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- 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...
- MT Power DrumKit 2 (Windows, Mac) The MT Power DrumKit is a free sampler which offers high-quality samples of an acoustic, realistic drum kit. Welcome to The Home Recordings.
- Drumatic 3 by e-phonic (Windows) Drumatic 3 is a virtual-analogue drum synthesizer. All sounds are 100% synthetic and allow for huge flexibility and variation.
- DrumMic’a! by Sennheiser (Windows, Mac) This is a Free drum sample Software which loads inside of the free native Instruments Kontact Player. This one allows you to change between Sennheiser and Neumann Microphones, which will change the drum sound a bit.
- Beatfactory Drums by BeatSkillz (Windows, Mac) Beatfactory Drums is a free drumkit/drum machine plugin which works in any DAW on Mac OS X and Windows 32/64-bit.
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Jan 22, 2022 · Speedrum Lite. MiniSpillage. DrumNet. BPB Cassette Drums. All featured drum plugins are 100% free to use. SSD Free. Steven Slate Drums is an iconic free drum plugin. If you produce rock, metal, or pop music, this is the plugin you’d get recommended the most.
Oct 4, 2019 · Last updated on December 31st, 2023 at 08:42 pm. Finding good plugins, especially free ones that sound great, can be quite a challenge. This is why I put together this extensive list of free Plugins; from Synth, to Piano, Orchestra, Guitar, Drums, Bass, and more.
Sep 27, 2022 · The best free drum VST plugins, such as Sennheiser DrumMic’a, offer a large number of samples. Others – like the MT Power DrumKit – provide excellent ease of use. If you’re looking for natural-sounding drums and are into hip-hop, Spitfire LABS Drums plugin is the go-to option.
Jan 1, 2024 · Contents. MT Power DrumKit 2. 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.
