lawajava

cclarry
Just listening the to the grooves and going through the presets these sound good.

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Thanks for the screen shots and early testing. Does it look like you can assign a ride or a cymbal to Flexi1 or Flexi2? I've wanted a way to focus less on the overheads for those and have them available for individual mixing like the other main kit pieces. Just wondering.

I don't see an option for cymbals lawa....just the kit pieces....

EDIT:  Hi Hats...

Velocity layers seem to be good...I can get really light and really hard hits...
The reverb sounds really good.  Don't know whose reverb they are using.
There is a bunch of stuff I have to read the manual about.  There is a "Snapshot"
option with a little Camera Icon on the bottom of the interface.

More to come!!!

So far, while it doesn't have a "song writer" it sounds good.
There are more options for editing the MIDI patterns.

Tuck...here's the Pattern Editor...



It's under the 3rd Tab on the Beats screen...

Much to learn about this new piece of kit...

I shall know more tomorrow!

EDIT:  This isn't what I thought it was...

Thanks for checking. Am I off base thinking that it's unfortunate I can't mix the ride or cymbals as their own levels in AD instead of always working them through the overheads? It's easy in Session Drummer and in other drums I use. I like Addictive Drums a lot, but have been wrestling with that.

lawajava
Thanks for checking. Am I off base thinking that it's unfortunate I can't mix the ride or cymbals as their own levels in AD instead of always working them through the overheads? It's easy in Session Drummer and in other drums I use. I like Addictive Drums a lot, but have been wrestling with that.

I don't think that's an outrages "Want".  I haven't dug into this deep enough to know all what's been 
changed on going on...that will take time...

I will certainly report back...

cclarry
Velocity layers seem to be good...I can get really light and really hard hits...
The reverb sounds really good.  Don't know whose reverb they are using.
There is a bunch of stuff I have to read the manual about.  There is a "Snapshot"
option with a little Camera Icon on the bottom of the interface.

More to come!!!

So far, while it doesn't have a "song writer" it sounds good.
There are more options for editing the MIDI patterns.

Tuck...here's the Pattern Editor...



It's under the 3rd Tab on the Beats screen...

Much to learn about this new piece of kit...

I shall know more tomorrow!

Hey Larry,
 
Yeah I found that earlier but I did not see any way of actually changing the groove by adding/removing hits or changing the timing to individual kit pieces that I was hoping for although the accents controls and the global velocity controls are pretty cool and can add a significant feel change to the existing grooves. I think I really was expecting something similar to the song writer function in EZD2.
 
Still too soon to tell since this is just a demo that we probably shouldn't even know about yet...
 
Thanks to ArcRex for posting the discovery.

The Kit Audio Demos sounds good.
I went through each one individually...

Yes. It sounds very good. You can add or delete beats in the "grid search". The transform thingy is pretty cool. I guess this is a demo limitation, but I can't seem to refresh the midi to add my 3rd party stuff. A negative is having to buy all of the kits. It doesn't seem to come with any, but all kits come with AD2. I wish we could at least keep the original 3 that are in AD. I believe this and EZD2 are going to be very nice together. Create your midi groove or song in EZD2 and switch the midi maps of AD2 to EZD and then I can use the AD2 engine when wanted. Not a bad thing if you ask me.

That's it, you guys sold me onto it! After a bit of time with the demo tonight, I've finally ordered it from Audio Deluxe for $119 - meaning that I'll get the free upgrade to version 2. :)

I really hope we see some ADpaks promo offers with the launch. Especially if they are trying to swing over EZ customers

Rain - not much resistance there.