Addictive Drums

[guitaristic]

So I think I'm gonna hit up that AD deal this week--buy AD for $150 and get two expansion packs (or the one Retro pack) free! Seems to be pretty good bang for the buck to me! I was just wondering if any of you AD guys have purchased the expansion sets...if so, which ones do you use and like the most? I've been checking out the Indie and Reel Machines samples so far, as they fit pretty good into my style, but I'd love to hear from you guys too!

 

[Armistice]

Hey g-man - I have the retro pack - I've used it a bit - I tend to tinker around and swap things out anyway.

One thing I would suggest, that I haven't done myself yet, is get the special snare. It's snare drums that seem to be the weakest link with these programs. I'm still not happy with the snare sounds I'm getting. They sound good in the context of the kit on its own, but not doing it for me when I mix into music.

That said, I think I've realised I'm probably not "hitting" the damn thing hard enough and that might be the issue... turn up the velocity a bit and lower the volume. Gonna try that tonight.

I'd be interested in getting the jazz brushes pack, if I knew how they integrated with what was there already... there's not much soft touch stuff available in what I have... but it depends upon what you're doing, of course.

Cheers

 

[JimmyS1969]

I just purchased AD for myself for the holiday. Actually, I did it while I was drunk, and purchased it twice. Misspelled my email. Still trying to either get a serial number or refund for one of them. I digress....

It is actually quite amazing really. I got Indie and Metal. Honestly, the Indie sounds better than the Metal one to me, even for metal. I'm not sure what the definition of metal is these days. To me, it doesn't mean sterile ear piercing attack.

What genre are you looking to use AD for?

I bet guitargodgt would have the best response for your question. He is a drum program guru it seems.

If I do get the serial number soon, I'll sell it to you for $100.

 

[guitaristic]

What genre are you looking to use AD for?

Well, my favorite style is like basic rock but with a little bit of electronica thrown in there. they don't have just a "rock" pack do they?

 

[JimmyS1969]

That would be the basic kit really. There is so much flexibility with AD, that you could make a 'Metal' snare work with a country tune. Hell, you can distort a basic snare, within AD, to the point where it would fit in a NIN song.

 

[guitaristic]

That would be the basic kit really. There is so much flexibility with AD, that you could make a 'Metal' snare work with a country tune. Hell, you can distort a basic snare, within AD, to the point where it would fit in a NIN song.

Sweet dude! I'm stoked.

 

[JimmyS1969]

I believe there are videos on the XLN site that show just how versatile the program can be.

I will contact Sweetwater in the morning, and see if I can get the info to sell it to you. I was thinking of giving it to my boy, but he is being a shithead lately. I'd rather get 2/3 of my money back, than give him more excuses to not get a friggen job.

 

[CFox]

Well, my favorite style is like basic rock but with a little bit of electronica thrown in there. they don't have just a "rock" pack do they?

You DL'd the demo yeah ? The strength in both AD and Superior Drummer is their production/mixing engines. Read up on it. They have mixer presets that shape the EQ, timbre, acoustic space and impact of a sound - like a producer would instruct the mix engineer to fashion the sound he wants.

You can tweak these presets and swap out the samples to get the kit you want.

You use AD properly and you wont regret it. I am looking for a good drummer with an electronic kit to play midi to my rock songs if you know anyone.

 

[guitaristic]

I will contact Sweetwater in the morning, and see if I can get the info to sell it to you. I was thinking of giving it to my boy, but he is being a shithead lately. I'd rather get 2/3 of my money back, than give him more excuses to not get a friggen job.

Don't worry about it dude! I'm actually going in to buy this with two of my friends so really it's only costing me $50. Give it to your son if you like

You DL'd the demo yeah ? The strength in both AD and Superior Drummer is their production/mixing engines. Read up on it. They have mixer presets that shape the EQ, timbre, acoustic space and impact of a sound - like a producer would instruct the mix engineer to fashion the sound he wants.

You can tweak these presets and swap out the samples to get the kit you want.

You use AD properly and you wont regret it. I am looking for a good drummer with an electronic kit to play midi to my rock songs if you know anyone.

oops, evidently just found the (untouched) demo I downloaded a few months back. Thanks CFox. Don't really know any midi drummers personally, but I'm sure there are a few on this site!

 

[JimmyS1969]

I think I read that you can install AD on two computers with the purchased license.

 

[Guitargodgt]

I've got AD with the metal pack and agree with jimmy, I think they failed in what I would consider good metal drums (the raw samples are too processed for one). The default kit is pretty good actually, I didn't jump on this deal I jumped on it when it was $99 for the program (no add on packs included though). They were selling a snare (sonar designer 14X6) a while back for a buck and I thought it was the best one out of the lot, lots of crack almost no overtone (but I like that).

I like it because the update made it possible to use with an e kit effectively (I do not like AD's default map, what weirdness).

I don't care for any of the onboard processing personally. But routing the kit to it's own channels is easy.

 

[guitaristic]

I've got AD with the metal pack and agree with jimmy, I think they failed in what I would consider good metal drums (the raw samples are too processed for one). The default kit is pretty good actually, I didn't jump on this deal I jumped on it when it was $99 for the program (no add on packs included though). They were selling a snare (sonar designer 14X6) a while back for a buck and I thought it was the best one out of the lot, lots of crack almost no overtone (but I like that).

I like it because the update made it possible to use with an e kit effectively (I do not like AD's default map, what weirdness).

I don't care for any of the onboard processing personally. But routing the kit to it's own channels is easy.

Sweet man. Thanks for the input...hopefully one day I can get a real e-kit and mess around with some midi stuff. As for now though, I'm just a broke college student

 

[Armistice]

I think I read that you can install AD on two computers with the purchased license.

Correct - I just installed my second licence on the other half of the band's Mac, so he can do the drums to his own tunes, and as he fancies himself as a thumper, use them as sound samples on his Roland e-drum kit...

Jeez, I'm good to him. Perhaps I should make him buy the Indie pack for me.

I'm still struggling with snare sounds, but as CFox says, the mixing engine and tweakability are amazing, so I think it's more a matter of my working out what a good sound is in the mix. G-man, any of those tunes I've been entering into the song comps (in my sig) have been Addictive, so you can hear there what I've been doing.

 

[guitaristic]

G-man, any of those tunes I've been entering into the song comps (in my sig) have been Addictive, so you can hear there what I've been doing.

That's awesome, as I really dig your tunes


Well, I just ordered AD from Musician's Friend! It was a crazy awesome deal....$150 for the program itself. Then I got the 2 extra packs free (gonna get those downloaded in a bit). And THENNNNN I got a $50 rebate! And THEENNNNNNNNN MF threw in a free decent-looking MIDI controller!


Oh glorious day

Check it out!

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/xln-audio-addictive-drums-software-download

 

[Armistice]

Tanx g-man...

Another tip... download the note names text file from the Addictive Site... much easier to work with when you can see what everything actually is. You have to import it with each project but that's pretty easy..

Good luck with the registration process! It can be ugly...

 

[guitaristic]

Tanx g-man...

Another tip... download the note names text file from the Addictive Site... much easier to work with when you can see what everything actually is. You have to import it with each project but that's pretty easy..

Good luck with the registration process! It can be ugly...

K thanks for the tip!

Yeah, I've heard the registration stuff can be crazy. There was a guy who mentioned it in one of the MF reviews....he put some steps to follow--

Buy it

Get key code

follow link to download

BEFORE you download, go to my products and register it.

Then download

Then go to the page again and go to my computers. Add your computer

Then open the software in your host program. It should walk you through the procedure from there.

Does that sound like a good step-by-step? I have no idea

 

[Armistice]

Yeah, it was sort of like that... I did all this online, and I think they sent me a couple of emails, one to set up an account, and the other to acknowledge payment and give me an authorisation code, so I went and set up the account - once you do that you see that you're able to download the installer (it was like a 1 gig download, massive....) as it's listed against your account, run the program to extract/set up again, then use the authorisation code to get it going the first time it was called in Reaper... or something like that.

It wasn't that bad, it was more when I was trying to get it onto "the other guy's" machine that we had difficulties... basically in the end I treated his machine as an offline machine, downloaded the authorisation code/program myself, transferred it to his machine on a USB and that worked... had us scratching our heads for a while though..

I've just had a look for the midi map on the XLN site and I can't see it anywhere... let me know if you can't find it and I'll stick it up somewhere you can download. You'll need it!

 

[arcadeko]

Is the basic kit much different than EZdrummer? I am pretty happy with ezdrummer but I also have a need to obsessively buy more gear even when I don't really need it...

Haven't even used BFD ECO in a song yet...

 

[JimmyS1969]

Is the basic kit much different than EZdrummer? I am pretty happy with ezdrummer but I also have a need to obsessively buy more gear even when I don't really need it...

Haven't even used BFD ECO in a song yet...

Way better dood. Much better by far...

 

[Guitargodgt]

I forgot what DAW you are using.

The only other minor complaint I have to AD is that the anti machine gun deal doesn't work so hot. It's sort of important because double kicks sound weird to me even when they are played on an e kit.