Buy Sonar Platinum with Addictive Drums 2

AD2 that comes with Sonar update is a fully standalone package that you can use in other DAWs.

No trick. Certainly makes the update even more valuable.

Hi Mike and Scook,
 
Thanks very much for the superquick advice. This forum is absolutely great! I can put a question like this on the Cubase forum and not get a response for weeks :-). I follow this forum frequently because it's helpfull and so userfriendly. So my compliments to you all.
 
The available choices make it even more tempting. The offer on the XLN site do not let you choose between packs. Only thing I found a bit uneasy about AD2 was the way you have to deal with beats you change. When you fiddle about with a beat (e.g. transforming or choose the replace option in the grid) you want to save that for future use. From what I understand you need to drag the pattern to your sequencer first and then place it in the exernal midi files folder and then refresh that within AD2. Is there an easier way of doing this? EZdrummer allows direct drag and drop from within the interface itself. Well.... that's actually the only question I have about AD2. The rest is more flexible than EZdrummer in my opinion.
 
Thanks....

riniehuigen EZdrummer allows direct drag and drop from within the interface itself. Well.... that's actually the only question I have about AD2. 

I'm pretty sure you can do this with AD2 and most of the main drum vsti's let you do this.
 
If you're looking for something a bit more advanced than the afore mentioned I would strongly advise having a look at BFD3, obviously 'more advanced' also means more complex but it's well worth it.
 
Steve

What Mesh said. That is as close to a "no brainer" as you can get if you were thinking about getting Addictive Drums anyway.