


Very handy! AD has a grid search in which you fill in a drum machine-like grid to find similar patterns in your collection. You can also play in your own patterns to find similar ones in your collection. In the Search window, you can drop pattern into the MIDI drop zone and EZD will find similar patterns from your collection. Midi pattern search: here’s where I think EZD comes out a bit ahead. If youre serious about your drum sounds and are looking for an all inclusive drum. Ez drummer is perfect for losers, idiots, morons, the chronically lazy. or at least they do in drum forums I read. You can also reassign articulations in this window. Superior Drummer 3 is the ultimate drum sample software available today. Drummers seem to prefer toontrack products. It does not let you mute certain parts and have that reflected in the midi that you drag and drop to your DAW. You can thin out or increase the density of hits of individual kit pieces (as well as the pattern as a whole) and you can increase or decrease the velocity of each kit piece.

EZD, via the Edit Play Style window, lets you do many of those same things. Superior has more sample hits and more round robins, but that's a timbre thing. In that respect EZdrummer is identical to Superior. there is no reason EZdrummer should be less dynamic. You can also change the speed and length of the midi pattern. I use EZDrummer all the time, because I play drums but don't need all the extra channels and routings. Whereas EZDrummer offers you record-ready drum sounds right out of the gate, Superior Drummer offers you raw, unprocessed samples so you can shape and process. Superior Drummer 2 used to do this it looks like SD3 will allow only a single kitpiece's midi to be selected rather than several. You can also mute various parts of kit and have that change reflected in the midi that you drag to your DAW. You can change which articulations are being triggered (change snare to sidestick, for example).
