Kamikaze

How about Tassman? I have it too, but I stopped installing it ages ago. 

No hip hop expansions, but dry kit, soul, modern funk, and older kits with both fairfax and Black and Blue oyster. Jazz kit comes in a stick and brushes variety and the Mallet kit has mallets and stick as one kit. There's an electronic kit mad with various 80's drum machines. 

You can install AD2 in demo mode and you get a preview of all the kits available. 

I think they only work with the most current version of the plugin, so if you stopped upgrading, they don't work. So I still get them, but I don't use them. 

I wasn't really sold on the idea that layering the synth made it a new version. 

Dragging midi into AD2 to use the transform function. 

Version 1.5.0

It's a new machine, so installed last week.

1 hour ago, Canopus said:

According to XLN Audio’s Facebook page, AD2 has apparently had a scalable GUI since 2015. Strange that I’ve never noticed it. XO is of course scalable, but when I check the other plug-ins (Addictive Keys, Addictive Trigger, DS-10, RC-20) it seems like every plug-in except Addictive Keys is scalable. The selected scaling is kept between DAW sessions. Too bad they stopped at AK.

Addictive Keys is scalable. And last year they refined the images some more to make the scaling sharper

49 minutes ago, John Maar said:

When was the last time XLN released a new expansion instrument for Addictive Keys? Just after the end of the War of 1812?

j/k

Almost.

AK is truly abandonware.

June 2013

I wouldn't say its 'Truly' abandonware, because of the updates which are more than just repairs. But I do agree, we won't be seeing anymore keys from them.

It's a shame, I would definitely go for a Hohner clavinet. Sonic Couture's seems to be the best out there and I would basically be hoping for a similar level of options XLN. But the fact it's in the same engine would appeal to me more. 

Same with a Wurlitzer, this would sit nicely with the existing Rhodes.

But I think the market got a bit saturated for these sounds 10 years ago, and so they stepped away.  I can understand that, it's a shame, but at least the updates are still coming, so they are not selling a legacy product. 

Wish I never clicked on that video!

And here's Danny W to suck you all in

10 minutes ago, locrian said:

Wow, when did they add that?

No idea, I've just come back from a hiatus and somehow I stumbled on it the other day pretty quickly. But I like it a a lot. 

8 minutes ago, Canopus said:

Yes, every drum kit, every MIDI pak, every kit piece, every effect, and on top of that also Addictive Trigger, XO and all Addictive Keys. The works.

Ahh, but do you have the T-shirt and Coffee mug?

Actually I'm making that up, but there probably is some and you probably have them too. 

Double Post

9 minutes ago, locrian said:

 

The only thing I wish for is the ability to increase the size of the GUI.

You can.

The site won't let me upload a picture at the moment. Click on the 3 bars net to Beats for the setting menu and choose UI Scaling

9 minutes ago, Canopus said:

I have everything XLN Audio has to offer. Yes, everything. That’s how much I like them.

Everything. Even the all the midi packs?

Just bought XO too,

So now I have all everything but Drum replacer, 4 Adpaks, I have 2 of 4 kit pieces still to choose.  and a stack of midipacks I've no intention to buy.

I don't have stacks of plug-ins, but I like their stuff. But I have nothing left from them I have any interest in. 

RC20 And DS10 are nice and I like the the Upright and Rhodes and the Grand. Focusrite gave me the extra licence to get the Electric Keys.

Now I has the last AD2 kit I wanted (I actually suggested to them about making a mallet kit and year later it was the last kit they made. I have no idea if I planted that seed). 

XO round out my palette of drum sounds and should compliment what I already have well. (Plus it's eased te frustation I'm having wit Sonible at the moment)

8 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

You authorize the license with iLok, the license can either be installed on your machine or on an iLok dongle.
You can run the iLok License Manager to verify if you've activated the license or not.

If you haven't installed the iLok License Manager take care of that first.

Next - the plugin itself needs to be installed somewhere where your Cakewalk scan path can find it.

If your screen shot is correct...

You are only installing the VST3 versions - check your VST3 folder (C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3) and see if you can find smartEQ2_x64.vst3
If it's there then you probably should check the VST scan log to see if it got scanned.

 

The manual implies that you don't need iLok, and there was another screen from Sonible (that I lost when I tried a reboot and can't find that broke down the steps. And said install iLok, but then said you don't need iLok of you open the Plugin and enter the auth code onto it. But I can't open it to enter the auth code. 

So I have an Akai MPCOne., with it Akai's free Daw MPCBeats. Not that if used it, but it's installed. So I did a scan with it, and SmartEQ failed

35 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Did you check the "Excluded" Plugins?

Yeah, and when I added the VST2, the scanner picked up I mae a change, said nothing added, and the total number of plugin stayed the same. It's like it's being blocked from being added to the plug in manager. 

12 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Superior Drummer 3...by far...

And you might want to look again at EZ-Drummer 2...
The Songwriter alone is worth the price of entry...but YMMV

I really like the Transform function to play with velocity dynamics in AD2.  I typically start in Step Sequencer and drag my beat into AD2 to massage the velocities. I really wish there was a swing in the Transform, and they ditch the random timing knob. 

I contact XLN to ask them how I save my beat after I drag them into AD2 tranform and they said 'You can't drag a beat into transform'', so you can save it. Ater a few messages they replied that they didn't know that you could do what I was doing. 

Just got the mallet kit form Audio Deluxe, they added the coupon Fall21 to my cart and a free Melda FreeformAnalogEQ, for a total of 35.98Bucks (as they say on that site).

Plus an extra 1.74DeloxBucks.

So now I am thinking about something different

XLN XO

BF 64.00

Fall21 - 7.02

DB - 1.74

Total 55.24

Hmmmm...

I escaped the Black Friday claws last year, slippery slope

I think the uncategorised applied when you sort by category. When I do this it's still not there. When I sort by Manufacrurer, Sonible doesn't show up, and there's no uncategorised.

If does so many re-scans now (and re-boots), and about 4 installs of SmartEQ. Funnily Cakewalk auto scans for plug in after each install but doesn't find anything. So it's detecting some movement.  When I look in the plugoin manager in all the folders, there's no sign of it.

I bought this years ago, but gave up trying to install with the same problems on my old laptop. Only today when I saw it on my Plugin Boutique account did I think to re-try. 

I'm going to install the VST2, to see if it shows up, and if when I authorise that it fixes the VST3.  (EDIT: Nope, that didn't work, and Cakewalk auto re-scanned again)

I purchased about 4 custom packs from XLN. Because of pricing and getting 3 kitpeices with each. Never had any issues authorising them. I also grabbed the Faifax as a matched pair. I still have 2 kitpeices to select out of 4.

There are about 4 kits left I haven't bot, but it just the mallets I've been holding out for. This will be the first single kit I've bought from them.

Some don't like how the cybals are recorded with no direct mics, but I kinda dig it, If I want them seperated, you can just remove the rest of the kit from the overheads. I think it reflects a lot of how kits are recorded. I kind of like some limits sometimes.

Most of these kits were recorded in different studios to give a different ambiance to the overheads and room mics. For this reason I don't think there will ever be an AD4. They'd have to go back to all those studios to expand these kits. So Ad3 would be competently new sampling sessions. But I like that for once I don't have to worry about more upgrades around the corner.

Most disappointing kit for me is the Session Percussion. I thought it would be a percussionist set up, set up like a drum kit for a percussionist to play along with drums. But it's percussion set up like a drum kit for a drummer to play. earlies this year I was experimenting with Salsa, but I couldn't program a basic Tumbao with articulations provided on the Congas, so I bought Native Instruments Çuba' pack 

Same sale at Audio Delux

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/search/site/xln

But how do see it to authorise?😧

I'm confused by these. DO I need iLok or not? Trying to get SmartEQ installed, but it won't show up in Sonar. Am I reading this wrong. I can install either direct to my machine or with an iLok.