Received a very nice email from XLNAudio concerning my complaint about the confusion that their WEB site gave concerning the difference between and Addictive Drums 2 "Upgrade" and the "Engine". Let's just say that they made a very nice offer that I accepted. This is good since I like the sound of AD products and will be purchasing more kits from them.
 
Walt

I emailed them, too, Walt, as I have upgraded to AD2 already and bought the Fairfax Volume 1. The Producers Bundle does let you choose any 3 ADpaks, any 3 MIDIpaks, and any 3 Kitpiece Paks. So it'll be interesting to see if/when I get a response from xln, how amenable they are.
 
Michael
 

I hear new adpaks are coming in 2015. Since I own them all, I'll just claim any new ones as they arrive.

I'm interested to know what Adpacks they are working on.

TerraSin
I'm interested to know what Adpacks they are working on.

Well you CERTAINLY will not get that answer here, I suspect.

I've been poking them a little on FB lately. ;)

I still haven't decided on my three AD Paks.    Can you poke harder?   

I spent a bunch of time on AD2 last night and feel like I'm finally understanding how to make a ride sound like I want. It has been a learning curve for me, whereas other drum software just gets me the right sound automatically (if I pick a good one).

The difference, however, is that with AD2 you can really, really tweak the sound, whereas other ones I've been using give just one sound. So AD2 impresses me a lot. But it's been a learning curve experience. It has a lot of adjustments possible around velocity sensitivity etc.

Groove3 has a good video on AD2. There's good stuff on YouTube also. I love when there's enough there you can't absorb it all at once. There's a lot in AD2.

I'm also deciding on which 3 to get......so far, I'm getting Fairfax 2. (I'm thinking about getting 2 paks for Rock/funk and 1 for electronic music).
 
Any thoughts on Reel Machines?