I have had this for nearly a year I believe. The best thing about this is the really odd sounds they give you. Things like hitting a desk drawer, zipping up a jacket, and hitting a pan. These are sounds that can really give your song a unique touch that you probably wouldn't otherwise think of. On the other side of the coin though, the fact that these sounds are so weird definitely limits their usefulness, so I have ended up rarely using this expansion. I will say that when it has been used though, it has been great. So overall I feel that this expansion is not really necessary for your ezDrummer collection unless you have some extra money and you want to have a luxury. It is not the greatest value, but it is nice to have for that odd song that needs something different. I would probably not get it again.

I have had this for maybe 6 months, I got it right when it came out after eagerly awaiting it. The sounds are really great, you can definitely come close to achieving that great Nashville drum sound they have perfected in Tennessee. The snares sound especially great, they really have a good wallop. In this expansion you are also given a new mixer channel for Compressed Room sound, which is handy since it saves you the trouble of trying to set that up yourself on your DAW. It helps a lot in achieving a bigger drum sound. If I had to complain, I would say that there is kind of a long wait for the samples to load, probably 2-3 times as long as other sample plug-ins usually take to load for the same amount of data. It is worth the wait though. You also get to decide between traditional drum sticks and brushes, which is great because a lot of times the regular sticks are too hard or too much power for a particular song. The MIDI library provided is extensive and tasteful, and they really nailed the train beats that are normally very hard to recreate with drum software. This is a great value if you want good sounding, easy to create drum tracks for your country or pop productions. I love it, Toontrack does it again.

I have been using ezDrummer for the past year or so. I absolutely love it. The drums sound very good right off the bat, and then you are able to customize the samples in the kit, the levels of each one, the amount of room sound, the bleed on the 'mics', and you can also route the individual channels to their own track in your DAW for further processing if needed. They also give you a large bank of pre-made MIDI grooves which sound very good and professional - I'm sure they were made by a pro session drummer. Another bonus is the "humanize" feature, which introduces slight timing variations to increase the realism of the track. They also have multiple sample layers to avoid the "machine gune effect" like you'd hear on a snare roll. I have tried most of the drum software out there, and this is usually my first stop when I need to make a drum track. Not only is it one of the best sounding ones, it takes you about half as much time to get up and running with an appropriate groove as it does with most of the competition. I am a huge fan of this software. Get it, you won't be disappointed.

I started using it a few days ago, I really like the way it sounds (both the basic pop/rock kit and the DFH extension pack are awesome) and the fact that its use is intuitive. I used to work with free drum samplers or drum machines such as Blue Noise's MyDrumsets, Loopazoid (a great tool but you have to find your own samples elsewhere) or Cubase's default drum machine (which name I can't remember), but EZ drummer is definitely way ahead with the number of different combinations it offers.