SD2, properly implemented, is damn swell. I like it sonically better than what I've heard from the Steven Slate stuff, honestly. I feel it has more room for subtlety. But I suppose I am biased because SSD is the darling sample library for the metalcore crowd and I just don't like how those kind of mixes sound.

When I still cared about making my sampled drums sound realistic I would spend a lot more time in SD2 than I do. I have a good drummer now though, so I just program basic beats and fudge them a little so they don't sound hard-hit-at-127 drummachiney because I use it to represent the real drums in an arrangement.

SSD just doesn't sound as good as SD2... that's all there is to it, really. I've tried both, and feel I wasted my money on SSD.

Quite glad I didn't buy SSD when it was cheap then. I still want to try SD2 but remember somebody commenting that they felt ripped off by SD2 after hearing a drum jam of mine done with EZDrummer standard kit

Whenever I start actually trying to promote my music, like on a professional level, then I probably will just go ahead and buy a copy of ez drummer. I am pretty sure I am not capable of using all of the features of superior drummer 2. I just feel like with all of the options on each drum, that I really have no idea what I am doing. I usually just set all of the drum sounds and compressors to the easy mixers setting.

What's your take on the differences? I haven't spent any time with the Slate stuff. (I did like the sound of the Led Zep kit from what I recall, but that was pretty much it.)

I barely touch that stuff myself. I tamper with the mix and slap a compressor, EQ and occasionally transient shaper across the whole thing. Works fine for demo-ing. If I were seriously trying to mix with it I'd just probably use the multiple outs anyhow and treat it like a real kit.

If I were seriously trying to mix with it I'd just probably use the multiple outs anyhow and treat it like a real kit.

Yeah, so. That software doesn't automatically assign drums to all of the outs right? I really need to dig deeper into that software. Like I said, I really have no idea what I'm doing.

I can tell you that in Logic you have to select the multi-out option versus just stereo when you load it up. I'm assuming you, like everyone else here I think, is on Reaper so I have no idea how to do this.

Logic is actually kinda screwy in how to actually make proper tracks for the multiple outs, too, but this might just be a... er, "feature" of SD2 and not specific to Logic. It treats them as buses or aux tracks, not individual software instrument tracks.