Toontrack EZ Drummer

I use it to creat background drum tracks. I have a Digidesign Mbow and work with Protools LE 7.3. I've bene working for 2 years with PT and I really wanted goodsounding drums with out having a kit. zo i got a Korg padKONTROL and EZ drummer. I use it now for about 2 months and love it. The preprogammed rythems are ni, I use the as a sort of guidance in the beginning fase of a song and later I program somthing myzelf with the pad kontrol. Thefirst fewdays it didn't work because my pc was to slow (I had only 512, so i updated it with extra 1024)

It is very easy to easy. make a stereo track with a midi track load select the program and away you go. The problem with the last user was probally that he wanted to use it as a stand alone program or his DAW doesn't accept it. But with Protools I had no problems. and I love it to make drumtracks with!

Thesound quality is great, a friend of mine who is a drummer couldn't hear the difference!! it's easy to mix it or use other plugings if you want it, but the sound on it's own is allready really really good. The room sometimes you nead to lower the room fader for some less reverbish overal sond.

GREAT PLUG-IN!!! After updating my pc it runs really good. the only minor thing is that it takes a little while to load at te beginning. But it sounds really great and is really EZ to use!

I've been playing about 5 years, recording for last 12 months. Use Mackie Tracktion on an Athlon 64 with 1 gig ram.

Software is crap. It only loaded the sound files, midi files and manuals. No files to execute the program could be found! Had to return it to the shop.

Sounds good in the demo if you can actually get it to work!

The software is rubbish and doesn't work. Maybe I was just unlucky but I've never experienced problems like this with any other software - I can usually get it to work eventually but with this software I just had to give up because it was never going to work!

Musician (guitarist) live and recording for more years than is decent to reveal !
Use EZDrummer with Cubase SX
Have always used portastudios until 3 years ago for songwriting sketches. Moved to computer based recording to expand my horizons.
Use a DELL with 1 Gb RAM and 80Gb hard disk with peripheral hard drives. Running XP Pro
Monitoring through passive genelecs, Delta 66 soundcard through a linear amp.
Headphones DT100s

Interface is good, with the whole visual drum thing going on.
No problams installing.
Why oh why do software manufacturers take it for granted that everyone has internet access??
I would not plug my music PC into the net of you paid me....no matter what firewalls or Virus protection, my music is far too valuable to take such risks.
Had to jump though too many hoops to get my copy of EZdrummer authorised, ( Start a user account with Toontracks site, enter serial number generated by PC, toontrack send out an authorisation code by email....enter the serial number into EZdrummer on first use...easy if your pC is online, not so easy if it aint !!
but hey, Toontracks are running a business so guess they have to prevent piracy.

Sounds are FANTASTIC....best sample drum sounds I have heard in a long time and excellent straight out of the box..

As seems to be the norm these days, manula is on the disk. Fair do....its at least environmentally friendly.....
Drag and drop midi feature is great for throwing together basic tracks, then thay can be tweaked.
All of it nicely integrates with Cubase.
Loading does take a while though..even with big RAM you are looking at 45 seconds to 1 min before all the sounds are loaded into a track.
You can use the Cubase 'Freeze' feature to prevent this, so its not too much of a problem.

Drum sounds are good in the mix,and are fabulously configurable. Select your kit....choice of three (I think!), then individually select each drum and cymbal to suit, then mess with the virtual microphones in the mixer to get the sound just spot on. The Humanizer feature is great. Composed a 12 bar blues track to test EZDrummer, and got a totally authentic acoustic sounding kit, a perfect shuffle with that Charlie Watts slightly offbeat feel to it. Sounds just as good with hard metal riffs and Jazz

Easlity worth the price. Compared to some pretty expensive Boss drum modules I have owned, this one beats em all hands down.
The software came recommended by a fellow muso.
Love all the features, and I believe its exapndable, which is great, though I can get everything I want right out of the box.
Registering it was the worst bit, but thats probably cos I am paranoid about hooking up to the web with my music system.
Never crashed.....in the three days I have had it !!
Slightly more control over the mikes might have been nice. Bringing down the overheads on the cymbals kills the hi hat too, and the hat gets right in your face if you try to bring up the cymbals in the mix.

I am a professional songwriter who has cuts on major labels, mainly in Europe which is where I first heard of Toontrack cause they are a Swedish company. I do production as well, but am a terrible mixer/compression/EQ etc...I run Logic 7 on a Dual 1.8 G5 with 3 gigs of RAM. I do mainly pop and pop rock as well as some TV composing. I use NS-10's for monitors and a m-audio firewire 410 (which I do not like)

The interface is as dumbed down as can be. The install was simple and easy (on a mac what isn't?) The manual is about 15 pages total which is including the install instructions - easy. To get sound is as simple as opening up the plugin - highlight which kit you want, watch it load and see it's memory usage, and you are ready to go. I found the interface similar to BFD but it is the midi files and sound of the drums that make this worh every penny.

I have this conversation with many of my producer friends - when you buy a drum program, the midi files that come with them sound great but are not usable in a session - unless you are doing a Weather Report track. Pop and pop/rock are simple cool beats with fills, not a bunch of rat a tat playing and EZ delivers. Every pattern is played the exact same way yet with variations of the hit - soft, hard, open 4th hi hat, open hi hats etc...then fills are real fills that you can use and are broken down into 1 bar/2/3 etc..and since it is like Stylus RMX where you drag and drop the midi you can take a 4 bar fill and cut it up if you desire. I own Drumcore 2.0 (which i love the sound of the live audio files) DFH Superior (best sounding drum samples out there) and BFD - not my favorite for sound and this is the only one i use now - way too easy, sounds great and has usable midi files and fills.

As stated above - it is the only drum program i use now. I would like to hear the expansion packs that are coming out soon since after a while you want to hear new sounds but if they integrate into the plugin as can be expected i would be first in line to buy