

The Digital Ride/Snare with the TD50 and TD27 was the first real revolution in many years, and if you make all the Drums and Cymbals Digital and use MIDI 2.0 possibilites there will be even more expressivness and different articulations than now. But Toontrack will not be able to do that alone: The Manufacturers of E-Drums will have to innovate.

There will be a next Metal SDX from Toontrack and it will be, in some respects, better than Death&Darkness. I think with E-Drumming/VSTs we reached the same point. Now, they are just making minor improvements and there is no need to swap out at decent smartphone after 1-2 years. Than, 4-5 years later, well, that phone after 12 months was still ok but the new one still had it`s perks. When the first iPhones and Android Phones appeared, the phone you bought a year later was a lot faster, nicer and cheaper than your 12 month old phone. nothing.īut then, going a little deeper, I found that, everything goes that way: Let`s say Smartphones.

So that got my thinking of what more do we want. And I can`t play my beloved Addictive Drums now anymore, as I am totally spoiled by SD3. They don`t even remotely compare to the first EZXs or even SDXs that Toontrack released. Those SDXs have about 3 Million Microfones in 18 Billion channels and sound amazing. Playing the Death and Darkness SDX and listening to reviews and samples of Decades SDX made me think.
