How many virtual drum instruments do you own?

[cryophonik]

I've been spending some time setting up project templates for my DAWs this week and it made me realize that I've collected far more drum VIs over the years than I would have guessed - 19 in all when I include the ones bundled with my DAWs. Of course, some of them were the entry-level versions that I upgraded to flagship versions (e.g., EZ Drummer to Superior Drummer, Eco to BFD2). Fortunately, there's only a handful of them that have never been used in a song, and most of those include things like Session Drummer or UltraBeat that came bundled with a DAW, not purchased separately. Still, seems like overkill - and that doesn't even begin to reflect the GBs of drum samples and expansion packs on my Samples HD!

How about you guys/gals?

[V0RT3X]

I used to own alot, but now I just own Tremor and BFD Eco.

im sure missing Geist and the D16 stuff.

[RunBeerRun]

I put 1-Extreme drum synth, it would be none but that one blows me away. Otherwise I only use my homemade plugins, low cpu, remappable sequencers w/presets.

I use a sustain pedal and a Wiimote to silently play drums, any velocity is going to have to be faked this way.

[Ghostwave]

I only use 3: Geist, Battery 3 and MicroTonic.
I'd rather invest in high quality samples (eg: Wave Alchemy) than buying yet another plugin.

edit: just bought Geist (which retired GURU)

[ZenPunkHippy]

Interesting question! I answered 16 - 20, which includes plugins capable of only kick drums, or percussion type sounds (not strictly drums).

Hardware: 3 drum machines, 2 samplers. Analog Rytm is available soon, so that will go up to 4 drum machines but I might sell one of 'em.

Peace,
Andy.

[chk071]

Of course it depends very much on the musical style, but i find it very educating and fun to create drum sounds with normal "general use" synths, rather than with dedicated drum synths. I always found it pretty limiting to use plugins like Drumatic, because i never really got out of it what i wanted... very useful to have a drum sampler though for the created sounds of course, so you can layer and handle them better.

[waltercruz]

Geist and Steven Slate.

[thecontrolcentre]

I own 3 drum vsti's ... Tattoo, Drumaxx and KickWOK. I also have Drum Racks in Live 9 which gets the most use. I do have CM versions of Geist and Guru, but never got into them (mainly because of Drum Racks).

[VariKusBrainZ]

eleventy twelve,
why do you ask, does it effect masculinity?

[hibidy]

I'll count them later. Too many to be certain.

eleventy twelve,
why do you ask, does it effect masculinity?

No but it effects my feminine side.

[longbongsilver]

Geist, BFD Eco, & the freeware Tromine 808/909 emus.

[Armadillosound]

I own 5 but use 4.
Stylus RMX, Microtonic and Groove Agent SE4 are the three I use most. I sometimes use EZdrummer and Drumaxx I never use as it's still 32bit and seems dead in the water along with the rest of Maxx Clasters plugins.

[BBFG#]

[JonSolo]

XLN is really good. So is Battery 4. I have not used Geist but I own it and BFD Eco.

I have all of the IL stuff and Groove Agent through Cubase 7.5. And tons of sample libraries...everything that came with Komplete Ultimate.

Then there is all the stuff I have with Reason....

Eish.

[Mister Natural]

I never use BFDEco anymore as the interface I think is very clunky. I bought is as it was key to pair with the Digital Vault Zildjian cymbals that I found as a stupid deal of the day for like $20. Then found that my beloved Geist could see these samples. Between it and the hilarious uTonic, I have no further need for drum synths. Still have Drum Racks in LIVE9 that I really haven't explored . . .

peace