Digidesign Strike RTAS Virtual Drummer

Ive been running Pro Tools DIGI002 Rack for about three years. Ive had Strike for about a year. I make rock and hip hop mostly. I play the guitar and keyboards. I use this on a 2007 macbook intel on OSX, and monitor through some wharfdale active monitors. I needed a more reliable drummer as the one I know doesn't show up half the time, so I bought strike as I thought it would be good(wrong). Every time I go to my plug-ins and scroll through my instruments and I see strike it pisses me off, three hundred dollars wasted.

I never even bother to try and use this anymore. It requires an ilok which is annoying and makes it more difficult to sell, like anyone would buy it anyway.
It took me a week to figure out to use it.I tried and tried to get a good performance with this program. But it was always off. I would have to edit the drums to get them right.
It takes hours to get a decent drum sound as the drums sound totally fake and weak even to a casual music fans ear.

The interface is frustrating and using this program leaves me angry and depressed. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I have an associates degree in audio production and a bachelors degree in business administration. And use Pro Tools,Reason,Bias,and a absurd amount of other plug ins with no problems. Don't know what was I thinking when I bought this. It has wasted hours of my life. I gave up on it months ago. Maybe I'll give it another shot this weekend.

The drum samples sound weak, thin and fake to me.Reason drum kits 2.0 sound way better than strike. the stock drum performances are have way decent. But good luck getting them recorded right. And who wants to use some dudes stock drum beat on a crappy sounding drum set anyway.

I wish I would of bought BFD. Don't waste your money or time.

I'm a multi-instrumentalist, producer and vocalist using Pro-Tools in a Mac Mini, monitoring with KEF reference monitors and Sony 7506 'phones. I produce jingles and backing track for TV and radio.

I can honestly say I have not used this yet, but I have heard it at the Digi website

All I heard was the raw drums - no other instruments. And truthfully I was not blown away by any of the demo sounds.

The price seems fair enough. I use EZ drummer ($160) which is somewhat limited by the number of available sounds (unless you buy the add-ons), but they are a bit more snappy that Strike's

Making music 40 years, mostly keys and gtr but also bass and drums. I am running PT 7.4 on a MacBook Pro and monitoring through Yamaha NS-10s.

Easy to install, easy to use (but very deep if you want to go there). Great automation and midi support. The manual is PDF. NOBODY likes this. EVER. Why can't manufacturers figure this out?

Stereo mix, but the controls within the program make it a full drum mix with all the flexibility of a big studio rig.

Well woth the price - I looked at BFD, EZ Drums, Addictive and Stylus RMX. Since I was using PT I thought I'd give it a shot. I am very happy with this descision.