Anyone using Superior Drummer 3 for Electronic/Hip-Hop music?

[Ah_Dziz]

No.....

Just kidding. I don't have this but I do have AD and a few other nice "real drum" products. I do tons of hip hop and electronic stuff and I regularly program up my own breaks and then chop em up in a sampler and get down like that. Having something like Vybz or rc20 is a bonus for dirtying these sorts of things up in this kind of use.

JJ

[LoveEnigma18]

No.....

Just kidding. I don't have this but I do have AD and a few other nice "real drum" products. I do tons of hip hop and electronic stuff and I regularly program up my own breaks and then chop em up in a sampler and get down like that. Having something like Vybz or rc20 is a bonus for dirtying these sorts of things up in this kind of use.

JJ

Thanks for your suggestion.

[SLiC]

Anyone tried this?

https://www.toontrack.com/product/electronic-edge-ezx/

[LoveEnigma18]

Anyone tried this?

https://www.toontrack.com/product/electronic-edge-ezx/

Not yet, but I do have my eye on it. It's a bit expensive for me, though, especially considering I already have lots of options for electronic sounds (Battery 4, Polyplex, DrumComputer, XO). Guess Electronic Edge EZX might not be worth it for me.

[LoveEnigma18]

With these acoustic drums from Superior Drummer 3, how do you use the reverb? Do you only dial in the room ambience from the library itself or use external reverb processing too?

Typically, I use drum samples and route them to the reverb bus and dial it as needed to make them sit with other instruments in the mix. But with SD3 in particular it would be good to get some advice.

[slaambo]

Are you using the main SD3 library? What do you have in mind sound-wise? I't can be tricky to get it to sound right. The "built in" ambiance is enormous, which makes it suitable for big-beat drums, but maybe not so much for dry hip-hop beats. But:

Try lowering the velocity for all playing drums. The character of a drum sounds different over the whole velocity-range. For soul/funk sounding drums full force isn't necessarily better..

Turn down ambiance-mics. Transient-shape away some of the "wetness" works to (you can also shorten the envelope in some and/or all mic-channels). Some light mid-scooping can make stuff sound a bit drier.

Explore the close mics and bleed. Sometimes you find interesting colors in the bleed channels. Phase-relations between channels can sometimes bring out interesting colors to. It's a bit hard to give concrete examples unfortunately, I often just go by ear..

Also saturation, compression, other coloration, and liberal use of fat on the drum bus, of course.

Very helpful words to help penetrate the mysteries of SD3