Year/Release Date : 2026
Version : 3.4.3
Developer : Toontrack
Website : Toontrack
Format : STANDALONE, VSTi, VSTi3, AAX*, AU
Bit depth : 64bit
Tablet : cured (Team VR)
System requirements : 64-bit Windows 7 or newer, 4 GB RAM (8 GB RAM or more recommended).
macOS 10.10 or higher, Intel or Apple silicon processor, 4 GB RAM (8 GB RAM or more recommended).
64-bit host (with support for VST, AU or AAX). Standalone is included.
- 1.05 GB
Description : Superior Drummer 3 is more than just a drum sampler—it’s a bottomless source of creativity. In addition to a vast library of raw audio, Superior Drummer 3 features a unique design, a streamlined workflow, and a wealth of features for creating powerful drums on your computer. Welcome to the future.
What’s new?
Release notes for Superior Drummer 3.4.3 :
CHANGES
General
Percussion notes that were referred to as “Shake Hit Immediate” or “Future Hit Stack” are now called “Shake (Velocity Split)” instead.
Settings
A new Latency Mode setting has been added in the Performance tab. “Precise MIDI timing” is the default and recommended mode. “Lower latency” reduces the latency by 0.34 ms but may also cause MIDI-triggered sounds to be rendered slightly off time.
BUG FIXES
Sound Engine
During playback, MIDI notes would in some cases be rendered several samples too early or too late. That should never happen now, unless the new “Lower latency” mode is selected in Settings.
Song Track
Audio export at sample rates other than 44.1 kHz did not have accurate timing of the hits.
Exported audio is now up to 10 s longer to allow for sounds to ring out.
Dragging MIDI from EZdrummer 3 would cause a crash if any of the blocks had a custom (user-defined) song part type (a feature not supported by SD3).
Drums Tab
Loading a User Instrument on a currently ringing instrument could cause a crash.
The Velocity Curve property box would show all hits as being played at velocity 127 if the selected articulation had stacked sounds.
When “All Articulations” was selected, the Velocity Curve property box did not show any hits for other articulations than the main one.
Note Offs will no longer make unloaded articulations blink in the stack view when another part of that stack is played.
Trigger articulations now get highlighted in the articulation menu when played.
Mixer
The Bias parameter in the “Valve Distortion Box” effect was not correctly/deterministically applied when a preset/project with that effect was loaded.
MIDI Mapping Layout Window
On Windows, the Print function would in many cases not print the entire layout.
Factory library:
Part 1: “Basic Sound Library” (Basic library with all instruments, OH Dyn and Amb Ribbon room mics, and snare, kick, and tom bleeds)
Part 2: “Room Mics 1” (Additional room mics: OH Cond, Amb Near, Amb Mid)
Part 3: “Room Mics 2 – Surround (5ch)” (Additional mics for 5.0 surround sound: Front L/R, Center, and Surround L/R)
Part 4: “Room Mics 3 – Height Surround (6ch)” (Additional mics for 11.0 surround sound: Front Height, Rear Height, and Rear Height Wide)
Part 5: “Extra Bleed” (Additional bleeds into mics)
For the factory library to work correctly, you need to install the update:
Toontrack – Superior Drummer 3 Library Update v1.3.0
Installation is possible on a “clean” system, or over a previously installed version.
