Addictive Drums 2.6 Explained
Looking for incredible-sounding virtual drums? Addictive Drums 2.6 has you covered! But when it comes to learning how to use it, we have you covered! In this Addictive Drums 2.6 video course, you'll learn many ways of generating phenomenally realistic drum tracks for your productions, regardless of genre. Production wiz Eli Krantzberg will show you all the parameters and controls, so that by the end of the course, you'll be ready to start using this amazing instrument right away! These videos are designed for new Addictive Drums users.
Videos
• Addictive Drums 2 Flyover (05:02) - Get a quick tour of the main interface. Learn what this software does and where the various functions are located.
• Presets (05:56) - Learn how to lock the tempo when scrolling and auditioning presets, navigate the preset browser with your keyboard, use the filters and music styles playlists, and save your own customized User presets.
• Explore Page (04:16) - See how this starting page is used as a non-cluttered approach to preset browsing, auditioning different expansions and playlists, and switching mix settings while previewing beats.
• Kit Page (04:58) - Explore the Kit Piece controls and Kit Piece browsers. See how to mix and match pieces to form different kits and link different pieces together for simultaneous triggering.
• Getting Started with the Edit Page (06:25) - Discover how to pan, tune, widen, and blend overhead and room mics in with direct sounds, adjust the relationship between note velocity and volume and filtering, and tune the kit pieces.
• Tone Designer, Pitch & Volume Envelopes (06:49) - Hear how the Tone Designer section is used to either attenuate or enhance the sustain portion of kick and snare sounds, how the pitch envelope works to influence pitch offsets through the velocity range, and how the volume envelope is used to shape the attack of sounds at different velocities.
• Channel Strip Controls (05:18) - Watch how to adjust the amount of sympathetic snare buzz generated from the other kit pieces, blend between the two mics on the kick channel and snare channel, position the room mics farther/closer, and set up the internal bus channel for parallel processing.
• Channel Insert Effects Pt. 1 (08:40) - Discover the potent and flexible noise, compression, distortion, tape, transient shaping, and saturation effects available on each channel.
• Channel Insert Effects Pt. 2 (07:50) - Explore the EQ, Trig Gate, and Cut effects, along with the Bus channel effects processing workflow.
• Output Routing (04:23) - See how to set up Addictive Drummer to route the individual channels to separate tracks in your DAW for processing with external third-party plug-ins.
• Delerb (08:21) - Learn all about the two flexible and creative delay and reverb send effects and how they are potentially combined in different ways.
• Audio Recorder (02:43) - Discover this fantastic new feature that allows you to capture your own personal lightning in a bottle. Whenever you play a sound or beat in Addictive Drums 2, the Audio Recorder captures it ? and you can immediately drag it into another application - a great way to get some nice one-shots or loops into your project!
• Snapshots (04:41) - See how the snapshot function is used as a great way to save and compare up to five different settings. Each snapshot includes all sound/mix-related settings of Addictive Drums 2.
• Getting Started with the Beats Page (08:54) - Learn how to use the Library column, filters, grid search, favorites, and short list features to search the internal Addictive Drums 2 beats and fills. Also see how to import third-party MIDI files to use within Addictive Drummer.
• Beat Transformer & Record MIDI (04:38) - Discover how to use the Beat Transformer functions to edit the existing MIDI grooves and how to record your own MIDI directly into Addictive Drummer.
• Layout & Key Mapping (07:50) - Get an overview of how and where the various articulations and strokes for each drum and cymbals are mapped across the key range.
• Introduction to the MIDI Mapping Window (05:13) - See how the MIDI Mapping window is used to coordinate and adjust mappings between Addictive Drums 2 and electronic drum hardware.
• Customizing Fills (10:51) - Follow along as a groove is chosen for a simple arrangement and various fills are selected, added, and modified to fit the desired feel of the drum part.
• Customizing Your Kit (08:00) - Hear how a stock kit is customized using some Flexi sounds, gated reverb, and more.