IIRC, if you bought X3p on or after March 1st, you get a free upgrade. Even if you have to pay, it is well worth it just for the sound alone. The new Fairfax pak is really nice!

a little older thread but this may help some who are wondering about presets from old AD versions ... or sharing AD kit setups ...
 
I was online and found some great AD1 presets (ex. search for " The Buddha Rats")
Download and saved as .ADPreset (ex. TBR_RockBox.ADPreset)
Opened up AD2 - selected the kit tab
Drag the AD1 preset file from a windows explorer session onto AD2
--- VOILA! kit and all settings are there
Then hit save! to save it in your "My Presets" bin of presets within AD2 and as an .AD2Preset in windows (C:\users .....)
 
Yeah!
 
Now if everyone who has AD1 or AD2 saved just one preset and shared it with everyone here ... heaven!

Beepster
aaand apparently their forum is down for "maintenance". lol
 
Bad timing but here it is anyway...
 
http://www.xlnaudio.com/forum-down
 
uh... scratch that as well because I guess that link will just lead you to their "down" page but there is a facebook link.
 
Wow.
 

I believe it's been down for a while, it has been when I've looked before. I wonder if the complaints about small issues wre building up, and it looked a bit negative from a marketing point of view. Hopefully they are working on them.

So I contacted XLN Audio support and I got the following response.  Kind of a bummer.  I thought Platinum included a free update???
 
Sent:
Hey, I do have one more question.  How do I load the AD1 kit pieces into AD2?  I have songs using these and would like to keep working on them with the new interface.
 
Response:
In answer to your question you cannot load in AD1 kitpieces into AD2 directly as AD2 is a different program from AD1. But you can buy the upgrade to AD2 from us which converts all your AD1 content for use in AD2. More details on the upgrade can be found here:http://www.xlnaudio.com/upgrade
 
 
Anyone else ... ideas ???

kzmaier
So I contacted XLN Audio support and I got the following response.  Kind of a bummer.  I thought Platinum included a free update???
 

Platinum includes a voucher for AD2 kits, MIDI and kit pieces NOT an upgrade to AD1. The only way to use AD1 in AD2 is purchase the upgrade. Occasionally,  it does go on sale.

kzmaierBut you can buy the upgrade to AD2 from us which converts all your AD1 content for use in AD2. Anyone else ... ideas ???

 
This sounds even worse than not being bale to open AD1 presets.
If you have projects with AD1 loaded and you use the converter so you can use the AD1 kits in AD2 then wouldn't that mean you wouldn't be able to open those old AD1 projects at all?
 
Steve

Not if you leave AD1 installed.

I have AD1 and AD2 installed which is fine.  I got AD1 with Sonar X3 and AD2 with Platinum.