Hi, and thanks for a very informative posting. I think we agree about a lot of thing here. My experience is I own EZ drummer with jazz and singer songwriter expansions. However I feel I needed to expand a bit i quality allthough EZ certainly is a good work horse. My music is generally rather soft semiacoustic where I prefer a nuanced brush sound and mallets or felt rods if available. I also bought Avids Strike some years ago, which has some great sounds and fuctions, but is a bit weak on the fills side of patterns. So as I wrote earlier I took a wrong step and updated GA which of course was nothing but silly.
I am looking a Addictive Drums 2 which has a special "Mallets and felt rods expansion that seems interesting, and I might go for that. I feel I need a good system of preprogrammed yet nuanced style patterns to build from, more than tweaking and choosing between a hundred different drums and a thousand mic positions. There I agree I appreciated the GA 2 vs 3 systems. However it seems impossible to reinstall GA3 as I have only and “update” disc. Superior drummer seems slightly expensive and don´t offer any trial so I am a bit reluctant there. Would you recommend it if you want to go for the styles and sounds I described above? /Franszmo