The deeper into the EZX I dug, the more the diversity of the kits, the tunings and presets shone through. The sounds, sampled by gospel drummer Calvin Rodgers and recorded at Paragon Studios in Nashville, were lush and detailed.Įven without digging into the SD’s advanced editing options, the choice was astounding. Interestingly, there is no mimicPro MIDI map for EZDrummer, which is surprising as Toontrack could easily import the SD3 version. To fully explore the pack, I used the SD3 player which has a fairly accurate mimic MIDI preset that only required calibration of the hi-hat. I used a Pearl mimicPro to trigger the VST, through a Macbook Air with the new M1 processor. These range from ‘basic tight retro’ to ballad and ‘modern live’, all very distinctive and, in effect, giving you more than 65 unique kit sounds that go far beyond “happy clappy”. There are also various cymbals, percussion, handclaps, snaps and foot stomps to create a versatile sound palette.īut, the choices don’t stop there – the kits can be further honed with a collection of more than a dozen presets by seven-time Grammy Award-winning engineer/producer Danny Duncan. The pack consists of four drum sets “from the ‘40s through to today” – specifically, a Pearl Music City Custom Reference Pure, a 1940s Leedy Broadway, and a 1960s Rogers Hollywood, recorded twice – once in a jazzy tuning and then again in a tight, “retro soul” tuning.Īll kits feature optional kicks and a bunch of snares, which you can, of course, mix and match. Once everything is installed and authorised, you can access the pack through your DAW or through the standalone EZDrummer or the more sophisticated SD3 standalone player. THE NAME OF the new pack is somewhat misleading – its application goes way beyond Gospel music, as we quickly discovered.Īs usual these days, there is no box: the samples are delivered via digital download, and thanks to the Toontrack Product Manager, download, installation and authorisation is a walk in the park.Īlso, because this is an EZX (as opposed to the more detailed SDX packs), it is a modest-sized download that can be completed pretty quickly with a decent Internet connection. digitalDrummer loaded it and tried it out. Toontrack has added another expansion pack to its already huge drums VST range – Superior Drummer Gospel EZX.
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