Addictive Drums 2: Percussion Collection

Atmospheric and organic, add interest to your productions.

Included Products:

• Session Percussion (ADpak)
• Boutique Mallets (ADpak)
• Percussion Beats (MIDIpak)
• Mallet Grooves (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

Addictive Drums 2

What’s new in Addictive Drums update v2.5?

• A brand new look: Addictive Drums 2 now has a new stunning, sleek design. It’s the Addictive Drums 2 you know and love, but more visually appealing.
• New “Trig Gate” effect: The new Trig Gate lets you mangle your drum sound and still get perfect gate action on every drum hit. No need to dial in threshold settings – the gate is perfectly triggered by the internal midi drum notes.
• New compressor “Boost” mode: Make your drums hit harder with the click of a button. The new “Boost” mode adds a new level of thump and attack to your beats, fueled by an XLN-approved multiband compression tailored for drums.
• Even better EQ: The EQ now has clear real-time visual feedback of the signal across all frequencies. All settings are clearly visible for easier and more precise adjustments.
• The v2.5 update is fully backwards compatible. All material created in previous versions will work and sound as intended: presets, tweaks, mix settings, MIDI beats and other settings. The update works with all Addictive Drums 2 expansions (ADpaks, MIDIpaks and Kitpiece paks).

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Session Percussion (ADpak)

Hard-as-nails. Produced by Ross Robinson.

Svenska Grammofonstudion – Gothenburg

To capture all this percussive goodness, XLN Audio went to Svenska Grammofon Studion’s huge live room, with its impressive 10 meter-high ceiling, and took advantage of its equally huge and impressive selection of vintage mics. To those in the know, the words Neumann U47, U67 and M49 will start the juices flowing, add the fact that those mics were all run through a Neve 8048 console with 1081, 1064 and 1073 preamps, and XLN were in full audio-geek drool territory. If you’re not impressed by numbers, just have a listen to these sounds, and what they can do when the right MIDI is run through them. Congas and timbales playing totally new grooves, with a vibrant organic feel you’ll never get from regular percussion sample libraries… ¡Agua!

Handpicked Percussion Kit

This ADpak comes with the obligatory Latin set of a pair of congas, Tito Puente timbales, LP wood block, plastic block and tambourine, plus a Brazilian Caixa snare and pandeiro and a large orchestral bass drum. Played on their own to add flavour to your productions, or slotted into other ADpaks as interesting additions, these sounds are rich and punchy and sit nicely in the mix.

But this is no ordinary percussion set. We put it together to act as a super unique, fully functioning drum kit with the congas and timbales as toms, and the pandeiro working as a hi-hat. The obvious kick and snare are the Caixa and bass drum, but the different slap styles of the pandeiro can easily be split over kick, snare and hi-hat, for some bad-ass samba business. We tested a lot of cymbals and hi-hats to choose the perfect set to complement this crazy percussive set, giving you a completely different way to hear any drum pattern you want to feed it.

Oh, and it was all hand-picked and tuned by metal legend Ross Robinson for the recording sessions. No biggie!

Kit Details:

Kick:

• Kolberg Concert 32×20″
• Brazilian Pandeiro (Kick)”

Snare:

• Brazilian Pandeiro (Snare)

Toms: 

• Brazilian Caixa 12×6″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals: 

• Sabian AAX Stage 14″
• Brazilian Pandeiro (Hihat)
• Meinl K Custom Hybrid 18″
• MW & Zildjian 16″
• Meinl Byzance 8″
• Zildjian K (SGS) 22″

Percussion:

• Latin Percussion Plastic & Wood
• Latin Percussion Tamb
• Conga, Skin on Skin 11″
• Conga, Skin on Skin 13″
• Latin Percussion Timbale, Tito Puente 14″
• Latin Percussion Timbale, Tito Puente 15″

Extra:

• Brazilian Pandeiro (Extra)

Features

• Beautifully recorded percussion.
• Playable on their own, or as a drum kit for unique grooves.
• Vintage analogue recordings for warmth and character.

Boutique Mallets (ADpak)

Hand-crafted drums played with mallets

Soundtrade Studios – Stockholm

A kit like this, hewn from the forest, needs some space around it, so XLN Audio put it in the biggest one we could find. Soundtrade is Stockholm’s oldest and largest surviving studio, and over the years everyone from ABBA to Childish Gambino has come here to take advantage of its massive 100 square metre studio 1 live room’s world-class acoustics. Basically, anything you put into this room sounds great, and this Wacco kit is no exception.

The Kit – A Boutique Wacco

Take one look at this kit and you know it’s going to sound different. Drums don’t come a lot more organic than these Finnish beauties. Since 1998 Wacco has turned out beautiful wooden kicks, toms and snares (some literally carved out from single slices of tree), heat-treated, beautifully finished with natural satin oil, and tuned to perfection with traditional rope-tensioned lugs to give a natural sound like no other. To finish it off, we paired the kit with dry cymbals from the Meinl Byzance series, trashy and low with a sandblasted smoothness. It’s the kind attention to detail that shines through in the sound. Warm and natural, and as organic as the stuff it’s made of. All the drums in this ADpak were played with both sticks and mallets, with atmospheric cymbal swells to swish you into a whole new direction. Soft and folky, deep and different. Whether you’re writing a simple love song or a cinematic film score, this kit has the sounds to suit.

Kit Details:

Kicks:

• Wacco Old School 22×14″
• Hip Custom Solid Stave Cherry Bubinga (w/o snare) 14×6″
• Hip Custom Solid Stave Cherry Bubinga (w/o snare) 14×6″

Snares:

• Hip Custom Solid Stave Cherry Bubinga 14×6″
• Hip Custom Solid Stave Cherry Bubinga 14×6″

Toms:

• Wacco Old School High 13×9″
• Wacco Old School High 13×9″
• Wacco Old School Low 13×9″
• Wacco Old School Low 13×9″
• Wacco Old School High 16×16″
• Wacco Old School High 16×16″
• Wacco Old School Low 16×16″
• Wacco Old School Low 16×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Meinl Dual Hat (concept model) 14″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Thin Hammered 18″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Thin Hammered 19″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Thin Hammered 20″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Thin Hammered 20″
• Meinl Byzance Transition Ride 21″

Extra:

• Meinl Claves

Features

• Hand crafted wooden drums, played with sticks and mallets.
• Warm, organic sound, just as nature intended.
• Atmospheric cymbal swells add texture and transition.

Percussion Beats (MIDIpak)

Beats for the Session Percussion Kit

Whether you need complete arrangements, busy beats or just a percussion compliment on top of another beat the Percussion Beats MIDI Pak is the perfect tool for the job.

Percussion Beats has over 200 performances by professional drummers in styles ranging from old school funk and soul to modern dancehall riddims. This MIDI Pak is specifically designed to make use of the percussion instruments of the Session Percussion Kit, but the basic beats and grooves can be used with any of the Addictive Drums kits.

Features

• Complete beats and simple loops.
• Lots of variations to mix and match.
• 200+ MIDI files covering many styles.

Mallet Grooves (MIDIpak)

Artistic grooves suited for mallets

Delicious grooves suitable for both down-to-earth and larger-than-life arrangements

This MIDIpak contains over 200 grooves and fills fit for mallets. Whether you are aiming for a down-to-earth tune or a larger-than-life arrangement, these delicious grooves will inspire and make your music come to life. Mallet Grooves is created with the Boutique Mallets ADpak in mind but will work with any drum kit from Addictive Drums 2. The grooves and fills of this MIDIpak are a result of letting top session musicians explore the possibilities of playing with mallets. The Mallet Grooves MIDIpak comes structured and labelled to make arrangements easy, finding the performance you need with no effort.

Features

• Perfect companion to Boutique Mallets ADpak.
• Meticulously crafted by top session musicians.
• 200+ authentic performances.