It's great for getting a fantastic sound quickly. Sound shaping: AD gives you quite a bit of control over each piece of the kit.Addictive Drums: if you want a kit that sounds like a miced kit with very little work? Bam. On the Edit page, there are kitpiece controls (response, pitch, tone designer, volume envelope) as well as noise, tape & shape, EQ, compression and distortion. There are also global effects (reverb, delay, EQ) that can be applied to taste via sends for each channel. EZD’s controls are more minimal - just a few basic controls on the mixer page, like reverb, dynamics, pitch, and mic bleed. Midi pattern editing: AD can do quite a bit via the transform tab in the Beats window. You can broaden or narrow the dynamic range (that is, velocity) of the midi pattern, as well as raise or lower its overall velocity level. You can also do the same thing for the velocity levels of each individual kit piece. You can change which articulations are being triggered (change snare to sidestick, for example). You can also mute various parts of kit and have that change reflected in the midi that you drag to your DAW. Superior Drummer 2 used to do this it looks like SD3 will allow only a single kitpiece's midi to be selected rather than several.
You can also change the speed and length of the midi pattern. EZD, via the Edit Play Style window, lets you do many of those same things. You can thin out or increase the density of hits of individual kit pieces (as well as the pattern as a whole) and you can increase or decrease the velocity of each kit piece. It does not let you mute certain parts and have that reflected in the midi that you drag and drop to your DAW. You can also reassign articulations in this window. Midi pattern search: here’s where I think EZD comes out a bit ahead. In the Search window, you can drop pattern into the MIDI drop zone and EZD will find similar patterns from your collection. You can also play in your own patterns to find similar ones in your collection. Very handy! AD has a grid search in which you fill in a drum machine-like grid to find similar patterns in your collection. Not nearly as fast as EZD’s method.ĪD2 seems to offer more sound shaping than EZD. And when it’s on sale, one can get fantastic deals (I think for BF it was AD2 + 2 or 3 extensions + 2 or 3 midi packs, all for about $85 - unbelievable!).Īll that said, I’ve gotten waay more use out of EZD than AD2. EZD just sounds more natural and sits better in a mix, at least in my experience. AD2 sounds more processed to my ears, and I have a harder time getting it to fit in easily. Plus I have tons of midi from all the EZXs and midi packs that I’ve bought over the years it’s just more likely I’ll find a beat that I can use in EZD. #Superior drummer 3 vs addictive drums 2 plus#
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