Need advice about Addictive Drums 2 upgrades with Sonar Platinum
I currently own the base version of Addictive Drums 1 that came with Sonar X3 Producer, and also an upgrade to Addictive Drums 2 that I bought from XLN that only contained one extra drum kit.
I was wanting to add more drum kits, but individually they cost a whopping £90 each.
So I am now looking to upgrade to Sonar Platinum instead, as doing so comes with the AD2 Producer Bundle which allows me to get 3 extra kits, and the upgrade is cheaper than buying two drum kits separately.
On the cakewalk blog, I read a few things about this that I would like clearing up.
Firstly it says:
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What if I already have Addictive Drums 2?
Lucky you! You can redeem the code that comes with SONAR Platinum or Professional to add additional kits that you don’t have yet.
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Does this mean that as I already own AD2, I will be able to add more than the 3 drum kits that come with the AD2 Producer bundle, or just the 3 that it already includes? If the former, how many extra kits would this allow me to add?
Secondly, it also says:
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What if I already have Addictive Drums 1?
You can still use Addictive Drums 1, Addictive Drums 2 does not replace it. It just simply sits next to it in your list of available instruments.
For an optional $79.95 you can upgrade your entire collection of Addictive Drums 1 packs in addition to choosing 3 brand new packs for Addictive Drums 2 with SONAR Platinum.
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I just have the version of AD1 that came with Sonar X3 Producer, and dont think this contains any additional drum kits to move over to AD2, however I would still like to buy this to get the 3 additional kits. I would like to know if the base version of AD1 that came with Sonar X3 Producer contained any additional kits that would be upgraded to AD2.
TLDR - Buying Sonar Platinum upgrades just to get more kits for Addictive Drums 2 is vastly less expensive (hint, Im not using the term 'cheaper' as it still aint cheap) then it is to buy the kits separately from XLN.