MIMIC PRO using modern hardware, actual OS is expandable for new feature, enhancement and new sound library pack, to keep you up to date, there is no real limitation. Of course, you can also continue using the pads that you already have. (No "hot spot") You can use the kick, snare, hi-hat, cymbal, and percussion pads that you prefer. Generally, mesh heads are very sensitive to soft strikes, while silicone-rubber heads have a consistent striking sensitivity across their surface. Mesh pads, silicone, rubber pads, use the pads you like.
16 Inputs Triggers is possible plus 8 new instruments triggering via midi, total of 24 triggers per users kits with low latency. Complete crosstalk cancellation by simply striking a pad, you will never have any crosstalk. Then adjust the velocity to respond with your finger draw in any kind. Adjust the sensitivity so that your lightest touches are felt. Light player or Heavy foot? The Pearl Mimic Pro use advanced sensor technology without using midi thecnologie triggering inside, which exceed by far traditional 127 step level pad to module resolution. Steven Slate Drums has always been known for its heavy, rock-friendly sound, and this is no exception.
Edit your sound with internal instruments layering, ASR, EQ, Compressor, Reverb and more. Even when you play a roll, the sound engine allows the roll to flow in a natural-sounding way.
The GIGABYTE of audio source material was captured with this full dynamic range, allowing the sound engine to accurately reproduce a drummer's hits. The true dynamic range of drums Electronic drums traditionally had a dynamic range that can "max out" relatively easily with their addition of using low memory and low sample layers, made it difficult to obtain the natural, varied sound of acoustic drums with all style of music, speed and fills variation, with mimic express the full dynamic range, from subtle pianissimo (ppp) to powerful fortissimo (fff) with all kind of speed. It's all at your fingertips with the Pearl Mimic Pro.
This is not simple reverb - this is lifelike ambience captured by actual room mics in real professional studios. But you can also blend in real overhead room microphones to taste. The dry tone of each drum is preserved in each sample. While I’m not broke, that was still a good size investment, (considering I bought a 50’s Classic Strat for $300.) but I have ZERO regrets about it.The Mimic Pro gives you instant access to 65 high-end drum kits recorded in some of the world's finest studio spaces, each captured with multiple industry-leading microphones and a laundry list of legendary outboard gear. If you bought EZD2, you get like a $50 discount for the crossgrade, I think it ended up costing me $350. I also had trouble getting the MIDI mapping to line up with previous MIDI files I made, despite what setting I had it on. I love the drum sounds on the last Periphery album and while the samples were great, Kontakt gave me a bunch of issues and I just gave up. I also have GGD, I’m not sure which pack, but it has the Reptile kit in it. I haven’t used that yet, but that’s pretty damn cool. There’s also another awesome feature, you can drop an audio file of a drum track into it and it’ll separate all the drums for you into MIDI. The UI is a breeze after working with EZD2. You can also stack drums, so if you’re pressed between two snares, you can actually use two different snares (or any other drum) together. There’s aux tracks and everything on there. You can turn everything off and start fresh if you want. With SD3, I don’t even need to, the mixer section is great and provides all I need there. I mainly wanted to print the individual drums to tracks into Logic so I could tweak the EQ in there, but EZD didn’t allow that.
I know it’s a big price difference, but man, I couldn’t be happier with SD3 and I haven’t even bought an expansion pack for it yet. I opened it up once, played around with it for 10 minutes, closed it and bought SD3. I got SSD because I was also unhappy without the ability to tweak within EZD2.