Easy and Powerful Grid Editorĭon’t worry, when it comes to SD3 you won’t have to write your music using drum notation, a keyboard, or use an awkward piano roll interface. The samples cover direct mics, room mics, and you can even add bleed to the mics. Superior Drummer 3 (which I’ll abbreviate to SD3), comes with 230GB of sample drums, including but not limited to 7 kits, 25 snares and 16 kick drums. Superior Drummer 3 key features: Sample Library This really is the ultimate drums production tool. It can even use your electronic drum kit to run it’s samples, so that your electronic kit sounds more realistic. It can also import custom samples so that you can build your own drum library and has a powerful audio to MIDI conversion tool, that will take your drum audio, analyse it, and turn it into a MIDI file, allowing you to augment and replace different parts of the kit. Not only can Superior Drummer create great sounding drums for your musical projects, it can also act as a “drum DAW”, allowing you to mix, EQ and add built in effects to your individual drum “mics”. Superior Drummer is the leading drum sample library in the music industry. Superior Drummer 3 is that tool – it’s the ultimate digital drum production studio. Going to an Apple Loop, or Logic Pro’s Drummer is usually where most people start off – even the built in drums in Logic Pro are great for getting started.īut when you want to take your music and creativity to the next level, you need the tools that will take you to the next level. So when you’re at this beginning stage, having drums that exist is usually good enough.

You’re thinking about writing a great riff, how to capture your guitar and get a great tone.

When you start out creating music, as a guitar player, the drums are probably not the first thing on your mind.

Toontrack drummer