The mixer is also the spot were all the bleed control is best managed. It would have been great to se VST support. you can also add plugins to the channel strips, sadly you can only use the built in plugins that was crafted by Sonalksis for Toontrack. Here you can send channels to busses or why not to a different output. Toontrack has aimed at a mixer that looks allot like a DAW mixer. It is the only way to load a drum piece from any other SDX library, and is tricky to get into and is a bit time demanding and I wish Toontrack looked at a easier way to do this. You will soon get into the X-drum feature. Now I want to mention that if you expand your Superior libraries, The new Preview page will then pop up so you can listen to the sound before loading it.
Introduced in the update 2.3.0 is a feature called Preview page.Ĭlick the mini arrow on one of the drums, There is a 16bit mode and Cached mode (load on demand), but you also have a Bounce feature that I will show you later.Ĭhanging drums is done within the drum view.īy clicking on the small arrows on the drums you will find a variety of brands for that drum. Toontrack also looked at ways to clear up Ram for you. You can also tell S2 how it should act on velocity. On the top you will find presets for the loaded library and these presets are a really good start point if you´r not good at tweaking sounds.Įach drum has controls for Envelopes, Pitch, Articulation, Humanize and microphones. You will also see the mixer setting for the highlighted drum, a envelope section for the highlighted drum and much more. The first thing you will se when you load Superior Drummer 2 is a Drum kit with all the parts loaded just like you where at a real drum kit. To get a full view of what’s included in Superior Drummer 2.0 visit Toontrack´s page,
Installing Superior Drummer is easy and you get a couple of choices on what and how you want to install S2, like less HDD demanding features. Superior Drummer 2 just was from the first time i started the plugin, A MIND BLOWER! The gray and blue pad look was still hidden there if you wanted it, but the new GUI was to sweet to ever look back at the old look. The GUI was not only upgraded it was completely reworked, and the future list was above every DAW users wildest dreams. The next generation of the Toontrack Superior series was not just a minor change to the GUI or even more samples to make realism. Well this was my life until Toontrack released Superior drummer 2.0
The kick was good but the snare sounded crap and so on. Toontrack really made a revolution back then and what they did With the original DFH changed the way drum samples sounded forever.Įvery once in a while you find that something that blows your mind, that Tool you always wished for.įor me Drum sounds was a pain in the “BIP” to find, and when I found something good the price was way over a normal rockers budget.Īnd then there was always something missing, always something I did not like. The library was called Drumkit From Hell. They called Tomas Haake drummer of Heavy Metal band Meshuggah to record the drum samples. In 1999 producers Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah and Mattias Eklund of Toontrack Music decided to design a sample library for their own use.
Toontrack Music was originally started as a production company for composing game and movie soundtracks.