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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.įurther, 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. 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. His work includes milestone albums by Earth, Wind & Fire, Linda Ronstadt, Natasha Bedingfield, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, the Dixie Chicks and many, many more. Furthermore, drum sounds can be stacked, so one MIDI note triggers two or more layers on the same drum – you can use any combination of sounds for these, and again, import new samples if needed.Over the past four decades, George Massenburg has been involved in over 400 records. Right-click any instrument to quickly choose from a number of related replacement sounds, or go deeper to browse the library and custom content, or to import new samples.Ī Properties box gives control options for each instrument, with volume, tuning, reverse, attack envelope, velocity, MIDI mapping, and much more. Furthermore, you can continue to use any previously installed Toontrack sound libraries, including those from EZdrummer 2 and SD2, and any custom presets you created – the same goes for any existing Toontrack MIDI content.Īfter all this, it probably goes without saying that the SD3 kits and instruments are fully customisable. Once again, this all works whether you’re running SD3 in plug-in or standalone modes.

You can also import MIDI files created in another DAW, and, come to think of it, export any that you create within SD3. Drag in a MIDI part, and you’re given a set of song structures to choose from, and customise – with different individual elements for each intro, verse, chorus, bridge, or end.Īs well as using audio-to-MIDI conversion, you can import your own audio files to each instrument, as AIFFs or WAVs. The Tracker tab is where SD3 handles audio-to-MIDI conversion (see boxout).Īfter preparing a kit and grooves, you can build a structure using the Song Creator. Tap out a beat using your mouse or a connected MIDI device (SD3 doesn’t have a virtual MIDI keyboard), and SD3 will analyse your playing and suggest grooves that are close to it. For a more spontaneous method of finding grooves, use Tap 2 Find. You’ll see a list of matching song parts, such as four verse parts and a bridge, and you can drag them into the song blocks in the track below. The Grooves tab lets you access SD3’s MIDI drum patterns, filtered by genre (for example, Metal), then playing style (Blastbeat), type (Beat), signature (4/4), and the more mysterious Power Hand (Hi-Hat Open) – which refers to the dominant/leading instrument in the groove.

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SD3 supports Surround in either 5.1 or 11.1, but if you’re not planning to use Surround, you can save download time and disk space by not installing the separate Surround content, which comes to around 94GB, and you can employ the Surround channels as extra stereo-ambience channels. At the right are controls to edit the currently selected instrument, and at the bottom are macro controls, the MIDI editor, and the Song Creator.įor each instrument, you can take mic bleed from the rest of the kit, or one specific source, even if the track is muted. SD3’s interface is logically laid out, the centre occupied by a graphic of the kit, where each instrument animates when triggered via MIDI or mouse click.

There’s no need to drag the library over to clog up your computer, it runs fine off the SSD – this convenience meant I could do much of the review on a humble MacBook Air. SD3 is available as a download, but if the download size scares you, for an additional €189, Toontrack ships an SSD with the library pre-installed, which is how it arrived here for review. Beyond the kits themselves, SD3 features a built-in MIDI editor, MIDI beats ready to use in the form of ‘grooves’, a full-featured mixer with effects, macro controls, and audio-to-MIDI conversion. The kits are from Gretsch, Ayotte, Pearl, Yamaha, and Premier, and the core library includes 230GB of 44.1kHz/24-bit samples, with an additional 350 or so drum-machine sounds. It’s built around recordings of seven acoustic kits recorded at Galaxy Studios in Belgium (“the most quiet recording space of this size in the world”), by renowned engineer George Massenburg. SD3 runs standalone, or as an AU/VST/AAX plug-in.