What is the BEST Drum Program for YOUR Workflow? | My Recommendations

Actually, I wonder if there is someone who do what I usually do like mix and matching drums from different plugins, sometime I have an idea to layer the kick on this vst to that vst, sometime I do the toms. As you might expect it sounds like very inconvenient 😂 thankfully FL Studio have a built in plugins called Layer, that can play multiple vst's at a time

Almost 2 years later, still waiting an update 👀

real drums?hands down modo drums by ikm ,808s boom by air ,synthetic drums synth500 by air which right now they are 10 bucks for both on plug in botique , i got them free though

superior drummer?

The song somewhat sounds like Decode by Paramore lol

Those drums really are lost in that intro track...

In my short search in forums, I didn't hear about some of these...so I'm glad I watched. I do wish I could hear the drums solo without that guitar drowning them out.

Take a shot every time he says "manipulate"

I love your song you are working on!

I prefer Logic X built in drums

SSD sounds BEST on this particular song to me😍

more libraries please! BFD. the ujam drummers. same methodic approach (nice!).

AD2 does have more rock/metal oriented kits, and those will sound much more competitive with the other libraries you used for comparison.

Drumforge is by far the best sounding imo

Maybe it’s time you made a part 2 of this video series with extinction level event drums, hertz drums, roomsound drums, krimh drums, ezdrummer 3 and finally the CounterKit by Kyle Brownlee. These are some underrated kits and I think you will make a great shootout video. Love your content ❤

Goran grooves is the best for me next is Superior 3 and Addictive drums 2

I have several GGD libraries and SSD5.5 as well and the thing that's frustrating to me with GGD is the way they decided to do the snare map, mixing center and one shots on the same trigger depending on the velocity...except the round robin engine can get weird and you end up with low velocity rim shots that sound like someone chopping wood.

SSD5 is great. I wish they had more snare tunings and an option to process in plugin, and maybe a groove player that reconfigured external grooves to the SSD5 mapping like GGD does.

Overall I use ssd5 more

Thanks for all the detail in this video! doing some research towards new drums for my solo project and have been highly considering Get Good Drums. I realize the interface itself is different than most of the other self-contained plugins but the sound the packs give off with the default compressing and mixing sound massive and I dig it. I still have to do more research and thought as its an investment but I am loving all the stuff I hear from some of the other GGD packs they sell!

Great video and production! Cheers! 🐉

I’ve legit bought All of these in and spend time with the all. My conclusion…. I hate snare drums 😂😂

Great video man, thanks

Wow cool intro music

SSD5 ✌

Anyone have BFD to compare? Listening to it on it's website it sounds great. But to be honest, they all sound good.

You forgot a couple more. damn wish I seen it with others included. for example BFD and Toontrack superior Drummer 3.
So really this video is not a fair shot......LOL

Have you tried Modo drums by IKM, Superior drum 3, by toon track?

And what about the king? Superior Drummer 3 ????

sweet

ey i appreciate you comment on the drums sounding dry or not because most kits just are way too processed for my taste

Great video! I don't use a daw. I use 2Box Drumit 5 MK2 module with SD3. Would really like to see you do this type of video with Superior Drummer 3 and EZ Drummer.

XLN Addictive Drums has the best Hi Hats imho. I do use SSD5 and Drumforge for the shells but mostly use XLN for Hi Hats

The way you compared each drumkit was quite precise and easy to understand....Something which i always found quite difficult to understand but you made it a lot more simple...so thank you....Also loved how you played with those screen captures on showcasing each drumkits... This is my introduction video to your channel and im planning on sticking around... Keep at it brother🔥💯

Great song! Is it a Fender bass you are playing?

I went with Addictive Drums 2 largely because it does what I need for a reasonable price - I got it on sale and I’ve added kits through promos. I usually run the sounds pre-fader - bypassing what detractors blame for the artificial sound - and sculpt the sounds with my own plug-ins. I can then place the drums in the room (audience orientation) and tweak them more subtly with studio quality EQ, compression, etc. Yes, it takes some time to set up the multi outs but that’s what templates are for. I’m not writing rock so the appeal to most of the other drum engines featured in this video just don’t apply to my projects. One of the other draws to AD is the variety of kits which I don’t find elsewhere: a brush kit, a mallets kit, and jazz kits. I use those a lot. In addition to the many grooves available in AD, I also set them up with Logic Pro’s Drummer. It’s easily done and it works great as a groove starter - and I’m getting better sounding drums with AD. Another plus for AD is the variety of hits for open and closed hi-hats, snare hits and clicks, etc. I can control sonic variety and dynamic progression with nuance - not just with velocity but with triggering specific hits via MIDI in piano roll. The downside is that AD is essentially an abandoned project in terms of upgrading the interface and adding new kits. Or so it appears . . .

What do you think about modo drums by ik multimedia?

Excellent video!!

EZ drummer 2 <3

I´ve been with Addictive Drums from day 1, somewhere in 2009 and I used it in maybe 1000 demos. I always claimed this was the best drum computer of all times. Until I met SSD 5 last year. The direct comparison between their sound in this video is just alarming. AD now just seems like the worst drum computer to me :-D the funny thing is, if you use AD for so long, you´ll hear it out in every commercial production it´s used in. no matter how processed it is. cause the snare and the hihat just got this typical, artifical AD sound^^

Why didn't you include superior drummer 3?

Slate drums can't emulate cymbal swells whereas ad2 can with minimal effort.

Hearing “route them out” in Canadian accent is funny. Also, thanks for this awesome vid. I use addictive drums but haven’t tried any alternatives. They taken up soooo much storage on my mac. Each plugin in like 50 gb

How ezdrummer would fit into this list?

I actually liked SSD5 and AD2 , funnily enough.👍

I have Superior Drummer 2 and to upgrade to superior 3 wouls still cost me a lot of money. I did like your review on the SSD5 because a lot cheaper and did like also that this pluging provide raw sound. I prefer mixing the drim in my Daw.

Drumforge and Ssd5 are the best, I use them as replacers of my kick drums or to augment my kick and snares, my main drums comes fros superior drummer 3 which is in another league but to me drum forge and SSD5 has the best overall sound and sabes you a lot of process to make it sound great in every mix..

Great video! LOVE the new dynamic way you're using the screen captures!
Myself, drumforge has really been the ticket. I love how I can get pretty natural sounding drums and then mix them together to get that final processed sound (plus adding one-shots is super easy). Being able to program the same detail that I would play is key, and to me, drumforge gives me that capability. But you're right, you need the mac pro cheese grater to handle the CPU needs hahaha.