Damn! Well keep in mind I still haven't bought the Sturgis samples yet. When I get out of school, that's when I'm going on a purchase-fest... within a budget of course. Seems the RAM upgrade and SM7b aren't going to happen unless I can pick up a summer job ......
Can SSD replace Cymbals too? I was thinking ... get any of the "drum replacement" programs and do the following: Route everything but the overheads to separate channels on EZDrummer. Well, route the overheads too, but mute them. Use a sample replacement to replace snare, kick, toms. And for cymbals... well heres where it gets ghetto. Make sure each cymbal has its own MIDI track, and use Kontakt from there.
This approach seemingly would work... but would it be missing out on realism?
Well let me let you in on a well known secret steven slate does samples for everybody and everybody uses his samples... the steven slate ex comes with probably all you need to do wat trying to do and most of joeys early stuff was using slate samples... before he started doing his own...they are realistic and sound amazing... joeys cymbals sound the closest to the real thing but slates are a close second... you will never be able to perfectly make samples sound as good as real overheard... close but in a blind comparison you'll always be able to tell the difference...
Which is why everyone uses real overheads...
And you will not be able to route replacement drums to the ez drummer individual tracks unless you have say drumagog, slate trigger, aptriggam... etc... id say get ssd ex or the ssd with the expansion which comes... with the ex drum kits plus to slate expansions and you could use the metal expansion to get an extremely good kit sound... and then get the ez player to player your mdid through ssd...
Ssd isn't like EZ drummmer... you basically buying his samples and a player no grooves so to speak... it contains some but I personally like dfh's a litle more you will however to access the grooves from you toontrack and ssd software with the ez player...
Finally, ssd comes with a ton of kits: snares, toms, kicks, cymbals, and you can pick and choose what ypu like what you don't like, and build kits and do whatever you want with the samples... which makes it a better buy... because the sampes sound a million times better in my opinion then the toontrack stuff...
But go on the respective sites and listen read and then listen some more and read some more then make a decision...
My vote is ssd + EZ player + ez drummer/ssd grooves + joey stugis samples/slate samples. = everything you'll ever need for programming drums
That's what I thought replacing samples with programmed drums would be like - more drag and drop, but turns out its not.
