ADDICTIVE DRUMS 2 FREE DOWNLOAD UPGRADE
Mojo intact?Īddictive Drums 2 represents a serious upgrade from v1, with awesome new processing options like the new Noise modules' Vinyl setting and the IronTransformer distortion algorithm combining with the new tape saturation and transient shaper to open up many extra avenues of drum design. The Audio Recorder constantly buffers up to 15 seconds of AD2's audio output, no matter what you're doing with it, for dragging to your DAW or desktop as a WAV file, while the Record MIDI function lets you capture MIDI from your DAW or keyboard to create your own beats.
Naturally, these adjustments become part of the MIDI file dragged into your DAW.įinally, AD2 includes two new recording options. Grid Search allows you to choose a pattern or quickly enter one into a grid, upon which AD2 filters the resulting list of beats down to the most similar ones in the library and MIDI Transform modifies the library beats by adjusting their velocity ranges, velocity offsets and accenting, and reassigning pattern elements to different articulations. Recorded at LA's Fairfax Studio, this is a big, bold earthy Gretsch rock kit with two snares - Tama and Craviotto - and Zildjian K cymbals.Īlthough integrated MIDI groove sequencing remains absent from AD2 (its beats have to be dragged from the library into your DAW to be edited), the Beats browser boasts two major new features. The big news, though, is the new Fairfax Vol. There are now a handful of sampled synth tones and noises built into the engine itself - sine waves, white noise, kicks and snares, etc - for combining with the kit pieces.
1 drum kit - a big, bold earthy Gretsch rock kit with two snares - Tama and Craviotto - and Zildjian K cymbals" Also specific to snares and kicks is the new Link option for simultaneous triggering of user-connected kit pieces. TD's exact behaviour is specific to each kit piece, but essentially, it adjusts the frequency content, including resonant frequencies, and those contributing to brightness and boominess. Snares and kicks can be sonically shaped with the Tone Designer. This all enables detailed tweaking of the response of each kit piece to MIDI without actually tweaking the MIDI itself. Response gives precise control over filter cutoff and volume velocity modulation, as well as Alternate (round robin) mode on/off, and velocity limiting and offset. The Kit Piece Controls section sports two new options: Response and Tone Designer. The two effects auxes are now called Delerbs, comprising a reverb and delay you mix between. Individual kit piece insert processing now includes a new Noise module, four bands of EQ rather than three, and two multieffects modules incorporating v1's effects (compressor, saturating limiter and distortion, previously presented as individual units) and adding transient shaping, tape saturation and new distortion algorithms. First, the maximum kit size has increased, with six new kit piece slots making 18 in total, three of them freely assignable to any sound you like and the rest serving specific roles - kick, snare, etc. Addictive personalityĪD2's other new features enhance what came before. A slightly depressing sign of the times this may be, but it does offer quick insight into what's available, as well as auditioning of their excellent and varied kit presets.