- Loading Indicator
- Preset Display
- Open Preset Browser
- Save Preset
- Preset “Next/Previous” buttons
- Logo
- Play button
- Page Select buttons
- Top Menu
Loading Indicator
This shows you when Addictive Drums is loading stuff from disk. Although you can play Addictive Drums while it keeps loading in the background, there may initially be silence or audible glitches until the Loading Indicator finishes and goes “off”.
Preset Display
Shows the name of the currently loaded Preset. Clicking it will open the Preset Browser. You can also use the scroll wheel on it to scroll through presets.
Preset Browser
In the upper section you can browse/filter presets by Type (“Acoustic”, “Electronic”, “Percussion”) or by Name (using the text search field).
Activating the Sound Ideal feature enables you to sort your presets by selecting the amount of processing that has been applied to each preset. This is displayed as a level indicator with values ranging from Natural to Extreme.
The left side shows a Preset List with play buttons to audition each preset. The list updates in real time if you search or apply filters.
On the right side you’ll find filter buttons that lets you see All Presets, XLN Presets (made by us) or My Presets (User Presets made by you)
The Preset Info section shows which ADpak the current preset belongs to, as well as the Author of the preset. You can also Rename or Delete your User Presets, and choose any preset to be loaded up automatically when you start Addictive Drums by clicking Set As Startup.
The dropdown menu near the bottom allows you to sort the presets by Name or Creation Date, while the Prev/Next buttons allow you to step through the presets in the list.
Save Preset
Choose the Name (click to edit), Type and set a suitable Sound Ideal value (a completely clean/natural/dry sound should get a low value, while a very distorted and mangled one should get a high value).
The MIDI Preview function allows you to record a MIDI beat (you can play a looped section from your DAW if you’re working on a drum track anyway) to be saved with the preset. If you don’t record anything, the current MIDI file will be used as a preview.
If a preset with the same name already exists, you will get the option to either overwrite it or to save it with a new name.
Preset “Next/Previous” buttons
The two Up/Down buttons select the next or previous preset within the current filter/sorting settings in the Preset Browser.
Logo
Clicking on the Addictive Drums 2 logo takes you to the About Addictive Drums 2 page. Here you will find program version information (which is good in support matters) and also credits, special thanks and acknowledgements from the XLN Audio team.
Play button
This is a double of the Play button within the transport on the Beats Page. Starts and stops the currently selected midi file.
Page Select buttons
The six different pages in Addictive Drums will be described in more detail in the Interface Overview pages.
Top Menu
Brings up a sub menu with these selections:
- Map Window (for more info see the Map Window section of this manual)
- Refresh MIDI Library (do this after adding new midi beats to the External MIDI Folder)
- Open External MIDI folder
- Addictive Drums 2 Manual PDF (same as this User Guide)
- Addictive Drums 2 Keymap PDF
- UI Scaling & Settings (change the size of the AD2 interface)
- Go to xlnaudio.com
- About AD2 (same as clicking the big logo top center)