Available for download, Roots SDX Sticks from Toontrack is a Superior Drummer expansion pack offering 36 GB of sampled Jazz drums, played with sticks. These drums are suitable for much more than jazz: this sample pack can be used in anything from Blues to Hip Hop to Rock. As long as you have Superior Drummer 2.3 or later, you can make use of these samples.
The library was recorded in Blackbird's Studio A in Nashville, TN, using the best industry-renowned equipment, with an emphasis on making the sounds part of a musical expression, rather than individual monotonous hits. It features a large selection of different drums and cymbals from Pearl, Gretsch, Ludwig, Zildjian, and Paiste.
The library makes use of Blackbird Studio's vast mic lockers and classic outboard gear (Pultec EQ, Fairchild compression, and vintage gear from Telefunken, Neve, API, RCA, and Chandler). Samples were recorded by Roy "Futureman" Wooten, the noted drummer behind Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
- Recorded by Roy "Futureman" Wooten in Blackbird Studio Nashville, TN
- Approximately 36 GB of raw, unprocessed sounds
- Total of 23 separately recorded, tweakable channels available in the mixer
- Custom MIDI included
- Large selection of different drums and cymbals (Pearl, Gretsch, Ludwig, Zildjian, and Paiste)
- 18″ Pearl Reference Series (felt beater)
- 22″ Gretsch USA Custom Series (felt beater, plastic beater)
- 22″ Ludwig Maple Psychedelic (felt beater)
- 22″ Ludwig Maple Psychedelic Damped (felt beater)
- 28″ Camco (felt beater)
Snares:
- 12″ Kaplinger Brass (DS, NS)
- 14″ Pearl 50th Anniversary Solid Maple Shell (DS, NS)
- 14 × 3.5″ Leedy Picollo (DS)
- 14 × 5.5″ Ludwig Wood 1964 (DS)
- 14 × 5.5″ Ludwig Wood 1964 Damped (DS)
- 14 × 6.5″ Yamaha Elvin Jones Signature Series (DS)
- 14 × 7″ Leedy (DS)
- 14 × 7″ Leedy Damped (DS)
Hats:
- 14″ K Zildjian (DS)
- 14″ Masterworks Meritamon Series (DS)
Rack Toms:
- 10″ Gretsch USA Custom (DS)
- 10″ Gretsch USA Custom 2 (DS)
- 12″ Gretsch Stop Sign Badge (DS)
- 12″ Ludwig Maple Psychedelic (DS)
- 12″ Ludwig Maple Psychedelic Muted (DS)
- 12″ Pearl Reference Series (DS)
- 14″ Rogers (DS)
- 14″ Rogers Muted (DS)
Floor Toms:
- 14″ Gretsch USA Custom (DS)
- 14″ Pearl Reference Series (DS)
- 16″ Gretsch USA Custom (DS)
- 16″ Ludwig Maple Psychedelic (DS)
- 16″ Ludwig Maple Psychedelic Muted (DS)
- 16″ Slingerland Radioking (DS)
- 18″ Ludwig Classic Maple (DS)
- 18″ Ludwig Classic Maple Muted (DS)
Ride Cymbals
- 20″ Zildjian Sound Effects Crash of Doom (DS)
- 22″ K Zildjian Constantinople (DS)
- 22″ K Zildjian Constantinople Medium (DS)
Crash Cymbals:
- 18″ Paiste Fast Crash (DS)
- 20″ Sabian Handhammered HHX Manhattan (DS)
- 22″ Bosphorus Ferit Series (DS)
- 22″ Sabian HHX Manhattan Ride (DS)