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Published on 07/14/11 at 12:59XLN Audio's Addictive Drums is remarkably easy to begin using. I do not think I have ever experienced a drum program that got me something mind blowing in two clicks of the mouse. That is because XLN Audio recognized the importance of a very psychologically intensely encouraging feature: presets.
Addictive Drums essentially functions on presets. You are just messing with all of them, and then one of them catches your eye (or ear, rather). Before you know it, you are lost in the sound, then you say to yourself, "I think that these toms could use a bit more oomph" so you dial up the FX on the toms. Maybe you switch the toms out entirely.
The pacing of guiding a user to what he or she wants in a drum sound is spot on. Not even the most helpless newbie can feel lost using Addictive Drums, because XLN Audio also provides a few videos to get you up and running!
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Addictive Drums has a very small footprint, and runs absolutely like a dream. There is very little to say about the program except that it is very smooth.
OVERALL OPINION
Now, I will not mince words. Addictive Drums is not the very best sampled library in existence. In fact, while I hate using objective and quantifiable measurements for something as subjective as sound, you can tell that the size of the library just is not as impressive as something like Toon Track's Superior, for example.
However, Superior is a lumbering beast of a program, and no matter how many people tell me how good their drums sound, when I find out that they have taken months and months to perfect it, I immediately get turned off. It is not that I don't have a patience, but practically speaking, I can get 90% of the way there with two clicks of the mouse, and that just makes more sense for me.
Addictive Drums essentially functions on presets. You are just messing with all of them, and then one of them catches your eye (or ear, rather). Before you know it, you are lost in the sound, then you say to yourself, "I think that these toms could use a bit more oomph" so you dial up the FX on the toms. Maybe you switch the toms out entirely.
The pacing of guiding a user to what he or she wants in a drum sound is spot on. Not even the most helpless newbie can feel lost using Addictive Drums, because XLN Audio also provides a few videos to get you up and running!
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Addictive Drums has a very small footprint, and runs absolutely like a dream. There is very little to say about the program except that it is very smooth.
OVERALL OPINION
Now, I will not mince words. Addictive Drums is not the very best sampled library in existence. In fact, while I hate using objective and quantifiable measurements for something as subjective as sound, you can tell that the size of the library just is not as impressive as something like Toon Track's Superior, for example.
However, Superior is a lumbering beast of a program, and no matter how many people tell me how good their drums sound, when I find out that they have taken months and months to perfect it, I immediately get turned off. It is not that I don't have a patience, but practically speaking, I can get 90% of the way there with two clicks of the mouse, and that just makes more sense for me.