. That being said, there have been very few updates to SD3 functionality anyway and marketing did label it “superior” right? They did not label it for producers only etc. etc. So the technical reasons you gave for the difference between SD3 and EZdrummer, while may have been true at the time, do not seem to be as valid now.  However there are probably technical or financial reasons that SD3 will not have the Bandmate functions based on how SD3 and EZ3 differ in how they were developed. In any case, I believe it would help if Toontracks gave a definitive answer to the question if SD3 will ever have the Bandmate function.

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