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Hard-as-nails. Produced by Ross Robinson.
- Produced by Ross Robinson
- 31 presets, infinite possibilities
- Wide variety of metal sounds
Ross Robinson is a metal legend. Having discovered bands like Korn and Slipknot as well as produced seminal albums for bands including Sepultura, his place in the pantheon of metal is unquestioned. XLN Audio is honored to have Robinson producing this kit.
This is not your usual drum kit! It includes specially selected Ludwig, Gretsch, Zildjian and Sabian pieces to deliver the perfect metal sound. We have also included special "trig" sounds for the kick and the snare. These sounds can be played in conjunction with the kick and snare drums to give even more edge and attack in your mix. This is a popular technique used by metal producers and you can hear it in your tracks, too.
This kit includes 31 presets made by professional metal producers including Roberto Laghi and Björn Gelotte (In Flames), David E.K. (Fuge), Martin Preikschas and many others. These presets provide instant access to a variety of different metal sub-genres (heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, and others) and can be used as-is or easily tweaked to achieve a unique sound that's exactly right for your music.
Important note about this product:
This product is an expansion to Addictive Drums 2. You must own Addictive Drums 2 in order to use this product.
AD2 Overview
Since 2006, Addictive Drums has been one of the world’s best-loved and best-selling virtual instruments. Our advanced technologies and obsession with recording the world’s most interesting instruments has gotten us on to so many hit songs, games, and movies we’ve lost count. In fact, if you watch TV, play games, or listen to the radio, chances are good that you’ve already heard Addictive Drums.
With Addictive Drums 2, we’re taking it to the next level. More world-class instruments, more amazing sound shaping features, more tools for rhythm creation and transformation, and total freedom to pick only the kits and add-ons that are right for you. All this while maintaining the fast, clean, musician-centric interface that made us successful in the first place. We hope you'll love what we have made.
So check out the drum kits below! They're all powered by the Addictive Drums 2 engine, which is now included with every kit. Listen to audio demos or download the full-functioning, non-limited demo software to hear our glorious Fairfax Vol.1 ADpak in your own music. It's free! If you like it, expand your collection by buying more AD2 ADpaks, MIDIpaks, Kitpieces or bigger discounted bundles. It's your choice!
What's new in AD2
1. More legendary drums. New sound engine.
Our team has traveled around the world and found some truly amazing drums in world-famous studios such as our brand new Fairfax kit. This kit was recorded at the legendary Fairfax Recording studio in Los Angeles (formerly known as Sound City).
Fairfax and all of our existing ADpaks (from Addictive Drums) have been updated to make full use of all the new features of the Addictive Drums 2 engine.
2. New sound shaping and kit building features.
Ask and you shall receive, customers! We've listened to your feedback and made dozens of improvements, both small and large! Highlights include:
More kitpiece slots, new studio-grade effects (including delay and saturation/distortion), brand new Tone Designer and Transient Shaper modules, easy kitpiece linking, and lots of new electronic sounds that can take your drums to exciting new territories.
3. New rhythm creation and transformation tools.
Say goodbye to boring beats. Our new Beats page helps you locate or build interesting beats quickly and to transform existing beats to make them uniquely yours. The intuitive system is designed to be simple for beginners but very deep for power users.
You can even drag-and-drop drum hits and complete loops straight to your music software's timeline for maximum ease of use.
THE ADDICTIVE DRUMS 2 ENGINE
With its fast, clean, and musician-centric interface, you might not realize you're using one of the most advanced software instruments in the world. The original Addictive Drums instrument was launched in 2006 and has undergone near continuous refinement with a single goal in mind: To help you get the ultimate drum sounds in your music.
Addictive Drums 2 is a giant leap forward in our mission to help you make your best work yet.
BUILD YOUR PERFECT KIT
Don't like your snare drum or crash cymbal? Swap them out in seconds with any other kit piece in your drum collection! Want to turn down the ride, turn up the cowbell and maybe beef up your kick drum by linking it to an electronic sub-kick? Not a problem. The Kit page makes all this easy.
This page is where you can make changes to your drum kit. Easily modify any of our professionally designed presets or build your own presets from scratch. Our simple interface presents information in ways that musicians understand while eliminating unnecessary complexity.
TWEAK YOUR SOUNDS TO PERFECTION
Are you a recording engineer at heart? Do you love diving down to the individual microphone and instrument levels and tweaking everything to perfection? We think you're going to be very happy when you see all the amazing features on the Edit Page of Addictive Drums 2!
This page contains in-depth controls to let you tweak specific parts of your kit (like the Kick, Snare, or other parts). Here, you'll find things like multi-band EQs, compression, distortion, tape simulation, our brand new Tone Designer and Transient Shaper modules, and much more.
FIND THE PERFECT BEAT
Addictive Drums 2 is more than just great sounding drums in your music. It's also a collection of outstanding rhythms and grooves played by professional drummers. Even if you are an experienced drum programmer, you're sure to find inspiration here. The only thing better than these beats would be hiring a professional drummer, booking a studio, and spending hours recording.
On this page, you can browse through all of the rhythms to find your inspiration. If you have a specific beat in mind, it's very easy to search your collection using the Grid Search tool. And if you'd like to modify an existing beat to make it uniquely yours, the powerful Beat Transform system makes it easy. And once you find a beat you love, simply drag-and-drop it to your host's timeline. Easy!
ADD GREAT DRUM EFFECTS
The FX page contains two Delerb effects. This outstanding effects processors combines delay and reverb effects in one place and lets you push the sonic envelope. With two of them at your disposal, you'll have no shortage of options when designing exciting sounds.
FIND NEW WAYS TO USE YOUR KITS
ExploreMaps let you step through all of the ADpaks and audition and select any of the professionally designed presets. Each preset includes a beat that was specifically designed to show off that preset in the best light. You can also audition ADpaks you don't own yet to get a taste of what they have to offer!
WHAT’S NEW IN ADDICTIVE DRUMS 2?
SOUND SHAPING IMPROVEMENTS
- Our new Transient Shaper gives more or less 'snap' to individual kitpieces or your overall drum mix.
- The new Tone Designer makes a drum sound more or less dampened, letting you add or remove ringing with ease.
- Two Delerb processors combine Delay and Reverb effects that are ideal for drums. A unique 'Swirl' thickening feature and advanced EQ give sound designers lots of exciting new options.
- Six additional Kitpiece Slots let you build kits with up to 18 individual drums.
- New FlexiSlots let you load additional Kicks, Snares, HiHats, and more.
- Kitpiece Linking lets you easily link drums for a fatter sound.
- Specialty "Trigger" Kitpieces (sine waves, white noise, one shot drum samples, etc.) open up a world of new sound design options. You can link them to acoustic drums to give more “oomph” or even use them on their own to create new analog and digital drum machine sounds!
- New Response section lets you tweak performances to fit them into a mix.
- Two MultiFX inserts on every channel for even more sound design options.
- New 4 band EQ with additional Low and High cut controls.
NEW BEAT CREATION TOOLS
- New Beat Transformer lets you tweak any existing rhythm to make it fit into a track and to make it uniquely yours. No more cookie-cutter beats!
- New Grid Search system lets you quickly find the beat you hear in your head!
- Improved Beats Browser lets you easily browse beats to find your inspiration.
- The Record MIDI feature saves time by letting you record MIDI directly from your host software into Addictive Drums 2.
WORKFLOW ENHANCEMENTS
- You can now Drag’n’Drop Audio directly from the Addictive Drums 2 engine. Play a drum—or even a whole rhythm if you like—and simply drag it as an audio file straight into your music software’s timeline or desktop.
- New “Sound Ideal” search system lets you sort all your presets from ‘clean’ to ‘distorted’ to help you narrow down and find the right sounds quickly.
- Snapshots makes A/B comparisons super easy. Take snapshots of all your settings and instantly recall any four snapshots instantly.
- New CloudSync system means your presets are always up to date and with you no matter where you choose to work.
- Standalone version of AD2 is your perfect jamming companion. Fire it up quickly and start playing along without dealing with your music software. The new Tempo control makes it easy to adapt beats to your needs.
- Many improved Copy/Paste features.
- New great sounding presets and ExploreMaps for all your existing kits lets you get your drum track sounding great in no time.
- All Presets now include a MIDI preview to let you hear the preset played as the sound designer imagined. Use it to find inspiration or write all new music.
- Users can now preview all ADpaks and MIDIpaks (even ones they don’t own) from directly from Addictive Drums 2.
START WITH ANY ADPAK OR BUNDLE. GET CREATIVE WITH FEATURES LIKE THE TONE DESIGNER, KIT PIECE LINKING, BEAT TRANSFORMER. FIND YOUR UNIQUE SOUND AND MAKE SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY TODAY.
ADDICTIVE DRUMS 2 - PRODUCTS
AD2 Bundles
Artist Bundle
Producer Bundle
XXL Studio Bundle
AD2 ADPAKS
Studio Rock
Vintage Dry
Black Velvet
Session Percussion
Indie
Metal
Reel Machines
Funk
Modern Jazz Sticks
Modern Jazz Brushes
Retroplex
Blue Oyster
Black Oyster
Studio Prog
Studio Pop
Fairfax Vol.1
AD2 MIDIPAKS
60's Beats
Heavy Rock
Diabolic
Indie Rock
Funk'd Up
Percussion Beats
Loud Beats & Songs
Dry Beats & Songs
Reggae
Writer's Blocks
Blues
Alternative Rock
Latin Afro
Sloppy Grooves
Ballad Grooves
Rock'n'Roll
Jazz Brushes Grooves
Jazz Sticks Grooves
Funk Beats 1
Funk Beats 2
Reel Machines Beats
Rock Songs
Retro Songs
Metal Songs
HipHop
Punk Rock
American Rock
AD2 KITPIECES
Pearl Masterworks Piccolo Snare
Ludwig Supraphonic 402 Snare
Sonor Designer Snare
DW Collector's Bass Drum
DW Solid Piccolo Snare
Premier Gen-X Bass Drum
DW Woofer Bass Drum
Vistalite Bass Drum
Requirements:
- System:
- PC: Windows 7 or Windows 8 (32/64 bit)
- Mac: OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 (32/64 bit)
- 2 GB RAM. 4GB or more recommended.
- Approximately 700 MB of free disk space
- High-speed Internet connection (during installation only)
- Supported Formats:
- VST (32 and 64 bit)
- AU (32 and 64 bit)
- AAX (32 and 64 bit)
- Standalone (Windows and OS X)
- Supported Hosts:
Addictive Drums 2 should work on any host that supports VST, AU, or AAX plugins. XLN Audio actively tests Addictive Drums 2 on the following:
- SONAR X2, X3
- Pro Tools 10, 11
- Cubase 5, 6, 7
- Live 8, 9
- Logic Pro 8, 9, X
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