Also, as a footnote, I bought all these EZX expansions over the years searching for the Holy Grail and I wind up using the default stock kit on EZ Drummer. It is being run thru the UAD Fairchild 670. Here is a sample of a recording we made called Never using EZ Drummer on default kit. Also, for the most part, uses stock loops. Here is a sample of a recording we made called Red Cloud Rising which uses Native Instruments Studio Drummer on the Session Kit. What I really like about EZ Drummer is when you are creating or searching for a particular rhythm you can punch in your idea of the beat and it will search by percentage for a match. The samples are 16bit whereas Superior drummer are 24bit. You can jam all day long if you are looking for ideas and if you're capturing them have no fear the drums will be suitable for final product.ĮZ drummer sounds good and passable for final product. The other components are 'on par' with other offerings. the snare and cymbals on Studio Drummer (particularly the Session Kit) sound better than any digital I've ever heard.

Once or twice a year I get the hankering to buy Superior Drummer just to see what I'm missing, then I see the price and see that I could almost build another tube amp for that much money, listen to my current stuff and realize I don't need it at all.Īnother plus for AD for me is that any drum kit expansions I get for it also work in XLN's Addictive Trigger, which is an excellent drum replacement plugin for live drums.Ĭlick to expand.So in a nutshell. UAD's Ocean Way Studios blows that away for room sound. I also don't use the AD 'room' effect at all. When the song requires it and the mood is right I will then go in and disable all of the processing (EQ, VERB, etc) on each kit piece in AD and do my own processing in the DAW for each kit piece in the mix. The expansions do though.įWIW, I use Addictive Drums - usually one of the Fairfax kits which are superb - and a mixture of either the AD MIDI Packs or Groove Monkee MIDI libraries which are also very good (and work with any drum package so whichever way you go I highly recommend you check them out.)įor initial recording of ideas and such, I just use a canned drum kit from AD. Superior Drummer is pretty expensive right out of the gate and it NEVER goes on sale. Both sound amazing, and ANY drum package will require tweaking to get it to sound the way you want it but they also both sound great right out of the box.Īddictive Drums has a lower cost of entry and I believe it is currently on sale. It really comes down to Addictive Drums vs Superior Drummer.

Addictive drums 2 vs superior drummer 2