Vintage Dead - a new AD2 Expansion

[Canopus]

Believe it or not, but XLN Audio has released the first AD2 Expansion since, well, I think, the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. It has appropriately been named Vintage Dead.

A beat-making powerhouse for any style

Equally perfect for beats and breaks, psychedelic indie pop in the vein of Tame Impala, Khruangbin, and Glass Beams, or hard-hitting rock like Queens of the Stone Age, and Death from Above 1979, Vintage Dead packs the punch you need. Make your tracks slap with mix-ready, tweakable presets created by the scene’s best, and beats performed by amazing drummers and beatmakers.

https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_drums_2/adpak/vintage_dead

Additionally, this was my post number 1K.

[bluzdog]

I guess this was the surprise mentioned after last weeks AD2 update. It looks like the black oyster kit revisited.

[Canopus]

Yeah, I had hopes for an Addictive Keys update, but no.

 

[jude77]

2 hours ago, bluzdog said:

I guess this was the surprise mentioned after last weeks AD2 update. It looks like the black oyster kit revisited.

I'm thinking you're right.  Not quite the surprise I was hoping for, but at least it indicates that AD2 is still in some type of development.   Maybe one day we may actually see a version 3.

[Lemar Sain]

When they said more surprises were coming after the latest update, I figured some new expansions would be next.

[Brian Walton]

2 hours ago, jude77 said:

I'm thinking you're right.  Not quite the surprise I was hoping for, but at least it indicates that AD2 is still in some type of development.   Maybe one day we may actually see a version 3.

This is exactly the surprise I was expecting.  Though I honestly expected more than 1 kit.  

I'll say it again, I don't want a paid v3 upgrade.  They can keep making little changes here and there for the next 20 years on v2.  And if they want to add in an AI based drum mechanism (which is really what such programs need at this point) I'll gladly take that in a v2 instead of a paid upgrade.

I can control it with JamStix until that happens (and hopefully one day we will see JamStix to continue to develop again).

[paulo]

I'm no longer totally sure if it's them or me that has an unrealistic view of what a kit add on is worth, but I'm still leaning towards them.

 

22 hours ago, Canopus said:

this was my post number 1K.

 

Lightweight. 😀

[Canopus]

3 hours ago, paulo said:

On 10/29/2024 at 1:12 PM, Canopus said:

this was my post number 1K.

Lightweight. 😀

Indeed. I'm standing in the shadow of giants.

[Brian Walton]

4 hours ago, paulo said:

I'm no longer totally sure if it's them or me that has an unrealistic view of what a kit add on is worth, but I'm still leaning towards them.

 

 

Lightweight. 😀

Pretty sure EZ Drummer (primary competitor is at $90 vs AD2 at $80).  AD2 with a 50% off sale will come in at $40.   Not sure what other major players are at this point with a similar model that hit a noticeably lower price point on an extra kit.  

[paulo]

3 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

Pretty sure EZ Drummer (primary competitor is at $90 vs AD2 at $80).  AD2 with a 50% off sale will come in at $40.   Not sure what other major players are at this point with a similar model that hit a noticeably lower price point on an extra kit.  

I didn't mean in terms of what the competition does, but in terms of VFM. I use AD2 all the time and I'm very happy with it, but I just don't ever feel inclined to buy more kits than I already have at those kind of prices.  The 50% off sale just look like what the before the sale price should have been to me, but each to their own and all that.......

[Brian Walton]

19 minutes ago, paulo said:

I didn't mean in terms of what the competition does, but in terms of VFM. I use AD2 all the time and I'm very happy with it, but I just don't ever feel inclined to buy more kits than I already have at those kind of prices.  The 50% off sale just look like what the before the sale price should have been to me, but each to their own and all that.......

I get that, I think it depends on which kits you have.

If you only have the studio kit, $40 might make you want to actually use AD2.  If you already have Fairfax2 or similar you might only view another kit as an alternative flavor.

[TheSteven]

Cool.  I've had an unused AD Pak voucher/coupon/thing-a-ma-jiggy in my account for years, so I'm jazzed.

Another review...

 

Edited October 31, 2024 by TheSteven

[Canopus]

12 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

Cool.  I've had an unused AD Pak voucher/coupon/thing-a-ma-jiggy in my account for years, so I'm jazzed.

Me too. It took a couple of hours for me to remember that I never had a chance to use the last ADpak out of three in an AD2 Custom bundle I bought during BF2020.

[kitekrazy]

On 10/30/2024 at 3:49 AM, paulo said:

I'm no longer totally sure if it's them or me that has an unrealistic view of what a kit add on is worth, but I'm still leaning towards them.

 

 

Lightweight. 😀

I don't have the ears of a drummer so to me they are all noise makers except when it comes to the speed metal genres, that's sort of a contradiction.

With AD a kit comes with the engine.  Not so with Toontrack. 

It's easy to forget Modo Drums, and Komplete. 

BFD is a waste because of their authorization nonsense and I guess buying those kits have installation issues.

I have Meldas Drummer in it's 60gb of glory.

Battery is underrated.

Then there is UJAM and Slate.

DAWs have advanced in sample manipulation where you could use multi track loops.

[paulo]

2 hours ago, kitekrazy1 said:

With AD a kit comes with the engine

If they're calling it an "expansion" then I don't need the engine because I already have it.

 

2 hours ago, kitekrazy1 said:

It's easy to forget Modo Drums,

Yep. About 5 minutes after I first saw it in my case.😀

[Zo]

Solid , didn't even knew that they uypdated the gui ////

Kinda redundant with vintage Dry nope ?

Edited November 2, 2024 by Zo

[Zo]

Guyz i updated XLn AD2 and we have new stuff in list (prefered the old way of displaying kits ) , in that list we have music style playlist : what is that , kits are greyed , where to buy stuff ? do we have to have all kits to use those ? or are they special products ? no infos on website !

The Vintage dead is indeed superb .

[kitekrazy]

On 10/31/2024 at 11:52 AM, paulo said:

If they're calling it an "expansion" then I don't need the engine because I already have it.

 

Yep. About 5 minutes after I first saw it in my case.😀

The difference is with Toontrack you have to pay $149 or so to get on the ground floor.

AD comes with all of their kits.

[RSMcGuitar]

On 11/4/2024 at 11:53 AM, kitekrazy1 said:

AD comes with all of their kits.

Umm... since when?

[user905133]

13 hours ago, RSMcGuitar said:

On 11/4/2024 at 11:53 AM, kitekrazy1 said:

AD comes with all of their kits.

  Umm... since when?

 

On 11/4/2024 at 11:53 AM, kitekrazy1 said:

The difference is with Toontrack you have to pay $149 or so to get on the ground floor.

AD comes with all of their kits.

The sentence (AD comes with all of their kits.) is ambiguous. In context following the comment about Toontrack, the meaning is something like this:

• When you get a Toontrack expansion, you have to have pay $149 or so to get on the ground floor. However, when you get an AD2 expansion, it includes the basic AD2 software.

See also:

On 10/31/2024 at 12:02 PM, kitekrazy1 said:

With AD a kit comes with the engine.  Not so with Toontrack. 

  Alone "AD comes with all of their kits" implies something like this:

• When you get AD2, it includes all of their kits with the purchase price.

 

Edited November 6, 2024 by user 905133
(2) grammatical correction (imply --> implies); (1) various edits