What packs should you get for XLN Addictive Drums 2? You really can't make a bad choice as they're all good. If I were to select three packs it would be: FairFax Vol.2 - well rounded kit with a variety of sounds, can make funk breaks like funky drummer Studio Prog - allows for fresh modern breaks Metal - this will give you a nice alternative, you can get some very Dillinja-esque snares, also you may want to look at Black Velvet Also Session Percussion will provide some nice variations including some latin-style percussive sounds. Other packs I like: Black Velvet - nice big sounding drums, inspired from Stadium Rock Fairfax Vol.1 Funk Modern Jazz Modern Soul & R&B - similar to Fairfax, very raw, soulful drums Blue Oyster
Addictive Drum 2, is actually addictive. I don’t use drum loops, but I feel like I got a bunch of high quality drum loops with real sounds. I’m learning so many patterns from different sub genres, it’s crazy! Worth! 100%
mad you're ahead of the curve man, i was literally looking up how to create realistic breaks the other day, could you do a tutorial on how to create more interesting dark atmospheric intros?
Your videos just do it for me in a way that other channels don't. It's like the rest of the channels I watch are a couple of months behind you. You seem so on point. Thanks for the vids bro
I know this is an 'older' video but dude, you're amazing. Not only am I long-time fan of your tunes, you also have a video on every topic imaginable within producing. All perfectly understandable for beginners too. Keep it up!
18:05 I think the snare buzz does not affect the actual sound of the snare. It is the buzz you hear when you hit other parts of your kit (mostly toms and kick) So if you don't want your snare buzzing when you play the toms or the kick drum, turn it down.
I was bored and wondered if there was anything I could do to AD2 to change things around a bit.. What I have just witnessed has blown my mind.Thank you so much for this
Good video. FYI the snare buzz doesn’t affect the sound of the snare. It’s actually to control the level of snare bleed in the kick mics. You will only hear the difference when the kick is playing. It emulates how the snare rattles as the kick is played on a real acoustic kit.
I over a year late on this one great technique demonstrated, I did this years ago on version. Never quite worked out for me lol. I wanted those heavy drums like tech itch and current value etc. Think you have breathed new inspiration to my quest.
Well this is convenient. I actually picked up AD2 a couple weeks ago and have been loving it. For the stuff I do, I've always been looking for more organic drums, and this has been fitting the bill. That's not to say UVI's Drum Designer is bad, but this has been great. Happy to post a link to a grunged out riff I did using AD2 if that's cool.
Great topic! Looking forward to learning more about synthetic drums. But if you asked me today, I'm saying acoustic drums and the classic funk/soul breakbeats, or bust! :). (P.S. Can we start bugging you about your Serum preset pack?! That's still forthcoming right?)
As in most things the combination of acoustic + digital is more than the sum of its part (another example is VFX + practical fx in video). A fat acoustic snare body with a sharp and present digital transient through some soft saturation is unbeatable.
The best part of Addictive Drums is the huge amount of midi patterns it includes, which you can drag straight on to the arrange page. Anyone can spend a week on a snare, but hardly anyone can actually play the drums with style, let alone program them...
Absolutely love all of your production videos. Easily one of the best music production tutorial channels around! Quick question: would you ever bounce the individual channels from AD2 (e.g. kick, snare, hi-hat... etc.) into your DAW on separate tracks or do you always bounce as a single WAV and chop it up? Thanks for all you do.
@@STRANJAH the room sound would be key.. it's hard to say though because the amen that most people are familiar with actually come from the pitman pressing of the 45 single which is on styrene and that mastering on that version is specifically dirty especially on the right side. that's the one that features in Ultimate Breaks and Beats other additions of the amen are more polite (But some are still cool)
hahahahah so many layers of emulation that we need. First the room and mic, then emulate the tape/recording, then an emulator for the material used in the pressing! Then you can add one of the vinyl emulators to make it sound like it was sampled off an older record ;P
Coincidentally working towards own breaks so WOW. Thanks for extra informative tutorial. Were you graced with the Full Addictive library or do you consider 3 Kits sufficient for Amen style choppage?
@@STRANJAH personally I think they both have their advantages. I don’t think Addictive drums is more advanced though. SD3 has a full on mixer, effects and overhead mic control and it’s own sequencer with full midi control too. I guess it’s a case of “as long as it does the job”. 😬
Couple people mentioned ez drummer haven’t played with it though. Feel free to post the tune up. But busy right now but if I have a chance I’ll check it out.
I was thinking I’m going crazy for not being able to find the reverb turn off but it seems it’s there to stay, good thing when sped up it mostly disappears and it’s quite clear audio
hey guys! for some reason when I edit the midi the original groove still plays not matter if I remove all the notes. Im currently using the trial version so maybe i dont have this feature yet? Otherwise I might be doing something wrong :')
@@STRANJAH no problem man! Love your tutorials they are the 💣 bro!! I've not long got addictive drums and I have not really used it I will be trying these methods. Thank you for your time and tutorials man. Genuine legend
Hi Stranjah, how are you? I'm about to buy AD2 Custom, but i m not sure wich AdPack and AdKit should i pick to make fat D&B and breackore. Any advice? Thank you, big up!
You really can't make a bad choice as they're all good. If I were to select three packs it would be: FairFax Vol.2 - well rounded kit with a variety of sounds, can make funk breaks like funky drummer Studio Prog - allows for fresh modern breaks Metal - this will give you a nice alternative, you can get some very Dillinja-esque snares, also you may want to look at Black Velvet Also Session Percussion will provide some nice variations including some latin-style percussive sounds. Other packs I like: Black Velvet - nice big sounding drums, inspired from Stadium Rock Fairfax Vol.1 Funk Modern Jazz Modern Soul & R&B - similar to Fairfax, very raw, soulful drums Blue Oyster
I've been having crazy clipping problems when just loading the default addictive drums plugin to a channel, and can't seem to figure out why it's clipping. Might i add the drums are super quiet as compared to anything else in my track and everything that is louder is not clipping at all. Any thoughts on what it might be? Thanks in advance
@@STRANJAH i am using ableton yea! i've been playing with the mixer inside AD2 and the ableton mixer and it takes a lot of messing around to get it right, doesn't seem normal.
hmmm, tough choice .. synthetic or real .. I honestly like them both, it's really cool AD2, but expensive, amd after having it for 1/2 a decade I still haven't got to know the drum pattern function's :D
@@STRANJAH skee masks drum work blows my mind, especially with how versatile he is in all his music, from panorama, to flyby vfr, to dial 274, to even grime style beats or dub like on IT Danza, yet his beats always still sound like him, would love to see you doing anything like those and give any of your expertise!
About the Snare Buzz control of the Snare from minute 18:04, I saw this video the other day about a plugin that emulates the snare buzz which explains the principle: th-cam.com/video/6ECs7W_u4tQ/w-d-xo.html
a technique i use is having the kick drums trigger a tone generator with a gate. check the key of the fundamental of your kick drum with a spectrum analyser and then set the frequency of the tone generator to match.
What packs should you get for XLN Addictive Drums 2? You really can't make a bad choice as they're all good. If I were to select three packs it would be:
FairFax Vol.2
- well rounded kit with a variety of sounds, can make funk breaks like funky drummer
Studio Prog - allows for fresh modern breaks
Metal - this will give you a nice alternative, you can get some very Dillinja-esque snares, also you may want to look at Black Velvet
Also Session Percussion will provide some nice variations including some latin-style percussive sounds.
Other packs I like:
Black Velvet - nice big sounding drums, inspired from Stadium Rock
Fairfax Vol.1
Funk
Modern Jazz
Modern Soul & R&B
- similar to Fairfax, very raw, soulful drums
Blue Oyster
Addictive Drum 2, is actually addictive. I don’t use drum loops, but I feel like I got a bunch of high quality drum loops with real sounds. I’m learning so many patterns from different sub genres, it’s crazy! Worth! 100%
mad you're ahead of the curve man, i was literally looking up how to create realistic breaks the other day, could you do a tutorial on how to create more interesting dark atmospheric intros?
Can look into it :)
Your videos just do it for me in a way that other channels don't. It's like the rest of the channels I watch are a couple of months behind you. You seem so on point. Thanks for the vids bro
Appreciate that a lot I'll do my best!
I know this is an 'older' video but dude, you're amazing. Not only am I long-time fan of your tunes, you also have a video on every topic imaginable within producing. All perfectly understandable for beginners too. Keep it up!
Heavy!!!
I have been using AD for years and you have just shown me a next level. Thanks
Glad to hear that!
i am very exited about your content Stranjah
THANK you, I enjoyed doing this one!
This was a sick tutorial played around with AD before but mostly just layering up percussion this is a whole new level
I was blown away. I remade the funky drummer last night lol
Hands down...this is the best video on Addictive Drums out there!
18:05 I think the snare buzz does not affect the actual sound of the snare. It is the buzz you hear when you hit other parts of your kit (mostly toms and kick) So if you don't want your snare buzzing when you play the toms or the kick drum, turn it down.
I was bored and wondered if there was anything I could do to AD2 to change things around a bit.. What I have just witnessed has blown my mind.Thank you so much for this
Really enjoy the tutorials and the dope intros lol. Pre ordered Gnarly, can't wait!
Thank you for pre ordering. I think you’ll enjoy it!
Thank you
This one's right up my street!!
glad it is!
Yep love AD proper Sikwan!! 💥
Thanks for this one! Just bought AD2 and this tutorial got me on the rails right away.
Great video! Been looking for some something like this! Great stuff man!
Such a great plugin - only thing missing for me is the ability to import your own hits, the effects and processing are so powerful
Can’t wait!!!!
Me too!
Good video. FYI the snare buzz doesn’t affect the sound of the snare. It’s actually to control the level of snare bleed in the kick mics.
You will only hear the difference when the kick is playing. It emulates how the snare rattles as the kick is played on a real acoustic kit.
AD2 is great. It works for every genre. Always liked how much it can do internally before even routing it out to DAW tracks.
Pride is based 😎
@@dwellerinblack7816 pride is weak. all sin is weak.
Literally the omnisphere of drums
I'm looking to experiment with drum n bass and since I got AD2 thought it would be to learn how. Thanks for the video!
Happy new year mate
I over a year late on this one great technique demonstrated, I did this years ago on version. Never quite worked out for me lol. I wanted those heavy drums like tech itch and current value etc. Think you have breathed new inspiration to my quest.
Well this is convenient. I actually picked up AD2 a couple weeks ago and have been loving it.
For the stuff I do, I've always been looking for more organic drums, and this has been fitting the bill. That's not to say UVI's Drum Designer is bad, but this has been great.
Happy to post a link to a grunged out riff I did using AD2 if that's cool.
Would love to hear it. I absolutely LOVE AD2. 😀
@@STRANJAH Here you go! th-cam.com/video/JOvx8W9_s0w/w-d-xo.html
@@STRANJAH Also, what kits do you have? I have Studio Pop, Black Velvet, and Fairfax Vol. 2
@@JasonGillmanJr That was a great drum solo, love that clangy snare!
@@STRANJAH Yeah, that's why I can't shut up about that Pearl Piccolo snare haha
😀 What do you prefer ACOUSTIC or SYNTHETIC drums?
Great topic! Looking forward to learning more about synthetic drums. But if you asked me today, I'm saying acoustic drums and the classic funk/soul breakbeats, or bust! :). (P.S. Can we start bugging you about your Serum preset pack?! That's still forthcoming right?)
@@vnayini Yes this video will be more around acoustic funk/soul. Good question... ;-)
@@STRANJAH gnarly!! can't wait :)
We are the Drum Machine generation. 😀
We go for the "Drumkit is falling down a flight of stairs" sound here.
As in most things the combination of acoustic + digital is more than the sum of its part (another example is VFX + practical fx in video). A fat acoustic snare body with a sharp and present digital transient through some soft saturation is unbeatable.
Very cool, I love addictive drums I find it far quicker and more intuitive than superior drummer plus the sound is great!
Yes I have both, and after getting AD2 I haven't looked back, it is really an intuitive tool!
was hoping for you to do this last week when i cop'd AD2
Great tool isn’t it?
@@STRANJAH Can't get enough of its sound atm!
Great video. Thanks
That's it, time to get addictive drums and play with proper breaks now. Thanks for the inspiration!
its a game changer
Loving your work m8. Thanks a lot
Glad it helped, good luck on your music.
I've been searching for this plugin for years, as a producer mentioned it in an interview and I just forgot the name.
Thank you some much!
Great content. Thank you!!
I'm interested in your Slice to Midi Preset 24:19. Do you have a video on this? or how is it made? Please and thank you
where do i watch your livestreams
Can’t wait for Pt 2
It'll be a livestream happening soon, stay posted
The best part of Addictive Drums is the huge amount of midi patterns it includes, which you can drag straight on to the arrange page. Anyone can spend a week on a snare, but hardly anyone can actually play the drums with style, let alone program them...
Yes the midi packs are pretty key. You could also extract a groove from a break you like, say the amen, and then use that ;)
@@STRANJAH how do you extract the groove from an existing beat?
Absolutely love all of your production videos. Easily one of the best music production tutorial channels around! Quick question: would you ever bounce the individual channels from AD2 (e.g. kick, snare, hi-hat... etc.) into your DAW on separate tracks or do you always bounce as a single WAV and chop it up? Thanks for all you do.
ludwig black beauty is supposedly what was used on the amen.
Teehee thanks for tip. I was working on remaking the amen last night. That might be the missing ingredient! I have the exact rhythm down.
Only thing missing is microphone emulation
@@STRANJAH the room sound would be key..
it's hard to say though because the amen that most people are familiar with actually come from the pitman pressing of the 45 single which is on styrene and that mastering on that version is specifically dirty especially on the right side.
that's the one that features in Ultimate Breaks and Beats
other additions of the amen are more polite (But some are still cool)
hahahahah so many layers of emulation that we need. First the room and mic, then emulate the tape/recording, then an emulator for the material used in the pressing! Then you can add one of the vinyl emulators to make it sound like it was sampled off an older record ;P
haha I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice how crunchy and crisp that RIGHT side is. I always like to take that side and mono it.
YES YES STRANJAH
I'm 🤬 back, TH-cam can't keep me from my STRANJ videos 😁
Basically be very carful what you say on TH-cam 😇
Big ups STRANJAH 🤜🏾 🤛
Hi Tony I am glad you are back and hopefully you got something from this.
WHAOU EXCELLENT
Nice video! But for addictive drums, how do you download the standalone Version ?
Brother we’ve gota see you remake Original Nuttah 😂
Pretty simple, use the amen snare, a 808 bass, cypress Hill sample for the siren, goodfellas sample for the intro and make the acapella with rx9....
Hey Stranjah, what is your fav kit?
Drumfunk heaven, I wonder if dgohn does that sorta thing. This is what I've been doing lately, I've learned alot from your vids. Thanks again man
I think the snare buzz adds some snare buzz to your kick for realism
yes found out now, thanks for the correction
@@STRANJAH sick videos btw
Coincidentally working towards own breaks so WOW. Thanks for extra informative tutorial. Were you graced with the Full Addictive library or do you consider 3 Kits sufficient for Amen style choppage?
I think 3 is good to start :-)
But yes I was graced with the full.
@@STRANJAH Yo thanks for response bruv. I guess with processing one can get more or less but I thought to try both Fairfax + Funk Kits.
Вот этому человечку грех лайкосик не поставить!
What’s your view on Superior drummer3?
It’s good too. Had it. AD2 is more advanced I think.
@@STRANJAH personally I think they both have their advantages.
I don’t think Addictive drums is more advanced though. SD3 has a full on mixer, effects and overhead mic control and it’s own sequencer with full midi control too.
I guess it’s a case of “as long as it does the job”. 😬
awesome
Acoustic
yo stranjah do u remember EZ drummer vst ^_^also what a legend man keep up with that piano roll DRUMFUNK
also i uploaded a little 8min tune if u wana check it quality is terrible mp3 >< but im sure ull like it eitherway its drumfunk xD by a 20year noob
Couple people mentioned ez drummer haven’t played with it though. Feel free to post the tune up. But busy right now but if I have a chance I’ll check it out.
I was thinking I’m going crazy for not being able to find the reverb turn off but it seems it’s there to stay, good thing when sped up it mostly disappears and it’s quite clear audio
Snare buzz is actuallly the bleed of the kick in the snare mic
I’m looking for a great pak combination as I started out with Soul&RnB, which sound amazing. Any recommendations for complementing it nicely?
Always enjoy a track with tasty acoustic drums, thinking the likes of Donny, Upbeats, Gydra.
hey guys! for some reason when I edit the midi the original groove still plays not matter if I remove all the notes. Im currently using the trial version so maybe i dont have this feature yet? Otherwise I might be doing something wrong :')
I thought the snare buzz was the buzz of the snare after the kick drum is played. So the vibration from the kick buzzes the snare drum
Yes you are correct, I was mistakened!
@@STRANJAH no problem man! Love your tutorials they are the 💣 bro!! I've not long got addictive drums and I have not really used it I will be trying these methods. Thank you for your time and tutorials man. Genuine legend
Hi Stranjah, how are you? I'm about to buy AD2 Custom, but i m not sure wich AdPack and AdKit should i pick to make fat D&B and breackore. Any advice? Thank you, big up!
You really can't make a bad choice as they're all good. If I were to select three packs it would be:
FairFax Vol.2 - well rounded kit with a variety of sounds, can make funk breaks like funky drummer
Studio Prog - allows for fresh modern breaks
Metal - this will give you a nice alternative, you can get some very Dillinja-esque snares, also you may want to look at Black Velvet
Also Session Percussion will provide some nice variations including some latin-style percussive sounds.
Other packs I like:
Black Velvet - nice big sounding drums, inspired from Stadium Rock
Fairfax Vol.1
Funk
Modern Jazz
Modern Soul & R&B - similar to Fairfax, very raw, soulful drums
Blue Oyster
@@STRANJAH What about Reel Machines? i love the preview s sound and it seems pretty cool for glitched breaks
great job thumbs up x4ondafloor
I've been having crazy clipping problems when just loading the default addictive drums plugin to a channel, and can't seem to figure out why it's clipping. Might i add the drums are super quiet as compared to anything else in my track and everything that is louder is not clipping at all. Any thoughts on what it might be? Thanks in advance
are u using ableton, that is odd
@@STRANJAH i am using ableton yea! i've been playing with the mixer inside AD2 and the ableton mixer and it takes a lot of messing around to get it right, doesn't seem normal.
hmmm, tough choice .. synthetic or real .. I honestly like them both, it's really cool AD2, but expensive, amd after having it for 1/2 a decade I still haven't got to know the drum pattern function's :D
I Like a Little Bit Of Both, Synthetic and Acoustic Drums, But It Depends on The Genre!
Great video! I've had addictive drums for a while now and haven't really learned how to use it yet, so this video was very helpful 👍🙌
Glad! I hope u make some dope breaks. Pw!
How to make raw drum breaks like skee mask or four tet? Great video my man
th-cam.com/video/id7_p_L35zc/w-d-xo.html
Example
Would love to attempt that, definitely more of a jazz and broken-beat influence
@@STRANJAH skee masks drum work blows my mind, especially with how versatile he is in all his music, from panorama, to flyby vfr, to dial 274, to even grime style beats or dub like on IT Danza, yet his beats always still sound like him, would love to see you doing anything like those and give any of your expertise!
*pops popcorn* clicks start. Popcorn soggy from tears of sadness due to no proper intro.
LOL will try my best. Was a bit burnt out last bit so had to get this out.
@@STRANJAH No prob. I really do enjoy the simplicity of your explanations on these tutorials. You do an excellent job as a teacher.
thanks bro. btw your link for AD2 didn't work. i appreciate this info g
About the Snare Buzz control of the Snare from minute 18:04, I saw this video the other day about a plugin that emulates the snare buzz which explains the principle: th-cam.com/video/6ECs7W_u4tQ/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for sharing that, was wondering bout that. And found outs my explanation was incorrect. That’s a sick plug-in btw!
@@STRANJAH I want to thank you for all the educational videos you are making for us! The best tutorials btw!
Acoustic sound better but need the synth drums layered for the BEEF!
a technique i use is having the kick drums trigger a tone generator with a gate. check the key of the fundamental of your kick drum with a spectrum analyser and then set the frequency of the tone generator to match.