The instruments were played by members of the Ouderits family: dad Leo and sons Tim and Tom, all classically trained percussionists. Realising with excitement that here was another large collection of things that you can hit with a stick, the Toontrack sound-design team returned to the main hall of Galaxy Studios in Mol, Belgium, the same location used to record the Superior Drummer 3 core sound library (and incidentally, the studio used for the spiffing Galaxy Steinway 5.1 grand piano).įor this project the company enlisted specialist help in the shape of producer Patrick Lemmens, a classically trained musician with a background in orchestral engineering and mixing. While the expansions cover all angles of the drum kit and Latin percussion, one area has hitherto gone unexplored: orchestral percussion. Since releasing Superior Drummer 2.0 in 2008, Toontrack have issued a steady stream of SDX and EZX expansion libraries for their Superior and EZ players and all of those reviewed on these pages received a warm reception from SOS's keen-eared writers, who know a good sampled drum kit when they hear one. The product names say it all: Superior Drummer, EZ Drummer, and before that, Drumkit From Hell and its devilish offspring DFH Superior.

Think of Toontrack and you think of drums.

The US drum maestros take a decisive step into the world of orchestral percussion.

Toontrack orchestral