I’m a user of Toontrack SD2 than SD3 since 2009 and nothing can’t be compared to in all aspects .. this been said .. the thing that I retained the most of this video is that this guy plays drums with his fingers better than a lot of drummers lol .. his skills and musicality are just outstanding

I really enjoy watching your content and I appreciate your insights into this subject, so please keep up the awesome work and I promise to keep coming back for more and sharing your video's with as many people as I possibly can because you definitely deserve it and I hope your channel will continue to grow because so many people need you in their live's and they don't even realize it...🤟😉👍

I really like the sound of Hertz Drums. Great overview ❤️

I used Addictive Drums 1 & 2 for many years, now I work mostly with Superior Drummer 3 (I love the Hansa expansion) and Studio Drummer. I will soon get the Abbey Road complete which is very nice too.

Thanks for sharing your expertise . The way technology moves I try to keep up with a recent trends. And with so many different types of software out there it's hard to find the right one to get. That's why videos like yours are invaluable to musicians that are trying to put a package together. Thanks again for your time.

People are sleeping on Studio Drummer!! I'm so glad you mentioned it! The flams and rolls alone caught my interest but I swear there's some magical element to them that makes playing live feel better than every other drum program. When I'm tracking virtual drums with a keyboard/MPC I always use Kontakt.

Thanks so much Dom! Always so helpful. Would love to see a video with the rest of your drums🙂

XLN Audio - Addictive Drums 2, absolutely incredible sound, with almost unlimited possibilities to combine kits (also includes percussions), parameter settings and a very extensive MIDI library, it's the best, what I don't like are the 808 and 909 type drums, I think that's its weakness, the rest is supreme.

Great video, Dom. Thank you! You showed some libraries I was not aware of. SD3 is my favorite for acoustic drums. Prism Retro Pop Drums by AVA Music Group is another good one for 80s retro sounds.

DOM, always like your Videos and I wonde how you manage your time to handle all these tools you are explaining very well in your videos. I already learned so mich from you. I‘m using SD3 and EZD3 with some additional packages. I‘m using also the Toontrack pattern libraries. l‘m not a drummer and these things are very helpful for me to get ideas for groves of appropriate rythms for my productions. E.g. I like the way to find patterns by tapping the basic rythm and search

WE need a part 2! Out of these Drums i choose addictive Dr. and Slate! Thanks for your content!

The drums are all amazing, but your keyboard drumming is at another level! Great playing!!!!

Increíble Dom, nunca había visto tocar así en directo con un teclado.

besides the libraries...that fingerdrumming is simply fantastic. 👏🏽👍🏽

Awesome! 🎉 Thank you for the useful and informative information as always

I have most of those kits...I like Modo Drums..very customizable and easy to use..and many kits to choose from...you play drums very well on the keyboard..wish i had that talent

Just in time! Thanks Dom! I have GGD Modern & Massive and want to jump and try out SD3 with SSD 5.5 kicks and snares. I hope I'll be able to map those nicely so switching between those 3 and mixing in different sounds from them is easier than harder. Lol. Thanks for the insights! As always great stuff man!

Thanks! Great review! I've been a recording engineer since 1972 recording real drummers and drums and just now getting into samples doing my one man band thing in retirement. There's a million different sounds to get from a single drum set and drummer. I can see how one could get lost in there options.

That was quite helpful, thanks. Hertz Drums is exactly what I was looking for.

That was such a great video! Thanks for the demonstrations!

Loved the blind test in the beginning! Really helps with finding what kits you actually think sounds good. I already own SSD but don't even have it installed (I have some of the others on the list installed though...) and it won out for me, at least with these presets... More blind preset tests please! Very cool

Dom is a damn legend. I only came across his channel when I got into music as a hobby and I decided to go with Cubase as my DAW. Damn I learn so much from his content. Thanks Dom!

Id love to see an example of exactly HOW you go about layering in Cubase 12. I just Finished my first project doing some drum " reinforcement" in cubase w/SSD5, hitpoint detection, and sending the individual "outs" to faders so I could blend them in the mix console. I feel like I may learn a thing or two watching you do it as I ended up spending ALOT of time trying to line up SSD5 w/ the audio, despite using hitpoint detection.

You can feel this man loves what he's doing. Immediate sub.

I was just thinking the other day which one I should get from all the different ones out there. Perfect timing!

I've been using SD2 for awhile now. I was impressed by the SSD CLA and Studio Drummer session kits.

Thank you for this video. Really informative!! Helped a lot!

Really appreciate you showing the samples before getting into drawn out long explanations. Cheers

Thanks Dom. How about a video where you build up a drum kit sound for a tune from start to finish, including blending libraries, additional processing, or whatever you find works well.

I have used EZDrummer 2 for years, and now EZDrummer 3. I really don't need all the options that Superior drummer provides. EZDrummer 3 is AWESOME with all the new features and new kits! 😍

All of these are amazing libraries! Some other great libraries I've used are Naughty Seal's "Perfect Drums" and Soniccouture's "Moonkits". :D

The NI Abbey Roads brushes in particular is a breath of fresh air. Thanks

Thanks for the data! And thanks for your enthusiasm!

Have been using Addictive Drums for quite a while now. Also have been getting into the Modern 80's Drum Kit. Great sounds and the reverse snare 😁is super awesome. Thanks Dom.

Using all Addictive Drum libaries through my drummset for years. For me its the only one that sounds natural. When I recorded with AD no client ever said "sounds fake". Love them. Using Slate only for replacing when needed. Great video as usual 🤘

This is one of the best drum vids I’ve seen in a long time.

so...APPARENTLY Dom is a god at playing drums on a keyboard! Informative video- great content. THANKS!

I really like the sound of Hertz Drums and Addictive Drums 2, absolutely incredible sound .

I use EZ Drummer and i like it. For me they are enough and sound great. Your 80s drums are also great, especially for synthwave and synthpop style. 🎶🥂

Thanks for this video. Impressive finger drumming skills! :)

Man that Modern 80’s Kit is 🔥🔥OMG❗️ I love all the Dry punchey Kits as well

SD3 e drum user here. If you want to turn off aftertouch for cymbals its easy to do in SD3. Just click on the cymbal so its highlighted then in the boxes to the right turn off after touch in the choke trigger box

Been using Hertz Drums for a few months! love how easy they cut through the mix!!

BFD3 is stil one of my favourites and de ride/ cymbals paiste 602 from EZdrummer 3 are stunning!

Thanks Dom! I love Slate Plugins, have to try the drums 🥁...

GA, SD3, occasionally Jamstix engine using other sounds, Drumlab. Great video as always. Thanks!

You make all of them sound great! Finger drummer of the year 💙🏆

The sound of Hertz drums is really good

Nice review, as always. Just discovered you recently and I've only seen great videos! BTW, in SD3, you can remove Aftertouch for each cymbal and there's also some MIDI preset 'edit' settings about aftertouch which could help (or not) about the aftertouch issue with keys. About that and also non-GM mappings, a lot of drums VST are often designed for use with e-drums and uses articulations that would not be available through standard GM-mapping. Chokes also usually use (poly or not) aftertouch. It would be nice, though if chokes in SD3 could be mapped to something else (like maybe CCs as for the zone, with increased value corresponding to increased pressure).

Hi Dom, thanks for all the good hints for mixing and enhancing sounds. Have you already made a video about enhancing drums that were recorded live with only 2 overhead microphones? I'd need some hints for this. Many thanks in advance.

Alright, I admit it, I write almost almost all drum parts with the pencil tool in Cubase. You have finally driven me to utter madness with your wonderful hand-playing of drums & I will give it a serious try! I have about half of the libraries you showcased, & I was embarrassed by your demonstration. I bow to your mastery; Great Video!

Dom, special thanks for your perfect and easy to understand english!

Hi Dom, great video again! I like your videos because I can always discover something new - in this case HertzDrums, thanks for that. However, I am very surprised that you didn't mention what I think are the two best libraries in terms of mapping, drum replacement, tuning and playability: BFD3 and MODO Drums. Especially for me as a drummer it is so much easier to play realistically when I can map each instrument separately for the right and left hand. Nevertheless, I could leave the GM mapping for the left hand. In terms of sound and mix, BFD3 is unbeatable

Using superrior drumer 3 since it came out. Amazing tool. Can you make a video when you show how to mix drums from supperior? I find sometimes it difficult to receive a sound that I am happy with, and since you have a lot of experience it might be usefull for many people that are watching your channel.

Ezdrummer 3 it´s all I need, plus some vsti for EDM or trap, TRIAZ (Kontakt) is great too for modern loops.

Hi Dom, thanks for that overview! But I know why I am a Toontrack guy through and through. :-) I really love their love for that detail. Woooow. Primarily I am a drummer, hobby musician rock, metal, prog drummer. Somehow a got to edrums in combination with those VST libraries and the quality of those sounds blew me away, even with a low priced edrum set it was such a beautiful experience... Xmas 2019. My wife wanted my to buy an ekit for the kids and was like .... WHAT! NO WAY. That's not METAL! Anyway I saw a few guys on KZfaq using their edrums with EZDrummer2 and I ordered ED2, Cubase Elements 10.5 and the Millenium MPS-850. Hahahah! And that was it... with: for the kids. Daddy was freaking out!!! You know, as a hobby musician you won't here yourself playing a 5000$ Gretsch or TAMA or Ayotte kit in beautiful studio acoustics through 4000$ Neumann mics mixed by a fabulous, famous engineer. Really, I alway start to grin over the whole face when hearing the stand toms ringing out. The guys from Tonntrack know how to rip my wallet: A nice making-off with a true little story about a mic and, yap. Maybe you know the Making-of the last SD3 SDX Hitmaker. Me, as a kid of the 1980 could not hold on grabbing the drums sound of Phil Collins. They actually used the same overhead mic, producing that compressed sound of In The Air Tonight! Anyway: What I wanted to say...It's awesome what can be done with the todays drum libraries. You can switch off the Aftertouch feature at Choke/Mute trigger settings in SD3. Many edrum kits send a AT message when you choke the cymbal.

Great video -- you have a great feel for keyboard drumming!

Great breakdown! Totally agree with you that Superior Drummer is amazingly detailed but also the most complicated to create a "radio ready" treatment. Personally, I think the Blackbird Expansion for Slate 5 is incredible, less processed and sonically solid. I'm working on another expansion for Slate with Al Sutton of Rust Belt Studios which should be out early next year. Our pack is more vintage with some truly funky snares but also some big 70's rock instruments.

Circles stuff is fantastic. Bought several of their libraries. Use em all the time. (Dropped some .wav onto my Roland kit too)

Holy smokes! This guy drums better with his fingers than most real drummers out there! I was gonna say forget these drum vsts and go with pro drum loops but after hearing his playing and how far these vst's have come I have to rethink ...

Superior Drummer looks like something to be invested in. That's a lot of memory. Really want to try out Drums of St Paul.

I love everything Toontrack to be honest (and yes, I'm biased) but you taught me something new! Never knew the aftertouch choked the cymbals! Next to playing on my e-drums, I use the keyboard a lot too and never have I accidentally ran into choking the cymbal! Good to know tho! Oh, and I love your Modern 80s Drum Kit too! Use it quite often for writing Synthwave!

Man, you're an incredible keyboard drummer!

Hi Dom, great review. What I also like very much is "Extinction Level Event" by Glenn Fricker

Hi You run a great channel, excellent and very helpful job. Thank you Regards

Interesting. Thanks for this really detailed review. What do you think about ML Drums?

thanks for the video. in mixing when using a groove agent acoustic kit , do you engage the separate outputs and process the individual pieces? is there a video on this? thanks!

I use Addictive Drums 2 exclusively. It’s a program that has many unique, distinctly different libraries plus multiple alternate kit pieces you can plug into each kit. It’s the most versatile, comprehensive drum plugin I’ve found.

Fantastic video and choices Dom! Thanks for that. You should also try The Grange by Spitfire Audio.

My fave is XLN Addictive Drums Fair Fax Vol 1, Modern Jazz Brushes , Modern Jazz Sticks

Enjoyed the Journey, thanks Dom! Greetings from Oz! My fave Library is Nashville from Cub's own Acoustic Drum series for Groovce Agent..

Superior user for years. Made my first commercial production in 2008 with Toontracks Dfh and EZ-drummer, right before SD2 was released I think. Of course you should do a video where you deep dive into SD3. It’s almost an unlimited world of drums. Let’s get nerdy 😊

I like Modo Drum... and Modo Bass. I'm also always amazed that you never feature UVI products... their new Soul Drums sound great!

GetGood Drums all the way! All of their libraries and their recent One Kit Wonder series are out of this world.

Excellent video, sorry it is late comment. What do you use as a Drum Library organizer for all the samples?

I use Superior Drummer 3, mainly the Bob Rock pack, I also have Hitmaker which I'm mixing in with it. I've also got various others but the Native Instruments Drummer series is still one of the best sounding....I just have trouble mixing them

These are great libraries. I love also BFD3 and NI Battery.

Thank you! great video!!

I'm a SD3 user since the library came out. I used SD2 before that, so the jump was mandatory. But actually, I'm looking forward to put my hands on Get Good Drums libraries.

Thank you very much it was so usefull!

Have you tried IK's Modo Drums? For me the Abbey Road kit gets used a fair amount but I also use the 3 free Labs kits from spitfire audio to great results.

I am a huuuuge fan of SD. Have about 2TB of library's .😊 Anyway , your ambidextrosity with hands is on next level.🤙 Tnx for posting this cool content. ✌️

Over the last few years I've tried some different bass, guitar and synth plug-ins but on drums I never felt the need to try anything other than AD2. Super versatile and doesn't need a shit ton of gigabytes, unlike SD3.

I really love the Abbey Road stuff for old school very vintage type, but the ST. Paul is very intriguing, it sure is Different, hopefully it is adjustable a bit less Roomy. Very nice Demo!!!

I love IK's MODO Drum, when paired with MODO bass they're incredibly efficient plugins for guitarist/singer/songwriters, plus the modelling nature allows some unique customisation options.

Hi Dom I use EZ Drummer 3 with expansion I am into Pop music and it sounds Gr8

I'm doing a mix with kick and snare, crash, cymbals from Slate SSD5.5 and hi-hat and toms from Toontrack.

Great information! I've used a few of these. Good to hear a bit of side by side. And I must say "Damn Dude!" you really kill it with the keyboard drums!

Dom, you rock! ❤

Your keyboard drumming technique is absolutely outstanding, as is this entire video along with your great commentary! What keyboard controller are you using? I have BFD drums and I'm absolutely furious that their new owners. In Music refuse to acknowledged my emails about them not recognising my Fxpansion serial numbers! Keep up the great work!

obrigado amigo, me ajudou muito, estou pesquisando variedades de timbres de bateria para minhas produções...obrigado, abração

Thanks so much for this!

I'm glad I came across this video, as I am going to be buying the latest version of Cubase Artist for my new PC I will stick with the SE version of Groove Agent which will be a big step up from Groove Agent One SE. I'm thinking about buying Superior Drummer 3 maybe next year and one of the Metal or Rock themed expansions. I also find the drums in Halion 6 usable ( I'm hoping it will work on my new computer as it has many sounds from the Yamaha Motif series plus a few from Tyros but I don't particularly want a Yamaha Tyros as they are quite big even though I did consider a Tyros 4 or 5 but they are not really suitable for music production ). But I an seriously considering buying a Roland Integra 7 in place of Cakewalk and the suite of Edirol VSTs I downloaded from one of those dodgy sites, I do also still do entire backing tracks on my various sound modules and I have some pretty solid drums in my Roland JV-1080 and the Roland R-8 and Alesis SR-16 drums are still usable in my opinion. As for Native Instruments I have only been using Kontakt 6 for 2 years and I also have Abbey Roads Drummer Collection which I an still going to use for many years to come and eventually I will but Studio Drummer ( maybe I might buy it in this year's Black Friday deal ). Or maybe if Kontakt 6 won't run on my new PC I might treat myself to Komplete Standard ( I can't go back to using Kontakt Player and Kontakt is a bit expensive on it's own even though I did buy Kontakt 6 on it's own but that was only because I was new to the world of Kontakt, the Band Library drums? they are OK and work well in 70s reggae and they are fine in low budget productions but not the sort of thing I would overuse. Spitfire labs also has a nice drum kit.

SD3 looks dope but I think the Kontakt and Addictive kits I have will be sufficient. Great finger drumming BTW 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

You are a brilliant musician.

Iam using grove agent and ez drummer 3..like them both

Great video!! Amazing explanation!! Where do I download "SSD 5 Classic" pack? On the official page of the SSD, it adds something to the basket without letting you to choose certain sound pack. Any ideas?

I use Red Pack Drums rcs essentials. Really great and easy to use

I worked with AD long time ago. Then I bought NI Komplete. Therefore I often use Studio Drummer or the other Abbey Road Libraries. Best compliment I got from a drummer in a band: "Did I play this or did you programm it?" (was some 1-2 years old demo) ... it was Studio Drummer. Nice. But as I said - I worked with Addictive Drums 1+2 years ago and I was really fine with it. I changed only because I got the "Komplete Package" - with tons of cool stuff. My guess - I just use 10-20% of Komplete - but it's cool to have everything available. And sometimes cool to just "try out some of the unknown plugins" ...But I think you can get great sound with all systems... Thanks and liked, Stefan

Great finger drumming brother, wow . 😮 Peace