This marks the fifth SDX release since the launch of Superior Drummer 3. The Meistersaal is the most iconic of the bunch, which was also recorded in 5.1 surround with two additional ambience mic pairs. Today Toontrack released The Rooms of Hansa SDX, a sound library expansion for Superior Drummer 3 recorded by Grammy Award-winning recording/mixing engineer Michael Ilbert at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, Germany. So, has anyone been down this road already, and found an SDX that beats Indiependent in warm, organic, 'glued-together' sounds?Īlso significant: Indiependent lacks the extra articulations that are now standard in the SDX packs (more cymbal hits, off-center snare, beater variations, etc. The four rooms in Hansa Tonstudio include the Meistersaal, the Live Room, the Vocal Booth and the Marble Room. Youtube demos sound great, but without buying them, I'm not able to do a solid A/B comparison to see if Indiependent has been outclassed. Toontrack SDX The Rooms of Hansa 7 Expansion Pack (Download) For Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 (Art. However, more recently Toontrack has released Fields of Rock, Death & Darkness, Decades, Rooms of Hansa. For those of us who are finicky about natural 'old school'-sounding drums, Indiependent was wonderful. Everything else seemed to have a clinical, processed quality in comparison. In the years after its 2015 release, many commented on how the Indiependent SDX had a much more organic sound than the other contemporary SDX (as well as the core library).

has anyone found the more recent SDX to sound better? I know there are some big fans of the Indiependent SDX here.

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