The Beats Library
Addictive Drums comes with over 3500 MIDI Beats and Grooves in lots of different styles, tempos and feels!
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The Addictive Beats and Grooves
The Addictive Drums Beats Library gives you the building blocks to create drum tracks quickly all easily accessible from within AD. The built in browser lets you search by keyword (“Ride”, “Metal”), or sort by Category, BPM, Time signature. Drag’n’drop the files you like to AD’s favourite list, or drag them right into your host’s arrangement window!
The MIDI loops are hands down the best I've heard. Instant groove + an incredible interface = a very happy drummer/composer. I'm hooked!"
What do you get?
Video: The Beats PageThe Addictive Drums Beats Library consistst of over 3500 MIDI Beats and Grooves in lots of different styles tempos and feels. You get over 130 2-bar PopRock "beats" in 4/4, 6/8 and 3/4 with both swing and straight feel. These are the "standard" type beats varying from simple "bread and butter" beats to more advanced rythms. Each beat has over 20 different variations (16th, 8th, 4th, closed hihat, open hihat, ride, bell, cowbell etc.) that lets you alter the sound of the beat. Over 100 4-bar "grooves". The grooves are twice as long as the "beats" and are divided into many different styles such as funk, reggae, hardrock and jazz.
25 “songs” in many different styles and tempos consisting of a total of 16 bars with “verse”, “bridge”, “chorus” and “middleeight” variations. These are meant to be "finished" arrangements that you can use to get started fast on a song or get inspiration. You can use the whole "song" as it is or pick out the parts you want to use. ?Over 500 fills, with both straight and swing feel, in different lenghts and styles including funk, rock, and hardrock. All in all you get a total of 3600 midifiles, ready to drag and drop into your arrangements.
Playing around with the midi beats was AMAZING […] so I just bought AD + Retro + all three MIDI paks!
Behind the Scenes – Recording the Beats for AD
Our producer/drummer Jakob Möller creates all of the Addictive Drums beats and grooves on his Roland TD12 E-Drum kit. Inspiration is the key word when facing the task of producing hundreds and sometimes thousands of MIDI Beats for XLN Audio products. Drumming with other musicians, watching drummers on youtube, listnening to CDs is a major source of inspiration. A lot of practicing to keep the chops up is also a must.