While the user interface is extremely simple, the samples are of the same quality and range as those in DFH Superior, but with a narrower choice of drum sounds. AU and VST plug-in formats are supported, and authorisation is via the familiar challenge-and-response system. EZ Drummer requires a minimum spec of an Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon 1.8GHz PC with 512MB RAM running Windows XP, or an Apple Mac 1GHz G4 running Mac OS 10.2.8 or higher with 512MB RAM.
In the light of competition from the likes of FXpansion's BFD and the rather more abstract Stylus RMX from Spectrasonics, Toontrack set about developing a simpler, easier drum kit virtual instrument, and the result of their efforts is EZ Drummer.
Since then they came up with DFH Superior, an excellent-sounding drum-sample-based virtual instrument that was probably less successful than it deserved to be, because its user interface was perceived as being rather complicated. Toontrack were amongst the first companies to provide really good multisampled acoustic drum-kit sample libraries (specifically Drum Kit From Hell), with both dry and ambient sounds that could be mixed to give the required degree of liveness. Toontrack's simplified version of their flagship DFH Superior offers fewer kits, but with the same sound quality and in a more user-friendly interface.
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