The Session Percussion AD2 ADPAK from XLN Audio is a virtual drum kit that feature fifteen exotic percussion instruments that were originally auditioned and matched to work together as a complete kit. The congas and timbales work as the toms, a large orchestral bass drum as the kick, and a Brazilian caixa as a snare, with blocks, tambourine, pandeiro and hi-hats rounding out the kit.
Session Percussion can be played like a regular kit, or used alongside other conventional kits. The included presets cover a wide variety of music genres and production styles, ranging from vintage to Latin pop and rock, to hip hop and R n' B, and even modern dancehall.
The kit is powered by the Addictive Drums 2 sound engine, allowing for instant loading and tweaking of drums, along with realistic performance playback, all with little CPU load. The musician-centric interface and effects provide endless possibilities for composition and sound design. Addictive Drums 2 supports most major e-drum companies like Roland, Yamaha, Alesis, and others and includes many map presets for e-drum models.
13" Skin on Skin Conga
14" LP Tito Puente Timbale
15" LP Tito Puente Timbale
14" Zildjian A New Beat
16" Masterwork Custom
18" Zildjian K Custom Hybrid Crash
22" Zildjian K Vintage
LP Plastic Block
LP Tambourine (left-right hits)
Brazilian Pandeiro and Kick-Snare-Hi-Hat
- Transient Shaper gives more or less "snap" to individual kit pieces or the overall drum mix
- Tone Designer makes a drum sound more or less dampened, for easily adding or removing ringing
- Two Delerb processors combine delay and reverb effects that are ideal for drums
- "Swirl" thickening feature and advanced EQ give sound designers lots of new options
- Six additional Kitpiece Slots for building kits with up to eighteen individual kit pieces
- FlexiSlots let you load additional kicks, snares, hi-hats, and more
- Kitpiece Linking for linking drums for a fatter sound
- Specialty "Trigger" Kitpieces (sine waves, white noise and one shot drum samples) open up a world of additional sound design options
- Response section for tweaking performances to fit them into a mix
- Two MultiFX inserts on every channel
- Four-band EQ with additional low and high cut controls
- Beat Transformer for tweaking any existing rhythm to make it fit into a track and to make it unique
- Grid Search system quickly finds the desired beat
- Beats Browser - easily browse beats to find inspiration
- Record MIDI feature saves time by recording MIDI directly from the host software into Addictive Drums 2
- Noise Module adds instant character to a mix with sounds such as vinyl crackle, tape hiss and even the sound of the air-conditioning system from the Fairfax Studio
- Drag'n'Drop Audio directly from the Addictive Drums 2 engine
- "Sound Ideal" search system for sorting all presets from 'clean' to 'distorted' to help find the right sounds quickly
- "Snapshots" makes A/B comparisons easy
- CloudSync system keeps presets up to date regardless of work location
- Standalone version with Tempo control makes it easy to adapt beats to specific situations
- Improved copy/paste features
- New presets and ExploreMaps for all user's kits
- All Presets include a MIDI preview to hear the preset played as the sound designer imagined
- Preview all ADpaks and MIDIpaks (even ones not owned) directly from Addictive Drums 2