ToonTrack Superior Drummer 3.0

Over the past four decades, George Massenburg has been involved in over four hundred records. His work includes milestone albums by Earth, Wind & Fire, Linda Ronstadt, Natasha Bedingfield, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, the Dixie Chicks and many, many more. George’s work has gained him world wide recognition and four Grammy Awards, including the Grammy for Technical Achievement in 1998, at the time making him one of only seventeen individuals to ever receive this honor. In addition to numerous Mix Magazine TEC Awards, in 1988 he also won the Academy of Country Music Record of the Year Award for his production on the album “Trio” featuring Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. Further, George has designed, built and managed several recording studios as well as contributed to the acoustical and architectural design of many other studios, including George Lucas’ Skywalker Sound. In 1982, he founded George Massenburg Labs, an audio electronics company that has released an extensive range of innovative recording technologies, all based on his original designs.

Regularly published in professional journals and trade magazines world wide, George Massenburg received the Gold Medal from the Audio Engineering Society in 2008.

In 2013, he was awarded a patent #8,510,361 in the US (as well as other countries) for a variable exponent averaging detector and dynamic range controller. He is also a member of the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress and an advisor to the Committee for Library Information Resources. George serves as the Chief Technical Officer of META (the Music Engineering Technical Alliance), a strategic union of music producers and engineers dedicated to the highest standards of audio and delivery of music.

George has also been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music by Boston’s esteemed Berklee College of Music. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Sound Recording at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and a Visiting Lecturer at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston and Valencia, Spain as well as the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN.

THE HEARTBEAT OF YOUR SONG.
Superior Drummer implements several groundbreaking features for working with any aspect of your drum MIDI content – right inside the program. The idea is that regardless of what you are attempting to accomplish, you should never have to leave the framework of Superior Drummer 3. From quickly getting a custom beat going to laying out entire songs or diving deep into fine-tuning timing and velocity detail, Superior Drummer 3 has got you covered.

Add to this the comprehensive Superior Drummer 3 MIDI library, covering a wide range of styles, and you have a wealth of inspiration to use to craft your custom drum tracks from.

FEATURE SPOTLIGHT

• Multiple song tracks
• Build full drum arrangements
• Grid editor
• Time and tempo editor integrated in Song Track
• Edit Play Style, Tap2Find, Song Creator and Song Track with improved workflow and search functionality added
• Integrated grooves and search browser
• Text search

CONTROL AND POWER, BEYOND THE THINKABLE.
The mixer introduces 35 low-footprint insert effects, making each channel strip a virtual sound processing powerhouse. Route, bus, send, saturate, blend and mix – the creative options are endless.

Think of Superior Drummer 3 like stepping into the control of a world-class studio and taking a seat at the mixing console. Outside the glass windows, in the massive hall, there’s a wide array of drums of all sizes, makes and models, all set up and ready for you to hone to fit your mixes.

With Superior Drummer 3, you are in control. Only your imagination sets the limits.

FEATURE SPOTLIGHT

• 35 mixer effects (EQ, delay, reverb, filters, dynamics, distortion, modulation)
• A wide array of presets for all included kits
• Individual mic bleed and mic control
• Bus, route, send

A NEW BREED OF AUDIO TO MIDI CONVERSION.
The Tracker introduces the arguably most efficient and accurate drum audio to MIDI conversion software on the market. Built on a highly advanced instrument recognition neural network, the Tracker detects hits with an unequalled accuracy and speed.

With the seamless integration with Superior Drummer 3, replacing or augmenting drums has never been more powerful than now. Simply drop your drum audio material in Tracker, let it quickly analyze your content and in no time, you’ll be able to preview the MIDI based on your original tracks. Start blending, augmenting, replacing and creating!

FEATURE SPOTLIGHT

• Drum recognition based on artificial intelligence (AI)
• Machine learning based on over 1.4 million drum audio files
• Offline audio to MIDI conversion
• Track complex drum patterns faster than ever before
• Unlimited control with Find Similar, Sound Recognition Threshold and other specially designed features
• Create tempo maps from audio with the Find Tempo feature
• Reduce bleed between different microphones to avoid false triggers
• Edit MIDI notes individually directly in the waveform
• Seamless integration with Superior Drummer 3
• Endless possibilities to replace
or augment any drum performance
• Get experimental – import any audio file to generate original percussive rhythms

MAKE YOUR ELECTRONIC KIT SOUND LIKE YOU.
By combining smart software features with extreme sample detail and nuance, Superior Drummer 3 bridges the gap between the “e” and the drums, making your electronic kit every bit as “real” and acoustic as it can be.

Superior Drummer 3 was designed with you in mind, the demanding e-drummer. Get started playing instantly with one of the the new e-drum presets, or customize the way the software responds to your playing with new, easy-to-use controls on the dedicated e-drum settings tab.

The e-drum settings tab is used to transform incoming MIDI to the standard of any loaded sound library without affecting the playback of your MIDI files. This makes it easy to combine your own playing with any MIDI files available from Toontrack. It also offers quick access to the MIDI controls most frequently used, like hi-hat pedal and snare CC response. Controls and articulations for the mapping of custom kits and pads with multiple zones and positional sensitivity are available as well.

All this in combination with optimized velocity response, humanization and up to 25 velocity layers per instrument in the Superior Drummer 3 core library will make your playing more expressive and well-rounded than ever!

FEATURE SPOTLIGHT

• New e-drum settings page allows transforming incoming MIDI without affecting the playback of your MIDI files.
• Get started playing instantly with new e-drum presets for a variety of e-drum brands
• Easy setup for positional sensing pads and multiple articulations
• No need for a DAW – capture your performance directly in the Song Track of Superior Drummer 3
• Superb realism, new articulations and manageable library size with up to 25 velocity layers per instrument
• Quick access to controls for snare and hi-hat CC
• Optimized response and humanization

DOWNLOAD CONFIGURATION.
Due to the size of the library and to ensure that each customer freely can decide in what capacity he or she wants to utilize the source material, the product is configured in six (6) convenient download packages. Start by installing the software and then add each package in sequence as you go.