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I’d look out for someone selling a 3.0 licence. That’s what I ended up doing.

I still love Addictive Drums 2, but they are long overdue an upgrade. SD3’s hi-hat engine is slightly better and they have bell samples for crashes. Sample wise, I have no issues between the two – as a recording drummer. SD3’s samples may well be 48khz but I can’t hear the difference. I’ve invested in extra kit packs for AD2 as well, because they are working on the next release.

I’m guessing SD4  when it comes, will have some sort of AI technology included, but whether that will be more useful for programmers/producers or real drummers will be the grounds for whether or not I choose to upgrade. SD3 is packed with stuff I’ll never use recording stems to give to other people to work with. Roll on AD3!!!

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What’s “SS” by the way (the well known nazi thing aside of course:-))?

Steven Slate drums (I don’t have it myself though).

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You can still buy a cross-grade from EZ2 to SD3. The SD2 to SD3 route remains closed so I bought Addictive Drums instead. I’d still buy SD3 if there was an upgrade path in place for the abandoned SD2 customers but there doesn’t seem to be a business incentive to reopen that upgrade path.

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Mjusick wrote:

Is there a way to sell the licenses?

You can sell and do a licence transfer with the help of Toontrack support. But if it’s SD2 SDXs I guess they’d have to be relevant for SD3 in as much they were still going to be supported for the forceable future.

I ended up going to AD2 after the last ‘black Friday’ event with nothing appearing to entice SD2 buyers for an upgrade. So far, I have no regrets, but I’m not really a sound engineer and AD produces great ‘dry’ sounds for any of the projects I’m needed to produce home recordings for.

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Unfortunately no, I didn’t receive an answer and purchased Addictive Drums 2 instead!

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