Addictive Drums 2: Heavy Rock Collection

Addictive Drums 2: Heavy Rock Collection

Raw Drum Power

Included Products:

• Black Velvet (ADpak)
• United Heavy (ADpak)
• Loud Beats & Songs (MIDIpak)
• Heavy Beats & Songs (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

Addictive Drums 2

It's All About the 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 kit piece 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.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio's Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Black Velvet (ADpak)

Loud, Large and Luxurious

Black Velvet includes presets covering the cleanest alternative rock to grittiest grunge. All done with slick, expensive and larger-than-life grandness. If epic sounds are what you're after, Black Velvet has you covered!

Black Velvet has a unique and massive sound because it was recorded in two different spaces. The drums were captured in a gymnasium-sized recording hall while the hi-hat and cymbals were recorded in a smaller studio. By altering overhead/room levels (or loading different presets) you can easily transform the kit from tight-and-fat to loud-and-large. You can even automate the changes to have a tight sound in the verse and a gigantic sound in the chorus!

The Black Velvet ADpak includes 30 presets covering many different styles. There is a variety of clean presets that you can use as a starting point for your sound sculpting and tweaking. There are also many production-ready presets that give you instant access to great sounds ranging from tight and fat, to loud and large, and even experimental and industrial styles. If you need professional drumming, The Loud Beats & Songs MIDIpak is a perfect companion.

The Black Velvet Kit Contains the Following:

Kick:

• 22x18" DW Collector's Series 

Snare:

• 14x5" DW Collector's Series 

Toms: 

• 10x8" DW Collector's Series 
• 12x9" DW Collector's Series 
• 14x14" DW Collector's Series 
• 16x16" DW Collector's Series 

Hi-Hats: 

• 13" Zildjian K 
• 14" Zildjian A Custom

Cymbals: 

• 8" Zildjian A Custom Splash 
• 10" Zildjian A Custom Splash 
• 16" Zildjian A Custom Crash 
• 18" Zildjian A Custom Projection Crash 
• 18" Zildjian FX Oriental China 
• 20" Zildjian A Custom China 
• 22" Zildjian K Ride 

Extra:

• LP Tribell

Features

• Massive drum sounds.
• 30 production-ready presets.
• Covers grunge to arena rock.

United Heavy (ADpak)

Hard-hitting drums for heavy music

United Heavy is a powerful ADpak for Addictive Drums 2, featuring a boutique drum kit recorded in one of the world's most sought after drum rooms. Whether you play fast or slow, rock or metal - or just need drums that make an impact - the United Heavy ADpak will deliver the goods.

This handmade Pork Pie USA Custom kit, including a full bodied bell brass snare drum, was recorded in United Recording Studio B. This is the legendary studio at 6050 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood formerly known as Ocean Way. Together with a matching selection of Zildjian cymbals, and a rare and unique snare drum made out of Zildjian alloy, this ADpak will batter through any wall of guitars.

The United Heavy ADpak comes with a selection of production-ready presets crafted by professional producers and mixing engineers such as PRO Custom Drums. When combined with the outstanding performances of our Heavy Beats & Songs MIDIpak, you’ll have everything you need to make your drum tracks sound amazing.

United Heavy Contains the Following:

Kicks:

• 22x18" Pork Pie USA Custom
• 24x18" Pork Pie USA Custom

Snares

• 14x6.5" Pork Pie Bell Brass
• 14x5" Zildjian Alloy (N&C)

Toms:

• 10x8" Pork Pie USA Custom
• 13x10" Pork Pie USA Custom
• 16x14" Pork Pie USA Custom
• 18x16" Pork Pie USA Custom

Cymbals:

• 14" Zildjian Quick Beat Hihat
• 18" Zildjian Armand Medium Thin Crash
• 19" Zildjian A Custom Rezo Crash
• 18" Zildjian Oriental Classic China
• 22" Zildjian Ping Ride

Extra:

• Custom Crasher

Features

• Powerful drum hits
• Legendary drum room
• Production-ready presets

Loud Beats & Songs (MIDIpak)

Beats for the Black Velvet Kit

Loud Beats & Songs is the perfect complement to Black Velvet. Great when you need precise, hard-hitting beats in your productions.

This MIDI Pak contains sophisticated, hard-hitting beats that do away with subtleties. Perfect for massive grunge hits or arena rock anthems. Includes complete Songs divided into parts (intro, verses, choruses, etc.) and as well as individual beats with lots of variations. Mix and match to arrange a unique new song in seconds.

Features

• Precise but Hard-hitting beats.
• Spans Grunge to Modern Rock.
• Over 190 inspiring performances.

Heavy Beats & Songs (MIDIpak)

Hard-hitting beats for heavy music

These outstanding performances will breathe life into your heavy music

This MIDIpak contains over 200 hard-hitting grooves. Whether you play fast or slow, rock or metal - or just needs drums that make an impact - these outstanding performances will breathe life into your heavy music.

It is compatible with any drum kit from Addictive Drums 2 but is particularly well suited for our United Heavy ADpak. The beats, songs and fills in this MIDIpak are performed by top session musicians, exploring the kit at high velocity.

The Heavy Beats & Songs MIDIpak comes structured and labelled to make arrangements easy and find the beat you need fast. Check out the audio demos and imagine the tracks you'll make with these rhythms at your fingertips!

Features

• Performed by top session musicians.
• Perfect companion to United Heavy ADpak.
• 200+ authentic performances.

System Requirements

Mac

• macOS 10.13 or later (M1 Native & macOS 12 Monterey supported) (64-bit only)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• Internet connection (during installation only)

Formats:

• VST, AU, AAX (64-bit only)
• Standalone Application (64-bit only)

Windows

• Windows 7 - 11 (64-bit only)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• Internet connection (during installation only)

Formats:

• VST, AAX (64-bit only)
• Standalone Application (64-bit only)

Hosts:

This product should run on any host supporting 64-bit VST, AU, or AAX plugins. XLN Audio actively tests on the host applications listed below:

• Ableton Live 9 or later
• Apple Logic Pro 9 & 10
• Avid Pro Tools 11 or later (Pro Tools First is not supported)
• Cakewalk by Bandlab
• Propellerhead Reason 10.3 or later
• Reaper 4 & 5
• Steinberg Cubase 8 or later

Please Note: This software is 64-bit only and will not function on 32-bit systems.