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Addictive Drums 2 brings the world's finest drums straight into your music. You get outstanding drums, professionally-played rhythms, and phenomenal sound-shaping and mixing features that make your productions sound alive. All this with a fast, musician-centric interface that gets amazing results without getting in your way. To get you started, this package includes the AD2 engine along with our bestselling Fairfax Vol. 1, Fairfax Vol. 2, and Black Velvet drum kits so you can get to work on your most impressive music right away.
Get Extraordinary Drums in Your Music
Drums are critically important to modern music. If the sounds and rhythms aren't excellent, your track will never reach its full potential. Serious producers know this, and that's why so many of them turn to Addictive Drums.
Magnificent Drums Perfectly Recorded
Addictive Drums 2 comes standard with three extraordinary drum kits including both of our acclaimed Fairfax kits (recorded at the legendary Los Angeles studio formerly known as Sound City) and the loud, large, and luxurious Black Velvet! The package includes 130 presets ranging from super-clean to highly polished and radio-ready to heavily processed and distorted. You also get our Core MIDI Library containing over 5000 inspiring beats and grooves covering many styles. You can use them as-is or easily tweak them to make them uniquely yours.
It's All About Sound
Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it's your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear, or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.
Lightning Fast Workflow
The best sounds and features are useless if you can't find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI, to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kitpiece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.
Features
- 6 ADpaks (Fairfax Vol 1, Fairfax Vol 2, Black Velvet, Vintage Dry, Session Percussion, Reel Machines)
- MIDI Library (5000 beats)
- 3 MIDIpaks (Dry Beats & Songs, Percussion Beats, Reel Machines Beats)
- Specialty “Trig” Sounds included
- 230 Production-ready Presets
System Requirements
Mac
- macOS 10.9 or later (32 & 64-bit)
- 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
- Internet connection (during installation only)
Formats:
- VST, AU, AAX (32 & 64-bit)
- Standalone Application
Windows
- Windows 7, 8, 10 (32 & 64-bit)
- 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
- Internet connection (during installation only)
Formats:
- VST, AAX (32 & 64-bit)
- Standalone Application
Hosts
This product should run on any host supporting VST, AU, or AAX plugins. XLN Audio actively tests on the host applications listed below:
- Ableton Live 9 & 10
- Apple Logic Pro 9 & 10
- Avid Pro Tools 11 or later (Pro Tools First is not supported)
- Cakewalk by Bandlab
- Propellerhead Reason 9.5 or later (In Addictive Drums 2, the Bus channel cannot be sent to a separate out track.)
- Reaper 4 & 5
- Steinberg Cubase 8 or later
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XLN Audio Addictive Drums 2 Review at Ask Audio Magazine
Several years ago, I was invited to join a beta test team of a new company, XLN Audio,to test their new virtual instrument named Addictive Drums,...