1") as a sanity check before updating your old add-on packs, and carefully verifying all is OK (including inside Addictive Drums 2) before committing to the full upgrade/update of all of your previous purchases. The ONLY thing that works is to choose the disc itself, then it will create a new top-level directory for "XLN Audio" and from there will make an "Addictive Drums 2" subdirectory and then a "Sound Data" subdirectory.Īt this point, you can safely do all the updates from Addictive Drums 1 that show up in the installer, but I recommend first installing the new one ("Fairfax Vol. Unlike before, you have little control over the full path that it needs, but at least can choose the disc. Do not make an alias this no longer works! Instead, re-launch the XLN Online Installer, click on the Advanced tab, then Choose New Path. Once this is done, you will find that it has installed the sounds in a "bad place" under Application Support. My recommendation is to NOT do any of the updates at first and ONLY upgrade Addictive Drums 2. Of course, like most people on this forum, I have no room on my system drive as I upgraded to an SSD and those are small (unless you're rich).įortunately, I found that there's an easy way to change the default if you ignore the previous hints for Addictive Drums 1 as well as the scary warnings you'll get in the process.
Unfortunately, the XLN Online Installer isn't smart enough to see where you pointed your Addictive Drums 1 sounds, so it defaults to your system drive. At the moment, EZDrummer 2 seems to have the best ergonomics and workflow, but I am doing my Addictive Drummer 2 upgrade as I write this so will have a better idea after that is done. The new Addictive interface looks similar to me, but has a few new features and seems to borrow from BFD2's kit piece browser (which I wish they had retained in BFD3). So, the three main drum programs have all updated within a short time span of each other.
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1, and split up the original Addictive Drums 1 kits into several new add-on packs (presumably for new buyers of Addictive Drums 2) and did the same with the Retro pack.Īll other add-on packs, MIDI patterns, etc., will update when you do the upgrade, which is $79 or $99 if combined with the Fairfax add-on (which I did). They also added one new add-on called Fairfax Vol.
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Addictive Drums 2 came out a few days ago and is taking an almost identical approach in terms of how the update works (and how all the old packs get upgraded for free at the same time).