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I use Battery quite a lot too, often with patterns from AD2.
I've got Drum Replacer too, but haven't used that yet, though looks OK.
I've got all of the AD Paks, but 90% of the time I just use the Fairfax Vol. 1 AD Pak.
I'm most fussy about Snare sounds and can get a huge variation from just editing and combining the snares in Fairfax Vol. 1. There are some great variations in the Snare hits, and the Shallow Hit is a hidden gem with a nice bit of ring. Sometimes I mix it with other hits.
I generally don't use the built in AD reverbs. I prefer to bring the kits pieces out onto separate tracks and use general bus reverbs for all the instruments which helps things to sit right and seem like they're in the same acoustic space.
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EZ Drummer 2
Addictive Drums 2
Steven Slte Drums SSD4
Native Instruments Studio Drummer
East West Pro Drummer
Still need to watch a few more videos/reviews of the last 3 before I make my decision. It seems from the first 2 on the list that it’s more down to personal preferences & User Interface as the Drum sounds both sound very good.
To be honest I don't think any of your options would be a bad decision, as I've got all of them except for East West Drummer Pro, and I've got Superior Drummer 2 + EZ Drummer 1 instead of EZ Drummer 2.
Of all of them, I happen to use AD2 the most, with the Fairfax 1 Adpack. But they're all good.
Btw. you missed BFD3 off your list, which might be worth a look. I've got BFD Eco, but keep looking at BFD3 as a possible future purchase.
I had BFD3 on my list, but due to the cost (£279)got rid of it. As a side note is it best to download them from their official sites Toontrack etc. Or is https://www.pluginboutique.com/ ok to use?
they're both superb..
note though, to run either of them you'll need 16G of RAM
the kit pieces chew up a lot of memory because each articulation is sampled 96 times [different velocities]
and of course, being a prog rocker, the kit I built is absolutely enormous... lol..
which pushes my Mac a little harder again... but I have 32G RAM so I'm ok..
for quick and easy stuff, I'll load it as a stereo AU and use the groove engine to play it [which has a great and varied library]..
takes minutes to load up and create great drum tracks..
however... lol..
for full on Clarky stuff, I call up a "new song" Logic project I pre-built that has BFD3 loaded as a mulit-out 8 mono / 8 stereo AU, which then appears in the Logic mixer with every kit piece having it's own channel strip..
this means I can use my own effects AU on the kit pieces..
Also I built sub-groups for the metals and toms, and another sub-group for the entire kit [with parallel compression and also a convolution reverb in case I want to do something a little different to the overheads, room and ambient mics coming from BFD]
I also had to build a bespoke lane set in Logic to match the MIDI map I created in BFD3 [for all my zillions of drums and cymbals and the many articulations each have]..
yup... it's huge.. and setting it up took yonks... but I only had to do it once..
so each time I write a new piece I load this project like it's a template
and it's fkn awesome...
this means that I programme that drums from Logic [I mouse them into the step editor]
but it means I have absolute control and can create any drum patterns I wish [in the stupid time sigs I write songs in]..
what really helps is that I used to be a drummer, so I can think like one
this really helps when creating realistic sounding drum parts..
so... BFD can be really really stupidly quick and easy...
and.. it can be really really stupidly complex..
it simply depends how you want / need to use it..
it'll cope with it all... no sweat..
AD2 - use it
Battery - use it
Cakewalk Drum Replacer - don't know how to use it, ha
NI Drumlab - its alright, but tbh AD2 sounds better
Something in Sonar that I haven;'t used
Damage - aswesomely ace thing, use it a lot
Evolve (whole bundle that comes with Kokplete Ult) - again awesome and use a lot
Maschine (iOS) 1 & 2 - no idea how it works
A few percussion NKIs that come in Komplete, Africa, India I think, dunno, never used.
a CR78 NKI emulation, like it, very retro. Can't quite get it working right though.
My 13 year old daughter wants to have a do at drums so I will be getting a cheap electronic kit soon, probably one of the Alesis, but haven't really looked yet. That could be a lot of fun.
Downloaded the trial of Addictive Drums 2, so will have a play around with it. The trial comes with a limited Fairfax kit.
So far the AD2 trial seems ok. Sound-wise I like it, but it would be good to have an editor so I can sample the drum parts before dropping them into my DAW.