Superior Drummer 3 With Edrums First Impressions

This drum software has gotten a ton of hype recently, so I decided to buy it and see how good it is. After using it with my conversion kit for awhile, these are my first impressions.
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[@katmckool]

This software is amazing! I use it with my TD-25 and cannot say enough good things about it! My tracks sound so natural and real! The customization features of the E-Drum controls makes such a huge difference!!!

[@Pro1938ftc3ch]

So your saying you can basically download a Roland 50K KIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@katmckool]

@@Pro1938ftc3ch yes and no. The 50 kit has those USB pads that have even more sensitivity. I admit I would love those pads but the 25 kit is sensitive enough and the kits sound better than ANY drum module out! It works great for me!

[@TracyGunz]

@@katmckool I use a TD 25 as well.

[@olejakob9216]

Getting SD3 is the best decision I’ve done regarding my music interest, it’s the best thing out there! Got everything on a 2tb LaCie harddrive , works like a charm

[@nickgoodwindrums4206]

Just seeing this now, I've been using SD3 for probably about two years now (with a DTX900 kit). I love the program thus far, there is many features that are very in depth and beyond my every day use (ie: can individually choose how much bleed comes through each microphone, from each individual piece of the kit). I find the quality of sounds exceptional. I've purchased a couple expansions: the only downside I noted was that if you really like a certain sound (ie a Black Beauty Snare from a certain expansion), you can't get that same sound to play through a different expansion as the two expansions would have been recorded in a different studio/with different microphones... BUT depending which DAW you use, you could add multiple SD3 VSTs (ie make a 'layer' channel in FL Studio DAW), so that you can trigger both expansions at one time and get every sound you desire from every different expansion you have, so long as your computer can handle the processing power. All in all, great program, and would highly recommend for E-drummers ! Cheers for the review on the program, Justin !

[@treyshoaf]

Love the video. but laughed at Dee Jent Style.

[@AtTheSourceStudios]

Nice dee jent lol

[@vladrek]

I stream drums on twitch and was using an alesis dm10 so obviously I was pretty dissatisfied with the drum sounds. So a little over a year ago I picked up superior drummer 2 to improve the quality of my sound and it was such a great decision. Of course playing on alesis pads was also a problem as they were prone to break quite often. So it became clear that I needed to upgrade my physical ekit at some point. So earlier this year I put together my roland kit with a td-30 brain. My hope was that the sound quality would be good enough for me to not have to use superior drummer, but despite how good the td30 was it couldn't match the sound quality. So I then made a decision to upgrade to superior drummer 3 and man was I blown away with how much better it was compared to 2. Even processing my old kit that I used on 2 I was able to notice a substantial difference in sound quality. I'm still trying to dive deeper into sd3 so I can take advantage of all their kit building features, but I'm very happy with sd3 and would absolutely recommend it.

[@Excaidus-Metal]

I just want to say thank you dude for making these videos on your channel. I watched many of these videos and it got me totally caught up on what's going on with E-Drums.

[@MikaelMaatta]

Found it at 8:29 mark, that took care of the problem, thanks for a awesome and informative video 🤟🏻

[@soulslaveone]

'This dwarfs everything else out there! SD3 kicks ass!!

[@doublestrokeroll]

It still seems amazing to me that after all these years, in my opinion, nothing has matched Platinum Samples (and thus BFD3) for sound quality. They simply recorded their samples at higher velocity layers and dynamic layers than anything else before or since and it absolutely makes a difference especially when triggering from an ekit.

[@minhuang8848]

I mean, it doesn't get better than SD3 and those samples, ambiance and resonance tracks alone are as high-fidelity as any recording could possibly get. Maybe you prefer the out-of-the-box sound of preset kits more, but as far as the full package is concerned, SD3 simply wins by virtue of completeness and usability. Most sampled kits are kind of great and have been for the longest time, but let's face it, nothing is going to be somehow better than what SD3 provides us with and the simplicity with which you can dial in your desired sounds. At this point, it's simply a matter of how much you want to pay for your sample libs.

[@doublestrokeroll]

@@minhuang8848 Sorry but it's the other way around. SD3's packs from the majority of things I've looked at come far more pre produced than BFD. BFD's entire reputation is based on totally unprocessed raw samples. Platinum Samples are slightly more "produced" because they were made by big name producers and engineers like Andy Johns, but they are still very raw overall. Again....no SD3 sample packs are recorded to the level of detail of Platinum Samples. Some PS kit pieces have up to 256 velocity layers. Nothing SD has comes anywhere near that level. SD also uses scaling from what I understand, to "fill in the blanks" between those velocity layers. BFD is a much more difficult software to use than Superior because you can't just get the best sound out of the box. They're raw like a real studio recording. It's up to you to mix and master properly. But the starting point is better and more detailed. "Better" depends on what you want. I want realistic raw drum sounds because I'm mostly playing for myself in real time and I want the sound and feel like I'm in a room with real drums. If your producing and want something that works quickly with minimal "production" superior would probably be a better choice.

[@minhuang8848]

​@@doublestrokeroll You're definitely mixing up EZ Drummer (which is just as great a toontrack product) with SD3. Yeah, some presets have light processing done to them, but other than that, you get pretty clean sounds. There is no appeal whatsoever to getting unprocessed recordings anyway (as far as I and most producers are concerned), just adds room for mixing mistakes to compound and be awful. 256 velocity layers are also super moot considering perceptual threshold in even the most acute listeners, especially if we're talking hit variations and all that jazz working within the engine. It's all just esoteric at this stage regardless, you can arrive at the same result with either toolkit and no amount of additional nuance will somehow make either vst work better, short of UX. It sure is a matter of preference, but I'd challenge anyone to program some drums I can't perfectly replicate with most contemporary virtual instruments - including actual kits for that matter, something plenty of sampling hardliners still won't quite accept in their lives. There might be more work involved, but it leading to a product that is better than SD3 in any notable way is highly debatable.

[@doublestrokeroll]

@@minhuang8848 No, I'm not. I know exactly what Superior Drummer is. So you're basically saying because YOU can't mix properly then it can't be of any use to anyone....lol. What an absolutely terrible take. And I'm not a "producer". I'm a drummer. I want the most real sounds possible. I get that if you've never played before you might not understand what real drums are like, but just because it's not what you do doesn't invalidate what I or others in my situation, want out of a drum plugin. It's not moot at all. There you go again inserting your bias in like it's some kind of universal. Again, you're obviously not a player so you don't understand the nuance that drummers can perceive when playing. That's fine, but your situation isn't everyone's so you kind of need to get off your high horse. I can tell packs are limited in samples or scaled when I play them in real time on an ekit. Simple as that. And it's also obvious you've never had any experience with the BFD platform or Platinum Samples packs. There is no doubt Superior is an excellent product, and in recent years BFD hasn't really helped itself with all the changes there, but it doesn't change the fact that for my needs they remain the best most realistic samples on the market in my opinion.

[@matthewf]

I got SD3 around Christmas time to improve the sounds from my TD20X and love it, although I did soon after get the Metal Foundry SDX upgrade as I particularly wanted some more cymbal choice and that happened to be in the January sale. As a few people have pointed out load times will vary massively depending on your hardware, a fast SSD is highly recommended but the other thing you can do is pick and chose the articulations you load. So if you find yourself playing a particular kit a lot, but never choke the cymbals, or never play sidestick you can deselect those articulations and save it as your own custom preset and that can dramatically reduce the size and hence load time. Also things like if you only have two toms, remove the additional toms that are in the preset that you can't trigger. I initially had some serious latency issues so for recording I was monitoring the TD20X directly and recording the MIDI so I could then play it back through SD3 and I would sometimes need to alter things like the velocity curve or the snare zone position to ensure it played back roughly as I was hearing it from the TD20X but I eventually did a complete re-install of Windows 10 and the latency issue went away, so it was probably some old software I had installed which was causing the problem so now I can monitor SD3 directly and it makes recording a whole lot easier. I also really like the MIDI editor that's built it for when I want to quickly create a backing track. The one thing that does annoy me though is the stereo position of some of the cymbals. You can add a cymbal as the left most one on the kit and it will play out of the right speaker. The only way (I have found) to get around this is to add it as an additional instrument so that rather than it being in the overhead channel with all the other cymbals it gets it's own channel and you can adjust the pan how you want it. But the downside with that is it then isn't mapped to that cymbal on your kit and you have to adjust the mapping to make it trigger. So there are improvements that could be made but overall I love it. It is however the only drum software I've used so I have nothing to compare it to.

[@treyshoaf]

My reaction to Superior 3. I love it. I had Superior 2 with the Progressive Foundry SDX and The Metal Foundry. Like you I really hated how it took them forever to update the UI and be able to resize the window. Superior 3 fixed every single thing that i didn't like about SD 2.0. One of the best things is that by having other expansions, I can make mashup kits or bring cymbals that I've had before. So I have access to so many. Of course, more is not always better, but like I said I really like the sounds. I own an Alesis Nitro kit. At first I had to change the Midi layout so that everything triggered right. Then a few weeks ago they released version 3.1 and included presets for so many different e drum sets, so that it is really easy to just get up and running. Because they changed the whole midi mapping area, it is easy for me to change what my cymbals map to. Im able to make one of my cymbals a china or a splash much quicker. The built in effects are ten times better so the mixes that artists/producers do for the presets sound better, I feel less obligated to mix in my DAW 100% of the time because honestly the mixing within SD 2.0 was garbage. Also it needs to be said that I get a lot less latency in standalone mode. Lastly, the ability to edit Midi parts within the UI is great. They borrowed the design from Cubase it looks like. It has made transcribing drums less frustrating. Worth every penny fo me. I'll leave it there.

[@gitarman666]

I got it when it was released and have been triggering it with my keylab 88 and various midi controllers as a guitarist keyboard player but just picked up an Alesis e kit to get the real drum feel although I just started I find that I do get the ideas in my head into protools better than browsing through my whole libraries as I still have pretty much every library for ez drummer 2, So wish me luck drummer dudes hopefully I can get the basics down with the help of 65 drum vids

[@Citizen_JQP]

I got it a couple years ago. It's really cool. . . It's just that i don't think I'll ever use it as it's intended. It's like i have a really awesome car and i just drive it around the block and put it away after. 😅😂

[@Aussie_Badger]

Great intro to SD3 Justin! I’m considering buying it but need to upgrade my laptop first. Latency is my main concern so let me know when you’ve figured it out. Looking forward to your detailed review!

[@R4Yell]

The preset load times depend on the performance of your disk drive and the amount of RAM you have in your computer. If you install SD3 on SSD and you have enough RAM to fit all the samples it should load in a couple of seconds. Seeing how long it takes for you to load the preset I'd hazard a guess that you are running it from a HDD. There's actually a version of SD3 that comes with SSD although it's even more expensive and you probably better off buying the SSD yourself.

[@65Drums]

Yes I'm aware of all of that. I have SD2 and EZdrummer 2 on my SSD. But I don't have a spare 240gb for just one program lying around on that drive, so it's on the HDD.

[@michaelmathews7864]

Great and helpful overview, thanks.

[@mud7877]

Love the videos and tutorials, keep em’ up

[@thomasfokas]

I fucking love SD3. Best software ever made!!!!!!

[@djabthrash]

04:36 "D Jent style" LMFAO :)

[@warrenliu743]

"dee jent" XD

[@ArtGuitarLTX]

DJent was my first go to preset when I bought this before watching your vid 😂👍👍👍.

[@markomarkovic5729]

Awesome grooves! And I get complexes because of your doubles on the kick drum :)

[@manuger]

This is a very cool software, I used it with my Roland TD-11. The software has a lot of stuff. I have probably reached to 15% of the entire thing. I haven't had the time to play with it and plus I need more guidance. A complete tutorial would be great!!

[@thomasfokas]

You need to get an solid state drive and everything will load way faster. It loads in seconds on my MacBook Pro and I’m using all the downloads, like mic bleed.

[@65Drums]

I do have an SSD. But it's got my operating system and programs on it. Not enough space. I'm thinking about getting a Mac later

[@jamiesea]

Great Reviews Justin! I have Superior 3 as well. I see you have Reaper! That's my daw of choice. I use W.T. Imperial theme with Reaper. Super graphics

[@ZaxDrumsandGolf]

Cool review and it is cool that it can be setup easier cause it does look intimidating!!

[@beatsdddx]

S Drunmmer, looks like everything is covered tons of sounds!

[@robertgary1541]

I enjoy your videos tremendously! I’m having serious latency problems! I have a Roland TD 25 k with a Mac Pro. I don’t know what I can do to address this issue without spending a ton of $$ listening to all the opinions on the web.

[@kickstar1]

SSD dude. Night and day.

[@treyshoaf]

Are you running SD3 in Standalone or inside of a recoding software. There are settings you can change that will allow you to run with better latency. How much better depends on your setup

[@robertgary1541]

Trey Shoaf . Hi Trey! I’m really new to this, but I Believe it’s in Stand Alone. Thanks for your suggestion!

[@toxicgardengnomes]

I just bought SD 3 and it’s phenomenal! There’s so much to keep me occupied but the only drawback I would say is they should have kept all the parts of SD 2 such as Sabian cymbals. Still trying to get my VH 14’s to do triple zoning on it but I have it on good authority it is possible

[@beeasinger]

Comparing this to a Mimic saying you can get good drum sound for a fraction of the price isn't fair because you need a powerful laptop, a sound card and trigger module. Even with some Roland modules, which have a builtin sound card a separate device is to be preferred.

[@LeeShand]

I’m very new to drumming, well I used to some 8 years ago but had to sell my drums due to financial reasons. I have an Alesis Strike Pro kit now and I just bought Superior Drums 3 days ago. I have it installed on an old gaming laptop and it works very well. The sounds are awesome. The sounds are better that’s the Alesis Strike module for the most part (and the Alesis sounds are not bad to begin with) and in my opinion far better than the Roland sounds (based on playing a few lately and my last kit) It’s pretty simple to use out of the box but some may struggle with those big downloads. I have a 1GB up and down so it was actually a quick process for me. Through headphone the sounds sound even more awesome than through a PA, having said that I like to use my PA so I run a link from my Midi interface to me PA. Latency, your going to get some, but if you use ASIO driver like I did you can get it right sown to about 5ms, its unnoticeable. You could also use a Midi interface with Thunderbolt and that may also help to bring it down. I think the more CPU power and Memory you have may also help, I have 7 cores on my CPU and assigned 5 to SD3. Its a lot of money, especially if like me you have just bought an expensive drum kit, but the sounds are worth it alone IMO even if you dont use the rest of it. Oh, one more thing, you will need to tinker to get Cymbal choke to work. This does work work right off the bat, or at least not for me with my kit. I am only a newbie when it comes to drums, but if I can help anyone with any questions I’d be happy to answer them. 65 Drums, great channel, I watch every video, I love the way you come across. Please send me free stuff :). I hope this helps someone :)

[@topdog2587]

dude Alesis blah blah latency blah blah slow blah blah 5 mins...life's too short for that ROLAND AMEN

[@marcosixx5663]

Still struggling with latency with SD3. My 2Box Drum-It 3 is MIDI into my Audio-Interface, a Focusrite 18i20, then from there it is USB to my laptop for Scarlet Mixer Control and SD3, then back out from my Focusrite 18i20 to my powered monitors. When I select ASIO, you cannot alter/select the buffer/latency rates.

[@odlshow6098]

Asio has it's own menu, entirely separate from superior drummer, in which you can reduce the buffer size in order to get latency down to 6ms. The menu I am talking about isn't part of superior drummer. Usually there is a button somewhere to launch the asio control panel, so look for that.

[@donsak111]

Life changing software right there!!!!

[@65Drums]

It's incredible

[@RudalPL]

I started with EZD2 and "upgraded" to SD2 and was disappointed. My fault but I haven't read properly and didn't realise that SD2 is not a stand alone app. I do own DAW so no problem but having to run additional software to just play for fun was a bit of a chore. When SD3 came out I almost immediately jumped on board and don't regret a single penny I've spent on it. I don't play anymore but as VST, SD3 is in all my recordings. And if I DO have a live drums recorded but I need that little boost from time to time the Tracker section of SD3 is a marvel.

[@gregwilliams2764]

The snares sound so good now.

[@FranksDrumCave]

JUSTIN!!! sounding great man :)

[@gregwilliams2764]

It’s worth the $300 crossgrade just for the Ludwig preset kit. I can hear Ginger Baker now playing “Cross Roads.” Or “White Room” WOW that’s good. IMO. Nothing is better than SD3.....thanks

[@SpirosAbatis]

4:02 Well if it sounds better than SSD5, why wait for 's late drums to even come out as standalone ;) I'm sold on this, saving up now. Thanks Justin, you've helped me make what would otherwise be a painful and inevitable transition from Acoustic to E-Drums.

[@JohnDRobinsonelectronicdrums]

great first impressions, Justin..the kits sound better if I swap the headphones around..

[@TheVenusProjectInfo]

Bro the Richard Devine presets are genius!??!

[@TRUTH4U2NO]

Your snare position is quite low but whateva. Cool vids dig your channel man.

[@AtTheSourceStudios]

Whaaaat since when do you actually PLAY the drums behind you??? I thought that was just for decoration!? Lol just joshin ya! Nice vid man.

[@65Drums]

hahahha

[@danix283]

SiREN2173 (

[@FanaticDrummer]

Also the only reason I used SD2 was because they had so many Sabians, I could actually play the cymbals I had without having to record them. But I mean no one even plays Istanbul so they must have paid them to be a part of it. Zildjian is just blah for most heavy genres. Paiste sounded good in both SD2 and BFD3. They should have added Meinl over Zildjian and Istanbul. So it kinda sucks you still have to get expansions if you dont want to play those brands, I know I dont lol.

[@rtplayer3543]

Hi Justin, Just wondering what kind of latency you get when using SD3 with edrums. Love your vids man keep them coming!

[@Oseanacoceanblue]

Is there anything I need to do on my td50!to play superior drummer 3 straight out of the box other than select the Roland brand and module ? Sorry I’m knew to e drums

[@17TheMitchell]

How did this go? I'm curious, is there anything I need to look out for?

[@Clairvoyant81]

About your load time complaint: Judging from that video it seems you didn't install the sound library on an SSD, but on a normal hard drive. Comparing those load times to a drum module that definitely loads from flash memory is very skewed. What I like about Superior Drummer compared to Slate Drums is that Superior Drummer can sound very natural. Slate Drums are pretty great if you really want that "production sound". If you want a natural sounding kit, though, Slate is a bit of a let-down, because even without any effects applied in your DAW, the samples already have a very processed sound on their own. With Superior Drummer, the samples are basically "naked", which gives you more options (but also requires a bit more work if you want to make that "production sound" on your own). I also really appreciate the way they split up their sound library in those separate downloads for different channels. That way, you can pick and choose how much storage space you want to use and how far you want to take it.

[@65Drums]

Yeah I'm aware of that, and I do have an SSD. But it's got my operating system and programs on it. Not enough space so I had to use a secondary hardrive on my laptop.

[@Clairvoyant81]

I get the reason for doing it, but that probably should have been mentioned when comparing load times to a drum module with flash memory. It's just not a fair comparison to make without talking about the influencing factors. Considering the fairly cheap price of SATA SSDs these days, I'd also argue that spending $70 on a 250GB or $110 on a 500GB SSD for your drumming laptop would be a good idea if you're going to use VSTs. Also, it would have been nice to perhaps use a more common kit as an example. I get that you wanted to show the extreme, but that Djent kit is, honestly, quite insane. Most kits with Superior Drummer 3 are a quarter to a third of the size and load in around 10 to 20 seconds on an old mid-range SSD in an old laptop (mine was bought roughly 6 years ago and cost less than a grand then, so far from high-end). The Djent kit takes roughly a minute on my system. I assume a more modern laptop can probably cut those times in half.

[@2002drumsonly]

Great video!

[@doug_I_do_not_consent]

That DJent style loads in 22 seconds on my 2012 Lenovo X230 with a 1TB Crucial 1TB SSD

[@RudalPL]

I was going to say the same. The biggest samples in SD3 usually don't load longer that few seconds. :D

[@gregwilliams2764]

Spectacular

[@eranddroory9987]

Get an ssd dude.. fast loading times..

[@beatlesfan1963]

I'm still fine tuning this software with my Alesis Nitro. My biggest complaint is that the cymbal clutch doesn't work well...it gets stuck as a clutched cymbal once used. I haven't found a fix to this shortcoming. Other than that, it is an absolute upgrade from the Nitro sound module.

[@andrewshaba2544]

Can you use this as a DAW? Similar to using abelton live and midi it with an octopad spd-30 and using your own samples. Thanks!

[@minerman1970]

I've been wondering when you were gonna do this video...I really like SD3 so far, I'm in the process of dropping everything else (BFD 3, Slate 4, etc), & using only SD3/Toontrack... The new features are great, especially the new effects...I actually thought it would be a hard learning curve, but it's really not that much different than any other drum vst's I've used...

[@ricklang_drummer]

One annoying thing is that the cymbal positions (2,3,4,5 etc.) differ between SD2 and SD3, causing - when using the exact customized MIDI map, mind you - that my B2 note (cymbal bow tip) triggers as it should in SD3, but is triggering ride bow when using older libraries. So in essence necessary to not only create a standard MIDI map suiting my Yamaha DTX900 for SD3, but also separate ones for older expansions in SD2.

[@micharbel]

Really you are providing us information more the Roland or other drums manufacturer, your are superb Justin!! i had install the SD3, but i gave up because of the latency, even though i own an very high end laptop with 32 gb and very fast intel cpu. any help would be thankful. God bless you

[@odlshow6098]

Search online to download a driver called ASIO. It is free. Once downloaded, inside SP3, you'll have to figure out how to switch your driver selection to that new ASIO driver. Next, launch the ASIO control panel and decrease the buffer size as low as it will let you go. This should reduce latency to around 6ms, which is playable.

[@voederbietels]

load time in 2022 with my I9 core intel 3 seconds !

[@Devon523]

Seems like I'd have to go back to school for audio engineering to have any idea how to use this thing!

[@65Drums]

Or watch a bunch of tutorials. But I mainly just use the presets and then adjust the volume or eq a bit. You can go as deep as you want into the settings, or just pick one of the presets and go with that instead

[@xanderfeys763]

Thanks for the video! :) Is it also possible to connect Superior Drummer 3 to the (new) TD17? If so, is it complicated to do? Or do I have just have to install the software on my computer and then link it to the drum module with a MIDI cable?

[@TheRealBarkinMadd]

Hey Justin, any words of advice connecting Superior Drummer 3 to the TD-17? Thanks!

[@williamkonop4948]

What did you get your latancy down to? And how? I'm using the scarlett 2i2. If i get to a couple milliseconds the sound crackles. Thanks

[@Brian-Burke]

Is there any reason to also use Logic with SP3?

[@aqlord]

D J E N T SOMEONE SEND THIS TO JARED DINES RIGHT NOE!

[@65Drums]

RIGHT NOE!

[@bhale9489]

Hey Justin great channel!!! I love to see a review of the kits in main stage 3 if you get a chance. Thanks!

[@MikeLuke]

Thanks for the mentioning. Do I need to give you my thoughts on SD3 here? 😉

[@65Drums]

We still need to figure out a way to collab for the review or something :)

[@fserafeimgr]

Nice video! Do you have latency? If not can you tell what is your equipment? Thank you in advanced..

[@geoffreymerrifield5666]

Thanks for the great video Justin. Not requiring a DAW is great for me. Plus the mics, EQ, Compression is great compared to modules. Any latency? What do you prefer, EZ Drummer or Superior Drummer?

[@BokuPower]

So I'm a noob. Can you play all this live with no latency? Is SD3 desgined for recording midi? Am I going to get much better sounds with this than the stock sounds of a TD17 kvx? I want to record using midi with a TD 17.

[@youngguns996]

Great Review Justin! I have Superior Drummer 3 as well. How is your latency. Mine is at 6.9 using the the TD-30 Module and the latency is just about the same using Asio4all. What do you use?

[@65Drums]

Thanks! I have not solved my latency problem yet. I've been testing different settings but at 6.9 I get occasional popping sounds. If I go to 13 ms then Its fine, but I can sense the delay.

[@youngguns996]

6.9 is very playable, I sense just a bit of a delay as well but very little and I'm still working on getting it lower, but either way, I agree with you, Superior Drummer 3 is worth every penny. 👍

[@rensback]

Nice vid, as usual! What about BFD3?

[@brettbrocoy3248]

Very informative, thank you for sharing. Is there a way to send these individual sounds from each channel out to a digital console for live performance?

[@noriorck4017]

Which budget drumset (500-1k) do you guys recommend to be able to explote all the capabilities of this software?

[@gregwilliams2764]

I just received my 1 TB SSD today. I’m still waiting on my 16 GB of new RAM. I have a Sony Viao 17” with the i7 intel chip. Gonna be zippy...

[@MarkAnthony5150]

I just followed suit here yesterday cant wait..... Should sound gr8...

[@tomserotoninandthedopamine4375]

Great video Thanks. Maybe the name of each kit you were going through in a Title would be good. I am a guitar player recording with a Roland TD-17 triggering Superior Drummer 3 and I think the sounds are amazing. So cool 👍

[@gubernational57]

How do you reduce the latency from the software to the kit itself? When I hit anything on the kit there’s a delay before I get the sound?

[@65Drums]

Reduce the buffer size in your computer Audio/MIDI settings

[@christophervincent3520]

Another brill video. I am setting up for recording from scratch and I just have a Jobeky kit. 1. Are there trigger problems/latency if I just went straight to SD3 via a D-drum trigger? 2. Alternately, Roland's new TM-6 has 8 track USB recording, thou not SD3's deep editing? Generally think it best to get recent gear so appreciate a TM-6 review - when it's out! Regards

[@Bryanpeacock33]

I have the Millennium 750 and I can't get it to connect lol I'm dumb so I'm sure I'm the problem but I can't get it to work

[@kylemcdonnell86]

Aw yeah Deejent!

[@65Drums]

I'll never live that down lol

[@MesaMXR]

Great video, Justin. I've listened to a ton of clips of SD3 and may upgrade soon but do you feel like anything is missing in the kicks and snares in terms of impact? I feel like these samples sound like they're all hit with medium-high strength whereas the Avatar and Allaire kits both sound like someone is beating the crap out of them...which I love.

[@kylehirsch1340]

You should do a review on perfect drums software. I recently bought it on sale for $75 and it's amazing. I mostly play rock and metal and it is WAAAYYY better then EZdrummer 2 which I also have. Just a thought..

[@YourAtheistNeighbor]

What do you use to hook your edrums to your computer? Do you use a pc or Mac?

[@kylehirsch1340]

All you need is a printer usb 2.0 A to B cable. One end plugs into your computer and the other end plugs into your module. I use a PC laptop but it works with a MAC too I’m pretty sure. The sounds are much better that way then module sounds.

[@YourAtheistNeighbor]

@@kylehirsch1340 I really appreciate you taking the time to answer me! You don't have any latency issues or anything?

[@kylehirsch1340]

No problem. I use a free DAW to load my drum software (Reaper or Tracktion) and latency might be a little bit more than just using the module, but it’s not bad enough that it’s noticeable to me while I’m playing. But if you are having latency problems then you can get an audio interface but I’ve never had to use one.

[@YourAtheistNeighbor]

@@kylehirsch1340 perfect! Thank you.

[@jwc3104]

Question. Can you hook up a MIDI Control Fader (like Korg nanoKONTROL) and assign them to be volume faders for Snare, Tom, Crash, etc for Superior Drummer 3?

[@peterjames9673]

sounds awesome, what speaker do you use?

[@pakipoli4895]

Hi from Italy. A question pls.....I have roland td27....and ez 3 I set in ez 3 a set sound and I go in td 27 and I set midi number for that pad that are not set. When I change set in ez 3 the number midi in td27 is not more that! How can I set td 27 and ez 3 for to have always same number midi? ths

[@gregwilliams2764]

Does SD3 have an update for the TD-17 yet? The cross fade from ezdrummer to sd3 is $299. Have you seen it less expensive anywhere. Thx, Greg

[@65Drums]

It will work just fine, you just don't have a preset JUST for the TD17 module. But it will fully work

[@albincarlson2604]

Hey there! Love your channel, very informative! A question; if I convert my acoustic set to an e-kit, do you think it will be quiet enough to play in a apartment? Also, are there mesh heads with positional sensing so that I can get as good results as buying drums from drum-tec? Greetings from Sweden!

[@Psychograce93]

Tried looking if SD 3 works with Roland TD-17, but I don't see it on the list. Has Roland/SD3 made any changes to it being added or would it be better to get another E. kit to work with Superior Drummer 3?

[@kierenmoore3236]

I only saw one Sonor drum (kit?), and no Meinl cymbals there. Can you get those? Paid expansion packs, if anything, I suppose … 🙄😏 Or do they add kits to the basic package, from time to time at all? Thanks!

[@paulalvarez2373]

Can you output the individual tracks from Superior Drummer 3 back out of a DAW for front of house control of each drum/cymbal?

[@gertkirchgessner1825]

I also use the SD 3 with an Roland TD-50 module. How can I play exact all of my 5 tom-pads with the 3 rack-toms and the 2 floor-toms ? What kind of mapping is to do ?

[@geoffreymerrifield5666]

Question: What would I need to run stereo cables from Laptop to Roland Hard disc recorder (VS2000)?

[@varispekka]

Your videos are so great, thanks! I have a question about superior drummer 3 that I have tried to google 1 hour but no answer found. Maybe you know :) Is it possible to mute the audio of SD3 while recording? So I only record midi and afterwards make it audible in my host cubase? This solution would solve my latency issue.. I could listen to my nice TD-12 sounds while recording

[@CaptKewl]

So SD3 sound samples [sound] better than sound samples on Pearl Mimic? Is that the takeaway from this?

[@shatteredsquare]

The ddrum trigger io box has TRS inputs, would it work to plug one of the new Yamaha textured cellular silicone snare pads into the ddrum box and use with SD3? I watched your other video that talks about pad compatibility, and I haven't completely wrapped my head around the different trigger types. All I know is it's a 3 zone snare pad, and TRS jacks have 3 connection points, so a trigger should be a trigger should be a trigger. Thanks!

[@drumfynnfun]

What would you recommend for the scenerio of a TD-30 Kit and a good processing Laptop, but low storage? Id like to play w/ the superior drummer 3 but I am afraid of latency and loading problems when I use it from an external hard drive

[@qualaup]

Ever tried Addictive Drums 2? And if so, what are your thoughts about that software?...

[@xenos0176]

Hey Justin, you should check out GetGoodDrums sometime. VST software from the dudes in Periphery, it's great stuff!

[@filicourbeillere4577]

not with edrums, very few layers...

[@gunluv96]

Greetings great review and imam looking into buying this software, but do you have a video showing how to connect the drums to the computer then to the pa system? I have no clue how that works. Please help. Thanks in advance.

[@moubak]

Roland td-25 module doesn’t recognize the drum kits

[@jonathan2880]

Should I get the td17kvx vs perhaps a td-1dmk with superior drummer?

[@matthewmore6893]

Hey justin good video thanks. Have you tried sdse and loading vst onto modules. I have with my alesis strike and am very impressed. I just haven't watched anyone else do it

[@65Drums]

I haven't done it yet. My 3 drum modules don't have that feature :/

[@Ken-jj9lo]

How do I hook up SD3 to my edrums and also how do you hook it all up to play live thru a PA system? Do you hook up a USB cable to the laptop and then the audio out of my laptops headphone jack into a input on the FOH board? Or, do I need an audio interface? Drum module to audio interface, audio interface to laptop and then audio interface out to FOH? What if I want to also send my drum output signal to my own on stage amplification such as a powered sub and powered top cab at the same time? I play my Roland TD-30KV live currently by coming out of module into a splitter mixer. Out of the splitter mixer to FOH and the same signal out to my on stage amplification sub/top combo. But, just not sure how to do this using SD3 on a laptop. Thanks for any help you can provide in this area. I have also used my highly tweaked TD-6V set for playing live before as well. I have received a lot of great comments about my edrums that I play live. People & other drummers are actually blown away. But, with SD3, I am sure this will take my TD-30 to a whole new level. Looking for the proper way to play SD3 live. Thank you!!