Toontrack Drummer Users: Can someone help?! Basic problems

[romanianreaper]

I have been installing/uninstalling Superior Drummer 2.0 several times since yesterday afternoon. I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing because as of right now I can't figure out how this can be a $350 program. I've attached a JPEG touching on the issue but let me explain the basic issue:

- I downloaded the entire program, which is about 17 GB of data. When I go into the program, I have a handful of drumkits available with what I would consider a minimal amount of options.

- The only drumkit I can actually hear right now is one called "N.Y. Avatar". When I select that one, I can see the drumkit, everything sounds great, and I can adjust things.

- There are three other kits available called "S1 Drummer, S1 Percussionist, and S1 Cocktail". When I try to choose any of these from the pulldown, I get a message saying "you need to choose the path to where you installed the sounds before you can use them". I installed everything under one folder, "Tootracks, Superior Drummer". I don't see any other location where these sounds can be and at 17 Gigabytes of information, they have to be somewhere!!??

If anyone can help, it would be appreciated. The program sounds great with the handful of sounds I can actually use. With my options right now, this is like a $20 program. I need to figure out what is going on. Thanks!

 

[philb]

I believe cocktail and percusionist are add-ons and do not come with sd 2.0.

 

[romanianreaper]

I believe cocktail and percusionist are add-ons and do not come with sd 2.0.

Should I be seeing more than just a handful of drum parts though? I thought the program had thousands of parts?

 

[philb]

I believe cocktail and percusionist are add-ons and do not come with sd 2.0.

Should I be seeing more than just a handful of drum parts though? I thought the program had thousands of parts?

Are you talking about toms, and cymbals or midi drum parts i.e. grooves?
If it's the latter, again, you can purchase add-ons for that for $29.
I bought a few and it's worth it.

 

[romanianreaper]

I believe cocktail and percusionist are add-ons and do not come with sd 2.0.

Should I be seeing more than just a handful of drum parts though? I thought the program had thousands of parts?

Are you talking about toms, and cymbals or midi drum parts i.e. grooves?
If it's the latter, again, you can purchase add-ons for that for $29.
I bought a few and it's worth it.

Thanks for your help man, I really appreciate it. I got some help also from a guy on the Toontrack forum and he mentioned that I needed to download the NY Avatar MIDI files, so I did. That opened up a bunch more MIDI files.

I guess I'm a bit confused (as new users are with drum files, MIDI, etc.) I was originally going to just get EzDrummer with a metal add-on pack. I sold a guitar cab and had enough to get the Superior Drummer 2.0 so I figured "hey, let me get the whole package". The guy at Guitar Center was like "this has everything you need, thousands of sounds, etc." and I assumed this was the big brother to EzDrummer.

I'm probably confused about something I don't need to be. Number 1, I'm confused about why the install was almost 20 GB? I thought that would translate to a million drumsets, grooves, sounds, etc. Am I missing something on why it is such a huge file?

The second thing I'm confused about (and you touched on this) is MIDI grooves, versus MIDI controlled sounds that you make on your own, etc. Is this product $300 because it is so flexible or is it $300 because of tons of usable MIDI grooves that should be on my computer but I've misplaced them?

I'll tell you, the program sounds awesome and I'll definitely love using it. Sounds great with Reaper, works great, etc. I just want to make sure I have all of the sounds available. I already know I'm going to upgrade to one of the metal packs.