With closed miced individual tracks you'll get the best results. The more bleed, the less easy it gets to analyze. Tracker works pretty well for me, but don't expect any magic. It's awesome.īut if you just want something that will separate the drums from the rest of the music, you might look into something like this: No more scrolling through thousands of loops just to find one that slightly fits your song. The ability to program a basic version of the groove I want, and have it find all the grooves that match. This is a feature I've been wanting for over 10 years. Opinion? I think not.Ībout the only reason I even use SD3 is for its Groove search engine. One kick sound is boomy and swallows the bass, while the other is tight and punchy and plays well with the bass. It sounds great right out of the box.Īnd no, it's not entirely subjective. Slate, on the other hand, I can load up and not have to touch the kick drum. Which I then have to spend an hour tweaking to use. Well recorded, hopefully, but not ready for primetime drum sounds. In fact, they sound like the drums I get when a client sends me a song to be mixed. But it amazes me that they didn't just bring in some heavyweight mix down engineers to do some mix ready drum sounds. Not to say that there aren't usable libraries in there. They were recorded very elaborately, with massive amounts of samples, and I still can't find one single kick drum that I can use in a mix without a severe amount of processing. But the default sounds in sd3, in my opinion, pretty much suck. Over the years I've bought a bunch of Toontrack expansions and some of them sound great. This makes me hopeful that SD4 will show some improvement in this regard.įWIW, I use SD3 extensively. I just bought EZBass though, and it's analyzer detector is extremely impressive.

You have to drag it from your hard drive, which is not a huge deal but I think reflects the lack of attention they gave to this feature. And you can't even drag an audio file from your project into it. The interface is fairly horrible, with extremely limited control over the analyzer / detector. I think the tracker in SD3 is its least impressive feature. It does, however, work pretty well for drum replacement as long as each drum is on a different track and there isn't a large amount of bleed between the different drum microphones. For example, it has a really hard time distinguishing between the hi-hat and the snare. For the most part, it can't even extract accurately the different drums from a drum loop. Can tracker extract midi drums from an already mixed song? Absolutely not.

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