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)
Tag Archives: percussion
DrumGizmo ~ Multilayered Drum App & Plugin
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
orDrumbox ~ Cross-platform Drum Machine
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.

www.ordrumbox.com
sourceforge.net/projects/ordrumbox
www.facebook.com/ordrumbox
drumkv1 ~ Drum-Kit Sampler Synthesizer
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

Hydrogen ~ Advanced Linux Drum Machine
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. Its main goal is to provide professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

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