Platinum Samples has announced the release of Joe Barresi’s Evil Drums SDX Expansion Pack for Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0. This is the first time that third-party libraries have been released for Superior Drummer.
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Toontrack has announced the release of a new metal MIDI pack, featuring Dirk Verbeuren who’s known for his work in Soilwork, Scarve and Aborted. Enter Library of the Extreme – Blasts & Fills is the name and it contains of more than 1000 MIDI files played by Dirk.

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Toontrack EZplayer 1.0.5 is now available for free for all users. It contains a lot of fixes as well as added map wraps for several other software drums.
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Toontrack has announced the latest addition to their MIDI packs: Monster MIDI Pack 4 – Fills Odd Meters. Peter Fredlander is back with fills for your 5/4, 6/8, 9/8, 7/8 and 11/8 songs.

More about Monster MIDI Pack 4 at the Toontrack website.

Toontrack has announced that their Electronic EZX is now shipping (previous post).

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Superior Drummer 2.2.1 is now available as a free update from the Toontrack website.

Version 2.2.1 includes the latest EZX and SDX kit pieces definitions support, including the upcoming Electronic EZX.

From the Toontrack press release:

fixed in version 2.2.1:

- iMap MIDI preset offset fixed
- the Memory Limit pop-up warning should no longer appear when the memory limit is off
- the solo state of articulations is now fully restored when loading a project
- Soft Vel and Pitching are now restored properly when loading a project
- setting a Time Correction value should no longer affect playback detrimentally
- changed the MidiNode broken link to all caps ‘MISSING TARGET’
- drag and drop of MIDI grooves should now work even when UAC is on
- grooves with length different than a multiple of quarter notes should now loop appropriately
- the tempo of the selected MIDI file is now remembered when the Sound Library is changed
- rare CPU overloads in ProTools occurring when changing drums should no longer occur
- playing an Instrument with SemiSeq active but not Random should no longer cause crashes
- removed some rare crashes that occurred when changing kit or drums while playing
- spurious noise at beginning of bounce should no longer occur
- fixed a bug to do with bouncing, transmutes and bleed of non-close mics without room-time
- a number of memory leaks have been removed
- the ‘MY MIDIFILES’ Browser entry should no longer fail to be written by the installer on PC
- Mac installer will attempt to repair EZdrummer symbolic link if probed as non functional

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Toontrack has announced that the Custom and Vintage SDX is now shipping. See my previous post or Toontrack’s website for more info.

Toontrack has announced a most significant update to Superior Drummer 2, version 2.2.0.
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Toontrack has re-released their Superior Custom and Vintage and the Superior Vintage add-on in one pack for use with Superior 2.0, simply called Custom and Vintage SDX.

From the Toontrack press release:

Apart from extensive stick and brush recordings of a unique collection of drums and cymbals it also features mixer presets by producer Peter Henderson and custom MIDI by drummer Chris Whitten.

The SDX gives everyone from top producers down, access to the cream of custom and vintage drums, built by craftsmen from the 1920’s right up to the exceptional instrument makers of today, like Johnny Craviotto.

The Custom and Vintage SDX is played by Chris Whitten. The drummer on classic hits like ‘What I Am’ by Edie Brickelland The New Bohemians and ‘The Whole Of The Moon’ by The Waterboys, Paul McCartney’s ‘Flowers In The Dirt’ album.

The Custom and Vintage SDX is produced by Peter Henderson a key figure in producing Supertramp´s 20 million selling album ‘Breakfast In America’, for which he won a Grammy. He has also worked with Paul McCartney, Rush, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Tina Turner and Ringo Starr.

A video of the people involved in the making is available at Toontracks website.

The Custom and Vintage SDX will be available October 2009, with a special price for owners of the legacy products.

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North American customers looking to score EZX’s for EZDrummer or Superior 2 will be happy to find out that you’ll be able to grab anyone of them for $45 at any Guitar Center.

Fellow europeans need not be in despair. If you buy any one EZX at Time+Space you’ll be eligible for another one free of charge.

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