Using E-Drums with Addictive Drums 1.5

AD 1.5 Preliminary Release 21 October!

Using E-Drums with Addictive Drums provides a very powerful setup to record and produce drums for your music. Or just jam!

Check out our website http://www.xlnaudio.com for more and to download the AD 1.5 Update.

//The XLN Team

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Music

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• Addictive
• Drums
• 1.5
• Adrenaline
• XLN
• Audio
• E-Drums
• Producer
• Tracks
• Presets
• Beats

[trumskolan]

Stuff sounds great!

Bonzo sounds from plastic....

I will have to get this Addicted Drums to my laptop...

Groove on!

Janne

[XLNaudio]

Hey Janne, there you are. Hoppas allt är gött!

[Dread098]

Hi Enrique Iglesias.

[Lgw1984]

@trumskolan It sounds better than this demo... The Snare in this Demo sounds like a 50cent song

[reptaryay]

@thewretchedrod yes its fine, lol audio REALLY isnt strenuous, besides, the drumset is its own interface really so your not taxing your system very much IF at all...i use it while my guitarist plays in real time, with low latency monitoring for both of us,

[thewretchedrod]

I have a MacBook pro 1.1... It's has Intel core duo, Do you thing i can run a rig llike this with it..?

[mistrbigg]

on an i5.. thats going to PROBABLY be between 128 512 on the buffer..128 would be like 2 ms and probably will just not work hehe..but 256 and 512 should with that 3-5 ms latency i mentioned before. i have found on the td-20 and td-30 kits, that the "nuance" of my playing is EXACTLY what i am actually doing. the only difference is, with a REAL acoustic kit, the sound is pretty much the sound unless you trigger it in a daw.. and usually that doesnt pick up ghosting and such very well.

[mistrbigg]

once the software is installed on you laptop along with your audio and midi drivers...plug in the midi out on your td-20 to the midi in on your midi interface or soundcard, and plug the out of the soundcard or midi interface to the in on the td-20...now go into the settings in whatever you are using and set the asio configuration buffer as LOW as you can before you start to hear clicks pops or it hickupping.

[mistrbigg]

i have found that the settings right out of the box on ad dont QUITE do it, and there tends to be a LITTLE cross talk (you hit the floor tom..and the snare triggers a little) but after some modification it is stellar. the NI vst instruments are perfect right out of the box.

[mistrbigg]

with an i5 laptop with 4 gigs of ram running win764 bit, you can easily get your latency in the 3-5 ms range, which is OUTSTANDING, and sometimes even greater than the td-20 brain itself (id rate at about 4-7 ms but more at 4 than at 7 hehe).

all the programs also have pre set mappings, so you dont have to mess with your kit too much on the drum brain end.

[mistrbigg]

latency is the amount of time it takes for what you physically do on the drum set, to register in the computer, and play back through the speakers. to solve this issue, you would use a SOLID computer...i use an i7 with 16 gigs of ram...and a SOLID sound card.. my main card is the motu 2408 mk3...for home, and the motu traveler when i am on the go.

[mistrbigg]

5.midi cables two for i/o

6.speakers or headphones to hear plugged into your interface in some way...

ok. what makes a kit like the td-20/30 so incredible is it's triggers, and brain. i have found the "samples" though VERY good, to pale in comparison to the NI Studio Drummer or the Addictive drums kits however. the thing you DO get with the td-20 brain you DONT get right out of the box with the software programs is the latency.

[mistrbigg]

4. a DECENT ASIO sound card..usb3-2 recommended (unless you can do pci express style)..run you about $4-500 US (up to 2gs for a pci express kind) ..you can go down as low as $200..but dont get anything cheaper than that. midi capability HIGHLY recomended...that way you keep it all in one unit...i use RME and MOTU interfaces.. i find the motu to be the "fastest" (explained at the end).. the motu traveler is OUTSTANDING for mobile applications.