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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| Malodie | A very odd on-line experimental loop-based MIDI sequencer and drum machine. | Mac | Freeware | 2003-10-31 | 0 | 60db |
| SequBeat Pro v7.0 | Turn your PC into a drum kit. | Windows | Shareware | 2002-08-28 | 126 | 60db |
| EKS Pro 2.01 | The EKS for Mac or the Electronic Kick drum Synthesizer is an audio / plugin that create kickdrum sounds. [AU/VSTi] | Mac | Demo | 2012-10-15 | 0 | 60db |
| Monkey Machine | Web based Java drum machine. | Mac | Freeware | 2010-09-27 | 0 | 60db |
| MDrummer 4.07 | Percussive instrument engine. [VST/Standalone] | Windows | Demo | 2013-06-17 | 0 | 60db |
| Music Box 1.0b2 | Drum machine. | Mac | Freeware | 2005-03-29 | 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 | 60db |
| Monkey Machine v1.2 | Online Java drum machine. | Mac | Freeware | 2007-02-03 | 0 | 60db |
| DrumStar v1.0.2 | Drum sampler and step sequencer for creating original drum patterns. [VST] | Windows | Demo | 2007-11-09 | 0 | 60db |
| iDrum v1.73 | Drum machine. [VST/AU/RTAS/Standalone] | Mac | Demo | 2010-04-07 | 2 | 60db |
| Groove Box v1.0 | Drum machine. | Windows | Shareware | 2007-04-04 | 0 | 60db |
| Body-Rythmn Eletronic Beatbox System BR-490 J | Electronic Beatbox System. | Windows | Freeware | 2012-06-07 | 3 | 60db |
| AREX 2011 1.5 | A drum module based on a hardware drum machine from the early 80's [VSTi] | Windows | Freeware | 2013-04-23 | 3 | 60db |
| KickMaker 2.0 | Synthesizer designed specifically to create good kick drum sounds. [VST] | Windows | Freeware | 2010-10-30 | 1 | 60db |
| RubberDuck v2.1.2 | Acid and techno software synthesizer - based on the Roland TB-303. | Windows | Freeware | 2005-08-28 | 9 | 60db |
| Archibald v3.6 | Virtual drummer which improvises on your patterns. [VST] | Mac | Shareware | 2008-12-01 | 0 | 60db |
| Sonic Charge µTonic 3.1 | Drum and percussion synthesizer. [VSTi] | Windows | Demo | 2013-05-20 | 0 | 60db |
| FlexibeatzII | A complete music making program that lets you sequence via a X0X interface (and record to .wav and .mp3 files) | Windows | Freeware | 2011-03-21 | 0 | 60db |
| Smack v0.3 | Sample-free drum synth. | Linux | Free | 2006-04-29 | 1 | 60db |
| Monkey Machine | Web Java drum machine. | Windows | Freeware | 2007-02-03 | 0 | 60db |
| DGenR8 v4.0.7 | Virtual analog drum synthesizer in the style of Roland's TR Series, with 11 tweakable voices. [VST] | Windows | Free | 2012-09-24 | 0 | 60db |
| MidiDrums v1.0 | MIDI drum machine. You might also check out these Hardware Drum Machines | Windows | Free | 2009-03-30 | 0 | 60db |
| Drum Kit Samples | Drum Kit Samples captured real acoustic drums in action for use with virtual percussion programs that use with WAV, MP3 or OGG. | Mac | Paid | 2012-02-20 | 0 | 60db |
| TheDrumSource 1.0 | Sample based drum machine with sequencer [VSTi/Standalone] | Windows | Freeware | 2011-05-21 | 0 | 60db |
| BillaBoop v0.1 | Turns Human beatboxing into drum patterns. | Windows | Freeware | 2005-07-01 | 1 | 60db |
| Drums for Practice 2.03 | Drums for Practice is an Android App that plays drum loops that you can use for practice. | Android | Freeware | 2011-09-26 | 1 | 60db |
| 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 |
| Sonic Charge µTonic v3.1 | Drum and percussion synthesizer combined with a pattern based drum-machine engine. [AU/VSTi] | Mac | Demo | 2013-05-20 | 0 | 60db |
| Nerve v1.0 | Drum machine that brings powerful beat creation and manipulation to your host sequencer. [VST/AU] | Mac | Demo | 2010-04-15 | 0 | 60db |
| Figure 1.3 | Figure is a mobile music production app that can provide Bass, Drums and Lead Synth based on Reason. | iPhone | Paid | 2012-12-01 | 0 | 60db |
