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| 27-04-08 / 19:41 : XLN Audio Addictive Drums / EZ / Artist Drums (cjed) |
 XLN Audio Addictive drums is a drums plugin that provides 3 kits (24 bits samples, 350Mb per kit, 3 Gb total). The user interface reminds a lot EZDrummer, but there are many more settings : besides the mixing console (dry/overhead/room, as for EZDrummer) we find a true sound editor as in Kontakt (pitch, envelops, effects). Then more than a hundred presets are available (full variations over a same kit elements). The audio demos on the site are stunning, more impressive than EZDrummer's ones. The software also brings a midifiles collection (3000), that are more original than those bundled with EZDrummer. The pricing is good, 198 euros (first in sales at Thomann.de in drums plugins category).We can download a demo version here (180 Mb), that only includes one kit (one kick, one snare, two charlestons, a ride and a crash cymbal - no toms), but that offers many presets (25 full variations). Moreover this demo isn't time limited ! At first, it sounds more powerful than EZDrummer (and close to BDF2 demos), the kits are far more various than in EZ Drummer (including a good 80s kit). However finally the sound seems overprocessed (sound editor settings, effects), even with the clean Sonor kit, the same problem noted with Colossus kits, and that leads to a feeling of artificial or drum box sound. Moreover the charlestons included in the demo sound mudded, as if they have been recorded at a too low frequency (the same with the ride cymbal). The dynamic seems a bit better than with EZDrummer but the sounds are finally complementary (the EZ charlestons and cymbals are better, and the snare, despite being basical, produces the pressure feeling of a real drum). Here are examples made using EZDrummer (base kit - edited - with Roger snare and GMS kick -, overhead and room setted upper), then Addictive Drums clean Sonor kit, Artist Drums's Simon Phillips kit (with two snares, the former sounding close to Adictive Drums Sonor snare), and finally the three kits together (perhaps the solution !) : EZ/AD/ArtistDrums comparison (aiff, 10Mb). Toms cound't be compared, however ArtistDrums toms are the best ever (some of the four Artist Drums kits include at least 6 elements). Artist Drums kits are about the same size as Addictive Drums ones : 350 Mb for wet or dry (and more than double for 5.1 kits, that merge the twos - but they aren't always necessary). |
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