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2017/12/14 08:15:49
Kamikaze
If you buy the Custom Packs from a third party when they are on a sale, you'll get three kits, kits pieces and 3 midi packs
2017/12/14 08:53:56
user390096
I bought 2 new XLN Adpaks at 50% off about a month ago (United Pop and Vintage Dry) but looked again today and didn't see any sales so next I went to Sweetwater and they didn't show any sales and finally ended up trying the brush set in TTS-1 and found it way better than expected. I guess when Instruments are included kinda free within the TTS-1, my tendency is to mentally devalue them but so many of them are very impressive sounding so more respect for Sonar. Come to think of it, my goal in buying the Adpaks was to get a vibraslap which I learned is only available within the United Pop pak. Soon after, I found a vibraslap in the TTS-1 that actually sounds better to me than the AD2 version - Sonar wins again! Oh well, you can never have too many synth instruments, can you?
 
I also own Sony Vegas and Sony recently sold that video editing program to a German company called Magix and it appears to be alive and well. Hopefully someone will buy Sonar and keep it going, maybe Magix will buy it?
2017/12/14 10:17:46
Kamikaze
2017/12/14 15:20:34
user390096
Kamikaze,
 
Looks like about $84 for a lot of drums. I'll keep it in mind. I just bought the full Overloud TH3 for $119 and got the unlock codes.
 
Thanx for the heads-up.
2017/12/14 16:15:28
Kamikaze
The sale price comes around again and again. So it can be worth waiting if you have something in mind, but not the cash.
2017/12/14 17:42:22
Cactus Music
The topic of brushes come up from time to time and yes, so far TTS-1 wins the challenge. All the others, including the Jazz kit brushes in AD2 just don't cut through in a mix. Don't waste your money on the AD kit.  They don't even sound like brushes, more like using one of those Hot Rod bamboo things. 
I also recorded my own samples and use Session Drummer and still..
the TTS-1 cuts through and sounds like a brush. 
The other funny thing is I also find the default TTS-1 kick cuts through and sits nicely in a mix. 
I soloed the AD2 kicks and no matter what, there is a bit of reverb on all of them?? what's with that, sampling a kick with reverb? AD2 would be perfect if you could drop other samples into it. 
2017/12/15 04:56:51
Kamikaze
I disagree on the brushes in AD2, I think they are very good. There are 18 different key assignments fr the brushes n just the snare (including the sweeps), are you weren't just trying the harder hits? I do wish they had a second brush snare in the additional kit piece options (they shuld have done this at the same time as the full kit)
 
For the bassdrum, did you go to this page and turn down the overhead and room bleed, to get a dry direct sound
 

 
EDIT: the same page also has the beater and front balance
 
 
 
2017/12/15 05:28:44
Dave Schreier
user390096
vibraslap in the TTS-1 that actually sounds better to me than the AD2 version...

Something is wrong with the AD2 vibraslap I think - velocities of 76 thru 88, and 101 to 127 sound quiet and distant, like half of the sample is missing.
2017/12/15 05:44:27
Kamikaze
I didn't even knew I had that. Yeah, I can understand the low velocities, they wuld just make a the instrument not respond, but the high ones are a weird sound
2017/12/15 11:32:11
user390096
I concur the vibraslap sounds weird, and needs specific velocities to sound like a vibraslap in the Adpak. In the TTS-1, it sounds like a vibraslap at any velocity. I should contact XLN and ask if the vibraslap is defective. I want the vibraslap to sound like the first one I ever noticed as a kid in Traffic's "Low Spark of High-heeled Boys" Awe, where has the time gone?
 
Speaking of AD2, is there a way to see a view of the entire kit with each hit highlighted on each kit piece like in other drum synths? 
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