Toontrack SDX Stories

What Toontrack SDX Stories Is For

Toontrack SDX Stories is a sound library dedicated to Superior Drummer 3, designed to provide you with drums and percussion that can immediately fit into a production. The goal is clear: to have a very broad palette, ranging from pop/rock drums with a "radio" grain to more cinematic and theatrical textures, suitable for musicals, rich arrangements, and modern orchestrations. Thanks to recordings made in several rooms, you can choose a very present and controlled drum kit, or on the contrary let the space breathe for a spacious and emotional sound.

Main Features

Recording Designed for Realism and Staging

Recorded at Power Station New England Studio in three rooms (Main, ISO Booth A, ISO Booth B), SDX Stories offers a wide variety of natural ambiances. This approach allows you to build a sound that fits your arrangement: close and intimate for a ballad, more open and punchy for a pop chorus, or wide and immersive for soundtrack-inspired productions.

Stereo to Surround 5.0 Compatibility

All kits and percussion were recorded with five additional room microphones to offer mixes ranging from stereo to surround 5.0. This coherent capture from room to room gives you great freedom to shape depth, width, and spatial sensation while maintaining a consistent sonic identity.

A Complete Production Instrument: Kits, Options, and Percussion

SDX Stories is not limited to "one" set: you get six complete drum kits available in nine configurations, with a generous selection of additional elements (snares, kick drums, cymbals). The result: you can switch from a very direct and controlled kit to a more open and expressive set, while keeping timbral coherence across the album or project.

Mix Presets and Dedicated MIDI for Straight to the Track

To speed up workflow, a large selection of ready-to-mix presets is included, designed by Frank and the Toontrack sound design team. Add to that individually recorded MIDI grooves and fills adapted to the kits, as well as a general collection of percussion patterns: ideal for starting from a credible base, refining the intention, then customizing the playing and sound according to your production.

Technical specifications

Type

Full software

Downloadable

Yes

Required Software	Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 (mandatory to use the extension)	Snares	16
Usage	pop, rock, musicals, and other styles	Toms	27
Produced and recorded by	Frank Filipetti	Hi-hats	5
Studio	Power Station New England Studio, Connecticut, USA	Cymbals	16
Recording rooms	Main, ISO Booth A, ISO Booth B	Options	wide selection of additional snares, kick drums, and cymbals
Drummer	Norman Garschke	Percussion library	34 individual instruments
Playing techniques	sticks, hotrods, and mallets	Examples of instruments	kick drum, timpani, congas, bongos, gong, wood/jam blocks, bell, shaker, tambourine, triangle, cabasa, maracas, cymbals, chimes, agogo bell
Room recording	five additional room microphones for mixes from stereo to surround 5.0	Presets	vast library of ready-to-mix presets
Drum kits	six complete kits in nine configurations	MIDI	individually recorded drum MIDI grooves and fills adapted to the kits
Kick drums	13	MIDI percussion	general collection of dedicated patterns