BMU
This discussion has made me re-evaluate my mixes, and suddenly I'm finding things like the crash cymbals drown out the bass drum click, and I'm thinking with Addictive or SD 2.0 I could EQ them separately... exactly what I thought I didn't want to get dragged into ??? ?
Tomcat - where did you get hold of Addictive Drums? Did you buy the download online? No-one in Cape Town seems to stock it, or EZD, or SD 2.0!?
And to think this started so innocently - I *just* wanted to evaluate Reaper. LOL. (I've decided against that btw. Coming back to Cubase feels like coming home, I didn't fully realize how many shortcut keys I use and how I have everything set up just-right. I feel hopelessly lost in Reaper. Until Cubase starts irritating the crud out of me again I suppose. Sigh.)
TomCat
LOL........For me the best is to stick to what you know......for me Reaper was the first DAW I really got my teeth into and as you have with Cubase, I've learned a lot of the shortcuts and my work flows nice and smoothly....
Regarding AD I bought the online version along with it's large (1GB+... ?) download.....
They also have a great support forum as well...... 8)
BMU
Kthx!
Yeah I cruised the AD forums a bit. Downloaded two drum maps for Cubase already. A simple one for quick sequencing, a detailed one for painting in the nuances later - brilliant. I was thinking to make exactly this, lo and behold someone already did.
Superior Drummer is actually cheaper than Addictive right now, I think they're running a special. Take2 has Superior for R1900 and Addictive for R2500. Quite a bargain... I'll have to re-think this yet more, arrgh. The Addictive download is cheaper still thanks to the current crazy Rand though. (R1700 or so.)
BMU
Just an update: I did go ahead and order SD 2.0. The current price discount on it in the States plus the strong Rand makes it pretty hard to resist. In the end I figured more flexibility can't actually be that bad a thing.
