The Metal AD2 ADPAK from XLN Audio is a virtual drum kit that delivers a heavy kick, thunderous toms, and a razor-sharp snare. The hard-as-nails kit embodies the sound of metal music. It includes specially selected Ludwig, Gretsch, Zildjian and Sabian pieces to deliver the perfect metal sound. Also included are special “trig” sounds for the kick and the snare. The thirty-one presets provide instant access to a variety of different metal sub-genres – heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, and others.
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.
Metal Kit Details
Kick
- 22 x 18″ Ludwig Classic Maple
Snare
- 14 x 5″ Gretsch Hammered Chrome over Brass
Toms
- 10 x 8″ Ludwig Classic Maple
- 12 x 8″ Ludwig Classic Maple
- 13 x 9″ Ludwig Classic Maple
- 16 x 16″ Ludwig Classic Maple
- 18 x 16″ Ludwig Classic Maple
Hi-Hat
- 15″ Zildjian New Beat
Cymbals
- 9″ Zildjian K Custom Hybrid Splash
- 10″ Sabian AAX Ozone Splash
- 17″ Zildjian Hybrid Crash
- 18″ Zildjian A Custom China
- 19″ Zildjian K Custom Hybrid China
- 20″ Zildjian K Dark Crash
- 20″ Zildjian A Custom Rezo Crash
- 20″ Zildjian K Crash Ride
- 24″ Zildjian A Custom Medium Ride
Extras
- Trig Sounds
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
