The Indie AD2 ADPAK from XLN Audio is a virtual drum kit that delivers a warm and punchy, real-analog rock drum kit. The kit features a blue sparkle ICE Custom Shop drum kit, hand-made using “old school” techniques and vintage Slingerland hardware. It is paired with a rare Premier Keith Moon signature “The Spirit of Lily” snare and rounded with a selection of cymbals from Paiste and Zildjian. The kit also includes a tambourine with a variety of stroke types for creating realistic performances with ease.
The kit is powered by the Addictive Drums 2 sound engine, allowing for instant loading and tweaking of drums, along with realistic performance playback, all with little CPU load. The musician-centric interface and effects provide endless possibilities for composition and sound design. Addictive Drums 2 supports most major e-drum companies like Roland, Yamaha, Alesis, and others and includes many map presets for e-drum models.
Indie Kit Details
Kick
- 26 x 14″ ICE Custom Shop
Snare
- 14 x 5.5″ Premier Keith Moon Signature
Toms
- 13 x 10″ ICE Custom Shop (tuned high)
- 13 x 10″ ICE Custom Shop (tuned low)
- 16 x 16″ ICE Custom Shop
- 18 x 16″ ICE Custom Shop
Cymbals
- 15″ Zildjian K Hi-Hat
- 16″ Paiste 2002 Red Logo Crash
- 18″ Paiste Sign Full Crash
- 19″ Paiste 2002 Red Logo Crash
- 22″ Paiste 2002 Red Logo Ride
Extras
- Rhythm Tech Tambourine (left-right hit)
Addictive Drums 2 Enhancements
Sound Shaping
- Transient Shaper gives more or less “snap” to individual kit pieces or the overall drum mix
- Tone Designer makes a drum sound more or less dampened, for easily adding or removing ringing
- Two Delerb processors combine delay and reverb effects that are ideal for drums
- “Swirl” thickening feature and advanced EQ give sound designers lots of new options
- Six additional Kitpiece Slots for building kits with up to eighteen individual kit pieces
- FlexiSlots let you load additional kicks, snares, hi-hats, and more
- Kitpiece Linking for linking drums for a fatter sound
- Specialty “Trigger” Kitpieces (sine waves, white noise and one shot drum samples) open up a world of additional sound design options
- Response section for tweaking performances to fit them into a mix
- Two MultiFX inserts on every channel
- Four-band EQ with additional low and high cut controls
Beat Creation
- Beat Transformer for tweaking any existing rhythm to make it fit into a track and to make it unique
- Grid Search system quickly finds the desired beat
- Beats Browser – easily browse beats to find inspiration
- Record MIDI feature saves time by recording MIDI directly from the host software into Addictive Drums 2
- Noise Module adds instant character to a mix with sounds such as vinyl crackle, tape hiss and even the sound of the air-conditioning system from the Fairfax Studio
Workflow
- Drag’n’Drop Audio directly from the Addictive Drums 2 engine
- “Sound Ideal” search system for sorting all presets from ‘clean’ to ‘distorted’ to help find the right sounds quickly
- “Snapshots” makes A/B comparisons easy
- CloudSync system keeps presets up to date regardless of work location
- Standalone version with Tempo control makes it easy to adapt beats to specific situations
- Improved copy/paste features
- New presets and ExploreMaps for all user’s kits
- All Presets include a MIDI preview to hear the preset played as the sound designer imagined
- Preview all ADpaks and MIDIpaks (even ones not owned) directly from Addictive Drums 2