Addictive Trigger - Intelligent Drum Replacement
Addictive Trigger is a combination of a very competent "Trig" engine and the acclaimed Addictive Drums 2 engine and content. The result is a complete solution for all your drum replacement/triggering needs!
Note: Sometimes we refer to Addictive Trigger as AT in this User Guide.
Basic Concept 
Triggering, layering, and replacing
When working with real recorded acoustic drums, it's sometimes tricky to get the sound you hear in your head. Maybe there are limitations in the recorded material, maybe a drum was out of tune or maybe the room sound isn't working for the track. Or perhaps the raw sound is fine, you just want to get creative and try out different ideas for a track. Addictive Trigger makes it easy to stay creative and find the perfect sound for your mix!
The most common starting point is a multi track drum recording, with separate tracks for close mics, overheads and room and so on. Addictive Trigger loads up as an effect on the close mic tracks, extracts the relevant drum hits and generates MIDI. This can either trig the built-in AD2 sounds in real-time or be exported for use with other drum solutions.
Depending on what you are after you could go for a blend of the original sound and the AT sounds, or you could replace the original sound entirely. Or why not just add a bigger room from a nice Hollywood studio?
Accuracy
The most important feature of any drum replacement/triggering solution is accuracy. Ideally you want it to trig in the right places and NOT trig when there is mic bleed from other drums in your track.
Our unique Audio Fingerprint technology takes care of this: It analyzes each hit's spectral content to determine right from wrong. It means we can for example get correct snare trigs from weak ghost hits on the snare, even if the mic bleed from the kick is actually stronger in volume.
We can also often extract both kick and snare from the overheads alone, or from a loop type sound source.
Sounds
Addictive Trigger comes loaded with a selection of the best kicks, snares and toms from the acclaimed Addictive Drums 2 virtual instrument. If you own both products you can also load AD2 sounds and presets into AT.