Virtual Instruments vs Audio Effects (SSD Drums vs Trigger )

[admin]

Virtual Instruments vs Audio Effects

A virtual instrument works on your DAW's instrument track. Virtual instruments are used to "program" drums, piano, synths, strings, and other instruments via midi. Steven Slate Drums is a virtual instrument for drum programming.

An audio effect goes on an insert of your audio track and processes the track in realtime. Trigger is a realtime audio effect to be used on pre-recorded drums for drum replacement.

TRIGGER vs Steven Slate Drums

Steven Slate Drums and Trigger are 2 separate products serving 2 very different purposes.

Trigger works on audio tracks only as a drum replacement plugin. Trigger is not a virtual instrument. Trigger's samples are in TCI format. SSD samples are not compatible with Trigger. If you record live drums and want the ability to replace/enhance your recorded kicks, snares, and toms, Trigger is what you need.

Steven Slate Drums is a virtual instrument that can be used ONLY in Kontakt Sampler or Player as a virtual instrument plugin inside your DAW of choice or in standalone mode to use with an electronic drum kit (Roland V-Drums), midi keyboard, midi drum pads, and other midi controllers. SSD uses the .nkx/.nkc sample format and only work in Kontakt Player or Sampler. If you program drums and/or want the ability to play a v-kit of your choice, SSD drums is what you need.


Who is Steven Slate Drums good for?
Musicians and producers who don't have access to live drums but need drum sounds for their productions. SSD is also great for edrummers (v-drums), finger drummers (midi drum pads), and solo musicians playing live with midi drum loops.

Who is Trigger good for?
Producers, engineers, and musicians who want to enhance or change the sounds of LIVE drum tracks (kicks, snares, toms) they have already recorded from a live drum kit.

[TemperJames]

I like this explanation (for the more clueless people who use this type of software).

However it does confuse matters a bit more. Trigger can be used in CONJUNCTION with SSD for Kontakt.

At the end of the day, a far more flexible and reliable method of triggering drums is to hard write some midi notes that feed into Kontakt that can be tweaked at any time, but are also consistent and hard written to trigger sounds exactly as required.

For this, you can obviously rule Slate Trigger out of the equation entirely and use Drumagog etc.. but since Trigger is now out, I'm guessing you don't want to promote that in any way!!!!

So yeah, just saying, good advice, but also creates more confusion in some cases.

[Nathan@Slate]

What exactly, in your opinion, creates more confusion?

[Mondoslug]

Steven Slate Drums and Trigger are 2 separate products serving 2 very different purposes.

Trigger works on audio tracks only as a drum replacement plugin.

Greetings...but sometimes I'll convert a kick, snare or tom audio file to midi & trigger "Trigger" on an Instrument Channel...

which leads me to this...love Trigger, great program - will you ever update it to include the latest, greatest samples included in SSD 4 or are most of those samples already included in Trigger?

Thankin' ya.

[aaronbrownsound]

I have the same comment as MondoSlug. I'm debating buying Trigger and want to use my new SSD 4.0 samples in it as well as other libraries.

Here are the options as far as I can tell:

1. I could buy trigger, sample the midi track using the midi record button, then drag them onto a track to trigger SSD 4.0

2. I could use trigger to load up SSD 4.0 samples and trigger them directly in Trigger!

3. I could use presets already set up in Trigger to utilize SSD 4.0 samples.

Are 2 or 3 possible? If so, how is it done? If not, is there any chance of this being possible in the future?

I'd also be down to by platinum if there were a nice crossgrade incentive...

[admin]

The Trigger Deluxe Expansion Pack available for purchase has SSD4 content pre congealed in .tci format. You may further trigger SSD Sampler via MIDI as purposed or create your own .tci's via the Trigger Instrument Editor application, as long as you don't sell these and adhere to our licensing terms and policy.

Thanks!