Drums - Percussion
| Drums - Percussion - Tools for playing drums, creating beats and editing rhythms. You'll find drum synthesizers, MIDI drum tools, learning aids, drum machines and specialized drum loop software in this category. If you're looking for hardware then check out our roundups of cheap Electronic Drums and Drum Machines. | |
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| Software | Description | OS | License | File Date | Comments | Power |
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| Reason 7 | Reason is a virtual studio rack with tools like Analog synth, sampler, drum machine, ReCycle!-based loop player, mixer, effects, pattern sequencer, and more. Go to the full commercial version of Reason | Mac | Demo | 2013-05-01 | 0 | 75db |
| RMV v5.0.7 | Drum machine combining analog-style percussion synthesis with percussion sampler. [VST] | Windows | Demo | 2012-01-30 | 0 | 50db |
| Sonic Charge µTonic v2.0.1 X | Drum and percussion synthesizer. [VST] | Mac | Shareware | 2005-12-02 | 0 | 50db |
| Tr808 Midi Dance Collection | 32 Techno/Trance/House/Ambient Midi Drum Patterns | Windows | Demo | 1999-04-15 | 0 | 45db |
| Tseq_AM | Matrix-Style Drum Machine. | Mac | Freeware | 2002-12-29 | 0 | 50db |
| Virtual DrumStation | The best way for compose your percussion rhythms. | Windows | Shareware | 2003-06-30 | 0 | 50db |
| Cortex v2.5 | Drum sampler with five pattern sequencers designed for live operation. [VST] | Windows | Demo | 2006-02-13 | 0 | 50db |
| DK+ Virtual Drums v1.50.00 | Sample Player/Step Sequencer. [VST] | Windows | Demo | 2006-06-22 | 0 | 45db |
| AVdrum 0.22 | Audio video step sequencer. Also a drum machine. | Mac | Freeware | 2005-05-01 | 0 | 80db |
| Music Box 1.0b2 | Drum machine. | Mac | Freeware | 2005-03-29 | 0 | 55db |
| Drumagog 5.0.2 | Drum Replacer Plug-in [AU/VST/RTAS]. Get the full version of Drumagog Pro | Mac | Paid | 2010-11-19 | 0 | 60db |
| RS-16X v1.5.5 | Sequence & song style standalone drum machine. | Mac | Shareware | 2013-04-19 | 0 | 55db |
| AnarchyRhythms v2 | Sonic Pattern Morpher - hybrid between an effect and a drum machine. | Windows | Demo | 2005-03-01 | 0 | 40db |
| Twitch v8b | 8-pad samplebased drummachine. [VST] | Windows | Freeware | 2005-01-18 | 0 | 50db |
| Compadre Beatpuncher 1.5 | Compress with attitude [VST] | Windows | Demo | 2010-11-12 | 0 | 45db |
| Groove Analogizer v1.0 | Audio controlled drum synthesizer. [VST] | Windows | Freeware | 2005-08-29 | 0 | 55db |
| Vendetta v1.0 | Drum synth [VST] | Windows | Demo | 0 | 45db | |
| Rhythm Rascal v2.1.2353.40583 | Create drum tracks on your PC. | Windows | Demo | 2006-06-11 | 0 | 45db |
| a-kit v1.4 | A collection of seven simple-to-use drum plug-ins. [VST/AU/RTAS] | Mac | Shareware | 2008-10-09 | 0 | 50db |
| Minimal v1.5 | Mini groovebox style drum machine with onboard bass synth. [VST] | Windows | Freeware | 2005-06-22 | 0 | 50db |
| Archibald v3.6 | Virtual drummer which improvises on your patterns. [VST] | Mac | Shareware | 2008-12-01 | 0 | 55db |
| Hammer v1.02 | Classic analogue modelling drum synthesizer. [VST] | Windows | Demo | 2006-03-01 | 0 | 50db |
| Cerebrum v4.0 | Groovebox-style drum machine with onboard sequencers that follow your host, allowing for serious beat creation. [VST] | Windows | Demo | 2010-06-22 | 0 | 55db |
| Surface v1.1 | Models percussive resonances. [VST] | Windows | Freeware | 2005-06-02 | 0 | 45db |
| Quad Zamp v1.1 | One-shot/drum sample player. [VST] | Windows | Freeware | 2005-11-05 | 0 | 50db |
| SwarShala v3.1.1 | Complete Indian music software for Indian music lovers and fusion composers. | Mac | Demo | 2009-10-02 | 0 | 45db |
| Gneutronica v0.33 | MIDI drum machine. | Linux | Free | 2006-07-03 | 0 | 45db |
| GTG FreeDrum | User-programmable drumsynth. [VST] | Windows | Freeware | 2005-08-28 | 0 | 45db |
| Free Djembe v1.0 | Play your keyboard like a hand drum - Studio-Quality 24-bit NN-XT Instrument. | Windows | Freeware | 2005-09-12 | 0 | 60db |
| Free Djembe v1.0 | Play your keyboard like a hand drum - Studio-Quality 24-bit NN-XT Instrument. | Mac | Freeware | 2005-09-12 | 0 | 55db |
