Exploring Superior Drummer 2.1 - Part2

Mattias Eklund & Henrik Kjellberg from Toontrack shows new sounds from N.Y Vol.2 SDX and upcoming features in Superior 2.1.
How to make a preset, how to use the Combined presets, how to utilize functions within the engine, bleed functions, bussing, envelope use and more.
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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Superior drummer 2.0
• Toontrack
• EZdrummer
• drum software
• MIDI
• Nir Z
• Mattias Eklund
• Henrik Kjellberg
• Combined Presets
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• Allaire
• Hit Factory
• Pat Thrall
• Neil Dorfsman

[mewchocolate1]

I have a quick question as well. I recently bought superior drummer as well as ezplayer pro. My and my bandmate are used to using reason for drums and arent really liking the whole drag and drop thing. How do you go about using the midi keyboard to make drum beats? Do you make it layer by layer ( ie first record the snare, then bass drums, ect)? Can you do this in the standalone version with toontrack solo? Sorry for the huge amount of questions!

[Toontrack]

@mewchocolate1

Hi,

well, it's entirely up to you. From my own experience, it might be hard to record every little beat and fill with a MIDI keyboard. It does of course depend a lot of what kind of music you are playing. You can record everything with your keyboard, but a good starting point is to create simple beats with it and then use your mouse and DAW to refine the arrangement and add/delete notes. You can not do this with Toontrack Solo.

Thanks,

Martin, Toontrack Music

[Vernhicular]

Where can I get one of those T-shirts?

[Toontrack]

@Vernhicular

Hey,

we don't have a merch section as this moment, but we are looking into it.

[Rrrrobbo]

sd 2 is awesome

[Abandofme]

Best program ever made !

[riqyl32]

I currently have ez drummer with lots of expansions and im thinking about bying this one. My Questions:

>Does it really sound better than the ezdrummer? Cause to me it sounds worse.

I mean they've added lots of effects lik eq s compressors etc. , but that's not how i like to get a good sound! I want the original samples to be good.

>Can you load an ezdrummer kit in superior drummer and use it like before?

>Is it worth buying if i don't need the effects and i don't use the ready grooves library?

[angeriod]

Will these sounds be the same if i put it on a really crapy drum set? Or does

the sound quality also change when u have a better drum set? Because im gonna

get Fame DD-8000. Im gonna get superior drummer 2.2.1 and Metal foundry. So

there is 30 preset drum kits but then i can tweak them or create my own? Also how do i set up Superior drummer onto my drum kit?

[DaveMurray3205]

@A7Xblood it's all how you program it, yes you can program double bass... dont believe me? just go type in Sd2 and watch as some drum/guitar nerd plays bleed with some programmed drums.

[DaveMurray3205]

@ArchaicEclipse yeah you can all you have to do is single out the drum track in guitar pro to to file -> export midi and save that somewhere you can find it... .then once you open up your recording program say reaper for instance just click insert midi file and load your already done drum track. to play around with. Depending on what you use for the hits it might be a little random, but you can go into the piano roll and fix it, but usually it's fine i have yet to run into a problem

[DaveMurray3205]

@ArchaicEclipse yeah you can all you have to do is single out the drum track in guitar pro to to file -> export midi and save that somewhere you can find it... .then once you open up your recording program say reaper for instance just click insert midi file and load your already done drum track. to play around with.

[chazyt]

can you use the ezdrummer midi files with this?? or the kits??

[bestplugins]

It sounds better default than tweaked!!!

[A7Xblood]

Is there a double bass setting? Becuase I would hate to spend my money and not have something that I need! Please write back ANYBODY

[ArchaicEclipse]

I use Guitar Pro 5 to write/tab all of our music. Can you import midi drum files into Superior Drummer??? I use reason currently becuase you can on reason but I am really considering switching over to superior drummer. seems awesome!