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.

Lawa, I got deeper into this.  The "L" in the upper left hand corner of the Kit Slot
allows you to pick anything and put it in Flex1, 2, etc....so you CAN do it!!!

Apparently, after reading the manual, there is 
no way to edit the Beats within AD2.  That must
still be done in the PR.

I may have missed something, as I have a lot more to study on this.
But I'm loving the sound.  The Reverb sounds really nice.
The kits sound really good.

I think that I saw on the email that you would get AD2 versions of all the ADPaks you already own, so you don't have to rebuy them. Can't remember if it was in their email or on the website.
 
Not sure if I will purchase the upgrade immediately as AD1 meets my needs, but I will be following the posts of the early adopters.

clintmartin
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.

AD 1 came with some kits and when I bought it they were also giving away 2 AD Paks or the Retro AD Pak. I never tried adding my other midi files to the browser because AD 1 doesn't use general midi mapping. I load AD into the synth rack and set AD to utilized general midi in the map window to browse my other midi files. I'm looking forward to AD2 because I'm pretty vested in AD Paks.
 
Rocky

I have a few from groove monkee and platinum samples. I like them because they are formatted for SD, EZD and AD. Groove monkee has a world percussion pack setup for " Toontrack's latin percussion" that is nice.

I love that they've expanded the number of kit pieces you can have loaded at once. That's major, since I've been resorting to loading multiple instances of AD--for example, to load a secondary snare, session percussion, extra cymbals, etc. It's also great that they've expanded on AD1, so it's not like you have to re-learn a totally new product.

Has anyone tried it with Jamstix yet? I love how easy it is to drive AD with Jamstix's MIDI-out given that it includes an AD mapping preset. I hope nothing's changed in AD2 to stop that working.

Here's a video of that Fairfax kit they posted on FB this am.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eluTewUrn9w

strikinglyhandsome1
Rain - not much resistance there.

LOL
 
I guess. In view of how I've been trying to find a solution for my current bunch of projects short of buying BFD, it was worth a try. And their Vistalite kick has got to be one of the best sounding bass drum to my taste. :P

I found the standalone AD2 in C:\program files\xlnaudio\addictive drums 2

The installer didn't create a Stand Alone Icon.
 
Just an FYI