For anyone that plays electronic drums, it integrates really nicely via MIDI with many different popular models of electronic drum sets (e.g. It contains a great library of beats that you can drag onto your DAW as MIDI files and tweak them however way you want to suit your music.Ĭheck out our AD2 demo video below of the different kits and preset sounds available: Its main purpose is to help you create great sounding drum tracks, without going through the expense of getting a drummer and recording a real drum set.

Can Addictive Drums 2 Replace a Drummer?Īddictive Drums 2 is a drum production studio that acts as standalone software or runs as a plugin in your DAW.

Using Addictive Drums 2 with an Electronic Drum Set.

Thanks for the explanation and pointing me in the right direction. I was surprised that EZdrummer and Addictive Drums (which I want to use for this one) sounded so differently (I mean the midi note sounding different hits and pieces with equivalent kits). Otherwise, everything is the default in Reaper.

I use this workflow when I need to quickly create instrument tracks to record vocals or backing tracks (usually for other people). I'm using default midi files generated by Guitar Pro. If your MIDI file was designed for a different drum software, then you can probably Google to find if someone has already published a map to convert from that program to whichever drum software you want to use (like AddictiveDrums). If not, I'm sure there is one available on the web somewhere. So the first question is what note mapping does your MIDI file use? If it is a GM MIDI file, I think (but can't verify right now) that AddictiveDrums has some kind of built-in GM conversion table - check the AD manual (there is a section on MIDI mapping). Usually each drum software will require separate MIDI maps for each other drum software (EZDrummer-to-AddictiveDrums map, Jamstix-to-AddictiveDrums map, GeneralMidi-to-AddictiveDrums map, etc.).

It's a translation table that tells the drum software how to interpret/assign the MIDI notes it is receiving, since the MIDI notes might have been created for a different drum software that assigns the notes differently (like one program might use note 85 for cymbal, and another program use note 85 for sidestick). You've pretty much got the definition of a drum map right.

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