XLN Audio

A Modern Classic

Sometimes a grand piano is just too, well… grand. Maybe you need something smaller and more intimate. In those cases, the Modern Upright is the perfect choice.

About Modern Upright

The Modern Upright is based on a Yamaha U3 upright piano – regarded by many pianists as a modern classic. It has a tight and defined tone with an airy ambience that makes it fit nicely into almost any production. Included presets cover everything ranging from smooth jazz with a mellow, warm tone to bright pop with an upfront sound.

The Instrument and its Presets

Yamaha U3 Upright Piano:

Our Modern Upright is based on a Yamaha U3 piano in excellent condition that was recorded with great care in a large auditorium. This auditorium is a soundstage that is mainly used to broadcast live performances with very high acoustical standards. The room has a detailed ambience with a medium/long decay time.

Modern Upright features seven microphone perspectives ranging from close to far, floor to soundboard and mono to stereo. This gives you nearly limitless sound design options and lets you tailor the sound of the piano to the exact needs of your song, all within the Addictive Keys engine.

We Recorded Using the Following:

• Front Ribbon (Stereo XY): Coles 4038
• Front Ribbon (Stereo Wide): Coles 4038
• Back Tube (Stereo Wide): Sela T25
• Bottom Tube (Mono): Neumann U47
• Floor PZM (Stereo Wide): Sennheiser MKE212
• Close Ribbon (Mono): RCA 6203
• Ambient Tube (Stereo XY): Neumann M269

About Galleries and ExploreMaps

Helping you Learn and Discover Sounds:

Our Gallery page (accessed by pressing the “Gallery” button) shows general information about the installed Addictive Keys instruments as well as those available in the online shop. The bottom of the Gallery page shows thumbnails of the available ExploreMaps for the currently selected instrument.

The ExploreMap page (accessed by pressing the “Explore” button) contains a selection of presets that you can easily preview and select with one click. This makes it easy to explore the various possible sounds. Many ExploreMaps also contain convenient macro controllers for fast/easy editing.

MAIN FEATURES

• Yamaha U3 Upright Piano
• Distinct, blendable characteristics
• 7 Different recording perspectives

RC 20 Retrocolor is a creative effect plugin that adds life and texture to any recording.

It easily recreates the warm, cozy feeling of vintage recording equipment, but also works perfectly in any modern production setting.

With its six unique FX modules, RC 20 Retrocolor can replicate everything from vinyl records to VHS machines, adding noise, wobble and dropouts to your tracks. Its raw distortion and crunchy bit reduction will add grit to your bass and drums.

The space and chorus effects will make your guitar sing like never before and the filtering effects fit right into even the most modern club track.

Our EXCLUSIVE Flux Engine adds subtle (or not so subtle) instability and fluctuations to all of the FX modules, providing the character, warmth and analog goodness of yesteryear`s best technology.

The interface invites experimentation, and the included presets for drums, keys, guitars, bass and post production let you get to work right away.

RC 20 Retrocolor’s 6 Effect Modules. Use them alone or use them together!

Noise Generator
Add life and texture with one of RC 20 Retrocolor many noise types, from subtle vinyl crackle and tape hiss to ambient studio noise, electric circuit hum and stompbox static noise.

Wobble & Flutter
Wobble adds pitch inconsistencies associated with unstable playback on analog gear, like vinyl record players and tape machines.

Saturation & Distortion
Add everything from mild saturation to raging fuzz with one of RC 20 Retrocolor many distortion types.

Degrader & Bitcrusher
Recreate the sound of vintage digital gear like old-school samplers, and the unmistakable way limited sample rates and bit rate reduction color sound.

Reverb
Add depth and width to your tracks with RC-20’s tailored reverb module.

Volume Drops
Reproduce the wear, tear and volume loss associated with recording and playback on tape and tape recorders.

Easily Scale ALL of RC 20 Retrocolor’s Effect Modules and Controls with a Single Slider

Dial-in the perfect amount of your effects, or quickly create intros, outros, drops and transitions to take your mix to the next level.

Presets for ANY Track or Mix

RC-20’s tailor made presets for drums, keys, guitars, bass, full mixes and post-production let you get to work right away.

Diplo (Artist, DJ, song-writer and producer
“RC-20 Retro Color is perfect for me to bring all my new sounds into a vintage feel” Diplo (Artist, DJ, song-writer and producer)

Greg Wells (Deftones, Pharrel Williams, Katy Perry and others) (USA)
“This RC 20 Retrocolor plugin is a blast. Nicely done, XLN Audio!”

A Revolutionary New Way of Exploring Sounds and Making Beats

Your Universe of Sounds
XO collects all your one-shot drum samples and sorts them by similarity in the XO Space.

MAIN FEATURES

• Load your own samples: Duplicates. Vague file names. Folders in different locations or on external drives. XO sorts them all – regardless of where and how they are stored.
• Find your sound faster: Narrow the scope with XO’s powerful filters and search functionalities to find what you’re looking for even faster.
• Ready for action: Factory Samples & Presets – Get a flying start to your beatmaking with XO’s inspiring presets and 8000+ hand-picked factory samples. No matter the music style or amount of sounds in your current sample collection, XO has you covered.
• Perfect your groove: Sculpt the perfect groove with the curated Groove Templates, Nudge your patterns to boost raw urgency or funky sluggishness, and add life and dynamics to your beat with the powerful Accentuator.
• Drag & drop: Drag and drop with ease into your own workflow. Tweaked or raw. Individual samples or the whole beat. Audio or MIDI.

Explore
Seamlessly sweep through your sounds, regardless of where they are stored. When you hear something you like, have a look around. You might find something even better close by.

Create
Create your beat with the playful and intuitive sequencer. Sculpt the perfect groove with the Accentuator and the curated Groove Templates.

Tweak
Colour and fine-tune your sounds with essential effects and creative modifiers.

Play
Explore unlimited variations to beats and sounds in Playground Mode. Tap into an endless source of happy accidents by swapping or randomizing patterns and sounds – one by one, or all at once.

The perfect companion to your workflow.

As standalone, or in your favourite host – XO fits your workflow smoothly and seamlessly.

New features in XO 1.1

• Export stems as WAV: Drag & drop your beat as separated stems. Straight into your DAW or OS as WAV.
• New file formats: Besides the previously supported .wav and .aiff formats, you can now add .flac, .mp3, .ogg, and .wma files to XO.
• Playlists: Create, browse and organize your presets in genre, or project-specific Playlists.
• New factory presets: More than 100 new factory presets.
• Live File System Monitor: The Live File System Monitor notifies you of any changes in the sample folders you’ve added to XO.

Addictive Drums 2: Pop Collection

High-end drums for a luxurious sound

Included Products:

• Indie (ADpak)
• United Pop (ADpak)
• Indie Rock (MIDIpak)
• Alternative Rock (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

Make your productions sound like a million dollars

What do all big pop songs have in common? Expensive sounding production. The United Pop ADpak was recorded in the legendary room put together by Bill Putnam that gave us hits by Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, U2, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, No Doubt, Queens of the Stone Age and many many more.

Add to that the Indie ADpak, with its hand-made ICE Custom Shop kit, recorded on 2″ tape for a vibrant, organic, punchy, sound, and the Alternative Rock and Indie Rock MIDIpaks, and you’ve got a rhythmical gold mine ready to pop out hit after hit after hit.

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Indie (ADpak)

Classic kit. Vintage Mics. Analog Tape.

Svenska Grammofonstudion – Gothenburg

How do you get that warm beautiful analogue indie sound in a digital drum production software? You go proper old school:

First, you take it to Svenska Grammofon Studion’s warm, organic 120m2 live room, with 10m high walls covered in old fashioned oak tiles, giving the room the kind of short, rich decay that’s perfect for drums.

Second, you enlist the help of their impressive collection of vintage gear, and if you want old school, Svenska Grammofon has a lot. From the outboard, and microphones to old Steinway uprights and rare Fender amps to Fairchild compressors and Pultec EQ’s, every piece of equipment you normally only see emulated in a plugin, is there in real life.

Third, you run it through a beautiful old desk, and they don’t come much more majestic than “The Queen”, a Neve 8048 console with 1081, 1064 and 1073 preamps, that was once owned by Queen themselves, and which has been used by rock royalty like Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones.

Finally, you capture the beautiful sounds distilled through this process on a Studer A80 2″ Tape Machine.

Is it really worth all that effort? If you want vibrant, organic, punchy and warm with just the right amount of grit. Yes, it is. Drums on tape just sound better.

Custom kit – ICE Custom Shop

This hand made ICE Custom Shop modern vintage rock kit, with its fresh “old school” shells and vintage Slingerland hardware didn’t really need the blue sparkle paint job for you to know it was a cool character, you can hear it right away in the sound. We introduced it to a Premier Keith Moon signature snare “The Spirit of Lily”, part of the rare 8 piece signature kit, and they got along just fine. After a lot of experiments, we found the Paiste 2002 and Signature series, and a vintage Zildjian K 15″ hi-hat made the perfect companions. But there’s more to this ADpak than a really cool drum kit, the real magic happened when we warmed it up in the studio by running it through analogue tape.

Kit Details:

Kick:

• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle 26×14″

Snare:

• Premier Spirit of Lily 14×6″

Toms: 

• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle Hi 13×10″
• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle Lo 13×10″
• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle 16×16″
• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle 18×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals: 

• Zildjian K 15″
• Paiste 2002 Red 19″
• Paiste Signature Full 18″
• Paiste 2002 Red 16″
• Paiste 2002 Red 22″

Extra:

• Rhythm Tech Tamb

Features

• World-class studio and drum kit.
• All vintage mics and preamps.
• Recorded on 2″ tape.

United Pop (ADpak)

Colorful and polished drums that POP!

United Recording, Studio A – Los Angeles

To record the ultimate pop kit, XLN Audio went straight to the top: United Recording. This studio at 6050 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood was created in 1957 and built to the exacting standards of Bill Putnam (legendary engineer and founder of Universal Audio). Studio A has witnessed the birth of some of the most iconic hit songs of the last half-century. While the equipment has been lovingly maintained and updated over time, the actual recording rooms have remained untouched. Listening to the lush clear warmth of this ADpak you can understand why. After all, if it’s good enough for Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, U2, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, No Doubt, Queens of the Stone Age, …

Vintage Drum Kit – Leedy & Ludwig

Certain things just get better with age; fine wines, Miley Cyrus, and this Leedy and Ludwig kit. The years have been kind to these drums, drying out every drop of moisture and leaving them crisp, clear and resonant. Yesterday’s drums, treated with love to produce the kind of uncluttered sounds that are perfect for today’s pop hits.

For snares XLN went extra clean, giving you the choice between a Ludwig nickel over brass, and a 1960’s Japanese copy of a Slingerland drum called “Trump” that’s so crisp, XLN Audio just had to add it to this ADpak.

Kit Details:

Kick:

• Leedy & Ludwig 22×14″

Snares:

• Ludwig Nickel Over Brass 14×7″
• Trump 14×5″

Toms:

• Leedy & Ludwig (Hi) 13×9″
• Leedy & Ludwig (Lo) 13×9″
• Leedy & Ludwig (Hi) 16×16″
• Leedy & Ludwig (Lo) 16×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Zildjian Vintage K 14″
• United Pop Thin 20″
• United Pop Dark 20″
• United Pop Heavy 20″
• United Pop 21″
• United Pop 26″

Extras:

• Claves / Castanets
• Blocks – Wood & Plastic
• Tambourine / Vibraslap

Features

• Vintage Leedy & Ludwig kit – matured for more than 60 years.
• Clean crisp sound for impeccable pop.
• Legendary Hollywood studio.

Indie Rock (MIDIpak)

Beats for the Indie Rock Kit

Indie Rock is as much about a sound as it is about specific drum grooves. This MIDI Pak delivers those authentic grooves in grand fashion.

This MIDI Pak contains tons of classic Indie Rock grooves played by two of Sweden’s most in-demand drummers: Fredrik Sandsten (The Soundtrack Of Our Lives) and Staffan Ljunggren (Trummor & Orgel). Works with any Addictive Drums kit, but is particularly well suited for the Indie ADpak.

Features

• Complete songs and smaller grooves.
• Tons of variations to mix and match.
• Over 150 inspiring performances.

Alternative Rock (MIDIpak)

Bold, catchy drumming with eccentric flair!

Alternative Rock was born in the 80s, exploded in popularity in the 90s and continues to resonate with people all over the world today.

We think it’s because bands like Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M. and Kings of Leon are not afraid to break the rules of mainstream rock and compose eccentric songs with bold flavour and personality.

Features

• 200 catchy beats.
• Lively breaks and fills.
• No boring “wallpaper rock”.

The World’s first Intelligent Drum Replacer

When creating Addictive Trigger, we developed smart new technologies (Audio Fingerprint™ and SuperStart™) to make drum replacement easy and painless. Then, we combined these new technologies with some of the best sounds and features from Addictive Drums 2. The result is a fast, accurate and fun way to raise your live-recorded drums to a whole new level.

• Audio Fingerprint drum hit detection
• SuperStart auto-adjustment of settings
• Outstanding drum sounds included
• A complete solution

Accurate and Intelligent

During the research phase of Addictive Trigger, users around the world reported that accurate hit detection is absolutely critical when using drum replacement plugins. Unfortunately, existing triggering technologies tend to have shortcomings that require lots of manual tweaking and correction.

We endeavor to make products that are better than what is currently available, and we ended up creating an entirely new method for drum hit detection called Audio Fingerprint. Our new system uses FFT analysis to accurately identify drum sounds even if there is a lot of mic bleed or background noise in the source material.

It’s fast, it’s accurate, and we think it’ll change the way you work with live-recorded drums.

What is Audio Fingerprint?

Typical drum replacement tools rely on rudimentary filtering and transient detection, resulting in many false triggers and missed hits. Audio Fingerprint solves this problem by using a novel FFT-based matching system.

It is so accurate, it usually has no trouble detecting lightly played ghost notes from background noise while simultaneously rejecting mic bleed and other unwanted sounds.

In addition to detecting low level ghost notes with great accuracy, our Audio Fingerprint system can also differentiate between different stroke types that are played at similar velocities (for example, sidestick and open snare hits). This lets Addictive Trigger play back the correct articulations of samples, even if the incoming source material has different kinds of drum hits with similar peak levels.

SuperStart, SuperFast

Super Smart Automatic Hit Detection

Once you have inserted Addictive Trigger on an audio track, simply click SuperStart and begin playback in your host software. Addictive Trigger listens to your track for several seconds, analyzes the incoming hits and automatically sets a number of different parameters based on the source material. In most cases, this is all you need to do in order to have accurate hit detection happening on your track.

World-Class Sounds Right Out of the Box

In addition to the intelligent detection and workflow features, Addictive Trigger ships with tons of fantastic and easily-tweakable presets that are tailored specifically for drum replacement.

Selected from the award winning Addictive Drums library, these sounds are recorded at world-class, impossible-to-book studios like Fairfax Recording (formerly known as Sound City) and United Recording (formerly Ocean Way) and utilize some of the finest gear and most experienced ears in the business. Even if you already have nice drums and a great studio, we think you’ll still find a lot of inspiration and benefit from having these world-class sounds at your fingertips.

A Complete Solution

Addictive Trigger works all on its own and does not require any additional software to provide world-class results. Just fire up the plugin and you’re ready to go. Accurate detection and outstanding sounds are included in the box.

Already an AD2 User?

If you own our flagship Addictive Drums 2 software, you’re in luck! You can use all of your favorite presets and ADpak expansion sounds immediately in Addictive Trigger without any need to convert presets or change any settings.

Plays Nice with Other Drum Software

Addictive Trigger supports most popular 3rd party drum instruments as well. You can easily drag-and-drop properly formatted MIDI data out of Addictive Trigger to your favorite instrument and begin working right away.

Pick any 2 Addictive Keys Instruments

Two is always better than one! The Duo Bundle lets you pick any two Addictive Keys instruments and save big.

Instruments to choose from:

• Addictive Keys: Studio Grand
• Addictive Keys: Mark One
• Addictive Keys: Modern Upright
• Addictive Keys: Electric Grand

About the Addictive Keys: Duo Bundle

The Addictive Keys product line features a variety of outstanding keyboard instruments. Like the majestic Studio Grand or the lively Electric Grand. Our Duo Bundle lets you pick any two instruments of your choice and save over buying them individually!

Features:

• Includes the full Addictive Keys engine

• Plug-in and Standalone operation

• Pick any 2 instruments of your choice

Addictive Keys

Addictive Keys isn’t just a collection of sampled keyboards.  That’s easy. Anyone can do that. What Addictive Keys does is to capture the soul and essence of great instruments from multiple angles. That’s hard, but Addictive Keys instruments pull it off and make it look effortless.

Addictive Keys brings the world’s most inspiring and interesting keyboard instruments into the studios of songwriters, producers, and music makers.

It’s unique sonic capabilities, smart workflow, fast load-times, and outstanding sound quality are designed to help you stay in the creative flow and to compose great music while you’re in the zone.

Addictive Keys ships with tons of inspiring presets neatly arranged in “ExploreMaps.” Each preset even comes with previews that present the preset in the perfect light. If you’re in a hurry, you can use presets as-is so you don’t lose inspiration. If you’re in the mood to design new sounds, the powerful sound engine gives you great control over each instrument. You can even mix and match microphone setups!

To push the sound design envelope even further, the Addictive Keys engine has outstanding effects and envelopes to take your sound from clear and natural to heavily processed and other-worldly!

Finally, we include a standalone version that runs without requiring any music software. So if you just want to play, you can do so without any hassles

Standalone Mode

Addictive Keys can also work as a standalone instrument, without requiring host music software. This makes it easy to load an instrument, find an inspiring preset, and start playing without having to launch your music software. 

This is perfect when you just want to play without waiting for music software or deal with routing.

Addictive Drums 2: Percussion Collection

Atmospheric and organic, add interest to your productions.

Included Products:

• Session Percussion (ADpak)
• Boutique Mallets (ADpak)
• Percussion Beats (MIDIpak)
• Mallet Grooves (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Session Percussion (ADpak)

Hard-as-nails. Produced by Ross Robinson.

Svenska Grammofonstudion – Gothenburg

To capture all this percussive goodness, XLN Audio went to Svenska Grammofon Studion’s huge live room, with its impressive 10 meter-high ceiling, and took advantage of its equally huge and impressive selection of vintage mics. To those in the know, the words Neumann U47, U67 and M49 will start the juices flowing, add the fact that those mics were all run through a Neve 8048 console with 1081, 1064 and 1073 preamps, and XLN were in full audio-geek drool territory. If you’re not impressed by numbers, just have a listen to these sounds, and what they can do when the right MIDI is run through them. Congas and timbales playing totally new grooves, with a vibrant organic feel you’ll never get from regular percussion sample libraries… ¡Agua!

Handpicked Percussion Kit

This ADpak comes with the obligatory Latin set of a pair of congas, Tito Puente timbales, LP wood block, plastic block and tambourine, plus a Brazilian Caixa snare and pandeiro and a large orchestral bass drum. Played on their own to add flavour to your productions, or slotted into other ADpaks as interesting additions, these sounds are rich and punchy and sit nicely in the mix.

But this is no ordinary percussion set. We put it together to act as a super unique, fully functioning drum kit with the congas and timbales as toms, and the pandeiro working as a hi-hat. The obvious kick and snare are the Caixa and bass drum, but the different slap styles of the pandeiro can easily be split over kick, snare and hi-hat, for some bad-ass samba business. We tested a lot of cymbals and hi-hats to choose the perfect set to complement this crazy percussive set, giving you a completely different way to hear any drum pattern you want to feed it.

Oh, and it was all hand-picked and tuned by metal legend Ross Robinson for the recording sessions. No biggie!

Kit Details:

Kick:

• Kolberg Concert 32×20″
• Brazilian Pandeiro (Kick)”

Snare:

• Brazilian Pandeiro (Snare)

Toms: 

• Brazilian Caixa 12×6″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals: 

• Sabian AAX Stage 14″
• Brazilian Pandeiro (Hihat)
• Meinl K Custom Hybrid 18″
• MW & Zildjian 16″
• Meinl Byzance 8″
• Zildjian K (SGS) 22″

Percussion:

• Latin Percussion Plastic & Wood
• Latin Percussion Tamb
• Conga, Skin on Skin 11″
• Conga, Skin on Skin 13″
• Latin Percussion Timbale, Tito Puente 14″
• Latin Percussion Timbale, Tito Puente 15″

Extra:

• Brazilian Pandeiro (Extra)

Features

• Beautifully recorded percussion.
• Playable on their own, or as a drum kit for unique grooves.
• Vintage analogue recordings for warmth and character.

Boutique Mallets (ADpak)

Hand-crafted drums played with mallets

Soundtrade Studios – Stockholm

A kit like this, hewn from the forest, needs some space around it, so XLN Audio put it in the biggest one we could find. Soundtrade is Stockholm’s oldest and largest surviving studio, and over the years everyone from ABBA to Childish Gambino has come here to take advantage of its massive 100 square metre studio 1 live room’s world-class acoustics. Basically, anything you put into this room sounds great, and this Wacco kit is no exception.

The Kit – A Boutique Wacco

Take one look at this kit and you know it’s going to sound different. Drums don’t come a lot more organic than these Finnish beauties. Since 1998 Wacco has turned out beautiful wooden kicks, toms and snares (some literally carved out from single slices of tree), heat-treated, beautifully finished with natural satin oil, and tuned to perfection with traditional rope-tensioned lugs to give a natural sound like no other. To finish it off, we paired the kit with dry cymbals from the Meinl Byzance series, trashy and low with a sandblasted smoothness. It’s the kind attention to detail that shines through in the sound. Warm and natural, and as organic as the stuff it’s made of. All the drums in this ADpak were played with both sticks and mallets, with atmospheric cymbal swells to swish you into a whole new direction. Soft and folky, deep and different. Whether you’re writing a simple love song or a cinematic film score, this kit has the sounds to suit.

Kit Details:

Kicks:

• Wacco Old School 22×14″
• Hip Custom Solid Stave Cherry Bubinga (w/o snare) 14×6″
• Hip Custom Solid Stave Cherry Bubinga (w/o snare) 14×6″

Snares:

• Hip Custom Solid Stave Cherry Bubinga 14×6″
• Hip Custom Solid Stave Cherry Bubinga 14×6″

Toms:

• Wacco Old School High 13×9″
• Wacco Old School High 13×9″
• Wacco Old School Low 13×9″
• Wacco Old School Low 13×9″
• Wacco Old School High 16×16″
• Wacco Old School High 16×16″
• Wacco Old School Low 16×16″
• Wacco Old School Low 16×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Meinl Dual Hat (concept model) 14″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Thin Hammered 18″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Thin Hammered 19″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Thin Hammered 20″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Thin Hammered 20″
• Meinl Byzance Transition Ride 21″

Extra:

• Meinl Claves

Features

• Hand crafted wooden drums, played with sticks and mallets.
• Warm, organic sound, just as nature intended.
• Atmospheric cymbal swells add texture and transition.

Percussion Beats (MIDIpak)

Beats for the Session Percussion Kit

Whether you need complete arrangements, busy beats or just a percussion compliment on top of another beat the Percussion Beats MIDI Pak is the perfect tool for the job.

Percussion Beats has over 200 performances by professional drummers in styles ranging from old school funk and soul to modern dancehall riddims. This MIDI Pak is specifically designed to make use of the percussion instruments of the Session Percussion Kit, but the basic beats and grooves can be used with any of the Addictive Drums kits.

Features

• Complete beats and simple loops.
• Lots of variations to mix and match.
• 200+ MIDI files covering many styles.

Mallet Grooves (MIDIpak)

Artistic grooves suited for mallets

Delicious grooves suitable for both down-to-earth and larger-than-life arrangements

This MIDIpak contains over 200 grooves and fills fit for mallets. Whether you are aiming for a down-to-earth tune or a larger-than-life arrangement, these delicious grooves will inspire and make your music come to life. Mallet Grooves is created with the Boutique Mallets ADpak in mind but will work with any drum kit from Addictive Drums 2. The grooves and fills of this MIDIpak are a result of letting top session musicians explore the possibilities of playing with mallets. The Mallet Grooves MIDIpak comes structured and labelled to make arrangements easy, finding the performance you need with no effort.

Features

• Perfect companion to Boutique Mallets ADpak.
• Meticulously crafted by top session musicians.
• 200+ authentic performances.

Addictive Drums 2: Breaks & Beats Collection

Funk to hip hop to drum’n’bass and everything in between.

Included products:

• Reel Machines (ADpak)
• Funk (ADpak)
• Reel Machines Beats (MIDIpak)
• Funk’d Up (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

Floor-filling fatback beats

If you make beats, you need this Collection. Period. It comes bursting with the kind of rhythmical goodness you need to get them glued to the dancefloor. We’ve bundled a super-tight Pearl Reference kit with the funkiest drummer in the form of the Funk’d Up MIDIpak, and added not one, but five original ’80s drum machines (Simmons SDS-V, LinnDrum, 808, 909, DMX) and the Reel Machine Beats that go with them.

Get your head nodding to stank-face breaks that’ll kick off anything from Fat Boy Slim style big beat bangers to classic Premier era hip hop, or speed them up for drum’n’bass grooves. Then add some digital drums and you’re ready to make anything from classic electro sounds to modern Drake or Kendrick-style productions, to massive pop hits a la Bruno Mars.

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Reel Machines (ADpak)

Vintage Machines with Analog Soul

Reel Machines is a collection of four mint-condition drum machines and a Simmons electronic drum kit from the eighties. All instruments were recorded on analog tape using some of the finest recording gear in the world. Each kit also includes actual plate reverb and real room ambience you can blend in for maximum sonic possibilities.

Reel Machines is a collection of the most iconic electronic drum sounds of the 80s. Unlike many sample libraries that simply record a machine’s output, we recorded the instruments through a variety of analog tape machines for added warmth and punch. To make it even more special, each instrument includes a real room ambience as well as vintage plate reverb that you can blend in to fit your needs.

This kit comes with tons of presets designed by top sound designers. Each kit includes sounds ranging from classic and super-clean to modern and heavily processed. It’s also possible to tweak any of the presets to fit your exact needs—the Addictive Drums 2 engine makes it easy. Finally, if you need great drum machine rhythms, we have created the Reel Machines Beats MIDIpak to help you find your inspiration.

Reel Machines contains the following:

Drum Machines:

• Linn Electronics LinnDrum 
• Oberheim DMX 
• Roland TR-808 
• Roland TR-909 
• Simmons Digital ClapTrap 
• Simmons SDS-V [with Kick, Snare, Tom (x3), HiHat and Cymbal Modules

Other Notable Recording Gear:

• Stocktronics RX4000 Plate Reverb 
• Lyrec 2″ 24-track Analog Tape Machine 
• Otari 1/4″ 2-track Tape Machine 
• Ampex 1/2″ 2-track Tube Tape Machines 
• Neve 1073 Preamps 
• Coles 4038 Ribbon Stereo Room Microphones 
• Gefell UM92 Tube Mono Room Microphone

Features:

• Top 5 classic 80s drum sounds
• Recorded on analog tape
• Real room ambience and plate reverb

Funk (ADpak)

Lay down the boogie…

The Funk ADpak is based on a masterpiece: the Pearl Reference drum kit. XLN Audio recorded it with absolute fidelity in a top studio and had top sound engineers craft the funkiest presets you’ve ever heard. Craft your own sounds or use any of the 30+ production-ready presets to get to work instantly.

The Pearl Reference Series drum kit is a masterpiece. To perfect the sound, Pearl engineered and designed each drum individually. Depending on size and depth, each drum has its own unique thickness and combination of wood types for the ultimate sound and resonance. The result is one of the best sounding drum kits on the market and the choice for many world-renowned drummers including Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Dennis Chambers (Santana).

Get instant funk action from over 30 mix-ready presets designed by professional studio engineers. These presets give you instant access to a variety of sounds ranging from clean and tight, to roomy and natural, and even some more heavily processed sounds. You can use these presets as-is or easily edit them to fit your needs. If you need inspiration, XLN Audio’s collection of Funk-based MIDIpaks have tons of professionally played beats you can use in your own music.

The Funk Kit Contains the Following:

Kick:

• 22×16″ Pearl Reference 

Snare:

• 14×5″ Pearl Reference 

Toms: 

• 10×8″ Pearl Reference 
• 12×10″ Pearl Reference 
• 14×14″ Pearl Reference 
• 16×16″ Pearl Reference

Cymbals: 

• 13″ Paiste Heavy Hihat 
• 17″ Paiste Signature Fast Crash 
• 18″ Sabian Artisan Vault Crash 
• 22″ Sabian HHX Evolution Crash 
• 22″ Sabian Artisan Light Ride 

Extra:

• LP Medium Cowbell

Features

• Masterpiece Pearl Reference Kit
• Recorded in a world-class studio
• 30 production-ready presets

Reel Machines Beats (MIDIpak)

Beats for Reel Machines

Contains tons of programmed beats for classic drum machines. A must-have for owners of Reel Machines!

Reel Machines Beats is the perfect companion for owners of the Reel Machines ADpak. It contains tons of expertly programmed beats that make drum machines come to life. Works well with acoustic kits for when you need more robotic-sounding drumming!

Features

• Tons of great programmed beats
• Perfect for Reel Machines ADpak
• Also works with acoustic ADpaks

Funk’d Up (MIDIpak)

Addictive Drums 2: Soul and R&B Collection

Classic soul to Nu-Soul and beats for the streets

Included Products:

• Modern Soul and R&B (ADpak)
• Vintage Dry (ADpak)
• Modern Soul And R&B Beats (MIDIpak)
• Dry Beats & Songs (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

A Whole Lot of Soul

XLN Audio has bundled up their Modern Soul and R&B ADpak with the thick and deliciously authentic ’70s studio sound of Vintage Dry to give you a whole load of ways to slide sweet soulful drum tracks into your productions.

Whether you’re looking for that fat old school Otis Redding backbeat, Nu-Soul sweetness a la Erykah Badu, or ’70s revival breaks along the lines of Daft Punk, Khruangbin or Michael Kiwanuka, from Timberlake to Timbaland to Tim Maia (look him up, you can thank us later), we’ve got you covered.

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Modern Soul and R&B (ADpak)

Fat, warm, organic drums for Modern Soul and R&B

Riksmixningsverket – Stockholm

XLN Audio wanted to be able to capture the sounds of this classic kit in beautiful isolation. Situated on a small island in the centre of Stockholm, Riksmixningsverket is one of the best sounding old naval warehouses in the industry. And at its centre is a classic analogue heart through which to capture some sweet sonic love, the Neve 8068 console. Old desks like these do something magical to music, they give their own character, enforce the punchiness and thickness of the sounds. It’s hard to put into words, but your ears can definitely tell.

Classic Kit – Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple kit

An absolute classic. Clean and crisp and smooth like butter. This Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple kit is made of sheets of Maple ply wrapped around a single layer of African Wenge hardwood, delivering a finely tuned tone that plays rich and clear across the full dynamic range. However you want to hear them, slamming out the breaks, or simmering in the back, they have the perfectly balanced sound to sit super comfortably in the mix.

For snares, XLN Audio felt they needed two. A deep Longo Solid Ply Cherry for big, fat hits and thick side sticks and a shallower, high tuned 1968 Ludwig Acrolite for tighter, snappier hits. To top it off, we hand-picked smooth Meinl cymbals to glue the whole kit together, wrapped in warmth and balanced highs.

Kit Details:

Kick:

• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 22×16″

Snares:

• Longo Solid Ply Cherry 14×6″
• Ludwig Acrolite 14×5″

Toms:

• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 10×8″
• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 12×8″
• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 14×13″
• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 16×15″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Meinl Byzance Dual 15″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Dry Thin 18″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Dry Thin 20″
• Meinl Byzance Vintage 22″
• Meinl Byzance Transition 21″

Extra:

• Body Percussion

Features

• Big kick, fat snares, crisp toms and smooth cymbals.
• A clean sounding kit that sits perfectly in the mix.
• Recorded through a Neve 8068 desk… on a tiny island.

Vintage Dry (ADpak)

Authentic 1970s Studio Drums

INGRID – Stockholm

Walking into Ingrid Studios is like walking into a time capsule. The place was built in 1969, and while stacks of hits have been recorded within its wooden walls, including ABBAs first album, almost nothing about the studio has physically changed in all that time. The place still oozes seventies flavour out of every surface, and sounds like nowhere else XLN Audio has ever been, capable of capturing both the dry, light, tight drum sound of the early ’70s and the thicker, fatter beats that disco brought towards the end of the decade.

To ensure Ingrid’s impeccable ’70s character is not polluted, no gear made since the ’80s is allowed to pass through the doors, making the drum sounds XLN captured for this ADpak as close as you can get to the ’70s without a modified DeLorean and 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.

Vintage Drum Kit – 1968 Ludwig Silver Sparkle Kit

It doesn’t get much more ’70s than this. The 1968 Ludwig Silver Sparkle is like the drum kit equivalent of a glitter ball, and it’ll make you feel just as groovy. But to get the sort of authentic ’70s drum sound that’s been brought back into vogue by artists like Daft Punk and Justice, XLN pulled out all the retro tricks. They started by tuning and dampening the individual drums using authentic ’70s methods: The kick was stuffed with a pillow and a large sheet of felt. Newspaper was taped to the snare heads and more felt sheets were pinned to the toms. Then, to ensure audio authenticity, XLN Audio recorded it using only microphones from the 1960-70s (Coles, Neumann, Sennheiser and Bang & Olufsen) sent through the studio’s vintage API console.

Kit Details:

Kicks:

• Ludwig Silver Sparkle 20×16″
• Sonor Phonic 22×16″

Snares:

• Sonor Phonic 14×7″
• Ludwig Supraphonic 400 14×5″

Toms:

• Ludwig Silver Sparkle 12×8″
• Ludwig Silver Sparkle 13×9″
• Ludwig Silver Sparkle High 16×16″
• Ludwig Silver Sparkle Low 16×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Zildjian K 15″
• Sabian HH Extra Thin 22″
• Zildjian K Dark Medium Thin 19″
• Zildjian Thin 18″
• Sabian Signature Hot Ride 21″

Extras:

• Clap, Snap, Lap

Features

• Beautiful retro kit, modified using traditional ’70s methods.
• Recorded using only period mics.
• Authentic time-capsule studio.

Modern Soul And R&B Beats (MIDIpak)

Brilliant beats and grooves for Modern Soul and R&B

These potent, soulful beats will bring your Modern Soul and R&B productions to life.

Modern Soul and R&B Beats is the perfect companion to our Modern Soul And R&B ADpak. It has over 200 smooth grooves that will breathe life into any Modern R&B or Soul production. All of these organic beats are created by top session musicians, include side stick variations and are clearly categorized to make arrangement easy. Just drag-and-drop the loops straight to your host’s timeline or use Addictive Drums 2’s powerful Beat Transformer feature to tailor each loop to fit your needs.

Features

• Played and programmed by top session musicians.
• The perfect companion to Modern Soul and R&B ADpak.
• 200+ authentic performances.

Dry Beats & Songs (MIDIpak)

Inspired 70s Drumming

If you own the Vintage Dry kit, you owe it to yourself to check out Dry Beats & Songs. It’s the perfect companion and has tons of precise and authentic drumming from the 1970s.

Dry Beats & Songs cover a wide variety of styles from the 1970s. You can find everything from the softer, slower folk-rock of the early 70s to the harder disco grooves from the late 70s. This pak includes many variations giving you nearly endless beat making possibilities.

Features

• Over 200 tight, precise grooves.
• Played by professional drummers.
• Perfect match for fat, dry kits.

Addictive Drums 2: Soul and R&B Collection

Classic soul to Nu-Soul and beats for the streets

Included Products:

• Modern Soul and R&B (ADpak)
• Vintage Dry (ADpak)
• Modern Soul And R&B Beats (MIDIpak)
• Dry Beats & Songs (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

A Whole Lot of Soul

XLN Audio has bundled up their Modern Soul and R&B ADpak with the thick and deliciously authentic ’70s studio sound of Vintage Dry to give you a whole load of ways to slide sweet soulful drum tracks into your productions.

Whether you’re looking for that fat old school Otis Redding backbeat, Nu-Soul sweetness a la Erykah Badu, or ’70s revival breaks along the lines of Daft Punk, Khruangbin or Michael Kiwanuka, from Timberlake to Timbaland to Tim Maia (look him up, you can thank us later), we’ve got you covered.

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Modern Soul and R&B (ADpak)

Fat, warm, organic drums for Modern Soul and R&B

Riksmixningsverket – Stockholm

XLN Audio wanted to be able to capture the sounds of this classic kit in beautiful isolation. Situated on a small island in the centre of Stockholm, Riksmixningsverket is one of the best sounding old naval warehouses in the industry. And at its centre is a classic analogue heart through which to capture some sweet sonic love, the Neve 8068 console. Old desks like these do something magical to music, they give their own character, enforce the punchiness and thickness of the sounds. It’s hard to put into words, but your ears can definitely tell.

Classic Kit – Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple kit

An absolute classic. Clean and crisp and smooth like butter. This Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple kit is made of sheets of Maple ply wrapped around a single layer of African Wenge hardwood, delivering a finely tuned tone that plays rich and clear across the full dynamic range. However you want to hear them, slamming out the breaks, or simmering in the back, they have the perfectly balanced sound to sit super comfortably in the mix.

For snares, XLN Audio felt they needed two. A deep Longo Solid Ply Cherry for big, fat hits and thick side sticks and a shallower, high tuned 1968 Ludwig Acrolite for tighter, snappier hits. To top it off, we hand-picked smooth Meinl cymbals to glue the whole kit together, wrapped in warmth and balanced highs.

Kit Details:

Kick:

• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 22×16″

Snares:

• Longo Solid Ply Cherry 14×6″
• Ludwig Acrolite 14×5″

Toms:

• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 10×8″
• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 12×8″
• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 14×13″
• Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple 16×15″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Meinl Byzance Dual 15″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Dry Thin 18″
• Meinl Byzance Extra Dry Thin 20″
• Meinl Byzance Vintage 22″
• Meinl Byzance Transition 21″

Extra:

• Body Percussion

Features

• Big kick, fat snares, crisp toms and smooth cymbals.
• A clean sounding kit that sits perfectly in the mix.
• Recorded through a Neve 8068 desk… on a tiny island.

Vintage Dry (ADpak)

Authentic 1970s Studio Drums

INGRID – Stockholm

Walking into Ingrid Studios is like walking into a time capsule. The place was built in 1969, and while stacks of hits have been recorded within its wooden walls, including ABBAs first album, almost nothing about the studio has physically changed in all that time. The place still oozes seventies flavour out of every surface, and sounds like nowhere else XLN Audio has ever been, capable of capturing both the dry, light, tight drum sound of the early ’70s and the thicker, fatter beats that disco brought towards the end of the decade.

To ensure Ingrid’s impeccable ’70s character is not polluted, no gear made since the ’80s is allowed to pass through the doors, making the drum sounds XLN captured for this ADpak as close as you can get to the ’70s without a modified DeLorean and 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.

Vintage Drum Kit – 1968 Ludwig Silver Sparkle Kit

It doesn’t get much more ’70s than this. The 1968 Ludwig Silver Sparkle is like the drum kit equivalent of a glitter ball, and it’ll make you feel just as groovy. But to get the sort of authentic ’70s drum sound that’s been brought back into vogue by artists like Daft Punk and Justice, XLN pulled out all the retro tricks. They started by tuning and dampening the individual drums using authentic ’70s methods: The kick was stuffed with a pillow and a large sheet of felt. Newspaper was taped to the snare heads and more felt sheets were pinned to the toms. Then, to ensure audio authenticity, XLN Audio recorded it using only microphones from the 1960-70s (Coles, Neumann, Sennheiser and Bang & Olufsen) sent through the studio’s vintage API console.

Kit Details:

Kicks:

• Ludwig Silver Sparkle 20×16″
• Sonor Phonic 22×16″

Snares:

• Sonor Phonic 14×7″
• Ludwig Supraphonic 400 14×5″

Toms:

• Ludwig Silver Sparkle 12×8″
• Ludwig Silver Sparkle 13×9″
• Ludwig Silver Sparkle High 16×16″
• Ludwig Silver Sparkle Low 16×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Zildjian K 15″
• Sabian HH Extra Thin 22″
• Zildjian K Dark Medium Thin 19″
• Zildjian Thin 18″
• Sabian Signature Hot Ride 21″

Extras:

• Clap, Snap, Lap

Features

• Beautiful retro kit, modified using traditional ’70s methods.
• Recorded using only period mics.
• Authentic time-capsule studio.

Modern Soul And R&B Beats (MIDIpak)

Brilliant beats and grooves for Modern Soul and R&B

These potent, soulful beats will bring your Modern Soul and R&B productions to life.

Modern Soul and R&B Beats is the perfect companion to our Modern Soul And R&B ADpak. It has over 200 smooth grooves that will breathe life into any Modern R&B or Soul production. All of these organic beats are created by top session musicians, include side stick variations and are clearly categorized to make arrangement easy. Just drag-and-drop the loops straight to your host’s timeline or use Addictive Drums 2’s powerful Beat Transformer feature to tailor each loop to fit your needs.

Features

• Played and programmed by top session musicians.
• The perfect companion to Modern Soul and R&B ADpak.
• 200+ authentic performances.

Dry Beats & Songs (MIDIpak)

Inspired 70s Drumming

If you own the Vintage Dry kit, you owe it to yourself to check out Dry Beats & Songs. It’s the perfect companion and has tons of precise and authentic drumming from the 1970s.

Dry Beats & Songs cover a wide variety of styles from the 1970s. You can find everything from the softer, slower folk-rock of the early 70s to the harder disco grooves from the late 70s. This pak includes many variations giving you nearly endless beat making possibilities.

Features

• Over 200 tight, precise grooves.
• Played by professional drummers.
• Perfect match for fat, dry kits.

CP-80 Electric Grand Piano – Acoustic. Electric. Inspired

With three distinct sonic characteristics captured in seven different ways, you’ll have no shortage of great sounds at your fingertips.

About Electric Grand

This unique instrument combines three distinct characters (acoustic hammers, direct line output, and amplified output) captured in seven different ways. When combined with the powerful Addictive Keys engine, Electric Grand becomes an extraordinarily inspiring instrument that is suitable for anything from indie rock and pop to house to R’n’B ballads.

Its unmistakable sound can be heard on classic albums from U2, Peter Gabriel and Abba, as well as contemporary artists like keane and Mike Snow.”

The Instrument and its Presets

Yamaha CP-80 Electric Grand Piano:

Our Electric Grand instrument features a meticulously sampled Yamaha CP-80, an electro-acoustic instrument that was produced from the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. 

Electric grand pianos have hammers and strings just like acoustic pianos. However, unlike acoustic pianos, these pianos have pickups under the strings that feed the sound to an amplifier—just like an electric guitar or bass. The combination of acoustic, electric, and amplified sources let you craft unique piano-like textures that that are more harmonically complex and interesting than a typical acoustic piano. 

The Addictive Keys engine plays back the instrument with incredible detail and the advanced studio effects accurately model the tremolo and tone controls of the original instrument. In addition, it lets you push the sonic boundaries beyond what the original instrument could accomplish.

We recorded the CP-80 in several ways to maximize options for our outstanding team of sound designers.

Direct (Line Out):

• We recorded the direct output cleanly as well as through a well-maintained vintage Roland Dimension-D hardware chorus. 

Amplified Output:

• We played the CP-80 through a Music Man 112 RD tube combo amp with three close microphones and one stereo ambience microphone set further back to capture the room’s sound. 

Acoustic Strings:

• Although rarely heard on albums, we loved the acoustic sound of the CP-80’s strings and recorded it in stereo. 

These seven different recording setups gave our sound designers the ability to craft all kinds of amazing presets. You too can easily create inspiring presets that are uniquely yours.

We Recorded Using the Following:

Music Man 112 RD combo amp (Close Mic): 

• Telefunken U47 Tube Condenser 
• Coles 4038 Ribbon 
• Shure SM57 Dynamic 

Ambient (Room) Recording: 

• Neumann SM69 Stereo Microphone 

Direct Output: 

• Clean Line Output 
• Line Output through Roland Dimension D 

Acoustic Strings: 

• Sela T25 Stereo Microphone

Features

• Vintage CP-80 Electric Grand Piano
• 3 Distinct, blendable characteristics
• 7 Different recording perspectives

Addictive Drums 2: Studio Collection

For great-sounding drums, whatever the genre

Included Products:

• Studio Pop (ADpak)
• Studio Rock (ADpak)
• Rock Songs (MIDIpak)
• Writer’s Blocks (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

If you have one Collection, this is the one to get!

This is the perfect starter collection. If you need great-sounding drums, look no further. The Studio Collection can cover most styles, is tweakable to sound exactly how you want it to, and sounds just right in pretty much any mix.

Whether you’re a singer-songwriter looking for a rock-solid beat behind you, a rock or pop producer, or a beat-maker looking to inject something warm and organic into your tracks, this collection has what you need to make your track sound polished and professional. Classic, uncomplicated, goes with everything, makes your productions sound great…what’s not to love?

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Studio Pop (ADpak)

Instant Pop Rock Drums

Decibel Studios – Stockholm

XLN Audio wanted to make sure that with just a few clicks, our users could add world-class drums to their productions, and have full control over them, almost as if they’d been at the recording session themselves. To begin with, they carefully hand-selected each kit, piece by piece, to get just the right sound. Then XLN Audio found just the right space to record each kit. A studio with the right mix of acoustics, gear, drummer and engineers to coax the best out of it, make it sing, and capture its essence.

Every kit was meticulously recorded with a variety of strokes sampled for each piece. Snares were recorded from above, and below. Kicks from the front, and from the rear near the beater. The sound coming back from the live room was recorded separately on stereo mics. All these signals are combined in the software to give you amazingly real live-sounding drums. If you want to hear these drums at their very best, the ADpak comes with a host of presets configured for specific drum sounds, or you can take full control and control every aspect of the individual drums. Dial-up the room noise for some stadium rock epicness. Tune the toms to vibe with your keys. Turn up the overheads, add distortion, or reverb, change the attack…the possibilities are literally endless.

Custom Kit – Sonor Designer

For a modern sound, we’ve gone all counterintuitive and used the oldest drum company we could find. Sonor knows a thing or two about drum kits, after all, they‘ve been making them since 1875. By the mid-1990s they’d perfected their art in the form of the tight, customizable, punchy sounding Designer Series kit featuring kick, snare, and no less than five toms for when you really want to get your Phil Collins on. We teamed it up with 14″ Sabian AAX Studio Hi-Hats, two rides, three splashes, a crash, and a cowbell. It’s like having a world-class drummer in your DAW, ready to bash out midi beats with pop perfection.

Kit Details:

Kick:

• Sonor Designer 24×18″

Snare:

• Sonor Designer 14×5″

Toms:

• Sonor Designer 10×9″
• Sonor Designer 12×10″
• Sonor Designer 13×11″
• Sonor Designer 14×16″
• Sonor Designer 16×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Sabian AAX Studio Hats 14″
• Sabian AAX Studio Crash 17″
• Sabian AAX Studio Crash 16″
• Sabian AAXplosion Crash 18″
• Sabian AAX Splash 10″
• Sabian HHX Groove Ride 21″
• Sabian HHX Manhattan Jazz Ride 20″

Extra:

• Latin Percussion Rock

Features

• Beautifully recorded drums that sit comfortably in any mix.
• Keep the beat in key with 5 tuneable toms.
• Production-ready presets, ultimate customizability.

Studio Rock (ADpak)

Instant Modern Rock Drums

Decibel Studios – Stockholm

XLN Audio wanted to make sure that with just a few clicks, users could add world-class drums to their productions, and have full control over them, almost as if they’d been at the recording session themselves. To begin with, XLN carefully hand-selected each kit, piece by piece, to get just the right sound. Then they found just the right space to record each kit. A studio with the right mix of acoustics, gear, drummer and engineers to coax the best out of it, make it sing, and capture its essence.

Every kit was meticulously recorded with a variety of strokes sampled for each piece. Snares were recorded from above, and below. Kicks from the front, and from the rear near the beater. The sound coming back from the live room was recorded separately on stereo mics. All these signals are combined in the software to give you amazingly real live-sounding drums. If you want to hear these drums at their very best, the ADpak comes with a host of presets configured for specific drum sounds, or you can take full control and control every aspect of the individual drums. Dial-up the room noise for some stadium rock epicness. Tune the toms to vibe with your keys. Turn up the overheads, add distortion, or reverb, change the attack…the possibilities are literally endless.

Custom Kit – Tama Starclassic

To put it simply, this kit rocks! The Studio Rock ADpak is based around a Japan-made Tama Starclassic kit, a world-class set of drums that can lend itself to pretty much any style of music. XLN added the extra option of a slightly shallower Pearl kick as well as a Pearl Signature Ferrone Snare in addition to the 14″ Starclassic one.

XLN Audio tested a load of cymbals, and eventually ended up including three different Sabian Crashes (17, 18 &19″), a 22″ Paiste 3000 Ride, a little 10″ Sabian HHX Legacy Splash, an 18″ Sabian AAX China Cymbal for bright, crisp, explosive trashy hits, and a set of 14″ Paiste Dark Crisp Hi-Hats. Oh, and an LP Rock Ridge Rider Cowbell, for when you need more Cowbell.

Kit Details:

Kicks:

• Tama Starclassic 22×18″
• Pearl Masterworks 22×16″

Snares:

• Tama Starclassic 14×6″
• Pearl Signature Ferrone 14×7″

Toms:

• Tama Starclassic 10×8″
• Tama Starclassic 12×9″
• Tama Starclassic 16×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Paiste Dark Crisp 14″
• Sabian HHX Studio Crash 19″
• Sabian Vault 17″
• Sabian HH Thin Crash 18″
• Sabian HHX Legacy Splash 10″
• Sabian AAX Chinese 18″
• Paiste 3000 Ride 22″

Extras:

• Latin Percussion Rock Ridge Rider

Features

• If you just get one rock kit, this is it.
• Versatile drum sounds for all styles of rock.
• Production-ready presets, ultimate customizability.

Rock Songs (MIDIpak)

Great Rock Beats by Great Live Drummers

All of these beats and grooves are played by a real drummer for a great live feel.

This MIDIpak contains 30 complete songs (over 200 individual parts). That’s over 1400 bars of inspiring beats and grooves you can freely arrange in your productions. All expertly played by a real drummer for that ultimate live feel.

Features

• 30 Complete Songs.
• Over 1400 bars of inspiration.
• Great live drummer feel.

Writer’s Blocks (MIDIpak)

Smash Your Creative Block

You’ve got the perfect drum rhythm for the verse and the most amazing chorus, but you just can’t figure out a great way to connect the two. Writer’s Blocks is here to help.

Let’s say you have a verse and a chorus but you’re not sure how to transition from one to the other. You have writer’s block. That’s why we created the Writer’s Blocks MIDI Pak. Over 200 inspirational intros, fills and transitions in 4/4 time signature, all played by professional drummers. Everything you need to get from point A to point B, right past your creative block.

Features

• Easy to use drag-and-drop blocks.
• Over 200 proven transitions.
• Played by professional drummers.

Unlock The True Potential Of Your Mix

The Drum Vault TrigPak expands Addictive Trigger with fantastic new sounds that you’re sure to love. It includes a carefully selected set of kit pieces from the vast XLN Audio library and unlocks the true potential of your mix.

Drum Vault is an essential expansion for Addictive Trigger and features 18 carefully selected kit pieces from our vast library of recordings. These kit pieces (including two previously unreleased gems) come with custom crafted presets that add punch and extra dimension to your drum sounds. They will help unlock the true potential of your mix.

Featuring versatile kicks, punchy snares and two complete tom kits with custom crafted presets, Drum Vault will add the punch and extra dimension that your mixes crave. With two additional linkable extras (body percussion and tambourine), you’ll have an easy time layering your drums for unmatched sonic impact.

This TrigPak gives you instant access to the fantastic drum sounds common in professional music production today!

Expand Your Palette Today

Drum Vault – an essential expansion for Addictive Trigger – features 18 carefully selected kit pieces from our vast library of recordings: kicks, snares (including two previously unreleased gems) and tom kits, that will add punch and extra dimension to your mixes. Whether you go for the included custom crafted presets or tweak the sound to your taste, you’ll have an easy time layering your drums for unmatched sonic impact.

Features

• Outstanding drum sounds
• Carefully selected from our library of recordings
• Two previously unreleased kit pieces

Drum Vault includes:

Snares:

• 14×3.5″ Gretsch Modded Tom
• 14×5″ Ludwig Acrolite 1968
• 14×5.5″ Yamaha Steve Gadd Signature
• 14×6.5″ Pork Pie Bell Brass

Kicks:

• 18×14″ Premier Gen-X
• 22×16″ Yamaha Absolute Hybrid                                                                      
• 22×18″ Tama Starclassic
• 24×18″ Pork Pie USA Custom

Toms:

• 10×8″ Pork Pie USA Custom
• 13×10″ Pork Pie USA Custom
• 16×14″ Pork Pie USA Custom
• 18×16″ Pork Pie USA Custom
• 10×7.5″ Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Tom
• 12×8″ Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Tom
• 14×13″ Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Tom
• 16×15″ Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Tom

Extras:

• Meinl Single Brass Tambourine
• Body Percussion

Addictive Drums 2: Metal Collection

Unleash the sound and fury!

Included Products:

• Metal (ADpak)
• Studio Prog (ADpak)
• Diabolic (MIDIpak)
• Metal Songs (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Metal (ADpak)

Hard-as-nails. Produced by Ross Robinson.

Ross Robinson Studios – Los Angeles

When you think of a metal studio you might not think of sunny Venice Beach California but that’s where Ross Robinson creates his raw in-to-the-bone sound. Known as The Godfather of Nu Metal, Robinson is world-renowned for his production skills, having presided over seminal albums for bands like Sepultura and Limp Bizkit as well as discovering bands like Korn, Slipknot, and Limp Bizkit. His place in the pantheon of metal is unquestioned.

As a producer, Ross always pushes a band (sometimes physically) all the way to their limits to get to the core of the realest and rawest performances. He often records the whole band gathered tight around the drums, feeling their energy as the heartbeat of the song, and to make sure everyone feels the raw power of the drummer, he built “The Grotto”, a small room whose walls and floor are covered in actual ROCK! The punch and rawness Ross gets out of this man-made drum cave is elemental magic.

Custom Kit – Ludwig Classic Maple

This 18 piece kit delivers the goods in any style of Metal. It comprises thunderous maple toms, and a heavy kick from Ludwig, vicious Zildjian cymbals and a sharp balanced snare from Gretsch, made of HAMMERED METAL, just in case you needed convincing! Seeing as this ADpak is designed to allow you to go all in, we’ve added a special feature that’s a must for the modern Metal producer; “Trig” samples (recorded with extra attack and shorter decay) for putting in the Xtra slot and beefing out the kick and snare.

Oh, and it was all hand-picked and tuned by metal legend Ross Robinson for the recording sessions. No biggie!

Kit Details:

Kick:

• Ludwig 22×18″

Snare:

• Gretsch Hammered 14×5″

Toms: 

• Ludwig Classic Maple 10×8″
• Ludwig Classic Maple 12×8″
• Ludwig Classic Maple 13×9″
• Ludwig Classic Maple 16×16″
• Ludwig Classic Maple 18×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals: 

• Zildjian New Beat 15″
• Zildjian A Custom Rezo 20″
• Zildjian K Crash Ride 20″
• Zildjian K Dark 19″
• Zildjian K Custom Hybrid 9″
• Sabian AAX Ozone 10″
• Zildjian K Custom Hybrid 19″
• Zildjian A Custom 18″
• Zildjian A Medium 24″

Extra:

• XLN Audio Trig Kicks & Snares

Features

• 18 piece kit hand-picked by Metal legend Ross Robinson.
• Recorded in the Grotto, Ross Robinson’s STONE walled drum room.
• Xtra slot “Trig” samples to double up kicks and snares.

Studio Prog (ADpak)

Instant Progressive Rock Drums

Decibel Studios – Stockholm

XLN Audio wanted to make sure that with just a few clicks, users could add world-class drums to their productions, and have full control over them, almost as if they’d been at the recording session themselves. To begin with, XLN carefully hand-selected each kit, piece by piece, to get just the right sound. Then they found just the right space to record each kit. A studio with the right mix of acoustics, gear, drummer and engineers to coax the best out of it, make it sing, and capture its essence.

Every kit was meticulously recorded with a variety of strokes sampled for each piece. Snares were recorded from above, and below. Kicks from the front, and from the rear near the beater. The sound coming back from the live room was recorded separately on stereo mics. All these signals are combined in the software to give you amazingly real live-sounding drums. If you want to hear these drums at their very best, the ADpak comes with a host of presets configured for specific drum sounds, or you can take full control and control every aspect of the individual drums. Dial-up the room noise for some stadium rock epicness. Tune the toms to vibe with your keys. Turn up the overheads, add distortion, or reverb, change the attack…the possibilities are literally endless.

Custom Kit – DW Collector’s Series

When you’re working on progressive rock, or experimental music with complex rhythms, and intricate playing, you need a high-end kit capable of capturing both subtle nuance and powerful punchiness. XLN went to the flagship line from DW, the Collector’s Series. It’s like the Rolls Royce of drum kits. The shells are cold-pressed for extra stiffness and extra resonance, and intense attention is paid to every detail in the construction process. Each shell is tapped in the factory to test its natural frequency, which is then stamped on the inside, so it can be tuned up to the precise note it was born to sing.

A high-end sound that’s raw but controlled, rich but gritty, everything in perfect balance. A kit that can deliver the goods, no matter how hard you push it.

Kit Details:

Kick:

• Drum Workshop Collector’s Series 20×16″

Snares:

• Drum Workshop Craviotto 14×6″
• Drum Workshop Collector’s Copper 14×5″

Toms:

• Drum Workshop Collector’s Series 8×7″
• Drum Workshop Collector’s Series 10×8″
• Drum Workshop Collector’s Series 12×8″
• Drum Workshop Collector’s Series 14×11″
• Drum Workshop Collector’s Series 16×14″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Sabian HH Hihat 15″
• Sabian HHX Splash 12″7
• Paiste Signature Dark Energy Crash 17″
• Sabian HHXtreme Crash 20″
• Paiste Signature Fast Crash 16″
• Paiste Soundcreation Dark China 22″
• Sabian AAX Stage Ride 21″

Extra:

• Latin Percussion Black Beauty

Features

• DW Collector’s series – The Rolls Royce of drum kits.
• Balanced detailed sound for intricate playing.
• Production-ready presets, ultimate customizability.

Diabolic (MIDIpak)

Diabolical Beats for Legit Metalheads

Metal drumming requires power, stamina and precision. This pak delivers all of those things at extreme levels.

Over 300 inspiring beats from the diabolical mind of metal drummer Daniel Erlandsson (Arch Enemy, In Flames, Eucharist). Contains shorter grooves, longer sections and plenty of variations, making it easy to arrange your next metal masterpiece. Works with any Addictive Drums kit, but is particularly well suited for the Metal Kit.

Features

• Played by Daniel Erlandsson.
• Includes songs, grooves, and fills.
• Over 300 inspiring performances.

Metal Songs (MIDIpak)

Fast, Dark, Sinister Grooves

Dust off your battle hammer and put on your leather pants. This is the dark and sinister Metal Songs MIDI Pak!

Bring out the darkness in you and your music with these fast, dark, and sinister grooves. Included are 20 Metal Songs and a large number of blasting fills totalling 200 hard-hitting performances.

Features

• Fast, dark and sinister grooves.
• Tons of grooves, fill, and variations.
• 200 live-recorded performances.

Addictive Drums 2: Classic Rock Collection

The sound that rocked the ’70s.

Included products:

• Addictive Drums 2 Engine
• Blue Oyster (ADpak)
• Retroplex (ADpak)
• Retro Songs (MIDIpak)
• Rock’n’Roll (MIDIpak)

Legendary Drums of the Rock Gods

Decades of recording ingenuity to perfect, a few seconds to drop into your DAW. For the timeless sound of British rock drums, look no further than the Classic Rock Collection. One thunderous late ’60s Blue Oyster kit just like the one Jon Bonham kicked the triplets out of with Led Zeppelin. One superbly recorded ’70s Retroplex kit like the one Keith Moon played on stage with a live goldfish in.

Complete with the Retro Songs and Rock’n’Roll MIDIpaks giving you beats from hard rock to Motown, controllable presets, dialable room tone, cowbell, more cowbell! It’s the drum sound that changed the music world forever, bundled up in a box for your music-making pleasure. Load them up in your DAW and throw the TV out of the window!

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Blue Oyster (ADpak)

The Sound of Classic Rock

To get those glorious Led Zeppelin and John Bonham-inspired drum sounds, XLN Audio went straight to the source: The Ludwig Blue Oyster kit. Our Blue Oyster kit includes production-ready presets that provide instant access to vintage and modern production techniques.

Size does matter! This ADpak is inspired by the setup of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. The big sizes, coated heads, and characteristic tuning give you a clear and thunderous drum sound that is reminiscent of the late 60s.

The included presets provide instant access to inspiring sounds ranging from clean and pristine to distorted and heavily processed. Use presets as-is or easily tweak them to achieve a unique sound that’s exactly right for your music.

The Blue Oyster Kit Contains:

Kick: 

• 22×16″ Ludwig Blue Oyster Vintage
• 26×14″ Ludwig Blue Oyster Vintage 

Snare:

• 14×6.5″ Ludwig Supraphonic 402 

Toms:

• 13″ Ludwig Blue Oyster Vintage
• 14″ Ludwig Blue Oyster Vintage
• 16″ Ludwig Blue Oyster Vintage
• 18″ Ludwig Blue Oyster Vintage

Cymbals:

• 15″ Paiste 2002 Hihat
• 15″ Paiste 2002 Hihat with Ching-Ring
• 18″ Zildian K Dark Thin Crash
• 19″ Sabian HH Thin Crash
• 20″ Sabian Artisan Vault Crash
• 24″ Paiste 2002 Ride 

Extras:

• Meinl Single Brass Tambourine, Meinl Large Black Cowbell

Features

• Authentic late-60s drum kit
• Production-ready presets
• Classic and modern sounds

Retroplex (ADpak)

The Sound of Glam Rock

The Retroplex kit captures the bold, outrageous drum sounds of legendary glam rock artists like David Bowie and Lou Reed in painstaking detail. Production-ready presets provide instant access to both vintage and modern production techniques.

The acrylic see-through Vistalite drums became popular in the early 70s for their great looks, fast attack and clear sustain. Drumming legend Keith Moon (The Who) played live sets with an extra water-filled Vistalite floor tom used as a fishbowl!

The included presets provide instant access to inspiring sounds ranging from clean and pristine to distorted and heavily processed. Use presets as-is or easily tweak them to achieve a unique sound that’s exactly right for your music.

The Retroplex kit includes:

Kick:

• 22×16″ Ludwig Vistalite
• 24×16″ Ludwig Vistalite 

Snare:

• 14×5″ Ludwig Vistalite 

Toms:

• 12″ Ludwig Vistalite
• 13″ Ludwig Vistalite
• 14″ Ludwig Vistalite
• 16″ Ludwig Vistalite

Cymbals:

• 15″ Zildjian Vintage Hihat
• 17″ Zildjian A Custom Crash
• 18″ Zildjian A Thin Crash, 18″ Zildjian K Custom Dark Crash, 22″ Zildjian K Constantinople Medium Ride 

Extras:

• Meinl Double Steel Tambourine
• Meinl Steel Bell Large Cowbell

Features

• Authentic Ludwig “plexi” kit
• Production-ready presets
• Classic and modern sounds

Retro Songs (MIDIpak)

Classic Grooves from the 60s and 70s.

From early 60s Motown to thunderous heavy rock of the 70s, this MIDIpak gives you tons of inspiring grooves in different tempos and feels.

Bring back the good times with this MIDIpak full of great beats and grooves inspired by the 60s and 70s! This MIDIpak contains 35 complete songs (over 200 sections) all played by a real drummer. It is compatible with any Addictive Drums 2 ADpak, but really well suited for Black Oyster, Blue Oyster, and Retroplex.

Features

• 60s and 70s beats and grooves
• Spans hard rock to Motown
• 200+ live-recorded performances

Rock’n’Roll (MIDIpak)

Warm and Intimate Tones

Start playing this warm, beautiful instrument and chances are good that you’ll find yourself still playing it several hours later.

About Mark One

Our Mark One Instrument is based on a Fender Rhodes Mk. 1 electric piano. This king of electric pianos is played through a vintage tube combo amp and captured by rare vintage mics for a sublime sound. The tone can go from a smooth enthralling caress to a searing, crunchy sound that cuts through the densest mix.

The Instrument and its Presets – Fender Rhodes Mk. 1 Stage Piano:

Our Mark One instrument is based on a Fender Rhodes Mk. 1 electric piano. The Rhodes Mk. 1 has been the most popular electric piano for more than four decades and is heard on countless hit records. Rhodes pianos can vary in sound, and this particular instrument was selected for its unmistakable warmth and intimacy. 

While the instrument’s line output can be recorded “direct,” it is often played through an amplifier to add some crunch and character. For this recording, we used a MusicMan 112 RD Fifty 1×12″. Different recording setups can be mixed and matched to give you endless sound design options!

With the tube combo set up in a large recording room, vintage microphones was positioned at both close and far away perspective capturing the amp close-up and with natural ambience. To add variety, three mics were positioned next up to the speaker; a dynamic, a tube condenser and a ribbon microphone. One floor and one room microphone setup were used for the option of adding depth and ambience to the recordings. 

In addition to the acoustical recordings, two line signals were also recorded: One “direct” through high-voltage DI box and another through the classic Roland Dimension D analog stereo chorus.

We Recorded Using the Following:

Music Man 112 RD combo amp (Close Mic): 

• Telefunken U47 Tube Condenser 
• Coles 4038 Ribbon 
• Shure SM57 Dynamic 

Ambient (Room) Recording: 

• Neumann SM69 Stereo Microphone 

Direct Output: 

• Clean Line Output 
• Line Output through Roland Dimension D 

Acoustic Strings: 

• Sela T25 Stereo Microphone

About Galleries and ExploreMaps

Helping you Learn and Discover Sounds:

Our Gallery page (accessed by pressing the “Gallery” button) shows general information about the installed Addictive Keys instruments as well as those available in the online shop. The bottom of the Gallery page shows thumbnails of the available ExploreMaps for the currently selected instrument.

The ExploreMap page (accessed by pressing the “Explore” button) contains a selection of presets that you can easily preview and select with one click. This makes it easy to explore the various possible sounds. Many ExploreMaps also contain convenient macro controllers for fast/easy editing.

MAIN FEATURES

• Fender Rhodes Mk. 1 Stage Piano
• Classic and Intimate Sound
• 7 Different recording perspectives

The Grand Master of Pianos

The response, dynamics and character of this instrument capture the very essence of a great grand piano. It will inspire your creativity.

About Studio Grand

The Studio Grand features a classic Steinway Model D concert grand piano. The first choice of many pianists, Steinways are famous for their character and unrivaled sound. The included ExploreMaps offer presets in a variety of styles ranging from open and natural to processed and strange. The variety of sounds makes Studio Grand perfect for both production and stage duties.

The Instrument and its Presets

Steinway Model D Grand Piano:

Our Studio Grand features a Steinway Model D Concert Grand piano. At 8′ 11 3/4″ (274cm) in length, this majestic instrument is the overwhelming choice of the world’s greatest pianists. More than ten Steinway Grand Pianos were auditioned before finding the one with the most desirable character: a crystal clear and open timbre with a perfectly balanced resonance. 

We approached Studio Grand with production in mind. We found that fitting a grand piano in a mix can be hard and often results in a compromise of the sound quality in order to make it fit with the other instruments and vocals. By offering the exact recording setup in Addictive Keys and the option of mixing and matching microphones, Studio Grand is sure to fit nicely into any production style.

Studio Grand was recorded in a large recording studio at the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation. The studio is famous for being extremely quiet and for having a controlled acoustic ambience; for such a large room the reverberation still sounds tight and airy which is a rare combination and the perfect condition for recording a grand piano. 

The recordings were done using rare vintage tube and ribbon microphones capturing the instrument at several different perspectives. From close up perspective with microphones next to the soundboard to far away perspective with natural room ambience. The end result is a warm and vibrant sound that goes from intimate to larger-than-life. The vintage microphones used were hand picked from the studios impressive collection.

We Recorded Using the Following:

• Close (Stereo XY): Neumann M269 
• Close (Stereo Wide): Coles 4038 
• Close (Mono): RCA 6203 
• Mid (Stereo Wide): Neumann M250 
• Ambient (Stereo Wide): Neumann M269 
• Body (Mono): Sela T25 

About Galleries and Exploremaps 

Helping you Learn and Discover Sounds:

Our Gallery page (accessed by pressing the “Gallery” button) shows general information about the installed Addictive Keys instruments as well as those available in the online shop. The bottom of the Gallery page shows thumbnails of the available ExploreMaps for the currently selected instrument.

The ExploreMap page (accessed by pressing the “Explore” button) contains a selection of presets that you can easily preview and select with one click. This makes it easy to explore the various possible sounds. Many ExploreMaps also contain convenient macro controllers for fast/easy editing.

MAIN FEATURES

• Steinway Model D Grand Piano
• Warm tone and unique sound
• Six selectable mic perspectives

Extraordinary Effects in Your Music

Enhance your drums, beats, and loops in seconds.

• Make your drums, beats, and loops sound huge or tight & punchy
• Shape the attack and sustain of your drums, beats, and loops 
• Fast and easy workflow
• Intuitive and clean interface

Awesome mixes. Fast.
Enhance your drums, beats, and loops with the twist of a knob! Get more smack in the attack. More gain in the sustain. Tight and punchy or huge and mighty: DS-10 improves your mixes in any direction. Fast.

Punch with precision.
Get custom treatment for your tracks and mixes. DS-10 Drum Shaper has three modes (Kick, Snare, and Bus) individually tuned and optimized to give you the best sound for the source you want to enhance.

Great, natural sound.
Say goodbye to grainy and unnatural sounding mixes. DS-10’s three different settings give you creative options and provide great sounding results, regardless of what style of mix you’re aiming for.

Add mojo to your mix.
The powerful MOJO knob adds flavor and color just where you need it. It lets you shape the attack and punch in curated frequency bands while leaving others unaffected, opening a world of sonic awesomeness and sound design possibilities.

In a world where ready-made presets and loops have made music-making a lot easier, it has also made music less personal. Life by XLN Audio enables you to easily capture your life moments and instantly create beats — adding life to your music. 

Life from XLN Audio shortens the path from experiencing the moment to hearing it as beats in your music. Capture a dripping faucet, kitchen appliance, or amp crackle and it will instantly appear in the Life by XLN Audio plugin. The plugin automatically slices, processes, and generates beats so you can focus on capturing moments and creating beats. 

Capture Moments Everywhere

The Life Field Recorder is an iOS and Android-compatible app that enables you to record anything using your phone, instantly making it available in the Life by XLN Audio plugin. The Life DAW Recorder enables you to record in high fidelity from your DAW, utilizing any instrument, microphone or outboard gear you have connected. You can also import audio or video directly from your phone or your computer, creating beats from moments you already cherish.

Create Beats Instantly

The Life By XLN Audio plugin is the heart where all the beat-making takes place. Select a recording and Life by XLN Audio automatically generates beats. Audition endless variations of beats, find your favorite happy accident, and start tweaking. Tweak your beat using features like Sound Variation and Pattern Variation, or go even deeper into the details by editing Slice Points, FX or sequencers. Life by XLN Audios’ easy-to-use workflow is made possible using Machine Learning models, powering features such as Beat and Sound Variations as well as Density, Syncopation, and Symmetry controls.

Add Life To Your Music

Life by XLN Audio allows you to take a step away from sample libraries and take a closer look at your own life to find inspiration. You can use beats generated by Life as a starting point or as a personal touch together with your other go-to tools for beat-making. You might find yourself looking at your own life in a completely different way, constantly on the search for new sounds.

Addictive Drums 2: Breaks & Beats Collection

Funk to hip hop to drum’n’bass and everything in between.

Included products:

• Reel Machines (ADpak)
• Funk (ADpak)
• Reel Machines Beats (MIDIpak)
• Funk’d Up (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

Floor-filling fatback beats

If you make beats, you need this Collection. Period. It comes bursting with the kind of rhythmical goodness you need to get them glued to the dancefloor. We’ve bundled a super-tight Pearl Reference kit with the funkiest drummer in the form of the Funk’d Up MIDIpak, and added not one, but five original ’80s drum machines (Simmons SDS-V, LinnDrum, 808, 909, DMX) and the Reel Machine Beats that go with them.

Get your head nodding to stank-face breaks that’ll kick off anything from Fat Boy Slim style big beat bangers to classic Premier era hip hop, or speed them up for drum’n’bass grooves. Then add some digital drums and you’re ready to make anything from classic electro sounds to modern Drake or Kendrick-style productions, to massive pop hits a la Bruno Mars.

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Reel Machines (ADpak)

Vintage Machines with Analog Soul

Reel Machines is a collection of four mint-condition drum machines and a Simmons electronic drum kit from the eighties. All instruments were recorded on analog tape using some of the finest recording gear in the world. Each kit also includes actual plate reverb and real room ambience you can blend in for maximum sonic possibilities.

Reel Machines is a collection of the most iconic electronic drum sounds of the 80s. Unlike many sample libraries that simply record a machine’s output, we recorded the instruments through a variety of analog tape machines for added warmth and punch. To make it even more special, each instrument includes a real room ambience as well as vintage plate reverb that you can blend in to fit your needs.

This kit comes with tons of presets designed by top sound designers. Each kit includes sounds ranging from classic and super-clean to modern and heavily processed. It’s also possible to tweak any of the presets to fit your exact needs—the Addictive Drums 2 engine makes it easy. Finally, if you need great drum machine rhythms, we have created the Reel Machines Beats MIDIpak to help you find your inspiration.

Reel Machines contains the following:

Drum Machines:

• Linn Electronics LinnDrum 
• Oberheim DMX 
• Roland TR-808 
• Roland TR-909 
• Simmons Digital ClapTrap 
• Simmons SDS-V [with Kick, Snare, Tom (x3), HiHat and Cymbal Modules

Other Notable Recording Gear:

• Stocktronics RX4000 Plate Reverb 
• Lyrec 2″ 24-track Analog Tape Machine 
• Otari 1/4″ 2-track Tape Machine 
• Ampex 1/2″ 2-track Tube Tape Machines 
• Neve 1073 Preamps 
• Coles 4038 Ribbon Stereo Room Microphones 
• Gefell UM92 Tube Mono Room Microphone

Features:

• Top 5 classic 80s drum sounds
• Recorded on analog tape
• Real room ambience and plate reverb

Funk (ADpak)

Lay down the boogie…

The Funk ADpak is based on a masterpiece: the Pearl Reference drum kit. XLN Audio recorded it with absolute fidelity in a top studio and had top sound engineers craft the funkiest presets you’ve ever heard. Craft your own sounds or use any of the 30+ production-ready presets to get to work instantly.

The Pearl Reference Series drum kit is a masterpiece. To perfect the sound, Pearl engineered and designed each drum individually. Depending on size and depth, each drum has its own unique thickness and combination of wood types for the ultimate sound and resonance. The result is one of the best sounding drum kits on the market and the choice for many world-renowned drummers including Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Dennis Chambers (Santana).

Get instant funk action from over 30 mix-ready presets designed by professional studio engineers. These presets give you instant access to a variety of sounds ranging from clean and tight, to roomy and natural, and even some more heavily processed sounds. You can use these presets as-is or easily edit them to fit your needs. If you need inspiration, XLN Audio’s collection of Funk-based MIDIpaks have tons of professionally played beats you can use in your own music.

The Funk Kit Contains the Following:

Kick:

• 22×16″ Pearl Reference 

Snare:

• 14×5″ Pearl Reference 

Toms: 

• 10×8″ Pearl Reference 
• 12×10″ Pearl Reference 
• 14×14″ Pearl Reference 
• 16×16″ Pearl Reference

Cymbals: 

• 13″ Paiste Heavy Hihat 
• 17″ Paiste Signature Fast Crash 
• 18″ Sabian Artisan Vault Crash 
• 22″ Sabian HHX Evolution Crash 
• 22″ Sabian Artisan Light Ride 

Extra:

• LP Medium Cowbell

Features

• Masterpiece Pearl Reference Kit
• Recorded in a world-class studio
• 30 production-ready presets

Reel Machines Beats (MIDIpak)

Beats for Reel Machines

Contains tons of programmed beats for classic drum machines. A must-have for owners of Reel Machines!

Reel Machines Beats is the perfect companion for owners of the Reel Machines ADpak. It contains tons of expertly programmed beats that make drum machines come to life. Works well with acoustic kits for when you need more robotic-sounding drumming!

Features

• Tons of great programmed beats
• Perfect for Reel Machines ADpak
• Also works with acoustic ADpaks

Funk’d Up (MIDIpak)