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DigiDrum Pro is a five part drum and percussion VST plugin suitable for most genres of digital music production. It features an intuitive user interface packed with loads of sound editing parameters. The sound itself comes from a wave rom containing reproductions designed to resemble classic percussive instruments. These sounds are processed as you wish through the use of sound parameters and velocity controlled expression parmeters.
Features
- 5 separate DigiDrum parts with 5 user definable audio outputs.
- 27 classic drum and percussion waveforms
- User wavefile import
- Parts can easily be layered to create even more complex sounds
- easy sound preview ensures intuitive preset programming
- A Versatile filter setup capable of many different timbres
- Velocity modulation of amp, pitch and filter to ‘humanize’ the feel of the beat
- Full VST automation of every sound editing controls

Dr-Fusion 2 is a drum sampler and synth with:
7 instruments with dual samples (kick, 2 snares, 2 percussion, hihat, ride and crash,
2 instruments with dual samples into which the user can load samples,
2 instruments with single sample slots (closed hihats, claps)
2 synths for toms and kicks,
pads (for auditioning), LEDs (for monitoring) and Mute buttons
2 samples can be loaded into many of the instruments for layering (the second sample can be muted), over 560 samples are built in,
each sample-based instrument has a comprehensive set of controls (many can be automated),
tune (1 octave), octaves and volume controls for each sample,
main volume, volume envelope (ADSR), pan,
any one of four FX: Distortion, Filter, Bit Crusher and Clipper, each with their own controls.

Individual volume, pan and reverb settings. Visual feedback on each drum. Programmable reverb unit. Comes with one set of samples.

Some excellent drum sounds. Grizzly was made for KVR Developer Challenge together with Edward “Cyan” Blake. Grizzly ended up at 8th place and is a powerful drummachine featuring eight drumpads with built in filters and effects.

A simple, yet effective drum synth
2 kickdrums, 2 snares, Hihat, Perc, Tom
-Drum panels can be removed to reveal hidden parameters
-Drum preview: click on the drum name for quik previewing
-Onboard drum mixer
-Multiple outputs
-16 kits

The Kick is an instrument designed for one purpose only: bassdrum! Play with this for a while and you’ll discover it’s flexibility. Rather than working with static bassdrum samples this plugin gives one the possibility to alter the sound while playing

Interesting glitchy synth drum sounds - careful, very loud. DrSid is a drumsampler with about 320 sounds recorded from c64 sid files.

Drumatic VE is inspired by several sounds of the TR-909 and TR-808 drum computers. It isn’t just a sample player… It uses smart wavetable synthesis mixed with virtual-analouge synthesis to get the best results.
No samples from the original machines are used in this plugin.

Alternative to FreeDrum. This one has a much improved sound, more punch and depht.
Multiple outputs and test button for each sound.

ErsDrums is a VST 2.3 compatible drum machine.
All sounds are calculated in “real time”, no samples are used. Some nice synth drum sounds.

GTG Zapkit: Drumsynth a la Kraftwerk with multiple outputs. Pitch, decay and mod controls of individual drums.

A virtual drum machine with built-in sounds.

Kick me too is a drum effect synth. It has 5 drum synths, Phase Mod, h-limit, cutoff, sine and triangle noise waves, volume, decay, time and hight, for 4 synths low-pass hi-pass band-pass and 5 outputs

A neat sample based kick drum player created by Thomas Weber of amvst.com.
1xADSR
Sample Player
Multimode Filter
Saturator
10 Kicksounds including:
TR-909, TR-808, TR-707,
TR-606, TR-505

Great drum sounds.
Rhythms features 6 stereo outputs, you can select the output channel for every synth.
distortion for the bass drums,tuned hi-hats,phase modulation,on the toms wood and rimshot
and 32 drum kits
and much much more………

* Offers 12 drum-pads, using Soundfonts per drum-pad as its sample source.
* Allows as many velocity splits as required per drum-pad.
* Includes 3 different versions: 1,6 and 16 voice polyphony per drum-pad.
* SoFtDrum has 6 stereo outputs.
* 2 groups are provided for more accurate emulation of the hihat and many other percussion instruments.
* GUI by ArtVera.
* includes 5 presets.
* includes SoFtDrum Library containing 24 drum Soundfonts.

Emulation of the classic 909 drum synth. Make sure that you put the ‘programme’ folder full of samples in the right directory - which was C:\ for me.

The older file contains the drum samples.
Multichannel drumsample player with 250 drumsamples
Loads 16 and 24 bit samples.
8 stereo channels with Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Notch filter modes.
Load an open hihat into channel 13+14. It will play as closed, foot and open hihat.
250 drumsaples included: Kick, Snare, Clap, Hihats, Tom A, Tom B, Perc A. Perc B, Ride and Crash. Every category has 25 samples.

Some unusual drum sounds -
* Analog-like Drum-Synth
* Mixer
* Mute buttons
* FX section
* Instant FX buttons
* Filter SV
* 16 Presets

Some good sounds, but only one drum sound can be played at a time.
An elementary drumsynth with pitch modulated sine osc, syncable noise source and two band pass filters.

Drum sample player. On each track : led gate, midi note, label screen, trigger, volume, pan, equalisation, pitch, velocity, 4 effects sends on-off, wave loader, possibility to trigger many waves with the same note number. Easy interface. Masters left and right, masters effect 1 to 4. Automation completed, buttons “panic/silence”, etc…

Good clean synth drum sounds ->
easy-drum X8 is an analog Vintage-style drum-module with 12 fully synthesized instruments and some additional features: -12 X 16 Step-Sequencers with Potis> moudaltions all Parameters - Distortion - Lofi - SV-Filter - Lfo a.m.more

The Wollo Beat is a 808 style virtual drums and percussion machine. Key features include 2 drumsets, each
with 15 velocity-sensitive sounds. With gain, pan, and filters to alter each instrument. As well as pitch.
Key features: | Simple, easy to use interface | 16 voice polyphony | volume, pan, filters and pitch for each
sound | delay | reverb | Preset manager

This VSTi instrument is based on individual samples of the lo-fi, 8-bit drum sounds from the infamous Casio SK-1 keyboard.

Vintage drum machines rompler.
mini DrumZ features the sounds of 20 drum machine

- 8 sound slots (C3 to C4 white keys)
- Level and pan control - 8 stereo outs
- 226 samples
- 18 kits
- Midi automation
- Preset selecto

Human beat box module- 8 sound slots (C3 to C4 white keys)
- Level and pan control
- 8 stereo outs
- 26 samples
- 3 kits
- Midi automation
- Preset selector

Acoustic drums module
- 8 sound slots (C3 to C4 white keys)
- Level and pan control
- Master amp. envelope (ADSR)
- 8 stereo outs
- 85 hig quality samples
- 4 full kits and extra sounds
- Midi automation
- Velocity response
- Preset selector

DVS Drum Sampler is designed for quick and simple drum programming, you can load any length 16bit wav file (24bit is not supported) into the channels, you can preview the sound by clicking the keyboard on the interface, MIDI keys are C1 to C2.

An 808 hihat and cymbal emulation

subatomic is a sub-bass drum-synth, generating a pure sine wave for that deep sub kick

DrumSampler. Pads playable by mouse.Individual reverb send. Auto-mute group. Visual response.Logical layout.

This is a FM Synthesis DrumMachine. you can create each sounds by 3 operator FM for Kick/Snare/Tom(Lo/Hi)/Hat(Open/Pedal/Close)/Symbal.

Play the drum, turn the filter wheels. Pretty simple drum vsti.

This pack contains 4 drum synths taken from another drum plugin called Rhythms - bassdrum/hihats/snares and Toms.

LiveTweaker is a multi-functional instrument bringing together a 12-slot drum sampler, a drum synth and a monophonic synth in a single plug-in.
Conceived with live use in mind, the idea is to have 3 instruments on one single track for quick & easy tweaking using a MIDI controller. The second idea is to avoid sterile repetition of the same thing by including various random features. You can achieve subtle variations on a snare’s pitch, a cymbal’s decay, or simulate the osc pitch instability of an old analogue synth, but you can also turn your pattern into something totally different after each repetition. Livetweaker aims to keep things both simple, quick, and easy to use, all along with deep user customizable features for more sonic control.

I like coffee is a drum sampler that randomizes between samples. You can load either 2 or 4 samples per midi destination. There are 12 midi slots, and you can assign them to any midi key. No samples are included.

Fully customizable, analog modeling drum machine (no samples!). Each sound is tunable, opening the doors for drastically different drum kit presets. The amplifier stage contains a tube simulator with pre and post gain as well as a clean output

11 instruments: 1 wave player with 1 vco, 3 filters, 3 envelope generators and a complete control by the velocity. It has 5 stereo outputs.

BD2 is a ’kick designer’ plugin based on our D15/2 virtual analog drum machine’s BD channel. The BD2 features two kick voices, a bit crusher and two output channels (one clean, one tube emulated with pre/post gain).

A tastefully distorted, aggressive sounding synthetic drum kit (9 kick, 10 snare, 5 hat). Recorded directly into a Universal Audio LA-610 preamp (w/ compression) and processed / mixed via Neve 33114. All analog processing.
erratic erratic is a drum sample player with some added ‘randomising’ features to give variation on every cycle. The randomising is adjustable for each sample and can be switched off if desired. You can independantly adjust the randomisation of;
- hit probability for each of the steps in the sequencer for each sample
- hit velocity spread for each of the steps in the sequencer for each sample
- pitch variation for each sample
- swing (hit timing variation) for each sample
- swing on a global level (in addition to the per sample swing)
In addition, you can adjust
- hit velocity for each of the steps in the sequencer for each sample
- volume, panning and pitch for each sample
- minimum value for velocity sensitive lp filter cutoff
- global tightness (reduces the per sample swing)
- number of steps per bar (measure) 12/16/24/32



