Most of the basic concepts behind the Addictive Drums interface are familiar from other products, but the way they're implemented here is uniformly slick and usually pretty intuitive. Once you've done that, you simply load Addictive Drums into the appropriate bit of your host application and away you go.
Installed from a single DVD, it's authorised by a simple challenge-and-response process where you type your serial number into XLN Audio's web site.
A Deep Hit Of DrumsĪddictive Drums is available for Mac OS X, including Intel Macs, and Windows, and supports the VST, RTAS and Audio Units plug-in protocols. At well under 2GB in size, Addictive Drums could find a home on even the most crowded hard drive, but it still provides a very comprehensive set of drum samples and processing options, thanks to a proprietary data-compressed file format that makes use of variable bit depth to avoid wasting disk space. So thank heaven for Digidesign's Strike, which squeezes its numerous kits into a relatively economical 6GB of compressed data, yet still sounds fantastic, and thank heaven for XLN's new Addictive Drums.
I might as well have got a desktop PC, really, because the only thing I was going to get out of taking this lot on a long journey was a hernia.
And a power supply for the external hard drive. Clearly, an external hard drive was another must-have for the modern-day musician on the move. I thought it would take me ages to exhaust my 60GB system drive, but I could have filled it three times over just with drum sample libraries like BFD and DFH.
Suddenly, music-making with a laptop didn't seem quite so free or spontaneous, and it was about to get worse. Oh yeah, and cables to connect it all together. And a USB hub for all those copy protection keys. All I needed was a pair of headphones and a controller keyboard.
At last, I thought, I could make music anywhere, without a care in the world. When I got my first laptop computer, I naively looked forward to a life of unfettered musical freedom. Is it really necessary to give up an entire hard drive in order to get your hands on a good-sounding drum library? XLN Audio think not. The issue has been resolved, so thanks to all for the advice, very much appreciated.An Addictive Drums kit can contain up to 12 instruments, but they are always in the same configuration, so it's not possible to have more than one kick, snare or ride cymbal.
Thanks, it was indeed an issue with the original install on a laptop I no longer use. So to move to a new computer, just remove one, and re-run the XLN installer. I'm showing my desktop and laptop both activated, thus resulting in the max allowed active computers. You probably just need to free up one activation, since I assume you should have two available. Each one has a 'Remove' button, so you can remove the authorization from one or more computers. There you will see your currently activated devices. If you log in to your XLN account on their website, go to 'My Account > 'My Computers'. So the next move, contacting XLN support. Although products held in account should be okay to reauthorize, I'm having no joy. Addictive Keys and Drums all there now and my problem is when registering products I have, I'm now told the codes have been used. I uninstalled all my XLN stuff and tried fresh new installs.