Well, I'm back for the moment.
I just finished watching the video of them recording the drums for SD 2.0 and I realize now just how great they are. I am planning to get New York Legacy Part 2 for the Allaire Studios stuff. I can't imagine why a person would NOT use the built in mixer with the various mics that were used to record in the cavernous space.
I've got a bunch of the Toontrack expansions Sam, & I usually mix/match different pieces from different kits/expansions to make my own kits using the X-Drum feature, but that's just me...
My favorite SDX is Evil Drums, to me, they sound more like a real drum kit through my monitors, but, they were discontinued & are really hard to find, if you can find them at all...I've been using the Toontrack stuff for years now...
I always route my drums into the multi-out thing in my daw too, that way I can add my own fx to the drums, & have total control over everything, but again, that's just me...
My question is: My D: Drive is getting full. Can I store all my samples on a separate usb drive? I'm no geek but I assume that the few hundred samples being used at any given moment get into memory so it shouldn't affect anything to store the libraries themselves elsewhere?
I'm sure you could install the expansions on an external drive, you'd just have to "point" SD to where the samples are installed...I don't have that problem, as when I bought this pc, it had a 1tb hdd already, & I installed another 1tb drive for my audio files as soon as I got home with it...On top of the 2tb's of storage I have in my pc, I also have a 1tb external hdd, so I've got 3tb's of storage space total...
I also picked up EZ Player Pro, which is an insane editor, I want to build my songs separately from my DAW and then drag them into the session.
There are a few things that EZ Player can do that the built-in version in SD can't, but I can manage/make up for that using my daw Sam...It is cool to be able to re-map the midi from another sampler & have it play back in SD though, but again, it's nothing I can't really do in my daw with a little effort....