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Average user rating 4 of 5

• ChiCat

  

  Sun 22 Aug 2010, 4:43 am BST

  User rating 5 of 5

  I own most of the drum VSTs on the market and in terms of realism, ability to mix/alter sounds, compatibility with electronic drums and having a 64 bit version, Superior Drummer is easily the best drum VST on the market -- the one to beat!

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• tjmusicman

  

  Sat 15 Nov 2008, 3:11 pm GMT

  User rating 4 of 5

  I am not sure about the gripes of the last users comments, but I can say this - I own them all - BFD, BFD2, Battery Superior 1 and now Superior 2.0. Under no circumstances can I recommend streaming over loading into RAM. In fact, most reviewers and e-drummers will always go this route due to far stable performance - even on a laptop. Now, what really matters is the sound and although I would like a few more kit pieces, which I have read they will have add on kits for, the sound is far superior to anything else I own and I can even use Superior 1 within it. I do tv, film and some smaller artist label work so a pretty broad spectrum and as of now there is nothing out there that beats Superior 2.0. This thing rocks...

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• Amberience

  

  Tue 9 Sep 2008, 9:20 pm BST

  User rating 3 of 5

  Hmm. You didn't mention anything of the ludicrous installation procedure, which stumped me and a friend for some time. Also, I think the snares don't sound very dynamic, and I personally prefer the ones that come with BFD2.
  I'm also not a fan of the way Toontrack do on-the-fly decompression, which just adds to the strain on the system. Applications on Windows can only access 2GB of RAM (or 3GB with the /3gb boot flag) and Applications on OSX are limited to 4GB... so loading an entire kit all to RAM is not feasible. Even still, I would prefer disk-streaming and buffer technology, rather than decompression - decompression just seems to add to the CPU load, whilst streaming through disk-buffers to me seems more efficient - provided you have high speed SATA drives in your computer.
  Also one thing is a FACT - BFD2's mixer is "superior" in every way to the Superior 2.0 mixer. The BFD2 mixer allows you as many aux's as you need, and as many effects by extension of the fact that you can load as many aux's as you need. Superior 2 is limited with the amount of aux's you can load, and thus if you really want to get down and dirty, you'll have to route into your host to really get into processing the sounds.
  People should bare all these things in mind if they really seek professional drum-tracks... and for those seeking harder drums for heavier music, I'd certainly opt for Joe Baressi Evil Drums (Platinum Samples) and BFD2 over Superior 2 any day.

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