Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 Review with Demo and Tutorial

The Future of Drum Production!?!? Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 Review + Demo + Tutorial

Thanks for watching our ToonTrack Superior Drummer 3 review. This piece of software is the future of drum production. It is the perfect drummer. In this demo, we show you how to use Superior Drummer.

Way more than a sound library, Superior Drummer 3 gives you streamlined workflow and countless features for amazing drum production right in your computer.

The fully loaded feature list of Superior Drummer 3 includes:

• In excess of 230 GB of raw, unprocessed sounds in 44.1 kHz/24 bit
• Recorded with an additional eleven separate room microphones set up in a surround configuration for a complete immersive experience
• Playback in stereo or up to 11-channel surround systems

• Approx. 350 vintage and classic drum machine sounds
• New and improved scalable interface with detachable windows
• Edit Play Style, Tap2Find, Song Creator and Song Track features as well as improved workflow and search functionality

• Built-in MIDI grid editor
• DAW automation for built-in macro controls
• Support for keyboard shortcuts

Superior Drummer 3 is, at its core, a dedicated percussion DAW. Step into your own virtual studio and have the best sounding samples at your fingertips. It is way more than just a drum sampler.

Recorded by award winning engineer George Massenburg, the Superior Drummer 3 sound library features more than 230 GB of raw sound with a ton of detail. Use up to 11 room microphones for a truly surround sound experience.

The sheer amount of samples is very appealing.

Here is come more spec about the sounds:

• Seven (7) kits
• Tom shell dimensions cover ranges from 6” to 20”
• Optional tool selection available on select kits and instruments (sticks, brushes, rods, felt mallets)

• Optional drum head selection available on select kits and instruments
• Approx. 350 electronic drum sounds, sampled from vintage and classic drum machines

• 25 unique acoustic snares, 35 recorded configurations
• 16 unique acoustic kicks, 27 different recorded configuration

The integration with e drum kits is remarkable and lets you fine tune your e kit sound with optimized velocity response.

The design of the software lets you create quick custom beats or to deep dive into timing and velocity with never having to leave the program. It includes multiple song tracks, a grid editor, and time and tempo editor.

Use the included tracker to convert drum audio into MIDI for precise timing. Superior Drummer 3 also includes 35 different effects and a dedicated DAW style of GUI, making it easy to route, bus, send, saturate, etc.

Superior Drummer 3 is an excellent piece of software. Remember, it is more than just a drum sampler. With over 230GB of samples, an intuitive, unique DAW, and e drum integration, it really is the future of drum production.

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[zipperhead]

Based on a clients review and the info I got from my SweetWater rep, I just ordered this product. I immediately started stalking YouTube for tutorials etc. And ran across your vid here. Makes me really anxious to get started with it! Thanks!

[todblanchard]

Thanks for the video! I love Superior drummer 3! I trigger it with my VDrums at live gigs! INCREDIBLE!

[elijahcarbon]

Hi Alex. Great review man. I have been an Addictive Drums user since 2017, and while I am quite happy with it up to a point, in the last few months I have begun to feel the need to try something new. Watched a few videos now and Superior Drummer has really piqued my interest. I have heard folks rave about it on various forums, and then it was a big deal to learn that George Massenburg was involved in its creation. My primary thing is the quality of the sound, and I know that with him on board that side of things will be second to none. I work with an e-kit also, so the dynamics and "round robin" sample playback is important. Quite impressed with the quality of the effects too, I tend to bus out my tracks dry and work with them in my DAW currently, it would be great to be able to do more processing within the platform. The GUI does really look a treat, and the selection of kit pieces straight out of the box is staggering. Yup, I'm convinced. No nights out on the town for a while for me! All the best.

[MikeHunterJr]

That bleed feature is krazi!!!! Dope!!!! Thanks for the video mane!! I just got SP3 last night and haven't been able to sit on my ekit and really dig around yet but I'm stoked!!

[danielo]

Hi Pal, great video. Thanks for sharing. I would really appreciate seeing that video you suggested making about how to set up with e-drums. I'm new to it and feeling a bit overwhelmed.

[caseb]

It has the best input recognition from electronic drum sets

[ridesafelee]

You’ve just inspired me to spend a lot of money.

[markuschelios]

This was amazingly helpful in setting up my TD17 with SD3.

[ChrisDeJuanMusic]

Nice one...best video review i've watched of SD3, great work dude! And what an awesome piece of software SD3 is! One question, do you run SD3 on the internal SSD of your computer or on an external SSD? I'm thinking of purchasing a Mac Mini M1, 16g RAM, 0.5Tb SSD... and hope the 0.5TB internal SSD will be enough to run SD3 with it's full library of samples...of course together with Logic Pro and a few other programs like Premier, Photoshop... then use external SSD's to store all the sessions/media files. Thanks again fir this great review! :)

[groethej]

Hi. Very informative. I've just ordered a Roland TD-17 KVX. A video on mapping would be really useful.

[amiller]

What a great review ! I just got this, not yet installed. I plan to use it with my Roland TD-10 and newly fixed Drum kat turbo. You've got me excited on the seemingly endless possibilities, I'll be checking out more of your videos. Be well !

[joescott]

I'm going to buy this asap! Thank you.

[fergusfurlong]

Excellent review - can you trigger SD3 using eDrums pads without the eDrums module/brain, that is like a midi keyboard, trigger direct from the eDrum pad into SD3?

[CovertOperations]

Hey Alex, great video! I am interested in this software to use with my VDrums and was wondering if you ever put together a video showing how to set it up with your electronic kit?

[johnneil]

And at 5:35 when you double click on the region you dragged in, look to the right of the drums - amount & velocity. That's basically like "Drummer" in Logic Pro. Amount will increase or decrease the complexity of that pattern (add more ghost snares etc), velocity will make it bigger or smaller. I just saw that in another video, ha.

[EwanPB]

I'd love to see an explanation of how to connect Superior Drummer 3 to an electric kit man. I have a Roland TD30KV and I just bought Superior Drummer 3 but I'm pretty clueless on how to get it all working together. It would certainly help me survive quarantine dude!

[georgekiapos]

Great video! I just got SD3 as well as Luna (DAW from UA). I'm not so much interested in preset grooves as much as I am writing them. But, I can't get my SD3 instrument track to record midi. Any suggestions? (think of Luna like any other DAW). Thanks in advance!

[leemcintyre]

Great video!!! Thanks!!! Did you do a vid for V-drums yet? I'm subscribing now & checking to see if you did.

[leongrinberg]

hi ! next time do a review for bfd3, you gonna blown away by the quality and amount of expansion;)

[stevenneufeldmusic]

What E-Drum kit are you using with SD3, if you don't mind answering? would love to know, or if you made another video about using that w/ this program, t'would be epic! Cheers!