XLN Audio Addictive Drums

Complete Drum Production Studio...

Get Addicted!

XLN Audio Addictive Drums is the Complete Drum Production Studio. And by "complete", we do mean complete! It has everything you need to make a professional drumtrack production. It's flexible, yet very quick to learn and use.

Concept - Three Vital Parts

Addictive Drums is built on three major, and equally important, building blocks...

• 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 drummer!
  

Addictive Drums offers all this, in ONE easy-to-use plugin, compatible with all the major host software packages!

Kits & Pieces

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.

XLN Audio Addictive Drums - Kit Page
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All sampled drum/cymbal sounds are recorded with a multi channel mic setup, just as you would record a real drum kit.

The AD Kits

• Sonor Designer (Kick, Snare, 5 toms)
• DW Collector’s Series (Kick, Snare, 5 toms)
• Tama Starclassic (Kick, Snare, 3 toms)

Extras:

• Pearl Signature Ferrrone snare
• Pearl Masterworks Piccolo snare
• Pearl Masterworks kick

Cymbals: (Sabian & Paiste)

• 3 Hi-hats
• 4 Rides
• 9 Crashes
• 3 Splashes
• 2 Chinas

Tune and tweak

Shaping the basic sound is easy within AD’s 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.

XLN Audio Addictive Drums - Edit Page
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For each kit piece:

• Solo/Mute
• Main Level
• Overhead Level + Pan / Width
• Room Level + Pan / Width
• “Single Sample” mode
• Main Pitch + OH / Room Pitch Offset
• Pitch Envelope (with velocity mod)
• Amp Envelope
• Hi-Pass / Lo-Pass Filter

Mix it up – built in effects

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!

XLN Audio Addictive Drums - FX Page
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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”.

The AD Effects:

For each channel:

• Compressor
• Dist (4 algos, selectable bandwidth)
• EQ (3 band)
• Saturating Limiter

Master and Bus channels additionally include:

• Tape Saturation
• Hi-Pass / Lo-Pass Filter

Reverbs include:

• 4 algorithms (Ambience, Room, Hall, Plate)
• Decay Time, Predelay, Damping
• 2 band EQ
• Pan/Width control

Beats

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 - Beats Page
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The AD Midi Library

More than 3000 beats and fills in various styles such as Pop/Rock, Metal, Funk, Jazz etc are included. 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. And lots more!

Let it all out – separate outputs

AD is a multi-out plugin, meaning that every channel in the AD mixer can be routed to a separate output if you like.

Take the Bus!... One common ”trick” in drum mixing is to create a submix of some kitpieces (kick+snare+hihat for example) on a separate channel in the mixer. This submix is then often treated to some heavy compression/slight distortion, and finally brought back into the main mix at a lower level. This means you can get a quite thick and crunchy sound (courtesy of the submix), while still maintaining the dynamics and punch of the “main” mix. AD’s mixer has a special Bus Channel that lets you do just this (and lots more).

Presets

With one click, you can load up a complete drum production! The settings for the Kit, the Insert Effects and the two built in Reverbs are recalled in a split second! Save your own presets, and organise them in folders for quick access in any project. They appear automatically in the preset menu!

Addictive Drums gives you over 100 presets in diverse production styles such as:

• Acoustic Roomy: Nice natural "full" sound. Subtle use of compression and eq makes this drum production sit very nicely in music that has an acoustic sound.
  
  
• 70's Kit: A dry and crisp muffled kit giving you that instant 70's feel.
  
  
• Machine: Can real drums sound like an old-school drum machine!? Apparently yes!
  
  
• Funky Pants: Plate reverb, lots of compression and a slight touch of tape saturation add up to a sweet funk preset taking you back to when papa had a brand new bag!
  
  
• Live on Stage: Big sound with punchy compression and 2 reverbs. Can you hear the crowd roaring?
  
  
• 90s Rock: A very useful preset for that big fat rock-sound. The compressors are set for lots of attack and sustain, and a slight touch of Hall reverb to the snare give the drums a nice feeling of space. Just add your favourite rock guitar solo on top!
  

So many production styles are covered that you are bound to find something that works with your music production. Even if this is not the case you can easily start out with a preset that is close to what you want, and then tweak your way to a drum production that suits your music perfectly. When you are done, just save the preset, and it will be there for you to recall instantly in your other projects.

Cymbal chokin’

AD has an advanced system for creating realistic cymbal chokes. (When the drummer grabs the cymbal and silences it).

You hit the cymbal on one key, and choke it with another. AD calculates the volume on the cymbal at that particular time, and plays a choke sample that fits perfectly. There are even different choke samples on the ride cymbal, depending on if you hit the bell or the edge before the choke! All choke samples are multilayered and have alternating samples as well.

User Friendliness

Addictive Drums is very easy to learn and use, and it works for just about anybody. The user interface is straight-forward and gives you lots of flexibility. Just try the demo, and we are pretty sure you will agree.

• Beginners: You do not have to know ANYTHING about drum track production to get started with Addictive Drums. Just click on a production preset, and start listening to and using the beats and fills included. Very quickly you can build a drum track that sounds like it belongs on a platinum-selling record!
  
  
• Producers with a mind of their own: If you are a tweaker, and you know what you want, Addictive Drums has all the flexibility you need. All settings can be tweaked and changed to perfection, and Addictive Drums introduces some very neat features that haven't even been seen or heard until now! (see the "Special Features"!)

AD Online community

The Addictive Drums Online Community gives you access to even more content, created by XLN Audio and our users worldwide.

Compatability

Addictive Drums is compatible with:

• PC and Mac computers, including the new IntelMacs
• Formats: VST, AU and RTAS

Hosts Officially Supported

(Minimum version indicated)

• Steinberg Cubase 4
• Steinberg Cubase Studio 4
• Steinberg Cubase LE/SE/SL/SX (v 2)
• Steinberg Nuendo (v 2)
• Apple Logic (v 7)
• Digidesign Pro Tools (v 7)
• Apple Garageband (v 2)
• Cakewalk Sonar (v 5)
• Ableton Live (v 5)
• FL Studio (v 6)
• Mackie Tracktion (v 2)
• MOTU Digital Performer (v 4.6)

XLN Audio Addictive Drums - System Requirements

• PC: Windows XP, 2 GHz Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM, 3 GB free harddrive space, DVD drive
• Mac: OS X 10.4, G5 or IntelMac, 1 GB RAM, 3 GB free harddrive space, DVD drive