I then press search and it will list say 40 loops that are close. I then tap the kick drum where I want it. What I do is go to Search and Tap to Find.You can then hit the Tap2Find and a metronome taps out a click for two measures and I ad a stare where I want it. I am using EZ2.It's very easy to use and very easy to get started. Whichever one helps you find the parts you need most easily is going to be the least frustrating to use. For me that's where the whole creative process can get bogged down and frustrate me.Įveryone's brain is different and some people will find what they're looking for more quickly in one program or the other. To me the main differentiator should be how quickly you're able to home in on the loop you need for your project. It's much easier for you to simplify a part than to jazz it up, so they provide the jazzed-up version and you can cut out the stuff that is too much for your track. Usually the included loops in a program like this will tend toward the busy side, but that's intentional. The loops will be similar in quality too. Slate probably compares more directly to Toontrack's Superior Drummer product w/r/t features and tweakability, but EZ D has a lot of that too. I think they both sound good and give you a lot of control over the sounds.
#SUPERIOR DRUMMER VS EZDRUMMER 2 FOR FREE#
I’m now using Superior Drummer 3 as my default drum VI, though I’ll occasionally go looking into AD2 or Native Instruments or, rarely, BFD3 or MODO Drums for a particular sound.They're both available to demo for free I think, though with limited content libraries. Plus I have tons of midi from all the EZXs and midi packs that I’ve bought over the years it’s just more likely I’ll find a beat that I can use in EZD. AD2 sounds more processed to my ears, and I have a harder time getting it to fit in easily. EZD just sounds more natural and sits better in a mix, at least in my experience. And when it’s on sale, one can get fantastic deals (I think for BF it was AD2 + 2 or 3 extensions + 2 or 3 midi packs, all for about $85 - unbelievable!).Īll that said, I’ve gotten waay more use out of EZD than AD2. Not nearly as fast as EZD’s method.ĪD2 seems to offer more sound shaping than EZD. 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. You can also reassign articulations in this window. 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. You can also change the speed and length of the midi pattern. 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). You can also do the same thing for the velocity levels of each individual kit piece. You can broaden or narrow the dynamic range (that is, velocity) of the midi pattern, as well as raise or lower its overall velocity level. Midi pattern editing: AD can do quite a bit via the transform tab in the Beats window. EZD’s controls are more minimal - just a few basic controls on the mixer page, like reverb, dynamics, pitch, and mic bleed. There are also global effects (reverb, delay, EQ) that can be applied to taste via sends for each channel. On the Edit page, there are kitpiece controls (response, pitch, tone designer, volume envelope) as well as noise, tape & shape, EQ, compression and distortion. Sound shaping: AD gives you quite a bit of control over each piece of the kit.
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