What's going on Y'all? Sean Divine here and today
We're taking a exclusive look at a new plugin
It's called Superior Drummer 3 it's by Toontrack
They've completely overhauled the interface it has a lot of new features and most importantly the library has been
completely
Redone and they've recorded tons of new kits. It was recorded by George, Massenburg
Which if you're not familiar with who he is - he actually invented the parametric equalizer.
So you know it's gonna sound good
And it does the only way I can describe the library is that it sounds 3D. It's some of the best
Acoustic drum sounds that I've heard to date
but let's just jump in and let's go through some of the new features and
Just the way this thing is laid out first of all really nice new GUI it is fully scalable
So you can move it around do what you need to do now from the main window. We can right-click on any of our drums
Or click on it and let's just click on our kick here
Really awesome sounding kick there. This is the Pearl master works 18 by 22. Let's just go to a couple of the other ones
massive sounding
whoa
Use that for Hip-hop really cool. They're
About a couple of snare drums right now. I have my favorite kind of snare drum which has always been a piccolo snare
Just amazing sounding gosh. Let's try some slingerland
Being a drummer. I'm just very sensitive to the way the samples sound and
How expressive they are in the dynamics?
awesome
That's cool, and we've also got some brushes
Tom's
I
Could just sit and play these all day there. They're super fun
So anyways let's keep it moving here you notice that in the beginning of the video
I showed you there is a full sequencer so I sequenced this entire
drum Line Within Superior Drummer 3 so you don't actually have to leave the interface to program and sequence your
entire drum
Arrangement and then let's say you wanted to then have some flexibility and use the logic sequencer
All you have to do is select your parts here in Superior Drummer, drag it into the track
and
Boom there it is so you can just turn it off there on Superior Drummer and use the sequencer.
Here in logic so a lot of flexibility there
Let me show you another feature
I know. I'm gonna be using a lot as a producer and when I'm making beats there is a tracker tool now
This is kind of like a drum replacement tool, but it's not what you're used to with drum replacement
It's very very user friendly of course for all the rock guys out there
You know how this is going to be able to help you but for the producers and those of you who are making beats?
this is a really cool way to
actually kind of rebuild loops and
deconstruct loops
Replace them with your own sounds let me show you how this works so for instance. I have a custom
Hat loop from my drum kit here
Let's just preview that
So let's just say that we wanted to use a sound from Superior Drummer
Or the hi-hats that I have in this kit. All I need to do is just drag this into Superior Drummer
We'll just put it there and it already detected
This is a hi-hat, and it marks all of our hits on the hi-hat
And now I can actually go into the source and just make sure this is turned down and it's going to play back
The the same loop but with the hi-hat from our kit here in superior
So let's just play that
So a couple of our quicker notes here. It's not playing back all we need to do is just turn this amount up there
we go
try that
so now we can use any of the high hats which are just incredible sounding from Superior Drummer 3 so let's just try the
zildjian Kay
So we've completely rebuilt this loop
Using the samples here, so one more thing
I want to show you today that I'm really excited about was Superior Drummer 3 is that you have the ability to
Stack your own samples or stack samples from the stock library on to your drums
So let's say for the kick
You know great acoustic rock kind of a bass drum sound but let's say I wanted to stack something a little more urban
Maybe a little bit more like an 808 on top of that what I can do is I?
can go to this menu just by right-clicking and I can click import audio file and
That will open up here. Let's just say I'm gonna go to my drum kit here and let's just stack it
With a really heavy kind of trap kick. Let's try this one
So we'll import that and then it's going to show right here
And I'm just gonna lower the level so we can blend it
with our acoustic kick
So without it
So you can get some very cool unique hybrid sorts of tones by using this stack feature, okay?
So that is a first look and demo at the Brand-new Superior Drummer 3 plugin it is not yet released
It will be coming out september
12th but Toontrack sent it over so that you all on the channel could be amongst the first to see it
hear it and learn about some of the new features in the plugin
So I want to know what y'all think about it is this something that you're going to be adding to your instrument collection
Feel free to leave a comment below I'm excited about using it in my own production. I think for acoustic drums
It's as good as it gets they obviously brought in some of the top talent in the world George Massenburg being just an absolute genius
To record the drums in Galaxy studio. I believe that's in belgium and
They sound incredible it shows the amount of work and detail
That they put into the recording process be sure to check this out on september 12th, and we'll talk to you soon