Those using VIs will often fall into two categories: those doing demos or pre-production, or composers and writers producing finished work from start to finish in the same project. In this article we’ll look at some of the things to consider when getting an instrument with the things you need without the features you don’t. That’s not to say that it’s no longer possible to pick the wrong one, as that’s not quite the same thing. Thanks to the efforts of developers, and the ongoing advances in computing power, nearly all of the products out there will get you sounds that frequently match the quality that can be expected from a ‘real’ recording in terms of both the sounds and the included MIDI. When it comes to drum virtual instruments, any working composers or engineer/programmers working with them will tell you one thing in 2022, it’s hard to pick a bad one.

With even mid-level virtual instruments ticking more boxes than some users might ever need, what reasons are there, if any, for users to make the leap up to an expanded feature set? We consider some reasons to save or spend…

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