Best Virtual Drums?

[paulmitch]

I've been looking into picking up some virtual drum software for demos and recordings I make in my apartment that aren't important enough to bring in acoustic drums. I've been looking at the following:

BFD
Strike
EZdrummer

I'm looking for pretty authentic rock drum sounds. Anything anyone is particularly jazzed about or hates? Other suggestions?

[TCM]

This is a matter of personal taste and how you like the handling of the software.

I really like Strike, and I have Steven Slate Drums, which sound great especially for Rock, but are a little tedious, if you want to route the individual pieces of the kit into PT.

[Dorian Green]

I use Addictive Drums and find it particulary straight forward. Samples are pretty decent but still need a little bit of tweaking thereafter.It is very sensitive to velocity which involved it's better used with an electronic kit to keep it as human as you can.
The Beat Bank is not massive but has been performed by a real drum player on a real E-Drum.
Addictive Drums is really well implemented in PT.You can route each channel of your AD to an Aux Track in Protools.Easier as you don't have to open the AD interface each time you wanna mix.

Well tuned and tweaked, it sounds very realistic.Sometimes it can sound quite...aggressive.
That's just my thoughts about the Virtual Drum I'm using at the mo.

[SpinningDisk]

+1 what Dorian Green said.

[DonaldM]

FWIW, this month's issue of Computer Music magazine includes a CD/DVD that has a free lite version of EZDrummer on it, which you could try out. I haven't tried it yet, but probably will.

[YoRugMan]

Originally Posted by paulmitch

I've been looking into picking up some virtual drum software for demos and recordings I make in my apartment that aren't important enough to bring in acoustic drums. I've been looking at the following:

BFD
Strike
EZdrummer

I'm looking for pretty authentic rock drum sounds. Anything anyone is particularly jazzed about or hates? Other suggestions?

I think you'd be impressed with East West Quantum Leap StormDrum 2 (SD2)

Visit this link

http://www.soundsonline.com/product....oductid=EW-175

for demos.

[paulmitch]

I've also got BFD Lite. Is there any sort of upgrade from BFD Lite to any of the full versions?

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Originally Posted by paulmitch

I've also got BFD Lite. Is there any sort of upgrade from BFD Lite to any of the full versions?

Yes, email FXpansion for the store link.

Rail

[TreeDaddy]

Originally Posted by TCM

This is a matter of personal taste and how you like the handling of the software.

I really like Strike, and I have Steven Slate Drums, which sound great especially for Rock, but are a little tedious, if you want to route the individual pieces of the kit into PT.

Hey TCM...curious noobie/Strike user here! AKA Captain Stoopid...

How exactly do you accomplish this? Is there a tutorial?

[TCM]

Originally Posted by TreeDaddy

Hey TCM...curious noobie/Strike user here! AKA Captain Stoopid...

How exactly do you accomplish this? Is there a tutorial?

Strike-->Mix window--> assign individual parts, i.e. kick to channel 1 (by default they are on master) etc..

In PT create audio tracks and input--> plugin --> Channel xy