XLN Audio Addictive Drums 1.5 delivers the Complete Drum Production Studio in the form of a stand-alone software instrument. XLN Audio Addictive Drums 1.5 can also be used as a virtual VSTi instrument within your favourite DAW. Addictive Drums 1.5 has everything you need to make a professional drumtrack production, via a highly flexible user interface that is very quick to learn and use. The XLN Audio Addictive Drums concept is based upon 3 vital component parts, namely:
- Drum Samples: The “raw” drum/cymbal sounds, recorded with a multi-mic setup
- Production Tools: Mixing, insert effects, reverbs, the know-how of a sound technician / producer
- Beats & Fills: The grooves, beats and fills of a good dummer!
Addictive Drums, from XLN Audio, offers all of this, in ONE easy-to-use plugin, compatible with all the major host software packages!
Addictive Drums ships with 3 complete kits, and lots of extra drums and cymbals. The samples include every nuance from the softest to the hardest hits, many stroke variations (hi-hat has 12 variations, snare has 6 for example) Alternating samples through-out bring unparalleled realism. All sampled drum/cymbal sounds are recorded with a multi channel mic setup, just as you would record a real drum kit.
Shaping the basic sound is easy within Addictive Drums sampler section. Controls for volume and pitch (with envelopes), levels (adjust balance of Close, Overhead and Room levels of each Kitpiece), and filter (cut the low end on hihats for example) means you can do anything from slight tweaking to major reconstruction of the sound.
12 mixer channels, 52 insert effects and 2 reverbs are at your disposal, giving you the freedom to create just about any drum sound you’ve ever heard. And then some! Everything is quickly accessible, no hidden menus get in your way. See it, tweak it, move on. Drum production has never been this easy, and even our pro users agree that Pro should not equal “impossible to understand”.
A vast library of midi files in different styles, all easily accessible from within AD gives you the building blocks to create drum tracks quickly. The built in browser lets you search by keyword (“Ride”, “Metal”), or sort by Category, BPM, Time signature. Drag’n’drop files the files you like to AD’s favourite list, or drag them right into your host’s arrangement window!
XLN Audio Addictive Drums comes with a library of over 3000 beats and fills in various styles such as Pop/Rock, Metal, Funk, Jazz etc. There are basic Kick+Snare beats with variations on each like “8th Hihat” “w Ghostnotes” “4th Ride” etc. There are also “Songs” which contain 4 bar Verse/Bridge/Chorus/Middle8 variations. So check it out, XLN Audio Addictive Drums has gotta be the most comprehensive piece of drum software currently available.