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What's new in Addictive Drums
XLN Addictive Drums 2 has been elevated with the v2.5 update, delivering both workflow improvements and exciting new features. The software now boasts a sleek, revamped interface designed to keep you focused on your music with its polished, modern look. A standout new effect, Trig Gate, allows you to effortlessly sculpt your drum sound with precise gate action on every hit, no threshold adjustments needed, thanks to the use of internal MIDI drum notes. The new Boost mode for the compressor adds extra punch to your beats with multiband compression specially tuned for drums, giving your tracks more energy and impact. On top of that, the EQ now features real-time visual feedback across all frequencies, making it easier than ever to fine-tune your sound with clarity and precision. Best of all, this update is fully backwards compatible, so all your previous presets, tweaks, and settings will work seamlessly, and it supports every Addictive Drums 2 expansion, including ADpaks, MIDIpaks, and Kitpiece paks.
Modern Jazz Brushes
Immaculate brush sounds
The Modern Jazz Brushes ADpak gives an entirely different flavour to the conventional stick drumming tones. More subtle with less attack and punch, the Brushes ADpak will sit behind your instruments, providing a solid and steady beat for you to explore melodic compositions over the top. Not aiming to be hard-hitting or the centre of attention, you can create smooth rolls and fills that accent the musicality of your performance, rather than take centre stage. In order to produce the classy and sophisticated jazz sounds you've come to know and love, the Brushes ADpak has been tuned slightly higher than a standard rock kit, ensuring that every shell has a perfect fundamental note that can become a melodic instrument in itself.
Featuring a beautifully vintage Premier Gen-X drum set, you can achieve the classy and polished sound of a world-class jazz drummer in your mixes, giving new life to your songs. A selection of Meinl, Pasite and Sabian cymbals are used and have again been played with brushes to ensure a delicate touch that gives a smooth and balanced sound.
The RealSweep system has been purpose-designed for this ADpak, allowing you to make accents in the sweeps without interrupting the sweep motion. This means you won't hear any sample overlaying, giving your performance a smooth and seamless sound with incredibly realistic brush sweeps.
Modern Jazz Sticks
Contemporary Jazz
The fabled classic and vintage jazz sound can now take centre-stage in your mixes. A vintage Premier Gen-X drum kit has been tuned to perfection with immense attention to detail that can inject personality and sophistication to your tracks. Tuned slightly higher than conventional rock and roll drum kits, the Modern Jazz Sticks ADpaks allows every note to resonate through in a pristine and controlled way to become a melodic instrument in itself. A selection of Meinl, Pasite and Sabian cymbals have been chosen for their smooth and silky character that can add excitement to your music without sounding harsh or abrasive, making it the perfect combination with the vintage Premier X-Gen kit.
Jazz Grooves: Brushes
A dynamic collection of over 200 classy and tasteful rhythms from the book of essential Jazz grooves, delivering the unmistakable fluidity and feel of traditional brush playing. Often, it can be extremely difficult to program accurate Jazz grooves correctly with the right amount of feel and variation to keep things exciting and authentic but with the Jazz Grooves: Brushes MIDI pack, this problem becomes a thing of the past. Be sure to use these grooves in conjunction with the Modern Jazz Brushes ADPak as when paired together, the ReelSweep technology will take your track to the next level of realism.
Jazz Grooves: Sticks
Performed by a real drummer, the Jazz Grooves: Sticks MIDI pack is the fastest way to add traditional grooves played with accuracy and the authentic feel of a professional drummer in the pocket to your productions. Comprised of over 200 classy and instantly recognisable patterns, this is the ultimate MIDI pack for composing jazz pieces, whether it's big-band or whiskey bar settings, there's the right groove and feel for you.
Features
Drum list
- Kicks: 18x14" Premier Gen-X (played with wood beater)
- Snares: 14x5" Ludwig Acrolite
- Toms: 10x8", 12x8", 14x14", 16x16" Premier Gen-X
- Cymbals: 14" Sabian HHX Groove Hats Hihat, 18" Meinl Byzance Crash, 18" Paiste Mellow Crash, 19" Sabian HHXtreme Crash, 21" Meinl Byzance Medium Ride
- Extras: Meinl Small Black Cowbell
Specification
System Requirements
- Operating system:
- Mac:
- macOS 10.9 or later (64-bit)
- Windows:
- Windows 7, 8, 10 (64-bit)
- Plug-in format:
- VST, AU, AAX (64-bit)
- Standalone Application (Windows and macOS)
- Compatible Software:
- 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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