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A preset contains all the settings that affect the sound of the drum kit that is loaded.Р”В¬licking on the play button for each preset will let you preview its sound. Clicking either of those opens up a screen with presets that use MIDI patterns to show off the drum kitРІР‚в„ўs sound. If you didnРІР‚в„ўt buy a particular ADPak, it will mention that it is available for purchase.Р”Р„t the bottom of the Gallery screen are the two ExploreMaps for that drum kit. If it isnРІР‚в„ўt installed, it will display (you guessed it) РІР‚СљNot InstalledРІР‚Сњ. It also lets you know in the upper-left corner if you have an ADpak that you have purchased, but you just havenРІР‚в„ўt installed it yet. You can skim through any available ADpaks from here. If you decide to add more to that drum kit later on, you can buy additional MIDIpaks and KitPiece paks from their website.Р”Р„fter loading AD2 in your DAW (or after running the standalone version) it will display the Gallery section. For instance, you could just buy the Metal drum-kit/ADpak, as it already includes the AD2 engine. The parts of the bundles are available separately, and each ADpak includes the Addictive Drums 2 engine. Finally, there are the KitPiece paks, which are separate drums you can add on to the ADpaks. They also add in some MIDIpaks, each of which has lots of MIDI groove patterns ready to load. There wonРІР‚в„ўt be an excess of extra drums/cymbals you didnРІР‚в„ўt really want in the first place, and so the end value is higher.Р”В®ach Bundle has a certain number of drum kits, which are called ADpaks.

To me, I really think this is a good idea. This way, you get what you want, and everyone is happy.

There are different Bundle packs available on their website, and you basically get a choice of what will be included. The supported formats are VST, AAX, and AU in both 32 and 64-bit.

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You just create an account on their site, use the XLN Online Installer program to connect to their website, and then download and install any products youРІР‚в„ўve purchased after entering the key.Р”Р„ddictive Drums 2 is available as a standalone instrument, and as a plugin version to load in to your DAW. Installation was easy, and the copy protection is by way of a product key. As you can probably guess, a product like this is right up my alley, and so I felt like a kid on Christmas morning when I was installing it. I played the drums for over twelve years before going into the electronic production of music.

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When I heard XLN Audio was going to release Addictive Drums 2, I jumped at the chance to give it a full review this time around. There so much to cover when reviewing a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that the bundled instruments get little coverage. X3 includes the original Addictive Drums, but I couldnРІР‚в„ўt go into much detail on it, the reason being that the review was really more about SONAR itself, and not the drums included with it. In a past issue of SoundBytes, I wrote a review on SONAR X3 Producer. The company is co-owned by mega-songwriter and producer Max Martin, and they are the makers of the successful products Addictive Keys and Addictive Drums.

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XLN Audio is based in Sweden, and they have been making music software since 2005. Our reviewer thinks that XLN Audio has done a terrific job of improving on the original and explains why in this in-depth review. Why do you think they would do this? Do any other drum programs work like this?Р”Р‡or the record, Groove Agent has 5 faders for cymbals.Additive Drums 2 is the successor to Additive Drums. But I have my own compressors, reverbs and EQs, and I don't know why I have to be limited to what they provide. That's what I have done, and it seems to be how they want the program to be used. If I work by tweaking the mix presets that come with Addictive Drums 2 and just send it out through the master stereo, I get good results. But mainly it doesn't work because that puts rides and crash drums on the same fader and I want to have the option to use the Overhead and Room mics in my mix. This doesn't completely work, because even if all the other drums are set at zero, you still hear them. XLN Audio suggests the workaround of using the Overhead or Room faders by turning down the volume from the other drums and turning up the volume on the cymbals. I can, of course, set the volume different for each one within the program, as I can for everything else. I can trigger up to 6 different cymbals in my AD kits, but all of them are routed through the Overhead or Room Mics.

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All 10 faders, plus overhead, room, bus, and master faders can be routed to separate channels to my DAW. In Addictive Drums 2, I have faders for Kick, Snare, Hihat, Toms 1,2,3,4 and three 'Flexi' output faders, where I can route a host of things from claps to woodblocks.