Electronic Drum Synth VST

StickyWicket · 20th January 2011

I'm looking for a good Electronic Drum Synth (VST) that's fairly easy to use (anywhere from free on up.....). Somthing that's versatile in most genre's

.
What do you guys recommend?

Thanks,
SW

Brickman · 20th January 2011

Sonic Charge - µTonic

AudioRealism Drum Machine (ADM)

Nerve | Xfer Records

DarkPlasma · 20th January 2011

Waldorf Attack

Waldorf Edition

Simonator · 20th January 2011

Drumaxx is shockingly good if you can get over the brand.

AJ Reynolds · 20th January 2011

Rob Papan is releasing a new drum synth soon.

lilita · 20th January 2011

I'm a big fan of AudioDamage Tattoo:

Audio Damage :: Tattoo

(good for the Rolandy sounds and more plus I really like the step sequencer and use it to drive Kontakt sometimes as well)

also Axon (a bit stranger, FM percussion/synth)

Audio Damage :: Axon

RecklessNL · 20th January 2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simonator

Drumaxx is shockingly good if you can get over the brand.

That looks very interesting, how do you think it compares with the other drum synths (Waldorf Attack, D16 808 and 909 emulators, microtonic, ADM etc)? I make house and trance music mostly so I'm looking for kicks often used in these genres. I'm only really looking for synthesizing kickdrums.

Also, what makes Rob Papen's punch better than the drum synths I just mentioned?

Thank for the help!

Simonator · 20th January 2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by RecklessNL

That looks very interesting, how do you think it compares with the other drum synths (Waldorf Attack, D16 808 and 909 emulators, microtonic, ADM etc)? I make house and trance music mostly so I'm looking for kicks often used in these genres. I'm only really looking for synthesizing kickdrums.

Also, what makes Rob Papen's punch better than the drum synths I just mentioned?

Thank for the help!

Well, the D16 plugs are specific emulations of the XOXs... they do that job absolutely outstandingly... but are one-trick-ponies in a sense.

I've not worked with ADM or Attack... but heard good things about both.

Microtonic is great... but very modern & clean. This might be great for you if you are making trance.

Drumaxx has a certain dirtiness about it that I like.

I discovered Drumaxx via this thread, which has some relevant chatter in it:
Any decent software drum SYNTH that makes analogue(ish) techno sounds??

venusian · 26th August 2011

IS there a sense to have hardware drum synths

, mainly for progressive trance kick drum synthesizing?

I'm interested in tight kicks, not oldschool too siny or just what are 1980 kicks.

If someone can advise software ones I can try at first approach- much appreciated. Gona try Rob Pappen-punch today.

krushing · 26th August 2011

Drumaxx was shockingly buggy on OSX when it was released, to the point of being rather unusable - at least in Live. Any improvements on this front?

CoolColJ · 17th September 2011

I just came across Sonicsidekick Extreme Drum Synth
I'm impressed! Finally something that can do the sounds I want

http://www.sonicsidekick.com/drumsynth/index.php

It's pretty extreme and complex like it's name

Has patch genetics for variations and jitter for more random organic sound
It's got that raw rich sound that not many other VST can match

V2 out in a few months from what I read at KVR, new interface, and sample playback etc

gentleclockdivid · 17th September 2011

verry good , often overlooked
Home page - AraldFX

Rogue Ai · 17th September 2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkPlasma

Waldorf Attack

Waldorf Edition

Nice drum synth. It can even be used as standard synth.

Also, the Waldorf Edition comes with a great emulation of the PPG Wave 2.3. and it also includes the D-Pole filter plugin.

AnalogModelled · 3 Weeks Ago

I've bought Tremor and I love it. Not "easy" to program thought, but really interesting.

Fxpansion Release Video for Tremor their new Drum Synth

zerocrossing · 3 Weeks Ago

Buy all of these.

Ironhead - Morphing Drum Synthesizer VST Plug-in | Ugo Audio

Sonic Charge - µTonic

Drum Machine VST Plugin - Extreme DrumSynth

FXpansion - Tremor

Waldorf Attack

Hurry!

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