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  • Now that the smoke has cleared-Which ADpacks did you get? (p.4)
2015/02/10 09:08:43
Afrodrum
Fairfax 1, Black Velvet and Jazz Sticks. Indie and Funk were high on my list too. Funny how close are our choices here.
2015/02/10 09:38:21
Mesh
After listening to all of them closely, I decided to get a bit of variety and liked the sounds of these:
 
AdPacks:
1) Fairfax 2
2) Reel Machines
3) Vintage Dry
 
MidiPacks:
Rock Songs
Percussion Beats
Blues (coz I luvz da bluez :))
 
I can't remember which kits I got, but I think they're the congas, picolo snare, & the big bass (purple drum)).
 
 
Of note, I use the Percussion Beats midi with other drum kits (i.e Reel Machine/Fairfax2) and it's really fantastic, easy to use stuff. Also, as someone else mentioned, the transform feature is very useful as well.
 
I want to get as many of their Adpacks as I can, but a bit broke atm........I'm ready to trade some of my Maschine Expansions or even other plugs as I'm totally Addicted to these drums.   
2015/02/10 12:37:17
RSMCGUITAR
I purchased the Fairfax Bundle before upgrading to Platinum (the wait was killing me, lol!) After upgrading I picked up the Indie, Vintage Dry and Blue Oyster ADPaks.

For MIDI I chose: American Rock, American Indie, Loud Beats and Songs (and I already got Indie)

I like them all so far. It is certainly MUCH easier than how I was working before. I used to rewire Reason into Reaper for drums and wasted a lot of time doing so.

One thing that I wish Addictive would put up on their site is the range of BPM the midi packs contain.
2015/02/10 14:19:05
beltrom
I had studio rock, prog and pop from ad1 to ad2 upgrade and had Metal and Session Percussion as well from earlier.
 
I had almost decided to stop using AD2 for several reasons but the Sonar trippelpack turned me back to it. I even purchased an additional artist bundle to round out the sets as I had a hard time deciding. New ones: Vintage, Black Velvet,  Jazz brushes, Blue Oyster and Fairfax 2.
2015/02/10 16:45:30
jerrydf
I took the opportunity to get some decent brushes, so I went for Jazz Brushes, Studio Pop and Fairfax 1 (which seems to be most popular from the posts above, but I haven't done an exact count).
 
I also had Djembe, Timbau and Sangban. No midis.
 
jdf
2015/02/10 18:04:37
xiwix
Fairfax 2, Blue Oyster, Reel Machines + DW woofer BD and DW piccolo snare.
 
Loving the easy layering - my first frankenstein experiment is 808 BD layered with the DW woofer BD. 
 
 
 
 
2015/02/10 22:21:23
Flerb
Fairfax 2, Metal, and Black Oyster.
2015/02/10 22:31:19
cparmerlee
I got the Jazz sticks & rushes and the Pop AD.
 
But what I really wanted was the MIDI stuff.  I tried to select that and got an error.  Now I can't select it at all.  So I have the drums, but not the MIDI material.  I sent a request for support and have heard zilch after 2 days.
 
On edit, XLN did respond.  The MIDI tracks actually were installed.  I was just confused.
2015/02/10 22:34:44
Splat
XLN can be slow for support. Took me two weeks last time.. 
2015/02/10 23:27:11
jmasno5
dlesaux
Okay, I'm going to be the oddball here and say I've never even installed Addictive Drums. I use EZdrummer and didn't see the need to learn yet another program.  But it looks like I'm in the minority here!

You are not alone. EZD2 is brilliant but I will try some AD2 after building the patterns with EZ. AD2 offers an amazing amount of edits/tweaks.
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