Toontrack Electronic EZX

Not that good I expected.The installation is so difficult and the product is not that great. I do not recommend it.

there is alot here to mess with, but I wanted more variations.. it did however have a pretty large selection of grooves to fool around with which was cool. :)

Customer support does not care the product will download but not authorize don't waste your money

This is the first EZX I bought for EZDrummer and I love it. I checked out all the EZX kits and I really wanted something that would vary up my selection of sounds. Most EZX kits are just acoustic kits that have been pristinely recorded, mixed and mastered by ToonTracks. This one is quite different. Richard Devine produced this one and did a great job. There are so many sounds in this EXZ it feels almost limitless. The bleeps, blips, snaps, cracks, pops, whizzes, whirls, bonks, boings, 808, 909 and zoinks you've been looking for are all here. I use this kit all the time.There are several presets to vary the kits for quick setup and get the right mix of sounds that work well together. Its also much more dynamic than I expected a fully electronic-based kit to be. You can really get a very human feel playing this on a nice MIDI kit with a perc pad or two to give yourself more options. This is a huge EZX compared to the others (Jazz, Pop/Rock. Latin Perc) I have. Highly recommended.

You either love this stuff or hate it. Frankly, I love all of the Toontrack products. I highly recommend this product if your music requires this type of drum work. It is so easy to use.

I recently bought this EZX expansion, I while I generally tend to favor more acoustic sounds in my music, this is genuinely a lot of fun to work with, and had definitely given me some new ideas/inspiration.You get 33 drum kits. I'm no expert in electronic music, and honestly, the names of the kits don't really mean much of anything to me. What I can say, though, is that there's a good variety of high quality sounds here. You get a bunch of practical kits that offer electronic variations on typical drum sounds like snares, kicks, hi-hats, etc, and you also get lot of more experimental kits that offer lots of highly-processed electronic beeps and boops (really technical, I know... sorry, like I said, I'm no expert on electronic drums.) The nice thing is, as with all EZX expansions, you can mix and match kits. For example, I was working on a tune that sounded great with one of these drum kits, but one particular drum in the kit just wasn't sounding right in the mix. No problem-- I just opened the drop-down menu for that drum and found another one that worked great, while the rest of the kit remained the same.In addition to the 33 kits, each kit has its own set of MIDI grooves (or drum patterns, if you prefer.) Of course, you can actually use any MIDI groove with any kit, and part of the fun I've been having with it is mixing and matching the drum grooves with various kits.The mixer is also great to experiment with. In addition to the usual volume controls, you also get a bunch of effects to tweak, such as chorus, bias, attack, tape, etc. These have a pretty significant effect on the overall sound. And there are loads of preset mixing configurations to choose from if you don't want to make your own.As I said before, the sounds are high-quality. Although this expansion includes some kits that can be found elsewhere, like the classic TR kits, the quality of them here is better than I've heard in other places, and the ability to tweak the sounds with the mixing console is a great benefit. But, despite the high-quality of the sounds, they take very little memory-- far less than other EZX expansions. This is because they don't have multiple velocity samples (in other words, if you strike a drum harder or softer, it only affects the volume, it doesn't trigger a different sound sample, which isn't necessary for these types of sounds.) Several of the kits come in at under 30megs.If I have one complaint about this expansion it's that I think maybe there are a few too many "experimental" kits (i.e, kits that focus a bit too much on weird beeps and boops), and I personally would have preferred a few more kits that offer electronic variations on kicks, snares, etc. But really, with 33 kits to choose from, and the ability to mix and match sounds from different kits, it's not a big problem.

Toontrack has not one, but two great electronic drum libraries, Electronic and Number 1 Hits. Because of this, this review will be more of a comparison between the two very similar libraries.First, the midi in the libraries have a similar setup and neither are setup in a way similar to the standard SDX libraries. The midi libraries both organize their midi with a kit recommendation rather than a style reference (though sometimes the kit is named after a style). The midi performances are pretty standard, but that's to be expected.The production value of Number 1 Hits is outstanding, with wonderful EQ and compression. The tone just makes you want to write dance or electronic music. It's great right out of the box and clearly the better sounding of the two libraries. The Electronic doesn't sound bad, but it's brighter and a little more raw sounding out of the box. If you're looking to spend a lot of time tweaking your own sound, Electronic would be the better library.Number 1 Hits focuses on that wonderfully produced sound, while Electronica clearly focused on variety, this isn't just evident in the number of samples available, but also the kit presets. Number 1 Hits comes with 19 preset kits while Electronic comes with an overwhelming 33. This could be an issue if it weren't for the fact that Electronic manages to keep the variety in most of the kits, even though plenty of those presets are variations of a similar sound. Electronic also has a lot more effects options built in, showing even more how this library is geared towards a tweaker than the very pre-produced Number 1 Hits. ELectronic also has a lot more glitchy sounds and circuit bending sounds.Electornic comes with the mono fx of Tape, Transient, Biased, and stereo fx of Subtube, Chorus, and Tape Echo. Subtube isn't really stereo, but a split mono setup, which makes it unfortunately hard to engineer/tweak. It's unfortunate, because it's a cool sound, but to get really tweakable results, you'll have to find a way to split the left and right signal. I wish they had just done subtube1 and subtube2 as separate channels. It's a bit unfortunate that they don't include SD2 presets for those who have the option, because I would love to see what some professionals could do with mixing these awesome set of options. But, perhaps, that would take all the fun out of it.If you are looking to do dance or electronic music, I couldn't recommend Number 1 hits more highly. It saves you all the effort of tweaking that perfect sound. If you're looking for that edgy industrial drum sound, glitch, or just a highly tweakable electronic sound, I think Electronic is the way to go. Both are easily worth the money.