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- Sean Pandy Drums. Metal producers using Reaper often find themselves short of options when it comes to finding a reliable drum VST on budget. Say no more for Sean Pandy Drums is a formidable free drum plugin that can take care of heavy drumming needs traversing genres such as Djent, Black metal, Deathcore, Metalcore, Mathcore and all the rest of it.
- MT Power Drum Kit 2. MT Power Drum Kit 2 is a massive drum library of neatly programmed drum grooves, snare drum sounds, kick drums and more. With pre-processed and mix-ready drum samples at the ready, MT Power Drum Kit 2 ensures producers won’t have to waste precious hours fine tuning and tweaking drum timbres.
- SM MegaReaper DrumKit. SM MegaReaper DrumKit is a state-of-the-art drum kit especially designed for Reaper users whether you are a professional producer or a beginner in music production.
- Steven Slate SSD 5. Looking for a robust metal drum VST that comes free of cost? Look no further than Steven Slate SSD 5 that offers realistic drum kit presets, and an intelligent MIDI learning mode.
- AudioSpillage MiniSpillage. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends hours testing products to help you choose the best music-making gear for you.
- Native Instruments Beats. PC/Mac | VST/AU/AAX. Beats is an updated version of Urban Beats, one of NI’s older Kontakt instruments, now offered free as part of the company’s Komplete Start bundle.
- Spitfire Audio Labs Drums. PC/Mac | VST/AU/AAX. Spitfire Audio launched its Labs project a few years ago, offering a variety of high-quality - and often fairly esoteric - free sampled instruments, all of which run in the company’s bespoke host plugin.
- Synsonic BD-909 / BD-808 Free. PC/Mac | VST/AU. This pair of free percussion synths from German developer Synsonic focus entirely on just one drum sound: the kick.
- Mt Power Drum Kit 2
- MiniSpillage Compact Drum Synthesizer by AudioSpillage
- Drum Pro by Studio Linked
- Beat Drmr
- BD-808 by Synsonic Instruments
- BD-909 by Synsonic Instruments
- Jamstix 4 Free – Virtual 3D Drummer by Rayzoon
- DrumTROOP by Dubturbo
- Labs – Drums by Spitfire Audio
- Sub Free Analog Drums by Sampleson
It’s hard to find realistic sounding drum VSTs for free. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some good options available, it just means if you’re expecting to get something that sounds as good as BFD for free, you’re probably going to be disappointed. That said, MT Power Drum Kit 2 is awesome, and it’s my go-to drum VST when capturing a live drummer is ...
MiniSpillage is a drum synth plugin with high resolution 64-bit DSP processing. It comes with three drum synthesis algorithms as well as distortion effects and resonant filters. This VST features a single oscillator bass drum synth with pitch sweep, internal FM, and harmonic controls, a wooden drum model synth, and a six-oscillator closed and open ...
Studio Linked’s Drum Pro is a drum kit rompler complete with sampled vintage kits. You get 20 drum kits, global ADSR, reverb, 12 pads, as well as volume and pan control for each pad. Some of the included samples are relatively realistic, though I still don’t think this is the type of VST you would use for a rock song. That is, of course, unless you...
Beat DRMR offers 178 drum kits for a variety of genres, including electro, techno, Detroit, minimal, acid, and other styles. It comes with over 2,000 sounds total. The kits include Airbase, Analog Rytm, Defeated, Hybrid, Lectro, Modular, Synthetic, TR-909 kits, as well as eight real drums, 26 bonus percussion kits, and selected synth kits. As you c...
Who doesn’t like classic 808 style beats, right? Well, the Synsonic Instruments BD-808 can help you create bass drum sounds based on the original 808 Bass Drum circuit. You can even use this as a bass synthesizer with MIDI control. I love the orange-accented graphical interface, which comes complete with controls for tune, accent, decay, fine, leve...
Synsonic’s BD-909 models the TR-909 bass drum. So, yet again, we have a bass drum dedicated VST via Synsonic. Impeccably designed? Yes. And the developers even went to the trouble of analyzing the original circuit to develop this VST. The controls include pitch, tune decay, tune depth, accent, attack, noise decay, decay, hold, distort, trigger, and...
RAYZOON’s Jamstix 4 Free is the most limited version of Jamstix 4. There are six other versions that come with additional features in case you want to upgrade. Either way, Jamstix 4 Free comes with eight drummer models, 21 style models, 200 acoustic drum samples, mapped MIDI output, limited full velocity layers, limited 3D kit customization, and li...
DrumTROOP is a free drum kit rompler. It comes with 20 free drum kits, 128 triggers on every kit, 16 outputs, universal drum placement on the first eight pads, as well as controls for vol, pan, attack, and release on each pad. What immediately stands out about DrumTROOP is probably its design. For a free plugin, it looks incredibly attractive (if j...
We like to keep a close eye on Spitfire Audio. Because what they offer for free is often unique, and above and beyond what you might expect for the price. For this plugin, Stanley Gabriel recorded, mixed, edited, and programmed Ollie Waton on the drums. The result is an incredibly realistic sounding kit that’s perfect for rock, jazz, blues, and oth...
SUB is a vintage analog drum module (drum synthesizer). It recreates many classic drum sounds and even comes with a sub-frequency oscillator. It features 18 analog drum sounds, mixer with pan and volume, and HD scalable interface. SUB offers 808-style sounds, which you can tweak using the onboard controls. It’s a simple plugin, and it works on Wind...
- Superior Drummer 3 (Virtual Drummer) More Info & Price. From the makers of EZdrummer 2 comes this magnificent virtual drummer with a massive sample library, making it the new benchmark in drum production.
- Knif Audio Knifonium (Analog Synth Emulation) More Info & Price (Trial Available) The Knifonium synthesizer plug-in is modeled after Knif Audio’s Knifonium hardware synthesizer.
- Native Instruments Kontakt 7 (Sampler/Platform For Libraries) More Info & Price. KONTAKT 7 is the latest version of the popular sampler, and it includes a reworked HiDPI Factory library and new instruments from companies like Orchestral Tools.
- Arturia Pigments 4 (Wavetable & Sample-Based Synth) More Info & Price (Trial Available) Pigments 4 is a powerful and versatile synth that combines the best features of both virtual analog and granular synthesis.
Jan 22, 2022 · As such, drum VST plugins are fundamental to your music production software collection. Drum VST Plugins (2024 Update) We listed the best drum plugins you can get for free. The list includes acoustic drum kits, drum synthesizers, drum samplers, and drum machine romplers. SSD Free; BFD Player; MT Power Drum Kit 2; LABS Drums; MODO Drum Custom Shop
Apr 30, 2019 · Here’s a table with the Free Drum VSTs that I like the best (I won’t include all of them in the table, so scroll down to see the ones I didn’t include). 1. Acoustic Drums VSTs. All of the plugins in this section will be real sampled drums, not synthetic ones or drum machines.
Jan 1, 2024 · The MT Power DrumKit 2 is one of the better sounding free drumkit VST plugins out there, and I’ve personally used it on some of my projects. It’s been designed to emulate the sound of a real drumkit. It may sound a tiny bit synthetic, but within the context of a fuller mix, it can sound great.
