#Use liquid rhythm with addictive drums how to#
#Use liquid rhythm with addictive drums pro#

I've yet to personally hear someone do a good 'fake' acoustic kit thing using pads, but I think it's a valid style on its own and you can do stuff that way which would be harder to do with a kit. I've been back and forth on this, currently I side with playing stuff myself using instruments rather than trying to program things:Īlthough it takes time to get the 'feel' stuff going, I think it can be learned. It took me studying the presets in various Adpaks, but eh well. More/less overheads and/or room, saturation, compression, EQ & envelope shaping do wonders. The effects/options in AD2 & your DAW can do most of the work. Like CC said, the kits are less important than the treatment. Of those 3, consider subbing maybe Funk for Modern Jazz Brushes and I'd say you'd have more than enough bases covered for breaks.

The presets in those will get you there, and teach you some things as well. If anyone uses it which ones do you like? Anyone use it in the manner I mentioned?I have Funk, MSandR&B and Vintage Dry. These are just some of the ones that stood out to me. Anybody use AD2? Any recommendations on the packs? I was looking at options like: I mainly do a lot of sample based boom bap type music. I was thinking of picking it up and putting together my own drum breaks instead of chopping. I've got an offer to get Addictive Drums 2 and 3 ADpaks for about $85. Get something I like and just get to playing instead of chasing breaks and hopefully bring back some of that feel of playing it myself. I'm hoping to do the same with something like this. Trouble is I've always been a just sit down and play guy with my acoustic set. I've been a drummer for years so actually playing the groove isn't a big deal to me. Otherwise, I would only buy kits when you run into a problem on a song (like you need a certain brush sound, for example).Thank you very much for the detailed advice! The good part is I've got #1 down. If you want to hit presets, then yes, get a ton of kits. In other words, don't freak about having a bunch of drum sets unless you want to be able to just hit presets and go. So it begs the question as to whether or not you need 80 different drum kits. The variation in the sound is mostly about how the drums are mic'd and mixed.

#Use liquid rhythm with addictive drums pro#

If you think about it, most pro drummers have maybe two kits (often only one!), with a handful of different snares. The actual drum sounds aren't quite as critical.

#Use liquid rhythm with addictive drums how to#

The hard part is:ġ) knowing how to program drums like a real drummer.Ģ) using all the individual outputs to run out clean sounds and then mix them just like you were mixing a real dummer.ģ) Knowing how to edit the drum sounds if needed. I've done tons of this just using AD1 and the stock kits.