Had Toontrack had the foresight to record impulse responses of the room at Galaxy Studio (they had almost everything they needed already set up), then I could import close-miced drums and had a convincing kit by running them through convolution reverbs of the room captured with their mic setup and a sound source at each kit position. It seems I'd wind up using drums from other libraries within 3, which leads to the major problem of mismatched room ambience due to totally different recording setups. They would have been wise to allow other VST plugins in their effects slots. I guess I've been spoiled by Fractal and UA.
The effects have been increased in number from 5 to 35 IIRRC, but the quality of most I tried was shit, especially the reverbs. All in all, I'm not sure what these world-class experts were thinking. Many of the drums also have nasty ringing the kind of ringing that would make me immediately retune or dampen. In order to get a mega-power hit on many toms, you have to simulate one with amplitude and pitch envelopes.
The new tuning algorithm sounds good, but not good enough to extend the range to extremes. The small concert toms are not tuned nearly high enough. Were they afraid they'd hurt the heads? No power whatsoever in many of them. The toms, especially the floor toms, sound like they are being hit by an old lady, even at max velocity. I've read reviews of how awesome the samples are, but I find them lacking compared to many of the SDX libraries for SD2. The interface and workflow are vastly improved, and the new features are great. Get it out of the way, you're going to end up there recently got the opportunity to try SD3. So my advice would be to just start with SD3. Once you get all the little tweaks out of the way, and there's a lot of them, it's fairly straightforward. I will say, just thinking you're going to walk into the world of VSTs and plug and play.dream on! It's a tweaking tinkerer's type of world. So, unless you need a lot of positional sensing on every kit piece, and other little things like that, older modules work just fine with VSTs. Those modules function purely as midi trigger inputs, no more. Without SD3, using 3 modules would be a huge headache. I still use the TD-6v in my setup, along with a TD-10exp and a TMC-6. EZD2 is great if you're just going to use MIDI grooves or sit and program the drum parts. Just more overall flexibility for vDrums. And the EZDrummer EZXs function better in SD3 than in EZD2. I then branched out and tried some of the other drum VSTs like SSD and BFD, etc.always came back to Toontrack. I started my VST journey with a TD-6v and Superior Drummer 2.0.
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