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Hybrid
Includes both a Mac and Windows version of the program.
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Addictive Drums is a Complete Drum Production Studio! It has everything you need to make a professional drumtrack production. It's flexible, yet very quick to learn and use.
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
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 plug-in windows to keep track of just for the drums”. And when you’ve perfected your favorite drum sound, just save it and re-use it in the next project!
Concept - 3 Vital Parts
Addictive Drums is built on three major, and equally important, building blocks. You really need ALL three of them to get a complete drum production:
- Drum Samples
- Samples of the best brands available, in a studio with great acoustics, with a multi-mic setup. Stored in a multichannel format.
- Production Tools
- Mixing
- Insert Effects
- Reverbs
- The Know-How of a sound technician / producer
- Beats & Fills
- The grooves, beats and fills of a good dummer!
Addictive Drums offers all this, in ONE easy-to-use plug-in, compatible with all the major host software out there!
Presets
With one click, you can load up a complete drum production! The settings for the Kit, the Insert Effects and the 2 built in Reverbs are recalled in a split second! Save your own presets, and organize 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 favorite 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.
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.
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!
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 (hihat has 12 variations, snare has 6 for example). Alternating samples throughout bring unparalleled realism.
All sampled drum/cymbal sounds are recorded with a multi channel mic setup, just as you would record a real drum kit.
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.
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! Everything is quickly accessible, no hidden menus get in your way. See it, tweak it, move on. Drum production has never been this easy.
Presets = Instant results
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. You can create your own folders with your own presets and they immediately appear in the Preset menu!
Midi files
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, or Time signature. Drag’n’drop files the files you like to AD’s favorite list, or drag them right into your host’s arrangement window!
Let it all out – separate outputs
AD is a multi-out plug-in, meaning that every channel in the AD mixer can be routed to a separate output if you like.
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 Hihats
- 4 Rides
- 9 Crashes
- 3 Splashes
- 2 Chinas
The AD sampler
For each Kitpiece:
- Solo/Mute
- Main Level
- Overhead Level + Pan/Width
- Room Level + Pan/Width
- “Single Sample” mode
- Main Pitch + OH/Room Pitch Offset
- Pitch Envelope (w velocity mod)
- Amp Envelope
- HiPass/LoPass Filter
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
- HiPass/LoPass Filter
Reverbs include
- 4 algorithms (Ambience, Room, Hall, Plate)
- Decay Time, Predelay, Damping
- 2 band EQ
- Pan/Width control
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.
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!
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
Addictive Drums is compatible with:
- PC and Mac, including the IntelMacs.
- Formats: VST, AU and RTAS.
Hosts, officially supported (minimum version):
- Apple Logic (v 7)
- Digidesign Pro Tools (v 7)
- Apple Garageband (v 2)
- Steinberg Cubase LE/SL/SE/SX (v 2)
- Steinberg Cubase 4
- Steinberg Nuendo (v 2)
- Cakewalk Sonar (v 5)
- Ableton Live (v 5)
- FL Studio (v 6)
- Mackie Tracktion (v 2)
- MOTU Digital Performer (v 4.6)
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PC
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Mac
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- Windows XP
- 2 GHz Pentium 4
- 1 GB RAM
- 3 GB free harddrive space
- DVD drive
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- OS X 10.4
- G5 or IntelMac
- 1 GB RAM
- 3 GB free harddrive space
- DVD drive
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