Drum software has evolved greatly over the past decade, and the current crop of virtual kits and drum machines are all capable of detailed sound editing and creating grooves ranging from cerebral jazz to foot-stomping funk and bone-crunching metal. But which one is best for you, your budget and the way you work?To save you the legwork and expense of hunting down the hottest software, we’ve rounded up nine of the best packages available today.
For an in-depth look and OS requirements for each product click through to the full review at the bottom of each page. First up: Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0.Easy to use, slick as you like, and with a 'superior' sound, has beaten back the competition to claim its place as perhaps the best drum ROMpler going.The included MIDI library (if a little samey), mixer and effects are particularly useful.Now read: Prev Page 1 of 9 Next Prev Page 1 of 9 Next.
This drum studio package offers three main features: drum samples, production tools and grooves. It ships with three complete kits (a Sonor Designer, a Tama Starclassic and a DW Collector’s Series) plus lots of extra drums and cymbals. Samples include nuances from the softest to the hardest hits, and many stroke variations.All of the sounds were recorded with a multi-channel mic setup and you can adjust the tuning and characteristics of each sound, as well as the amount of EQ, reverb, distortion and compression to be applied. It boasts an attractive, intuitive user interface.Now read: Prev Page 2 of 9 Next Prev Page 2 of 9 Next. Although a watered-down version of Toontrack’s massive, EZdrummer has more drum sounds and MIDI patterns than you can shake a drum stick at.A friendly interface visualises the drums loaded and combines auditioning and kit construction. An internal mixer allows the module to work in both stereo and multi-track mode without the user having to step out of one version of the plug-in and into another, and gives control of levels between mics and ambience and overhead mic leakage.A good package for beginners but for state-of-the-art drum sounds look elsewhere.Now read: Prev Page 4 of 9 Next Prev Page 4 of 9 Next. A state-of-the-art drum module with a huge array of sounds and editing capabilities.
It has a 12GB sample library with 100 drum kits covering a massive range of styles. Alongside the expected rock, pop and hip hop kits you’ll find setups dedicated to jazz (including a brush kit), reggae, vintage soul, hard rock, electronic and avant-garde sounds and ethnic percussion.Countless effects and performance articulations help create realistic or even bizarre effects.
Handrums is our new library featuring a wide selection of Drum Instruments released playing drums with hands, fingers and other body parts.As a result we obtained a drum sound with a marked raw and tribal character. Handrums features two kicks, a snare, two low toms, two mid toms and one small tom.All multivelocity and with round-robins (up to five round robins).
Import your own samples and create kits containing up to 128 different drum sounds, each with up to 128 different velocity variations.Now read: Prev Page 5 of 9 Next Prev Page 5 of 9 Next. This popular package boasts a large library of tweakable drum and percussion grooves covering more than 100 popular styles, all syncable to a sequencer’s song tempo.
You can import your own sounds and create your own kits.also includes Special Agent, offering realistic acoustic kits and Percussion Agent for percussive grooves and sounds. Dual Mode allows you to use two Agents alongside each other. This is easily the best, most powerful and flexible version of Groove Agent yet.Now read: Prev Page 6 of 9 Next Prev Page 6 of 9 Next. This impressive package is packed with big drum sounds that can really beef up your percussion tracks. Some of the more unusual instruments include Tibetan and Chinese gongs, Indonesian hand drums, giant log drums, hang drums, anklung, a waterphone, an 80 ft metal bridge and the largest floor tom ever built - 42'x 42', built by Remo especially for the project.The sounds are superb and their expressivity is impressive. Useful MIDI performances are also included.
It’s an awesome package.Now read: Prev Page 7 of 9 Next Prev Page 7 of 9 Next.
Helloat we're happy to announce the release ofis our new library featuring a wide selection of drum instruments released playing drums with hands, fingers and other body parts. As a result we obtained a drum sound with a marked raw and tribal character.features two kicks, a snare, two low toms, two mid toms and one small tom.
All multivelocity and with round-robins (up to five round robins). Depending on the kit part we used one single hand, two hands, fingers, elbow to get a complete sound menu. Also we added a nice selection of rolls and flames as a bonus.is perfect for adding lively percussive sounds and drumming to a really wide range of styles, including Pop, Rock, Rnb, Hip Hop, and Cinematic/Action.Here's a few Audio Demos:Handrums is available at introductory price of Euro 14,90More info and purchase at:Thanks!BestLuca. In all honesty, I'm not sure I agree with it being 'impossible' to judge how good or useful the product is, also considering that 'naked' demos are included and we have an out-of-the-box approach to all of our in-house demos, which means we never apply extra processing to the library we're demonstrating. We only add some mastering on the final mix.But I fully understand the importance of having many different videos. The more the better, no doubt.
Actually we are working on a short one exploring the single componentsIncluded multi's are, in our vision, a good starting point and at the same time a showcase of possible layering options.BestLuca.