It's good for everybody to have that just to be able to see for themselves. There is also a trade off of the flexibility to mix the mics (but takes up more polyphony to do so and CPU power) vs. less flexibility with the stereo (but not too much of a compromise since you can still mix the relative levels of the drums and process them individually both in or outside of the plug-in) where it takes up less polyphony and CPU power to run!hydemusic wrote:Agreed...having both to use will give me the opportunity to play with. Then I'll really see the advantage of the MT like you said. I already have the MT kits and grooves in DM 1 and see the advantage there. It's very generous of to give us the MT. I appreciate that.Squids wrote: For me personally, I happen to like both. I like the speed and efficiency of just using this combo stereo/multichannel without mic mixing. If I was playing an e-Drum kit I would probably prefer these. If I was producing an album and creating a drum track for it then I might prefer the multi-track discrete mic mixing ones but both would still be handy.
Hope that helps you and anyone else wondering about it. Also, I think that these special stereo kits are a good place to start (and you certainly get some great variety in this package). But the fact that you all are getting at least one and maybe more Multitrack kits as a bonus in this group buy then you'll have a chance to see the difference first hand... and that's an even better way to know if it's for you.
Sometimes I might use a stereo/QMC (short for Quasi Multichannel) in the writing/sequencing process and then when it comes time to mix pull up a multitrack kit. This way there's more CPU, ram and hard drive access speed available for other instruments I'm working with at the same time while arranging the song... then, later on I can concentrate more on the drums specicially and maybe track it to audio (good idea for many reasons).
Oh and one other advantage to the stereo kits is that they load faster.
But believe me, I love both and we have something for everybody. Some people don't care HOW long it loads and if you just want tons of flexibility, lots and lots of samples... then EpiK DrumS has that. Some kits take up to 2 minutes to load in that one but they're up to 10 gigabytes in size each with no data compression. When the stereo/QMC versions of those come out they will be useful in the same way... writing with the stereo and mixing with the multitrack.
But remember each person can use these differently. I wouldn't tell someone they need the multitrack if they don't. It all depends. Best way is to try it out for yourself. It IS fun to blend the mics... many possibilities no matter which way you go.
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