If you want a bigger arsenal of kits, but some bugs with Sonar that should eventually be worked out, and if you are willing to be very patient then SSD4 is appealing. If you are needing a product proven to work very well with Sonar right now, then SD2 is a solid choice. As gmon72 has accurately described it, you get one good kit (Avatar), and decent on board effects (compressor, eq, gates.) that can be fine tuned inside of SD2 itself, but you will spend some extra money down the road adding extra kits, which BTW do sound great as well. On the other hand, Superior Drummer 2 (SD2) will cost you more in the long run the add on kits are great and affordable but it does increase the total cost for creating a more versatile product. Still, several members here on our forum have reported trouble with SSD4 in Sonar. To be fair, Slate support is aware of these bugs and their developers are working on them. Further, there are several known bugs particularly with SSD4 with Sonar as its host and they have yet to be ironed out. SSD4 has a boat load of kits (100) and they sound amazingly good right out of the box, but there are no effects on board. I also have both Steven Slate Drums 4 (SSD4) and Superior Drummer 2 (SD2) and I have been on both sides of the court on this one. By the way I think SSD 2 is 149.99 this month at audiodeluxe.
If you want to be further confused, look at BFD 2. If you want a more mature product that is far more tweakable, try SD 2. If you don't plan on buying more expansions, you may want to lean toward SSD. I like mucking and playing with different sounds. SD 2 certainly is far more tweakable, has built in effects etc, if you don't want to rely on your host to do as much. You could always get grooves from people like groove monkey, etc. As for midi, SD 2 has the edge, although new grooves are promised for SSD. As this plug in is new, it still needs a bunch of work to be as complete as SSD or BFD etc. The new deluxe kits are much more natural sounding than the 3.5 SSD version.
If you are looking for variety in one spot, SSD is good. With SSD 4 platinum you get 100 mixed kit presets in various styles.
#STEVEN SLATE DRUMS 4 PLATINUM VS SUPERIOR DRUMMER 2 PLUS#
Additional kits range from 40 dollars ish for EZX expansions to 100 plus for SDX expansions. Superior is certainly more polished, but you will get one kit, Avatar, with SD 2.x.
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