Tag Archives: percussion

Drum Machine ~ Create & Play Drum Beats

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Drum Machine is a modern and intuitive application for creating, playing, and managing drum patterns. Perfect for musicians, producers, and anyone interested in rhythm creation, this application provides a simple interface for drum pattern programming. Have fun!

Features:

  • Intuitive grid-based pattern editor with infinite pages
  • Custom samples: Add your own drum sounds with MIDI note mapping
  • Adjustable BPM control
  • Volume control for overall mix
  • Save and load patterns
  • Multiple drum sounds including kick, snare, hi-hat, and more
  • Audio and MIDI export with support for WAV, FLAC, Ogg, MP3, and MIDI formats
  • Metadata support for embedding artist name, song title, and cover art
  • Keyboard shortcuts for quick access to all functions

apps.gnome.org/DrumMachine
github.com/revisto/drum-machine

Vintage Drums ~ Free VST Percussion Sounds

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Add an authentic edge to your music with this essential collection of vintage drum sounds captured at one of the few remaining analogue recording studios: KERWAX. Discover two stunning kits — a 1970 Ludwig with 26” bass drum (as made famous by John Bonham of Led Zeppelin) and a 1940s custom kit fitted with original calfskin heads for a warm, rounded tone. Produced and engineered by Christophe Chavanon.

labs.spitfireaudio.com/vintage-drums (registration required)

DrumGizmo ~ Multilayered Drum App & Plugin

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DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in midi and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that’s has been recorded with a multi mic setup.

Features:

  • Stand-alone, Lv2 and VSTi versions available
  • Open drumkit file format, allowing the community to create their own drumkits
  • Drum velocity, allowing for several different hit velocities for each drum
  • Multichannel output, making it possible to mix it just the way you would a real drumkit
  • Optional built-in humanizer, analyzing the midi notes, adjusting velocities on-the-fly
  • Stand-alone midi renderer, generating .wav files, 1 for each channel
  • Stand-alone midi input, making it possible to use DrumGizmo as a software sampler for an electronic drumkit

www.drumgizmo.org

orDrumbox ~ Cross-platform Drum Machine

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The orDrumbox is free drum machine software, designed to be as creative as possible with some unusual features: auto-composition, polyrhythms, custom arpeggiator, automatic sounds/track matching, custom soft synths, lo fi rendering and more … Ideal for experimentation and fast results.

  • This software can automatically compose bass lines, melodic patterns and complete songs.
  • It comes with a rhythms database and sounds database including musical items which can be fully edited.
  • … and a fully customizable soft synth section adds many synthetics sounds as presets to the sounds library.

orDrumbox-V0.9.30-Assignations

www.ordrumbox.com
sourceforge.net/projects/ordrumbox
www.facebook.com/ordrumbox

drumkv1 ~ Drum-Kit Sampler Synthesizer

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drumkv1 is an old-school all-digital drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx.

Features:

  • a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support;
  • a LV2 instrument plug-in. URI: drumkv1.sourceforge.net/lv2
drumkv1.png

drumkv1.sourceforge.io

Hydrogen ~ Advanced Drum Machine

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Hydrogen is an advanced cross-platform drum machine. Its main goal is to provide professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Hydrogen Interface

www.hydrogen-music.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_(software)