A professional sample engine for drums.

Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 "The New York Studio Legacy Series" is a complete overhaul of the original dfh Superior engine. The Toontrack team made painstakingly sure not to lose any of the sound quality, attention to detail, and musicality of their popular drum sampler.

Superior Drummer 2.0 has been redeveloped for optimized use with e-drums with more effective use of sample layers and much improved loading times. It includes custom MIDI played by Nir Z accessed through its new customized MIDI engine and arranger, EZplayer Pro, and has standalone capacity through Toontrack solo. Premium UK-based software developer Sonalksis has outfitted the Superior 2.0 with a 5-band EQ, high and low pass filter, compressor, gate, and transient designer filters.

The interface is reminiscent of EZdrummer with its simple handling and layout but gives the user layer upon layer of in-depth features to create the ultimate drum track.

Superior Drummer 2.0's samples were recorded by Pat Thrall, Neil Dorfsman, and Nir Z at Hit Factory, Avatar Studios, and Allaire studios, NY. The three have worked with artists as diverse as Meatloaf, Celine Dion, Nick Lachey, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits, Beyoncé, Björk, Kiss, Joss Stone, Genesis, John Mayer, and Chris Cornell.

Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 Features:

• PC/Mac compatible
• Construction windows with features such as:
• ADSR
• X-pads - Load instruments from any Toontrack library to add positions or to double instruments on the position of your choice
• The ability to read and combine all dfh Superior and EZdrummer sound libraries
• Internal mixer featuring bussing capabilities and built-in FX delivered by Sonalksis, including:
• 5-band EQ, Highpass and Lowpass filter, Gate, Compressor, Transient
• Custom MIDI played by Nir Z accessed through EZplayer
• Standalone capacity through Toontrack solo
• Recorded by Pat Thrall, Neil Dorfsman, and Nir Z at Hit Factory, Avatar Studios, and Allaire Studios, NY
  
  Supported Applications
• Ableton Live, Acid Pro/Studio, Cubase SX/Nuendo, Cubase SE/SL, Digital Performer, Fruity Loops, GarageBand, Logic Pro/Express, Mackie Traktion, ProTools HD/LE/MP, Reaper, Samplitude Pro/SE, Sonar PE/SE, and more

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Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 Specifications:

• Minimum system requirements
• 4GB free hard disc space, DVD drive
• Windows XP or Vista, Pentium IV/Ahtlon 1.8GHz with 1GB RAM
• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher, Dual G4 1.25GHz with 1GB RAM
  
  Recommended system requirements
• 25GB free hard disc space, DVD drive
• Modem G5, Intel, or AMD multicore CPU with 2GB RAM or more
• Sequencer application and professional soundcard
• MIDI controller such as keyboard, drumpads, or electronic drum kit
  
  Supported formats
• Audio Units, VST, RTAS

Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0

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A MUST for any songwriter

Posted by Mckey from L.A., CA on Oct 25, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Recording Engineer, Songwriter, Wannabe Producer

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Alternative, Indie, Folk, Blues, Jazz, Score

Okay so I just recieved this a week ago. And Im actually fairly impressed now that I've learned all the basics of it. First off I'll explain my reasons for buying it, then I'll explain what problems this has fixed, and lastly I'll say what I think needs to be worked on in my opinion. So I'm an engineer in training, and a songwriter. Im not a drummer. I can play the drums, but not well. I have two very good friends who are both AMAZING drummers, but both share the same fatal flaw - flakiness. Its a chore to get them to lay anything down because of their schedules and just plain laziness. I have an older Roland V-drums kit I usually use for demoing. I'm running Logic Studio through a MacBook Pro with 4gigs of ram. I bought this because of mainly two reasons; when I actually do get one of my drummers to lay down tracks, I need better samples than the V-drums and logics esx24 AND for mapping drums easily so I dont need them to show up as much. SD2.0 fixed both of these problems with tremendous results. Especially in the mapping area. Mapping these are a breeze, and it runs flawlessly in logic. I should warn everyone that this program is a lot bigger than they say, a basic install is only 4 gigs, but the full install is actually 20 gigs. And trust me, you want all 20. Now for my critiques... I dont like the crashes very much, I'm not a fan of most sabians, and all the cymbals are sabians. The hats and rides are great, but the crashes are lackluster. I'd really like to see some K customs in this thing, or even some piaste big beats. This isnt a big deal, purely cosmetic, but I'd like to see more options on the avatar, change the colors and configurations of the set a bit, maybe a different angle... and even... 3D? Yeah that would be cool. Lastly I think theres a lot to improve on the control surface, I'm used to doing things the "apple way" (ie: integrated and intelligently designed). Theres a lot missing in terms of editing, scrolling, mixing, etc. that makes things a lot more of a chore and the workflow slower. And my last critique, more midi files! I'm definitely going to have to buy the midi expansions from Toontrack. All in all though, I'd say this was well worth the money, and I'll be using this for a long long time to come. Now I just gotta get all those expansion packs!

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a must have for vpt gurus

Posted by drummerboy6236 from houston, TX on Jun 20, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: recording engineer

Reviewer's Play Style: rock, country, metal

Ok so I just got sd2 in the other day only to download it and have some major problems...there is no physical manual but one you can install on disc 1 of 5 it is a huge program. Ao huge i actually had to buy a new laptop my acer aspire 1640 couldnt handle the process speed of superior after going through the hassle of reinstalling on my new comp. The program works great but my problems with sd2 in itself is that there are simply not enough samples for the buck; about 3 kicks 6 snares only 1 set of toms, the gms in various sizes, 5 sabian crashes 4 sabian rides and 3 sabian hats. All in all it has one kick A#@ kit but thats it. The upgrades are out there but be prepared to spend more money. I recommend it if all you want is 1 solid expensive sounding kit.

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Great Sounding Software

Posted by BobbyBoogerweed1000 from SL, Texas on Jan 7, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Metal and Most Types of Rock

This Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 has amazing sounding drum samples. It comes with EZ Player Pro so there is no problem for creating virtual drum tracks. There is one big problem with this software. If you are working with Pro Tools Le, you may have major problems getting this software to work through it. Over all, it is a great software and it is amazing for the price. There is just that compatibility issue.

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Amazing samples, new interface!

Posted by Jim the Drummer from DC area on Oct 26, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active musician, recording engineer

Reviewer's Play Style: Good styles.

As an owner of the first dfh, 2.0 is a breath of fresh air. The sounds are incredible. The cymbal selection sounds a lot better to me than 1.0, alot of HHX explosion crashes. The snares are all fat and big sounding. But don't worry, there are a couple tight piccolo styles as well.

One great thing is the addition of a sample limit. On the old dfh, if you were blasting doublebass and the ride, it would just bug out---too much stuff going on. You couldn't open the room channels without it crashing. No more in 2.0. You can open all rooms with 2gigs of ram and play anything.

Another incredible thing is the onboard mixer. No more having to open aux channels on your system. It's all in house.

You are also able to set an edge zone on your snare(TD 20 brain) and the snare is ringier towrds the edge. You also can set edge and top zons of the hihats and get a pretty smooth closed to open sounds.

All in all, 2.0 is a blast to play. And if you just want to play it by itself, you can use the Toontrack solo app and play it right out of the box.

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