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Registering XLN products is like Native Instruments service center. Once you download the XLN installer on your DAW, you can register any of their products and keep them up to date. I think it works very well.

I'm a little confused here. I purchased, downloaded and installed the upgrade to X3 Producer yesterday. I'm poking around and I don't see Addictive Drums in any of the VST folders on in the Instrument list.  Is this a complete separate download?

For what it's worth, I was definitely not deflecting responsibility. Just organizing a mult-tier attack on the problem :). 
 
redbarchetta: yes, it's a separate download. Your store account will have an Addictive Drums product key. Enter that at their website and download the installer.

paulo

TheSteven
"you need to contact them" is a perfectly valid answer...

So if you went to a dealer and bought a car, but it turned out that the key wouldn't start it and their attitude was "not our problem, talk to Ford" you would be ok with that ?
 

I more or less agree with you.
 
Minimally the 05_XLN_Audio_Addictive_Drums_Download_Instructions.rtf should have had a line/paragraph outlining what process would be needed to activate A/D on a non-internet connected PC.
 
Edit:
Actually per you example - this would be more like if you bought a car and Ford sent you to a hi-fi shop across town to install your sub-woofer audio system (or what analogy rocks your boat). If your woofer stops woofing Ford is going to going to have you contact the hi-fi shop.
 

GIM Productions

Bill Jackson [Cakewalk]
I've contacted our friends at XLN to see if there's some workaround.

Many Thanks!!
I believe that XLN's staff found a solution for us!
 

Not according to this....
 

Offline Installation of Addictive Drums and add-ons

2013-03-22 11:34 As of May 2012, all XLN Audio products require an internet connection (and at least OS X 10.5 on Mac) for installation. If you don't meet these requirements, we will continue to support 'offline' installation of AD / ADpaks / MIDIpaks released before this date.

Products NOT available for offline install:
- Addictive Drums 1.5.4 or later

Yes - if nothing has happened since March I guess offline is not available for the one we get with Sonar (1.5.7)

redbarchetta
I'm a little confused here. I purchased, downloaded and installed the upgrade to X3 Producer yesterday. I'm poking around and I don't see Addictive Drums in any of the VST folders on in the Instrument list.  Is this a complete separate download?

I'm confused too... did anyone answer this?
J

jbow

redbarchetta
I'm a little confused here. I purchased, downloaded and installed the upgrade to X3 Producer yesterday. I'm poking around and I don't see Addictive Drums in any of the VST folders on in the Instrument list.  Is this a complete separate download?

I'm confused too... did anyone answer this?
J

Post #24

Hi jbow
From where I'm not sure because I thought I had downloaded all files that were listed last night when I started downloading. Kinda thinking Cake needs to have some better documentation on how to get Addictive Drums up and running.