

STEVEN SLATE DRUMS 4 VS SUPERIOR DRUMMER 2 FULL
Looking at the three categories any drum plugin can scoreĪn 1/3 maybe 2/3 but they never get the full 3/3 due to various reasons. They all have their good things but the bad things are clearly dominant. I've owned every major drum plugin that was put to the marked, When I judge virtual drums i divide into three categories, Virtual drums are not yet "there" for various reasons. The way how they record and process the samples, GUI integration etc. It's the general approach how people think drum plugins should be, Thinking that's it's me and my skills that are not OK but lately i realised I am fighting with drum plugins for more than a decade now To clear things up, i am not saying this out of bad mood, I am still waiting for the day when some new company will release aĭrum plugin that's wort buying and spending time with. Others have great shells but totally crappy sounding cymbals etc.

S2 has nice cymbals but the shells are totally miserable. I have yet to hear a good drum sound made with S2, or any other That's right, but at the end this does not help if the engineering is poor. Perhaps it will take Superior 3 to knock out Superior 2.First of all, i might drift into OT a bit, so beware! I keep saying to myself just stop wasting your time trying the others out, but I keep thinking someone might out-do Toontrack. I've tried Oceanway Drums, BFD2 and 3, many Kontact libraries, Slate Drums, Addictive 2, etc. Sounded beyond flat, and couldn't hold a candle to even the worst sounding EZDrummer ezx kit. Decided to play same kit through my QSC PA.horrifying. Managed to map out a kit to match my Roland kit, sounded pretty good.through headphones. Recently I tried Addictive Drums 2, since I've always heard people raving about it. I can easily map out a kit in Superior to match my customized Roland kit.

If you are using a edrum kit like I am, and not just your standard kit, setting up any of the other VSTs is a bit cumbersome. I play drums, and the only one worth dealing with is Superior. I've tried almost all the others at one point or another, and always go back to Superior. So maybe he just needs to take a good long shower. What do you call it when Steven Slate takes a shower? A clean slate. Steven Slate isn't called "Superior drummer" for a good reason - because it's simply not superior at all. Take it from me, you will be impressed more by Superior drummer. Or even more harrowing/horrifying, if you play it forward you hear Steven Slate talking. LolĪnd if you play Steven Slate's introduction videos backwards, you can hear satan anally molesting an elderly couple & 280 children simultaneously. Whereas if you just get SSD4, you're just getting SSD4. So if you go with Superior drummer, you're technically getting both. Something else you will find if you do some digging, is that some of the sounds/kits in Superior Drummer were produced by Steven Slate himself, & are therefore similar sounding to some of those in SSD4. SSD4 has got probably like 6-10 expansions & there isn't too much to be offered for my personal taste. The amount of potential sounds is amazing. They give you many ways to tweak the sounds to fit your needs. Like the new Post Rock EZX which was awesome. They also got about 30 other expansions for it. Look at your options - Toontrack just came out with an EZX expansion that made me drool - "Dream Pop". But they are easily obtainable in Superior drummer. SSD4 vs Superior Drummer is like a Fisher Price toy xylophone for toddlers vs a Roland Jupiter 80.ĭon't get me wrong, SSD4 has got some awesome sounds to it. It simply brings more to the party than SSD4 does. But Superior drummer has you covered on all sides of the table. SSD4 doesn't have a lot of electronic stuff. Superior drummer also has more options for sounds. Steven Slate drums is an overpriced piece of garbage that has an annoyingly unprofessional GUI (looks like I'm playing a video game rather than producing music). It's called "Superior" drummer because it is in fact superior. You basically answered your own question.
