EZDrummer or Superior Drummer 2.0

[crazyjake19]

I'm trying to use Linplug's RMIV VST drum plugin in Tracktion 2 for midi activated drum samples, but its a pain and i want to upgrade to something better, preferably something i can use as a standalone program as well.

I've been looking at EZDrummer and Superior Drummer 2.0. EZDrummer is $150 with a 1GB sample library and, according to the website, limited E-drum support. Superior Drummer 2.0 is $300 with a 20GB sample library and full e-drum support.

I would mostly be using it with my yamaha dtxplorer electronic drumset, have the dtx trigger the samples in the VST plugin via midi. Which of these would be best for me?

Also, would i benefit from getting a different DAW such as Cakewalk's SONAR home studio 7 or something? I only have about $300-400 to spend, so it'd either be EZDrummer and a new DAW, or just Superior Drummer 2.0.

thanks

[TriggerNYC]

if you are using a trigger (elec drum kit) go with superior drummer. you get about 10x more drum samples for the price.

[Meatplow]

i'm not sure about the difference but ezdrummer is so ****ing good, honestly. if superior drummer is better in some way its not at an expense of quality

[Knifeboy]

EZDrummer as the name implies is all about ease of use. It's easy to get a good sound from, and any idiot can use it. But you can't do much with the sound, there's not much room for eq'ing as the samples are already eq'ed

Superior drummer offers a lot more flexability. But is also considerably more complex to use

[crazyjake19]

I've read that EZdrummer has about 7500 16-bit samples, while Superior has 85000 24-bit samples, which is pushing me in the direction of Superior.

The main thing for me is that I will be using it with my yamaha dtxplorer electronic drum set, so i want to be 110% sure it will work with that triggering the samples via midi. Ive heard Superior Drummer has much better support for electronic drums.

[TriggerNYC]

i feel ezdrummer is more for people putting together beats for songs bc they dont know how to play drums, or dont have access to someone who could record for them.

if you are playing drums yourself, all you really need are good sounding samples. and i mean, not to sound like a dick, but you really only need 1 good sounding drum kit. so whichever has the best sounding samples to your ears are the ones you should get.

[Moseph]

and i mean, not to sound like a dick, but you really only need 1 good sounding drum kit.

Disagreed. This is maybe true if you're working within one fairly specific genre.

If you're doing work in multiple genres, you're going to want to have different sounding kits that are more appropriate for each genre. A good kit for swing/jazz sounds remarkably different than for hardcore and both are different for most electronic music. It's not atypical for composers that do a lot of demo work or background music to have a large assortment of drum samples to choose from for this purpose.

[TriggerNYC]

good point moseph. for some reason i thought he was doing this for a band. maybe bc ive been listening to a lot of def leppard lately.

[crazyjake19]

right now, i'd mostly be using it for playing by myslef and often recording songs, either by myself or with a few friends. i'm not really in a band, just me and my friends get together and jam every so often, but we play a lot of different genres, so different sounds for rock, blues, jazz, etc. would be helpful.

the yamaha dtxplorer module only has a few hundred sounds, compared to the thousands i would have at hand with ezdrummer or superior, which would be much more helpful and versatile for either live or recording purposes.