XO I haven’t figured that out yet as it wants to render everything to a folder first and then bring that back in for some reason. Neither allows layers that I set up with round robins or velocity layers on a single pad, a-la FPC or Speedrum, however Atlas lets me drag and drop samples to speedrum easily enough. So far, I’d say I could use Atlas by itself, but not XO because Atlas will allow me to pass in MIDI from FL studio and apply randomization to that, but XO will only allow for basic swing and only if I use the built in sequencer. Thankfully, I have another week to demo both and see what’s what. Both are competent sampler drum machines in their own right, offer multiple outputs, and will let me export midi or samples to my daw/other drum machine of my choice (which is good because I have and have been learning Speedrum for the past few months). I think XO is a bit better at finding samples. Both are really fast ways to navigate my sample library and get a drum set up and running. Spent about an hour today testing Atlas and XO. It has some minor shortcomings (mainly with the fairly basic sequencer) but it does what it does very well and it’s fun to use and encourages exploration. Personally, having had a few days with XO I suspect I’ll buy it at the discount price. I reckon at half price they are both decent tools that will unlock value from the massive and unwieldy drum sample libraries many of us own.
This may well be true as Addictive Drums looks identical to when I last looked at it a couple of years ago, although I haven’t checked every detail carefully. People generally seem to suggest that XLN aren’t receptive to feature requests and that the product is what it is with little or no new features since release. It’s in active development so you can expect new features. What I will say is this - the Atlas developer was very receptive to my input during the beta and he’s a nice guy.
To be honest, I basically bought Atlas because XO didn’t run well on my old machine whereas it now runs great on my new M1 Mac. It has extra features for intelligently swapping sounds and finding new ones as well as for experimenting with changes to patterns. The sample map is less sophisticated than XO which has extra features for filtering the map by type (kick, snare etc) and other characteristics like length.
I am also trialling XO during the sale.Ītlas arguably has fewer features although it works perfectly well for what it does, and at $49 it’s a perfectly decent one-shot drum machine. I own Atlas and I helped with the beta for V2.
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