Addictive Drums software

[rickschwar]

There’s new drum sample software called Addictive Drums that looks to be a cross between EZ drummer, Battery 3 and BFD. Its GUI looks like BFD and EZ, but unlike those it has built-in DSP. Its effects tab looks similar to Battery 3.

Click on the buttons at the top that say "do not push" them to hear the what a few of the stock kits sound like. The lo-fi Old School Funk kit is something the other libraries haven’t done yet and the Live On Stage kit sounds great as well.
http://www.xlnaudio.com/index.php?pa...s&p_page=audio



It’s slated to ship mid December and will retail for $229


Main Features (from the companies Web site)

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

- Extensive layering, capturing every nuance from the softest to the hardest stroke, combined with alternating samples through out, provides unparalleled realism.

- 52 insert effects, 2 reverbs and pitch/volume envelopes for every part of the kit gives Addictive Drums the power to emulate almost any drum sound you’ve ever heard.

- The included presets make it easy to try out different styles for a track, and lets you save and re-use complete drum productions in new songs.

- 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.


Pros:

- T the ability to tweak the sounds (heavily if one wants to. did you look closely at what's available per kit piece in those FX/EDIT screenshots?) and save it as a preset. No external VSTs, no extra channels in your host's mixer, instant recall.

- Fast sample load times promised

- Effects can be applied everywhere, so is very flexible to make tons of different kits for different purposes.

- Powerful built-in mixer

- MIDI sequence library included. Plays user MIDI files


Cons:

- Doesn’t appear to support second kick or snare. Also I didn’t see other stick types like brushes, mallets, hot rods like most other libraries have.

- You have to remap the MIDI on your drum module to get it to work with AD.

- Does not appear to work with other VST effects.

- Sample library is only 3GB

- Not as many drum/cymbal types as BFD (Comes with 5 kicks, 5 or 6 snares, 6 hats, 2 cowbells)

- It’s unclear whether it fully supports Roland hi-hat pedals

[rickschwar]

For those who are interested: A number of new demo files were posted today on this site.

- Rick

[Alan @ V Expressions]

A couple of them sound pretty good... I like their web player... that's something like I've wanted to make for VEX. I have acheived depth and liveness in Sonar with my kits and the TD-20 with minimal processing that results close to a couple of those - aside the difference in samples.

[rickschwar]

Imagine what you guys could do if you had better core samples to work with. I'm really looking forward to the expansion card.

- Rick

[Singe]

The demo version is now available http://www.xlnaudio.com/index.php?page=downloads

[rickschwar]

Downloading now. Thanks for posting this link.

- Rick

[Deacon Daniell]

I am always on the hunt for the Holy Grail of drum sounds!

I also like to A/B sounds so here is a EZ drummer Vs Addictive drums links

http://adventuresinmodernrecording.c...r%20sample.mp3

http://adventuresinmodernrecording.com/AD%20sample.mp3

[jrcel]

I must say I love DFH, it sounds and plays fantastic, the way the samples are randomized just blows me away.