XLN Audio Addictive Drums

Introduction

Addictive Drums is a Complete Drum Production Studio. Our concept is this:

To create a convincing drum track in any style you need 3 things:

- The “raw” drum/cymbal sounds, recorded with a multi mic setup
- The mixing process, including all the effects and the know-how of a producer/technician
- The grooves, beats and fills of a good drummer

Addictive Drums offers all this, in an easy to use plugin, compatible with all the major hosts out there!

With the included Presets you can immediately try out different production styles and easily tweak anything in the mix to make it perfect. No more “I have 30 plugin windows to keep track of just for the drums”. And when you’ve perfected your favourite drum sound, just save it and re-use it in the next project! 

The AD Presets
Over 100 presets are included, ranging from pure acoustic pop, to Metal, Funk and distorted electronica mayhem.
Preset categories include: Clean, Distorted, Electronica, LoFi, PopRock (Big), PopRock (Medium), PopRock (Dry), Retro, Rock, Soft, Xperimental.
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).

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.

Compatibility
Compatible with PC and Mac, including the new IntelMacs.
VST, AU and RTAS versions available.