Don’t buy a DRUM VST before watching this! 10 Best Drum libraries played live!

You know your stuff!!!
I wonder if you can help me find a VST that can be used without a DAW. I moved from PCs to standalone mulritrack recorder, however i use my PC to play virtual instrument and record them in my Tascam Model 12.
I have a few standalone instrumens like
"Velvet Air" that i have a shortcut on my desktop. I just click the shortcut and press record on my Tascam Model 12 and go.
I'm looking for a virtual drums like this that i can play with a midi controller and record its content on a stereo track of my tascam model12.
Which drums VST comes this way as a standalone virtual drum playable with a midi controller.

All lovely and great work, but what normal person can play a drum kit, on a keyboard, like this? Very few

Man, you're an incredible keyboard drummer!

I am a huuuuge fan of SD. Have about 2TB of library's .😊 Anyway , your ambidextrosity with hands is on next level.🤙 Tnx for posting this cool content. ✌️

Have used SD1 and 2 but more often than not ended up using EZD 2 and 3 more than anything particularly for building the necessary MIDI files. Once thats done, i've also been known to use the NI Abbey Road series, especially 60s and 80s.

Thank you for this video. Really informative!! Helped a lot!

When I saw your face I knew this is gonna be good!

wich one do you recomend to play in live with a band,we dont have a drum player in the band and we want to use a daw,but we want the most realistic posible

Excellent overview. Missing the best (IMO), Mixosaurus, but I understand why. The tone may not suit everyone, nor the lack of a plethora of "rooms", but the articulations are without peer, IMO. I would happily pay the asking price of these (SD3 etc,) for a decent HiHat alone.

I have used Addictive Drums 2 before i got EZdrummer 3 and the latter is so much better, the drums sound real and also much less work required to get the drums sounding good in your mix, none of the presets of Addictive Drums 2 sound as real but yes there are so many presets though which may make it more versatile but i would definetly pick EZdrummer 3 and there are expansions available if you need drums for other genres than what’s included. Superior Drummer is awesome but also takes up a lot of space and that’s why i went with the lighter EZdrummer

Great finger drumming brother, wow . 😮 Peace

It's called a Plugin Not A Library

BFD3 is stil one of my favourites and de ride/ cymbals paiste 602 from EZdrummer 3 are stunning!

SD3 e drum user here. If you want to turn off aftertouch for cymbals its easy to do in SD3. Just click on the cymbal so its highlighted then in the boxes to the right turn off after touch in the choke trigger box

ML Drums

How much latency when u have when u play midi ? Its not immediate like the acoustic drums, dont u notice it when u record it ?

Your keyboard drumming technique is absolutely outstanding, as is this entire video along with your great commentary! What keyboard controller are you using? I have BFD drums and I'm absolutely furious that their new owners. In Music refuse to acknowledged my emails about them not recognising my Fxpansion serial numbers! Keep up the great work!

Simon Phillips...the greatest Judas Priest drummer that was never in the band!

I got to give it to the addictive series software stuff by XLN audio I believe. I don't have their drums yet, but I have several of their keys and my take away from those was that they do a whole lot with a whole little. They aren't the most detailed samples but that also means the libraries are lightweight too. They also don't tax my cpu very hard. I have some other piano libraries, for instance waves grand rhapsody which is a very detailed library of one specific piano, and it sounds like your in the room with a 1/4 million dollar piano, but at the cost of it taking 5 minutes to load each instance and heavily taxing my ram and cpu. I probably wouldn't want to run more than 1 at a time, which means bouncing the track down before loading another instance. It can kick me out of creative mode real quick. Having said that, sometimes a super realistic detailed sample library is what you want and what will pull out your creativity. So I appreciate both perspectives but XLN does sound very good for lightweight vst libraries.

What is the order of pluggins numbers

Thanks! Great review! I've been a recording engineer since 1972 recording real drummers and drums and just now getting into samples doing my one man band thing in retirement. There's a million different sounds to get from a single drum set and drummer. I can see how one could get lost in there options.

I've been using SD2 for awhile now. I was impressed by the SSD CLA and Studio Drummer session kits.

How do I get a tighter snare that's not so heavy? And deeper kick

guys does anyone know how to add libraries to SSD?
and I have problem with studio drummer (I can't add it to my kontakt 7) tell me if you know how to fix it

what's fkin pissing me off with all your comparison videos is that you never set which one you play when on timeline... that's awful when you need to search through comparison video... Man change that! every other's are doing that

Hmmm, when it comes to drums, nothing beats sampling from vinyl. These vst’s all sound like metal drum kits. Also, when you sample from obscure sources, chances are your sound will not be heard anywhere else.

plz were can i get this

how can purchase 80's pack?

EZ Drummer??

SUPERIOR DRUMMER THE BEST...I USE WITH MY ROLAND TD27 AND CUBASE!!!

Dom is a damn legend. I only came across his channel when I got into music as a hobby and I decided to go with Cubase as my DAW. Damn I learn so much from his content. Thanks Dom!

Luv it

EZDrummer 3 is missing here. For all those who don’t know how to finger drum on God tier mode like Dom, that’s #1 recommendation especially for the composing part of it. And with the available expansions (Modern Metal, Gospel, Pop Punk, Death Metal are great e.g.) EZD3 is the pinnacle of composing comfort (SD3 is too much for me).

Modo Drum is worth mentioning as well. With ModoBass 2 being one of the best acoustic bass instruments out there, together they are a killer combo on their own. (with 148,- ext. Vat. for the bundle, that’s clearly a no-brainer).

BFD3 sounds great as well but totally sucks in terms of UI/UX and even sometimes causes DAW-crashes (just a milk cow with no support, service or further dev.). So unfortunately unusable for my taste. Today we can expect excellent GUIs and workflows for our money, so no need to suffer such BFD3-pain-in-the-ass ;)

And on the hard side of the spectrum some of the most killer libraries are Drumforge Matt Greiner, GetGoodDrums Invasion and the Kurt Ballou Signature Series Drums (1+2).

And stuff like Damage 2 or Damage Drum Kit by Heavyocity are worth mentioning too although they are rather settled in the hybrid orchestral and cinematic field. And I personally like to combine drum sets with percussion stuff like FlyingHands or the Klevgrand percussion bundle. Coming from the electronic side I like to combine drum sets anyway with tools like Trias, Atlas2, Beat Scholar etc. but that's a totally different turf … ;)

Forgot to mention: Thanks for your mind-blowing work, Dom. Your channel has Hall of Fame status in terms of music-YT! Simply awesome!

You're forgot to include Getgood Drums.

Trying to like the GA drums (BFD user), but missing my snare drag on the D#1 .. are the samples there in the add-on kits ? (nothing there in "The Kit SE" that i can tell... I find the whole GA interface a bit confusing ( I use it all the time for assigning simple Linn samples to pads, but as soon as you get into a full expansion kit it seems your hands are tied.. i can't even see where the source samples are!).
Regardless, just bought your modern 80's .. BEST FIFTEEN QUID EVER SPENT!!!.. it's cheaper than a double Jack and Coke at a festival!.. SOUNDS GREAT!... so layering these sounds in with my live kits. lol ..

I can not believe you did not include AIR Music Tech Strike!

Thank you👑

New sub here love the way play the drum on the keyboard can you teach us please?

The NI Abbey Roads brushes in particular is a breath of fresh air. Thanks

MT Power drum kit 2 is free and it's good 👍🏻

this dudes better on the keyboard than most people are at the actual kit

hello everyone! i need help here.. so, i've been watching a lot of videos, and i'm looking for a good software to make the drums. i play guitar but not drums and i need to produce sometin. can you give names of softwares so i can download or sometin to start learning.

ps: I have windows pc.

Hi
You run a great channel, excellent and very helpful job.
Thank you
Regards

Hello! Thanks for the video 👍. I need healp with vsti drums

Superior Drummer 03 and BFD Drums!!!! I´m a drummer, and play all the sounds using a Roland VDrum kit. I liked some of the kits you reviewed. Maybe I´ll add a few.

I've got a few of these plugins but at the moment my favourite is MODO Drums.