243 Results for "Drums"

Craig’s Production Tips #5: How To Spice Up Your Electronic Snare!

Your electronic snare sounding dead and lifeless? Try these simple tricks to liven up your snare sounds - after all, it's one of the most important elements in any song or production.

Brushify Pro puts a brushed and swept drum kit on the end of your fingers

A brushed kit is something of a rarity in sample packs and drum instruments. Sampleson is looking to redress the balance while reproducing some of the technique that's unique to drumming with brushes.

The Roland Groovebox returns with the MC-707 and MC-101

The MC-707 is packed with 8 tracks of sequencing, sampling, loops and phrases with the synthesizer, drum and effects engine of the new Jupiter-X. The MC-101 does the same with 8 tracks - but where's the D-Beam?

Wintergatan Marble Machine X – the ultimate mechanical groove box

After a couple of years of development Wintergatan's Martin Molin takes the rhythm section of the new and improved Marble Machine X for a spin

Yamaha releases next level digital workstation in the PSR-SX700 and SX900

If you're someone into styles, kits and innumerable voices that work together in perfect harmony then check out the new flagship PSR-SX series keyboard workstations from Yamaha.

Best free plug-ins this week: Time Tracker, GT Analyser, and ambient drums

It's time for this week's selection of the finest free plug-ins! Check out Time Tracker, GT Analyser, and some great free Ambient Electronic Drum Machine Sounds.

Tangible Waves AE Modular system gets drums

Tangible Waves introduces a whole drum kit in a module, an analogue kick drum and clone of the Mutable Instruments Grids to sequence it - all for peanuts in terms of modular money.

Audified ToneSpot Drum Express: Fat drums made simple

Audified has released ToneSpot Drum Express, a simplified version of the ToneSpot Drum Pro plug-in. If you're looking for smashing drums but don't feel like twiddling knobs, here you go.

Erica Synths releases two new Pico modules and ports Pico Drums into VCV Rack

Erica Synths keep on coming up with useful, solid and good value Pico modules, this time it's mixing and modulation. And they flirt some more with VCV Rack with a virtual Pico Drums.

Audified ToneSpot Drum Pro is an all-in-one enhancer for drum tracks

Need to fatten up your drum tracks? Audified ToneSpot Drum Pro is a new plug-in that has you covered with saturation, compression, EQ, and other effects designed to deliver some serious punch.

MODO Drum: physically modelled percussion from IK Multimedia

IK Multimedia's MODO Drum pulls out all the stops to model the physical attributes of both the drums and the player in a remarkably detailed study of the humble drum kit.

Superbooth 2019: QD – Quad Drum Voice is a feast of a digital drum module

Building on its reveal last year Vladimir Pantelic brings his QD - Quad Drum Voice digital drum sound source refined and ready for release to this years Superbooth.

Stompai lets you play drums with your feet – on your phone!

Now here’s a genius idea for all of you cash-strapped buskers out there. Stompai is an app that plays drum sounds, controlled by the movements of your foot.

TRAX: A cool VST drum machine for modern beat-driven genres

Styled like a hardware drum machine, TRAX comes complete with 50 drum kits spanning modern beat-driven genres like hip-hop, trap, EDM and the like.

NAMM 2019: Roland Cloud introduces SRX World and Drum Studio Acoustic One

New World Music expansion packs and a bunch of acoustic drum kits have been added to your Roland Cloud account for instant download.

NAMM 2019: Steinberg Absolute 4 instrument collection is in excess of 100GB

A chunky update to the Absolute collection of Steinberg HALion, instruments and synthesizers including the new Groove Agent 5, HALion 6 and HALion Sonic 3.

NAMM 2019: sE Electronics V Kick and V Beat drum recording microphones

sE Electronics has announced two drum recording and live sound microphones - the V Kic and V Beat. There's also the V Clamp drum mic mounting system, completing the new V Series.

Top 5 Modular Gear of 2018 by Strymon, Mutable, Endorphin, Erica, Arturia

Whew, what a year for modular gear that was! Here's the best of a cracking field of modular gear in 2018 - which you may or not agree with. It could easily have been a Top 20!

Prok Drums: Mighty Morphing virtual analog DSP drum module kits

A Bassdrum, Snare, Hi-Hat and Clap in four DIY modules that use DSP based virtual analog as their sound source and let you morph through the synthesis parameters in XY 2D. Very cool kits.

AnalogFusion: a dual engine analog and digital polyphonic synthesizer

AnlogFusion is a rather tasty looking polyphonic synthesizer. It fuses two separate synthesizer engines, one analog and one digital making it less of a hybrid and more of a megasynth!

Voltage Modular the virtual Eurorack synthesizer is released

Voltage Modular is here but can it make a dent in the VCV Rack and Softube Modular market? It has 69 modules, a fruity look, an inbuilt shop, and a load of effects from PSP Audio - check it out.

Free plug-ins this week: Charango LABS library and DRMR drum rompler

We have two bits of freeware for you this weekend: Charango sample library for Spitfire Audio LABS and Beat Magazine's DRMR electronic drums rompler. We'll tell you more about each in this post...

Korg Gadget 1.2 for Nintendo Switch goes multiplayer

New version 1.2 of Korg Gadget on the Nintendo Switch introduces the idea of collaboration with up to 4 players multiplayer composition mode and a cool new song transfer feature.

The ATOM: small but mighty performance pad controller from PreSonus

The small but mighty ATOM is a compact performance pad controller with lots of special Studio One integration. Perfect for banging out beats on the Impact XT drum machine.