It ran very well and never crashed or gave me any sorts of glitches or issues. It is certainly a step up (again my opinion, and I've been using Toontrack drums since DKFH, so I may be biased) from most of the other drum tools. The Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 installed on my computer running Windows XP without any problems. If what you want is a really solid, really flexible set of drum sounds for rock/pop/metal, etc then SD2 will serve you very well. If the new content is of interest then I'd probably save my pennies. The library that is included sounds gorgeous, and adds a whole new palette of sounds.īut the real winners are the Decades expansion, which is becoming my first choice on a lot of things, and the orchestral library, which covers a lot of instruments really well. There are some nice new workflow features, but nothing I could not have lived without, I think? I did upgrade, and there is no audible difference for SD2 expansions.
If you have no need for any of the SD3 only expansions then SD2 could be a good investment. My thoughts only - but SD2 ia a very capable drum tool, and the expansion packs range from really good to outstanding.