Drum Machine VST Plugins

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”.

Kick Your Tracks Into High Gear

EastWest ProDrummer Volume 2 fortifies your drum arsenal with 40 Gigs of killer drum kits and MIDI drum grooves played by Matt Chamberlain of Peter Gabriel, Springsteen, and Pearl Jam fame. Produced by Grammy-winning engineer/producer Joe Chiccarelli and EastWest’s own Doug Rogers, ProDrummer Volume 2 was recorded in three different, great-sounding rooms with select equipment from Ludwig, Slingerland, Tama, Gretsch, Zildjian and more, using top-quality mics and recording gear. The plug-in gives you numerous sound-shaping options. Each drum sports its own channel with complete processing and routing. There are also ready-to-deploy drum kits pre-mixed by the experts. Take it from Sweetwater – EastWest ProDrummer Volume 2 will seriously up your drum game.

EastWest ProDrummer Volume 2 Features:

• 40GB of killer drum kits for immediate deployment
• Includes more than 14,000 MIDI drum grooves in a variety of styles
• Produced by Grammy-winning engineer/producer Joe Chiccarelli and EastWest’s Doug Rogers
• Groove Search Engine helps you find the right grooves fast
• Built-in Velocity Processor lets you control the dynamic power of your drums
• Onboard effects include:
• Solid State Logic EQ, Dynamics and Stereo Bus Compressor
• Ohmicide multiband distortion, compression, EQ and filter
• Transient Shaper
• Transient Shaper
• Amp Simulator with 80 presets
• Expanded Convolution Reverb
• Free iLok account required (hardware dongle not required)

MDrummer is simply the ultimate drum machine and virtual drummer. It makes arranging drum tracks and real-time performances quick and simple and the possibilities are just endless…

Sound Limited Only by Your Imagination

MDrummer’s sound engine can cover the entire wide range of percussion instruments from drums to scratches. Any number of drumsets, drums in each drumset, layers and effects in each drum, with sampling, synthesis and some completely unique generators. Whether you are interested in acoustic drums, electric drums, percussion or effects, or any kind of combination, MDrummer can do it.

Quick and I

MDrummer can generate infinite number of new drumsets by pressing a single button, analyze and import your sample libraries, merge multiple drumsets and much more. MDrummer is perfect whether you are looking for a traditional style, a truly unique sound available by a few clicks, or if you are ready to get dirty and explore the depths of the most advanced drum machine in the world.

Rhythms Limited Only By Your Imagination

MDrummer truly understands what a rhythm is the way humans do and you have access to everything he knows. It can cover any style and any percussive instrument. MDrummer can play pop, drum’n’bass, rock, r’n’b, salsa, jungle, jazz, rumba on congas, progress-metal in 11/4 signature…anything you can imagine. MDrummer can generate new rhythms for you, merge multiple rhythms, add shakers and other background percussion. Humanization, shuffling, halfe/double tempo & feel and many more advanced features let you transform your ideas into reality by few mouse clicks.

Unique Way to Control the Performance

You can command MDrummer to play intro, groove, add fills, play more notes at different velocities… MDrummer is just like an incredibly great human drummer, except it will obey any orders! You can tell him what to do using our unique MIDI command method, integrated sequencer or he can even jam with you! No more clumsy automation, MIDI file drag & drop… You can make a great drum track for your arrangement in just a few minutes.

Ground Breaking Rhythm Generator

We taught MDrummer what humans do when creating new rhythms. All you need to do now is to create a single loop, which suits your song. Or, well, MDrummer can generate a unique one for you. Rhythm generator then takes megabytes of resources and creates the whole rhythm for you. Just the way real drummers do it.

Flexible User Interface

We make music, but the visual side may inspire or not. MDrummer’s user interface is resizable, stylable, contains context help for everything and the workflow is optimized for maximum speed. All for the ultimate user experience and creativity.

Features

• VST/VST3/AU/AAX plugin
• More than 6GB of samples, multisamples, subsample libraries and more
• 300+ drumsets, 2400+ drumset components, 900+ samples, 600+ multisamples, 300+ rhythms, 200+ base-rhythms, 12000+ loops
• 5 ultimate sound generators – MSampler, MMultiSampler, MSynthesizer4NN, MSubSampleSynthesizer and MScratcher
• 30 versatile effects – equalizers, compressors, distortions, modulations…
• Drumset generator & merger
• Effect generator & merger
• Ultimate human-like rhythm technology
• MIDI command method
• Integrated arrangement sequencer
• Jamming functionality
• Rhythm generator & merger

World-Class Orchestral Phrases – Drums and strings from Hans Zimmer’s library

Creative performance and sound design engines

DRUMS & STRIIIINGS deliver Hans Zimmer’s personal collection of percussive phrases and legendary string recordings. Tried and tested in Hollywood, these exclusive plug-ins make cinematic drums and strings accessible for anyone.

What’s in it for me?

• Two extensive collections of world-class phrases
• Ready to rumble: creative performance and sound design engine
• More than 100 playing Styles, 500 sound designer presets
• Recorded at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Studios, produced by Boris Salchow

Million-dollar sound

UJAM is happy to count Hans Zimmer – one of the world’s great film composers – as one of its co-founders. Hans generously gave us access to his legendary drums & strings recordings, amassed over decades, for use in DRUMS & STRIIIINGS.

Born from art & technology

Programming realistic cinematic tracks can be daunting. That’s why the UJAM performance engine provides ready-made sequences and creative controls. With Symphonic Elements it’s fast and easy; instantly synced to your DAW’s tempo. They take care of the details, so you can focus on your music!

Finisher FX

The custom-made Finisher effect section is a one-knob sound design delight. Transform the character of your DRUMS or STRIIIINGS track to match any genre or mood.

Crossfade

Perform your tracks with the crossfader. DRUMS is made up from two independent low and high sections like bass drums or snares, STRIIIINGS comes with low and high string sections. Seamlessly blend between them, or add subtle variations by automating.

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.

Building upon Air Music Technology’s heritage of creating Strike—considered “The reference Drum Instrument” for Avid Protools—Air has teamed up with music legends Akai Professional and Alesis Drums to carry on this legacy of excellence.

In the style of the popular 500 series synth modules comes an all new software drum synthesizer that delivers full control of all electronic drum sounds in an easy-to-use, comprehensive interface.

Drum Synth 500 from AIR Music Technology has everything needed to create an endless variety of custom electronic drum sounds for all styles of music. 

MAIN FEATURES:

• 8-channel electronic drum synthesizer with fully programmable drum sounds in the style of 500 Series rack modules.
• Individual instrument channels for Kick, Snare, Hats, Clap, Toms, Percussion and two Sampler channels for any mono or stereo .wav audio file.
• Load your own sounds into two separate Sampler channels, including loop, forward and reverse playback!
• Easy to use interface with no hidden panels.
• Randomize feature for quickly generating new electronic drum sounds with just one button press.
• Works with any MIDI keyboard, pad controller or drum kit controller.
• MPC Full Level and Note Repeat for each instrument channel
• Three distortion effects (including new Bitcrusher and Decimate), 5 filters and 2 compressors per instrument channel!
• Two reverb sends and two delay sends per instrument channel.
• Huge Master channel includes three saturation effects, a convolution reverb, an algorithmic reverb, a stereo delay, a mono delay, a compressor and a unique Kill EQ circuit.

Drum Synth 500’s exclusive library has been produced by the sound design veterans behind the highly-acclaimed Air Music Tech Strike, Air Structure, Sonivox Big Bang, Akai Professional’s MPC and Alesis e-Drums. The goal was to provide an incredible mixture of vintage and all-new effects that pay homage to classic sounds while also pushing into new territory.

Using a MIDI keyboard, pad controller, electronic drumkit, or the user’s favorite Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software, Drum Synth 500 brings modern electronic drum sounds into musical productions or live playing.

To get you started, Drum Synth 500 gives you over 500 drum sounds, 500 drum samples, 50 drum kits and 500 MIDI drum loops which can be loaded into any DAW and used to kick-start your song or production. 

It’s a simple step to start shaping your own electronic drum sounds. Dig in deep with individual parameter control for all instruments or use our randomizer which make a drum sound for you with just one press of a button.  Advanced users will find this to be a tweaker’s paradise to produce your own one-of-a-kind sound.

Drum Synth 500 is built on powerful all-new engine for live performance or studio use.  For live performance, you can simply fire up our PC or Mac Desktop app and perform with no DAW required for distraction free performance.  For studio use, all popular plugin formats are supported.

Drum Synth 500 is packaged into a beautiful user interface with no hidden panels for quick, fun creation of your own electronic drum sounds.

You deserve your own custom drum sounds and now you have the perfect tool to create them: Drum Synth 500 from AIR Music Technology.

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)

Groove in a Box

Use samples or full songs as a sound source. Instant Groove. The onboard bassline, a drum machine and the multi-effect sequencer make Egoist the perfect track sketching tool in the studio and on the road. You’ll soon fall in love with its distinct features and concept.

It’s All Simple But Effective Stuff

The Slice Arranger Couldn’t Be More Straight forward

Egoist easily does what would take considerable effort in a traditional sampler: In record time, it can rearrange even the most predictable of samples to some great-sounding chops.

Each slice has separate controls of pitch, direction, attack, decay and volume. So, let’s assume you play the same snippet over and over again – each step would sound completely different than the one before.

The factory library packs 760MB sonic material, from acoustic beats, piano- & percussion loops, synths, vocals to FX, so you can go for hours before using external audio. Via „Load Sample“, you can import the formats .wav, .aiff and mp3.

Drum ‘n’ Bass

What All Good Music Is About

Having made a slice sequence, you might wanna grab inspiration by its tail and move on with the structure of your idea. Therefore, we added the Bassline and the Beat. And this trinity of Sample, Beat and Bass really provides the most minimal setup to craft an idea in one go.

The Bass Tab lets you create classic bass lines (á la 303 or SH101). Run the oscillator in saw or pulse and tune essential parameters like resonance, decay & cutoff modulation.

The drum module is straight and to the point, just like its neighbour. More than 1,000 sampled kick, snare and hi-hats (open and closed) neatly organised in 15 kits. You can control pitch, loudness and velocity options. 96 samples per drum kit and a “Mix and Match” option leave you with endless combinations.

Cheerful Rebel

Arpiculation Is Arpeggiator and Intonation

Rather than being a static add-on, the effects can be varied on a per-step basis. Of course, being able to treat effects as one-shot moments is much more dynamic than using overall global effects. A familiar concept to anyone who knows Effectrix.

There are 7 processors in total, a small but well-formed array: Reverb, Chorus, Delay, Filter, Lo-Fi, Tape Stop and Looper – to be applied to Slicer, Beat and Bass.

These con artists of sound are all quite beautifully depicted in their respective icons. Each offers a couple of parameters that can be edited via sliders, while the Filter section begins by offering 7 types and an equal amount of cutoff modulation sources from across the instrument.

Neat Integration with your DAW

Slice Key Mode: Triggers Patterns or Slices per MIDI

Much like a traditional hardware sequencer, Egoist uses a pattern-based method for chaining patterns into a song. Each pattern can contain a different sample, slicing setup, individual bass, beat and effects setups…

If you’d rather use your DAW’s sequencer instead, the small piano keys button at the bottom left lets you trigger the patterns or the individual slices. On the setup page, you can select whether the sequencer’s clock source is internal or via your host, and choose if DAW/host will start the sequencer on playback.

The patterns themselves are triggered by pressing C1 through D#2, and the individual sequencer slices by pressing C3 through D#4.

Sounds & Presets

Some catchy tunes coming out of this thing:

• The sample library contains over 400 sounds in 16 folders filed according to their origin (drums, guitar, modular, SFX, etc.). The drum machine comes with more than 1,000 sampled drum sounds
• There are more than 200 excellent pre-produced presets, including a number from Detroit legend Mike Huckaby

Features

• Slicer, Bass, Beat and an Effect Sequencer
• Easy Arranging of Sample Slices
• Perfect Track Sketching Tool
• Arrange up to 16 slices with detailed control
• Round and fat basses or blatant 303 lines
• Beatbox with HiHat, Kick and Snare
• Effect Engine for bright colours in the right spots
• Song Arranger

New Features and Content:

• The new version adds features to all four engines: all sequencers are polyrhythmic now with independent clock dividers, the slicer got a monophonic mode, we added scales to the bass, powerful mod sources to the filter and Pan control for the Hi-Hats!
• There’s also new content: more presets, new slicing samples and a fresh drumkit: “Cwejman S1”.

Sounds & Presets

• Some catchy tunes coming out of this thing.
• The sample library contains over 400 sounds in 16 folders filed according to their origin (drums, guitar, modular, SFX, etc.). The drummachine comes with more than 1,000 sampled drum sounds.

There are more than 200 excellent pre-produced presets, including a number from Detroit legend Mike Huckaby.

Welcome to the Pulse

In collaboration with Grammy Winning music production duo Mojam – ThaLoops presents PULSE. Multi format solution for hip hop drum loop creation.

PULSE features a virtual instrument plug-in, that comes with a collection of 792 drum samples. Also presets for Battery, Kontakt, Reason NN-XT, EXS, Halion and Ableton Drum Rack are provided. Moreover, 220 MIDI drum loops are included to inspire the creation of amazing rhythms. Change the tempo, edit the patterns – the rhythm is yours!

With a robust collection of modern drum samples and pro-grade midi loops, PULSE refreshes contemporary Top 40 production sound to keep you in the groove of tomorrow. After extensively exploring today’s dominant hip hop, rnb and trap vibes, PULSE provides you with snares that punch, kicks that knock and rhythm patterns that are up-to-date with Top 40 production standards.

Hip hop drums + more

Exclusive drum kit designed by the Grammy Award winning production duo MOJAM

• Naughty Boy / Emeli Sandé / Craig David / KSI / Sam Smith

11 multi format drum kits

• Pulse VST/AU plugin, BATTERY, KONTAKT, HALION, EXS, REASON NN-XT and ABLETON DRUM RACK

792 premium drum samples and 220 MIDI drum loops

• HIP-HOP, RNB & TRAP genres

Loops and samples

• 220 midi loops
• Hip-hop, RnB and Trap genres
• 792 drum samples
• 11 drum kits
• Midi loop initial tempos include : 87bpm, 92bpm, 97bpm, 102bpm, 132bpm, 137bpm, 139bpm, 140bpm, 144bpm, 148bpm, 158bpm (Thanks to midi format, tempos can be changed without losing audio quality)

Drum Kit Presets

• Mojam Kit
• Bounce Kit
• Classic Kit
• Mellow Kit
• Mental Kit
• Power Kit
• Space Kit
• Big Kit
• Timbo Kit
• Tunes Kit
• Wild Kit

Formats

• Battery
• KONTAKT
• HALION
• EXS
• REASON NN-XT
• Ableton Drum Rack
• MIDI
• WAV

The Most Extensive Percussion Library For The Big Screen

Featuring huge cinematic drums and percussion from around the world, you won’t find a collection as complete as Stormdrum 3. Designed for film and game composers looking to create bombastic and thunderous percussion, Stormdrum 3 delivers more power than you could ever ask for. And even when you want subtle, tame, more ambient drums and metal hits, it places all of this and more in your arsenal.

Drums From The World Over

The true potency of Stormdrum 3 is that it enables you to craft a fantastic musical story of any culture, any era, in any context. A documentary of the Amazon rainforest would be incomplete without deep tribal drums, and an intense sci-fi thriller featuring a heart-pounding speeder chase wouldn’t be the same without futuristic, designed auxiliary percussion. Stormdrum 3 gives you vivid realism, clean recordings, and maximum strike on every hit. We put all of our focus entirely on designing the perfect tool to architect cinematic experiences on command. Whenever your stream of ideas begins to dry up and you begin forcing yourself to continue composing, Stormdrum 3 will jumpstart your inspiration with a bang.

Mickey Heart: Mickey Hart (of The Grateful Dead) brought his private collection to Studio 1, in tandem with the Remo company. The producers recorded an arsenal of drums, woods and metals hand-selected by one of the world’s greatest percussionists over his career. “In SD3, our focus was to capture Mickey’s unrivaled percussion collection in the best possible multi-sampled way. It is very flexible. And note that even the close mix comprises the input from 8 microphones. This virtual instrument is his legacy, and mine as well,” says producer Nick Phoenix.

Taiko Family: The Holy Grail of taiko samples, these instruments were recorded from taiko drums in the collections of Mickey Hart, Remo, and the top taiko builders in Japan. Boasting individual hits as well as full ensemble strikes, Stormdrum 3 gives you the best source material possible to add a realistic taiko ensemble to your music.

Big Drums: Large, deep, and booming, this collection comprises the heavy backbone of Stormdrum 3, not including taikos. With names like The Beast, Lord Of Toms, and Dragon Ensemble, you should get a sense of the raw power in Mickey’s one-of-a-kind drum collection.

Gong Clocks Waterphone: Mechanical and detailed, this is the perfection collection for you if you enjoy adding subtle, barely-noticeable layers that your music. One of the coolest highlights is a set of recordings from 6 antique clock shops, perfect for creating complex rhythms without cluttering your percussion section.

Metals: You get access to the many bells, deep bowls, chimes, and cymbals collected by Mickey on his world travels. This unique collection includes everything from handmade doorstop drums and hammered copper pots to the Brazilian berimbau, played on a metal wire. If you like using a lot of auxiliary or “odd” percussion, this collection alone makes Stormdrum 3 an excellent investment.

Shakers: An assortment of uncommon objects: ganza, rainsticks, snake rattles, seed pods, and even deer hooves from Mickey’s private collection.

Small Drums: The classics: bongos, frame drums, tambourines. The slightly more obscure: tablas, madal, and many more. Clean performances across all instruments, captured by microphones that allow the most brilliant high-end details to shine through. These may be the most fun collection of all to play.

Woods: Unusual wooden percussion from all over the world, including: unpitched wooden resonators to the chromatic gourd marimba and balaphone, the mighty gourd drum, a playable 12 ft. long redwood tree branch, and scraped Thailand frogs.

Microphones: Stormdrum 3 was recorded in Studio One, the same location as Hollywood Orchestra, allowing them to blend seamlessly in a single mix. The library includes 5 microphone positions, including: Close (set of 8 Neumanns and Sennheisers), Mid (mid tree, 15 ft), HiFi (super-clean and modern, 15 ft), Main (Neumann M50 Decca tree, 20-25 ft), and Vintage (RCA ribbons, 25 ft). You can blend these different tones and positions as you choose into a single composite sound.

Features

• Electronic Musician Editor’s Choice Award Winner
• Created by award-winning sounds producers Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix
• Tempo synced percussion performances played by master percussionists Mickey Hart, Greg Ellis and Chalo Eduardo
• Features the best instruments from the private collections of Mickey Hart and Remo
• Now included in OPUS, along with individual downloads, custom controls, and dozens of MIDI Tools and Mixer Effects
• Mixer Effects Include: SSL EQ and Dynamics Channel Strip, Transient Shaper, SSL’s legendary Stereo Bus Compressor, and upgraded “true stereo” reverb

PC/WINDOWS ONLY 

JustBeat is a powerful AI driven beat generator specially suited for Techno, Hard Techno, Tech House and EDM music styles.

You can use it as a classic sequenced beat box or you can let it generate great beats thanks to the internal AI.

Powerful beats are generated instantly with a mouse click while the sounds are randomly picked from a huge soundbank of quality samples.

The combinations are endless. Its like owning an infinite amount of modern drum loops generated by an artificial intelligence that never gets tired.

The user can perhaps utilize it as a classic beat box having the control available on everything from the sounds to the sequencers.

We are happy to present this new kind of instrument to all the DJs and Producers who are looking for a powerful, groovy and state of the art drum part for their next production.

Ideated by a producer for producers to help save time.

Features:

• Internal soundbank of 775 wave samples.
• Generate loops up to 8 beats (32 steps).
• Rumble generator with 8 different operative modes.
• Kickdrum driver designed to give a clean roundness to the distortion.
• 9 drum channels (kickdrum, hats1, hats2, clap, snare, perc, cymbal, help1, help2).
• 32 Presets.
• VST2.4 and VST3.
• 32/64-bits.
• Swing.

WINDOWS/PC ONLY

T-Rumble is a powerful techno rumble generator.

As a particular fx chain applied to a kickdrum become almost a standard for the “bassllines” in the dance music, we decided to introduce a new and exciting vst to make them easy! Its sound is fat, clean , compressed, and it can produce a very large variety of techno rumbles.

The user will find an internal soundbank including 83 powerfull kickdrums that can be browsed simply using the arrows buttons just below the load button. The instrument can load .wav samples of any sampling rate and resolution. Draw complex sidechain envelopes very easy with the multi point and curves editor.

Kickdrum waveform is displayed on the screen background to have a reference when drawing the sidechain envelope in order to achieve that perfect docking between the kickdrum and the rumble. Equalize the rumble with a 4 bands equalzator.

Each preset can store up to 8 sidechain envelopes as user prefabs. The instrument come with 16 internal presets.

Note: Is possible to utilize only one instance of the instrument into your DAW!

Note: Also if the vst instrument is native for Windows there are some methods to run it on a Mac that you can find explained HERE

Features

• WINDOWS/PC ONLY
• Fx chain including a Driver, a Robotizer, an Echo Delay, a Reverb and a Multifilter effect in a row then routed into a sidechain compressor thas is drived by the kickdrum itself as source
• 4 Bands Equalizator
• Drawable sidechain envelope modulation including up tp 8 different prefabs envelopes for each preset
• Pitch Detect to know the tone of the utilized kickdrum
• Pitch Shift to tune in with your song
• Internal sound bank including 83 kickdrums
• Load your kickdrums in .wav format
• 16 Presets
• Can produce Resonant, Fat, Subby, Noisy, Deep or Mechanic rumbles

’80s Drums for the 21st Century – Nostalgia Arcade

Maximum retro-futurism for digital drums: Everyone knows and loves the vibe of science fiction and horror movies from the 1980s. VICE delivers the perfect drum tracks for music that captures the sci-fi atmosphere. But it’s not only a flash from the past! It’s the aesthetics of a golden era, revived with today’s top-notch sound quality. The 1980s are back in mainstream music, particularly Synthwave – bigger and better than before! Take the fast lane to top chart positions with Beatmaker VICE.

What’s In There?

• Drum kits built from the most legendary analogue drum machines.
• MIDI Drag and Drop to DAW.
• Multiple Audio Outputs.
• 30 Styles.
• Proprietary Time Machine algorithm.
• Legit 1980s vibes.
• Pristine 21st century sound.

Retro? Future? Both!

Which sounds pop into your head when you think of the 1980s? Cheesy pop music with big synths, punchy digital drums and lots of gated reverb? Recently those sounds have been re-invigorated by 2010s producers and turned into genres like Synthwave, Retrowave, or Futuresynth. These EDM genres are influenced by 1980s film soundtracks and video games. Inspired by composers like Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, and Trevor Horn, they contain 1980s clichéd elements such as electronic drums, gated reverb, and analog and early-digital synthesizer sounds. VICE delivers exactly these drum parts you need to create anything from authentic ‘80s to Synthwave.

Stranger Things Might Happen

VICE turns your drum programming into an ultra-modern adventure with a retro touch. Inspired by some of the most legendary classic drum machines from companies like Linn, Roland, Simmons or Korg, VICE feels a bit like a time machine.

Frustration-Free Design

This virtual drum machine is suitable for 80s veterans and aspiring Insta-producers alike. VICE’s transparent interface turns your tracks into cheesy pop music in a glimpse. Easy macro controls and no hidden menus; everything is clearly laid out for you!

MAIN FEATURES AT A GLANCE

With 10 separate kits, 12 smart-mix presets and a built-in FX to make punchy digital drums with lots of reverb, VICE is the perfect tool to glue together your refined 21st century sound integrity with legit 80s vibes.

Special Control: Time Machine

Let your drum tracks travel in time: from the sound of 80s tape recording and early sampling artefacts to a full and heavily pumping future of the imaginary year 2080.

Micro Timing

Lets you control the speed and timing of your beats. Dial-in the tempo of your host from half to normal to double speed.

MIDI Drag and Drop

Export patterns to your DAW. Simply drag them from the on-screen-keyboard and drop them into your track.

Individual Instrument Controls

Edit and control the volume, decay, pitch and filter of individual instruments per drum kit.

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.

DrumSynth is a revolutionary synthesizer drum machine plugin instrument for powerful drum sound design.

Enjoy the power to create and sculpt amazing drum sounds from the ground up, run them through a multitude of sound-shaping and audio effects processors then save to your collection of custom user presets, empowering you to quickly build your personal collection of customized percussive textures.

CUTTING-EDGE SOUND GENERATION

At the heart of the DrumSynth drum designer is its advanced multi-synth sound generator. This next-level architecture combines FM synthesis, analog modeling synthesis and physical modeling synthesis algorithms to power 8 individual sound engines; Kick, Snare, Clap, Hi-Hat, Tom, Percussion, Crash and Ride. The result is a versatile arsenal of adaptable sonic tools ready for any creative sound application you can think of. Simply create the sounds you want to hear.

GET CREATIVE WITH ADVANCED PROCESSING

Take your sonic ingenuity a step further with unparalleled sound manipulation and processing. DrumSynth includes a wide collection of audio effects including a transient shaper, tuning, EQ, compression, reverb and delay. Store your unique creations for easy recall to the onboard user preset slots.

Features

• Build and design any synthesized drum sound
• 52 inspiring preset kits from classics to new creations
• Powerful sound generators driven by completely new FM synthesis, analog and physical modeling, and sample-based algorithms
• 8 Individual Engines: Kick, Snare, Clap, Percussion, Tom, Crash, Hi-Hat, and Ride
• Sound-shaping FX including transient shaper, tuning, EQ, compression, delay, reverb and more
• Dedicated mixer with independent controls
• Classic ‘one-shot’ feature

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.