ToonTrack Drums

For a wee while I've been using EZDrummer from Toontrack for my drum tracks. Loads of drum samples wrapped up in an easy to use interface, with the option to create drum tracks using the tons of midi file drum patterns included or indeed just creating your own in your sequencer - or a combination of both of course. I used it on my entry to the EV covers competition (in the "originals" category).

I d/led a copy from a torrent site and tried it out - then found a good price for it online and bought a legitimate copy. Its superb. Have to say its really easy to get good natural sounding drum tracks from it - and as a registered user I got the chance to upgrade for half the normal price to the "big brother" version "Superior Drummer 2" which offers even greater flexibility, sounds and options.

Superior Drummer 2 is around £200 - I upgraded for £68 this week. It just arrived today...on 5 dvds - I may be gone some time... Well recommended for drums - acoustic, rock or electronic, they cover them all.

EZDrummer

Superior Drummer 2

Phil,

You could have hired our Tommy for less!

yeeeeeees...but where would he have put his drums?! Not in my studio...

You would have to take him to the pub on numerous occations, so with that in mind Flip
Stick to your original plan as it would be far cheaper!

Thanks a lot for the tip Flip!
I will surely try it out - though I´m
sure I will still use my good old reliable
Battery 1 with the old Bob Clearmountain
libraries - for years I´ve simply refused
to use anything else, because it took me
MONTHS to create the drum samples from the
audio CD.

Fair point...

Jesper - no reason why you can't use both! Its good to have different sounds available. I forgot to mention the toontrack stuff also comes with pre-played patterns you can paste in to your sequencer to give you inspiration too.