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Has anyone had a chance to test drive Session Drums? How does it compare to EZ Drummer? I'm curious about the amount of variation and number midi grooves available in Session Drums as well as the workflow.

I've had my eye on EZ Drummer and now Superior Drums 2.0 (due out early next year) but Session Drums might be a better fit for me given it's tight integration with Live.

Any thoughts?

I use Addictive Drums best drums ive ever heard.......Every genre

Not what you were asking for but might be worth a demo...

No problem... I've tried the Addictive Drums demo. It is very nice. I've yet to purchase any virtual drummers, but AD, EZD and Superior Drums 2.0 all seem like great candidates. I've been very impressed with these types of plugins.

I was kinda holding out until Superior 2.0 came out to make my final decision on a virtual drummer but I'd like some feedback RE: Session Drums as well.

What about Battery by native-instruments?

I've tried a demo once and was very impressed... its samples are very raw but it only gives you more freedom in adding your favourite external effects. It also has good built-in must-have effects for drums such as a nice compressor and all kinds of funny stuff...

Battery isn't really the same type of product as any of the plugins mentioned above. I'm not too thrilled with Battery at all to be real honest. I think it's just a workflow thing for me. Great program just not my style.

I'm interested in adding a great sounding and great feeling drag & drop virtual drummer to my arsenal to compliment Impulse and Live 7's new drum racks.

From your sig I see you use NI's Komplete thing - I envy you

I was always wondering whether the Kontakt drums are as good/useful as Battery's, can you shed some light on that question? I was thinking I might go for Kontakt as an all-in-all solution once. I'm a little on budget as all musicians are and you always find those all those weird instruments useful someday. I just need good drums bundled with that.

The drum samples/sounds for Battery are really good. So are the drum samples/sounds for Kontakt. Kontakt can read the entire Battery library as well. So if you really like one of Battery's kits but prefer to use Kontakt, just load the kit with Kontakt and hammer away.

The Komplete bundle is really nice. There is an incredible amount of sound there to work with. It does take a while to work your way through it all though.