From VST to .WAV, .dsnd and .dkit in one click
Export instruments or whole kits from your favorite drum VST to .dsnd and .dkit for the 2Box DrumIt Five, DrumIt Three and DrumIt Five MKII drum modules or to .WAV for the Alesis Strike, BeatBuddy, Pearl Mimic Pro, Roland TD-50, Roland TD-17, Yamaha DTX-Multi 12 or any module that can load .WAV samples.
Can be used without REAPER or a VST to batch convert from .WAV to .dsnd.
For Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista or XP SP2/SP3.
SDSE Documentation
Installation
- Download SDSE
- Double-click on SDSE-install.exe and follow the installation steps,
SDSE can download and configure everything you need to get started.
- Open SDSE and REAPER. SDSE will configure REAPER for you.
- Select a VST in the list, set up the kit you want to export.
- Click "Export" in SDSE. When exporting is complete you will find the new sounds in "SDSE Sounds" on your desktop ("SDSE\Sounds" for a portable installation), sorted in subfolders based on instrument type and VST.
2box DrumIt: If you exported at least 3 instruments you will find a dkit file in the SDSE folder. You can copy the dsnd folders and dkit files directly on your DrumIt module.
Supported Drum VST Instruments
Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 - 3.0.1 min
Toontrack Superior Drummer 2 - 2.1.0 min, 2.3.1 or greater recommended
Toontrack EZdrummer 3
Toontrack EZdrummer 2
Toontrack EZdrummer - 1.2.0 min
Toontrack EZdrummer Lite - 1.2.0 min
Please contact me if your EZX or SDX is not listed
Superior Drummer 3, Superior Drummer 2 SDX
EZdrummer 3 / EZdrummer 2 / EZdrummer / Superior Drummer 3, Superior Drummer 2 EZX
Toontrack Superior Drummer 2 - 2.1.0 min, 2.3.1 or greater recommended
Toontrack EZdrummer 3
Toontrack EZdrummer 2
Toontrack EZdrummer - 1.2.0 min
Toontrack EZdrummer Lite - 1.2.0 min
Please contact me if your EZX or SDX is not listed
Superior Drummer 3, Superior Drummer 2 SDX
- Avatar
- Custom & Vintage
- Darkness
- Death
- Decades
- Evil Drums
- Fields of Rock Dry
- Fields of Rock Live
- Fields of Rock Percussion
- Fields of Rock Stone
- Indiependent
- Legacy of Rock
- Metal Foundry
- Metal Machinery
- Music City
- New York Vol. 1
- New York Vol. 2
- New York Vol. 3
- Orchestral Percussion I
- Orchestral Percussion II
- Progressive Foundry
- Rock Foundry
- Rock Warehouse
- Rooms of Hansa Live Room
- Rooms of Hansa Marble Room
- Rooms of Hansa Meistersaal
- Rooms of Hansa Vocal Booth
- Roots Sticks
- Roots Brushes, Rods & Mallets
- Stockholm
- Stories A
- Stories B
- Stories Main
- Stories Perc
- Superior Drummer 1 Cocktail
- Superior Drummer 1 Drummer/dfh Superior
- Superior Drummer 1 Percussionist
- Superior Drummer 3 Core
EZdrummer 3 / EZdrummer 2 / EZdrummer / Superior Drummer 3, Superior Drummer 2 EZX
- Action!
- Alt-Rock
- Americana
- Big Band
- Big Rock Drums
- Big Stage
- Classic Rock
- Claustrophobic
- Cocktail
- Custom Shop
- Dance
- Dark Matter
- Death Metal
- Dream Pop
- Drumkit From Hell
- Drums Of Destruction
- Duality I
- Duality II
- Electronic
- Electronic Edge
- EZdrummer 3 Bright Room
- EZdrummer 3 Main Room
- EZdrummer 3 Tight Room
- Funkmasters
- Gospel
- Hard Rock
- Hip-Hop!
- In The Pocket
- Indie Folk
- Into The Dark
- Jazz
- Kicks & Snares
- Latin Cuban Drums
- Latin Cuban Percussion
- Latin Percussion
- Made of Metal
- Metal!
- Metal Machine
- Metalheads
- Modern/Vintage
- Modern Metal
- Nashville
- Number 1 Hits
- Pop!
- Pop Punk
- Pop/Rock
- Post-Rock
- Progressive Rock
- Reggae
- Rock!
- Rock Solid
- Seventies Rock
- Signature Part 1
- Signature Part 2
- Singer-songwriter
- Southern Soul
- Synthwave
- The Blues
- The Classic
- Traditional Country
- Twisted Kit
- UK Pop
- Vintage Rock
Kontakt 6 or free Kontakt Player
Native Instruments Abbey Road Drummer series
Native Instruments Studio Drummer
Native Instruments Abbey Road Drummer series
Native Instruments Studio Drummer
- Abbey Road Vintage Drummer
- Abbey Road 50's Drummer
- Abbey Road 60's Drummer
- Abbey Road 70's Drummer
- Abbey Road 80's Drummer
- Abbey Road Modern Drummer 1.3 or newer
- Studio Drummer
XLN Audio Addictive Drums 2
XLN Audio Addictive Drums - 1.5.3 min
Please contact me if your Addictive Drums ADpak is not listed
ADpak
Kitpiece
XLN Audio Addictive Drums - 1.5.3 min
Please contact me if your Addictive Drums ADpak is not listed
ADpak
- Addictive Drums (Studio Pop, Rock, Prog)
- Black Oyster
- Blue Oyster
- Black Velvet
- Boutique Mallets
- Fairfax Vol. 1
- Fairfax Vol. 2
- Funk
- Indie
- Metal
- Modern Jazz Brushes
- Modern Jazz Sticks
- Modern Soul R&B
- Reel Machines
- Retroplex
- Session Percussion
- United Heavy
- United Pop
- Vintage Dry
Kitpiece
- DW Collector's Bass Drum
- DW Solid Piccolo Snare
- DW Woofer
- DW Premier Gen-X Bass Drum
- Sonor Designer Snare
- Vistalite Bass Drum
Kontakt 6 or free Kontakt Player
Analogue Drums
Please contact me if your Analogue Drums kit is not listed
Analogue Drums
Please contact me if your Analogue Drums kit is not listed
- Big Mono 1.70
- Big Mono Redux 1.72
- BlackSmith 1.02
- Bombastix 1.03
- Boxer 1.02
- BuckShot 1.70
- DeadBeat 1.04
- FatStacks 1.85
- Gorilla 1.82
- Grandioso 1.70
- KingPin 1.80
- MonoTown 1.50
- Pizazz 1.01
- Plastique 1.81
- PopSticks 1.72
- PopSticks SC 1.72
- RockStock 1.72
- RockStock SC 1.72
- Royale 1.01
- Smoker 1.00
- SnareCity 1.72
- SplitSticks 1.70
FXpansion BFD3 - with light theme (dark theme is not supported)
FXpansion BFD2 - 2.3.0 min
FXpansion BFD Eco - 1.0.1 min, 1.5 recommended
Please contact me if your BFD expansion is not listed
Expansion Packs
FXpansion BFD2 - 2.3.0 min
FXpansion BFD Eco - 1.0.1 min, 1.5 recommended
Please contact me if your BFD expansion is not listed
Expansion Packs
- BFD3
- BFD2, London Sessions, BFD Eco
- 8 Bit Kit
- Andy Johns Classic Drums
- Big Orchestral Marching Band
- Chocolate Audio Imperial Drums
- Chocolate Audio Modern Retro
- Chocolate Audio The Black Album Drums
- Cocktail
- Crush
- Decatom
- Deluxe Collection
- DrumDrops BFD Slingerland
- DrumDrops BFD Rogers Big R Dub Kit
- Dunnett Titanium
- EpiK DrumS Bill Cobham
- EpiK DrumS Bob Siebenberg
- EpiK DrumS Rod Morgenstein
- EpiK DrumS Sixties DownBeat
- EpiK DrumS Seventies EJ
- EpiK DrumS Terry Bozzio
- EpiK DrumS Woody Woodmansey
- Evil Drums
- Heavy
- Horsepower
- Japanese Taiko Percussion
- Jazz & Funk
- Jazz Noir
- JEX XDrum
- Jim Scott Rock Drums Vol. 1 & 2
- Manu Katche Signature Snare
- Metal Snares
- Modern Drummer Snare Drum Selects
- Neil Peart Kit
- Nick Mason Kit
- Oblivion
- Percussion
- Rock Legends Gretsch Charlie Watts
- Sabian Digital Vault
- Signature Snares Vol. 1
- Signature Snares Vol. 2
- Sleishman Drums
- Sleishman Snares
- Sonic Reality Alan Parsons Black Oyster Kit
- Sonic Reality Alan Parsons Silver Sparkle
- Sonic Reality Alan Parsons Vintage 70s
- Sonic Reality Hugh Padgham Big Fill Kit
- Sonic Reality Vinny Appice
- Sonica Kabuki and Noh Percussion
- Sphere
- Stanton Moore Bosphorus Cymbals
- Swan Percussion
- Virtually Erskine (Peter Erskine)
- XFL
- Yamaha Jazz Maple
- Yamaha Maple Custom Absolute
- Yamaha Oak Custom
- Zildjian Digital Vault (Gen16 Z-Pack1, S-Pack1, S-Pack2)
MODO DRUM (v1.1.3 minimum with default mapping, recommended minimum screen resolution higher than 1280x800)
Electro-Acoustic for Kontakt Player (v1.4.4 with default mapping)
Steven Slate Drums 5.5
Steven Slate Drums 5.5 Free
Steven Slate Drums 5
Steven Slate Drums 5 Free
Steven Slate Drums 4 Platinum
Steven Slate Drums 4 EX
Steven Slate Drums 4 Custom
Please contact me if your Steven Slate Drums expansion is not listed
Kit Series
Expansion Packs
Steven Slate Drums 5.5 Free
Steven Slate Drums 5
Steven Slate Drums 5 Free
Steven Slate Drums 4 Platinum
Steven Slate Drums 4 EX
Steven Slate Drums 4 Custom
Please contact me if your Steven Slate Drums expansion is not listed
Kit Series
- Blackbird
- Chris Lord-Alge
- Classic Signature
- Classic Vol. 1
- Classic Vol. 2
- David Bendeth
- Deluxe
- Deluxe 2
- Electronic
- Terry Date
Expansion Packs
- Blackbird
- Chris Lord-Alge
KVLT Drums II (v3.0.6 with default mapping and minimized window)
Wavesfactory Legacy Drums, with GM mapping: in Legacy Drums settings, articulation control select preset: Mapping_Brush_GM, Mapping_ClassicRock_GM, Mapping_TeaTowel_GM
Features
- one-click operation from VST to .WAV, .dsnd, .dkit
- HiHat zones are adjusted when building a .dsnd
- .WAV and .dsnd files are named using the instrument names
- shrink filenames using user-defined search/replace
- put width first in filenames, 14x6.5 instead of 6.5x14
- add Library short names as filename suffix or prefix
- add custom suffix to the files when exporting kit variations
- option to disable exporting the Tom Rim and HiHat Bell
- normalize .WAV files
- .dsnd files can be sorted in subfolders
- accessibility menus for Superior Drummer 2 (F10, F11)
Evaluation Version
Everything from the full version,- no support for HiHats and Cymbals
Built-in support for one kit per VST
- export Superior Drummer 3 Core (Gretsch Round Badge)
- export Superior Drummer 2 Avatar
- export EZdrummer or EZdrummer Lite Pop/Rock EZX
- export EZdrummer Lite Cocktail EZX
- export BFD3 DW Mardi Gras
- export BFD2 and BFD Eco Ludwig Black Oyster
- export Steven Slate Drums 4 DW
- export Addictive Drums Sonor Designer
- export Abbey Road 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, Vintage, Modern default kits
- export Studio Drummcher default kit
- export Drumasonic 2 and Drumasonic Luxury default kit
- export DrumMic'a
You can customize the kit layout used by SDSE if you have split your tom pads to add more cymbals or if you use any custom setup.
Use DKit Manager to set up your kit Layout.
When you export a kit for the DrumIt Five or DrumIt Three SDSE will use the current layout setting from DKit Manager to build a .dkit file that matches your own setup.
Use DKit Manager to set up your kit Layout.
When you export a kit for the DrumIt Five or DrumIt Three SDSE will use the current layout setting from DKit Manager to build a .dkit file that matches your own setup.
Lustark Software is not affiliated with or endorsed by 2Box, Alesis, Pearl, Roland, Yamaha, Cockos, FXpansion, Native Instruments, Toontrack, XLN Audio.
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I've recently read multiple how-tos on creating DSNDs and the more I read the more I'm impressed with what you've done. Great work!“
SDSE ROCKS! This is one incredible tool. I have spent countless hours building dsnds one at a time. This tool makes it a super simple and super fast process for doing an entire kit in minutes.“
SDSE is absolutely insane! It's exhausting to create each .dsnd file and probably I would use most of the original 2box sounds without this tool (actually probably I would use a Roland kit without SDSE for 2box).After a few clicks with the SDSE I have an extensive variety of realistic sounds from my VST library and also the kit file. It's a dr...
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Both SDSE and Drumit Manager are completely and truthfully worth every penny, and then some. I still haven't gone through all the options and settings in both of them. And they are actually useful settings/options, too. There is no fluff. Great stuff! and the support is the absolute best. Can't recommend Lustark enough.“
What a nice program you have made!! It has really brought new life to my 2Box. The only bad thing is, now I want all the drum programs it handles :-)“
2box newbie here... While the module isn't the easiest thing to use SDSE has made it very simple to get the sounds I need from Superior Drummer 2 to the module! This is a MUST HAVE!!!!“
Great software and awesome support whether it's regarding SDSE, the VST or even the OS. For me there is no using 2box without SDSE!