

You will see its beat pattern appear on the track. Once you’ve selected your grooves, you can click and drag them on the MIDI track. You can listen to the groove to get a grasp of the beat it is playing. They are organized by numerical order such as Groove 01, Groove 02 and so on. You will find samples of Pop-Rock instrumentals built-in the library. The ‘grooves’ or samples provide the backbone for the DAW pattern.

LibraryĮZ Drummer’s deck of samples is called the Groove Library. Should you use your keyboard as a MIDI controller, you will find that the drum samples match up with a piano roll. Once the controller has been configured, you can play the drum samples from the predetermined DAW pattern.

With the powerful tools of Superior Drummer 2, it’s a clean canvas of the finest of raw material, ready for you to harness, shape and mold into something truly unique.You can also use an EZ Drummer within a MIDI controller whenever you want to record a live session. This is more than a collection of drums for just rock and metal. This room really brings out the very essence and raw nature of these instruments. With its concrete-lined walls, the room at Studio B produces a hard but still deep and precise tone, making it a perfect sonic environment for big, reverberant rock and metal drums. This library comprises three full kits, a wide assortment of cymbals and a total of seven snares drums, all recorded using the utmost in recording equipment. Having produced and mixed defining albums by some of modern metal’s most priced acts like Testament, Megadeth, Accept and Killswitch Engage, Sneap has had an instrumental role in shaping the sound of metal as we know it in the new millennium. Heavy acts like Metallica, Soundgarden, Kiss, Pearl * Jam and many others have all mixed or recorded groundbreaking works here.Īt the helm recording, a man that needs no introduction to the world of metal Andy Sneap. Formerly known as the A&M Studios, these landmark facilities have housed the who’s-who of the recording industry of the past few decades. The sessions were conducted at Studio B of Los Angeles’ Henson Recording Studios. It comes with fundamentally the same collection of instruments but includes a wider variety of mic selections as well as a custom bank of kit presets. What makes it different from the EZX version is that the SDX sounds are raw and without post-processing, meaning the source material recorded directly at the studio.

This SDX expansion for Superior Drummer 2 features the original recording that was used as the foundation for arguably the most popular set of metal drum sounds on the market the Metal Machine EZX.
