TOONTRACK Decades SDX £122
Toontrack’s Superior Drummer package has arguably changed the way that many producers work, when it comes to utilising live drums. Billed as the bigger brother to the more modest EZ Drummer package, it offers access to a larger and more elaborate number of samples, while also allowing the exploitation of the EZ Drummer line, which caters for everything from Latin percussion to Junk kits, so any expansion library which further compliments the excellent in-house SD3 samples is going to be worth considering, especially when produced in conjunction with an industry legend.
DUKE, STEELY, JACKO AND FRIENDS
Al Schmidt might not be a household name, but it’s absolutely guaranteed that you will have heard his work. His credits read like a who’s who of music from the last seventy years, beginning with Duke Ellington, who he worked with as a
