If I were interested in curating a large collection of drum sounds at this point, as I said above, I'd just trash all my Toontrack stuff and either grab some decent Kontakt libraries or get into BFD. I don't really dig Toontrack's audio processors - EZMix sounds terrible to me, and gives you extremely limited options. I can see how it might appeal to you guys, especially if you just want to mixdown a detailed kit without the hassle of recording a lot of DAW tracks and setting up a lot of plugin processors. But the selling point of EZMix 2 processors onboard, or using a VI's internal mixer and processing it as one instrument doesn't appeal to me, particularly given the size of SD3 (even at 41 GBs, the smallest content size listed for the SD3 minimal library, that's still 41 GBs on top of the 21 existing GBs for SD2, plus all my EZXs). I do like some of the Producer Presets in Superior 2 (particularly, the Slate drums),so I guess I do occasionally use some of its onboard plugins, if it is essential to the particular piece's sound. In EZDrummer 1, I'll always shut off the comp track and just record the drums and room mics individually, then mix them like a 'real' drum kit with third party plugins in my DAW's mixer, or in the case of Superior Drummer 2, I turn off most of the internal plugs, record the drums and room mics and do the same.
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