Addictive Drums 2 – 2. Beats – Drum pattern selection/application

Addictive Drums contains a wide variety of drum patterns.
By utilizing these, even beginners can easily sequence drums into their music.

Addictive Drums 2 – Tutorial video

1. 1Presets and kit selection
2. 2Beats – Drum pattern selection/application ＊Current article
3. 3Grid Search & Transform
4. 4Edit window
5. 5Editing individual instruments
6. 6Applying effects and individual outputs

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Bringing up drum patterns

To bring up the drum patterns, click on the “BEATS” tab.

Narrowing down drum patterns

• Library_Select on the kits you’ve purchased to narrow results.
• Category_Narrows down via genre
• Tempo_Narrows down from your DAW tempo (±10 or ±20)
• Time Sig_Narrows down with time signature i.e. 3/4,4/4

Selecting drum patterns

• 1_Select a pattern that you like
• 2_Detailed versions of the pattern selecting in 1 are displayed
• 3_The pattern selected in 1 is displayed

When the DAW tempo and drum pattern doesn’t sync,
click “Sync Tempo” to sync the drum pattern to the tempo.

By keeping “Sync Play/Stop” ON,
the drum pattern will play follow the DAW playing/stopping.
(Turn off after dragging & dropping the drum pattern)

Using drum patterns

When you find a pattern that you like, drag and drop it into your DAW.

Because it is in MIDI, you can edit the pattern sequence in your DAW as well.

Try it out!