Free Drum Apps For Computers

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Below is a list of the best free and paid virtual drum software programs available to download right now. They are available for PC and Mac computers in plugin formats to use with DAWs and most operate as a standalone program as well. Free app The app is free but you can remove the ads and get the premium version by purchasing a licence. Have a bash and a blast with the best and most comprehensive drum app on Google Play! Perfect for drummers, percussionists, professional musicians, amateurs or beginners. Touch & Play! Aug 28, 2012 Free. See System Requirements. Overview System Requirements Reviews Related. Available on. PC Description. Got a touch screen? Turn it into a Drum Set! This app features 12 different drum sounds that can be played by tapping your fingers on your screen. It works with a mouse, but really comes alive if you have a multi. Jul 11, 2016 Below is a list of the best free and paid virtual drum software programs available to download right now. They are available for PC and Mac computers in plugin formats to use with DAWs and most operate as a standalone program as well. Unless you plan on mastering the technique of recording an acoustic drum kit and finding a drummer to play for you all the time, having a good drum. A very easy to use drum machine. You can choose from various drum kits, create, save and edit your drum patterns and record it as audio files.

Drum Machine is not a drum kit alone. It also features funny sounds that can be used for entertainment or which you can sample into your favourite song while its playing. The metronome feature helps you keep tempo and the disco lights let your touch screen flash in fresh colors. Try the free trial version. You will love it! Virtual Drumming is a collection of free online drum games where you can play drum beats, drum solos and songs along to your favorite music, with the drums of the best drummers. You can find big heavy metal drumsets with a lot of cymbals and double bass drum, essential jazz drums or rock drum sets.

Free beats with our round-up of six of the best freeware drum machines…

Freeware Drum Machines

Melda MDrummer Small – Virtual Drummer

Melda Production has loads of freeware and MDrummer Small is, not surprisingly, a free version of the company’s MDrummer Large. Nevertheless, it’s quite a substantial product and download itself. It comes with 500MB of sounds and data, which includes 30+ drumsets, 400+ drumset components, 200+ samples, 50+ multisamples, 60+ rhythms, 200+ base-rhythms and 2,500+ loops.

There’s an onboard arranger/sequencer and effects, plus loads of hands-on controls for creating varied machine or human-like beats. It’s a pretty special plugin that we erroneously (sorry! – Ed) previously reported as PC only – in fact it’s been available for Mac for years. It’s one of our favourite freeware drum machines.

W: meldaproduction.com
Platform: PC & Mac

MaxSynths DR-910 – TR-909 Emulator

When we first published this article, our TR-909 emulator of choice was the Monade Sounds Mini909. With a simple, easy-to-use interface, it filled the 909 gap in our lives, performing extremely well considering it’s unbeatable price tag. However, Monade Sounds is sadly no longer with us, and as such no longer allows you to download the Mini909.

Enter MaxSynths with the DR-910. Boasting some additional features not found on the hardware version, which include a reverb unit with independent send controls for each sound source, a compressor tailored to work with drum sounds (based on the same engine of MaxSynths DSP-1) and a Lo-Fi FX processor. The signal can also be processed using external effects using the 4 stereo outputs that can be independently processed in your DAW.

W: http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=2376
Platform: PC

Vintage Drum Elements – Yamaha RX5 Emulator

You can download this in return for your email address (and a voluntary donation) and what you get is a drum-pad player loaded with RX5 kits plus instruments, including DX bass, ethnic and synth. Usefully, you get Standard, Vinyl, Sub and Tremolo effects to add which can really vary the sound.

As to the core sounds, we weren’t convinced that this was the classic drumkit we needed until the developers SampleScience reminded us that Cocteau Twins, Bomb The Bass, Masters At Work, OMD, Vangelis, Depeche Mode, and The Pet Shop Boys all made rather good use of it. So an absolute bargain, after all!

W: https://www.samplescience.ca/2015/08/vintage-drum-elements.html
Platform: Mac, PC

Beatskillz Beatfactory Drums – Drum-Synth Module

It’s fair to say that a lot of the free drum plug-ins here could well be player shells that you pay extra to get sound packs for. This one might well follow along those lines, but does come with 10 kits (808, Trap, 80s, Dubstep, Indian and Sample kits, among others) to start with.

Download rar extractor windows 10. Each pad can be edited and an envelope shape applied to the list: plus there’s a useful reverb effect. One of the big selling points of the plug-in – yes, we know you don’t actually buy it – is that it was recorded using an MPC through some pretty high-end outboard gear and the results do sound good: one of the best freeware drum machines snappy and contemporary and ideal for a slew of polished genres, including hip-hop, trap and EDM.

W: beatskillz.com/drums
Platform: Mac, PC

Distocore Bazz Murda – Kick-Drum Synth

One that could have gone in the synth section, as the results are more than percussion! Kick synths are all the rage, not only in software (with lots of paid- for apps), but hardware, too, like Korg’s Volca Kick. Bazz Murda is a cut-down piece of kick-synth freeware, but there’s still a lot left in terms of control.

This is a full-featured synth dedicated to hard kicks for the harder side of dance, and it doesn’t disappoint. Those after something with less bite might be shocked at the attitude that this plug-in is capable of reaching – pop producers look away now, as this is strictly for dubstep, gabber, drum ’n’ bass. For kicks with added extras, and plenty of them.

W: distocore.net/bazz_murda.html
Platform: Mac, PC

Dopekitz Rupture – 16-Part Drum Machine

Finally – something light on your processor and easy to use, a 16-part drum machine and sample player. DopeKitz’s Rupture comes with five kits – West Coast, Tribeca, Ever 1da, Crunk’d and Danger Drumz – so enough to get your teeth into. Yes, there are more expansion packs available for your money, but these will show off the flexibility of Rupture. With sliders, pads and Attack rotaries, there’s enough here to give your beats an edge.

You can create and mix kits, too, and pitch the whole lot up and down. One of the most useful freeware drum machines that is both simple and effective.

W: dopekitz.com/rupture-virtual-drum-machine.html
Platform: Mac, PC

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Cubix – Drum synth and sample player

Psychic Modulation makes a selection of freeware VST instruments for Windows, that are more fully featured than you might expect. Cubix is a drum synthesiser and sample player with an onboard arpeggiated bass synth.

Onboard crossfade sequencers let you blend between the drum sections for easy live performance, and there’s randomisation and the ability to mix, match and manipulate beats. Having an integrated bass synth and being able to use sampled or synthesised drum parts makes this a clever little box for building electronic sequences.
W: http://www.psychicmodulation.com/plugins.html – Platform: PC

Hahaha DS-01 – Drum machine and synthesiser

Electronic drum machines were always more flexible than sample-based ones because their sounds were generated using synthesis rather than sampling, and therefore much more open to manipulation. The curiously-named ‘hahaha DS-01’ isn’t particularly hilarious, but it is a straightforward drum synth that the developer claims “would have existed in 1983” if it had been a real product.

The look is sparse, and you get eight synth sections, one for each drum type, from kick and snare to hi-hats and toms. The results are as you would expect: thoroughly 80s. Each sound can be extensively tweaked and has panning and volume controls.
W: http://www.pethu.se/music/instruments.html – Platform: Mac, PC

TS-808 – Emulation of Roland TR-808

Roland’s classic TR-808 has been emulated a lot, but if you can find a free version, so much the better. This Windows-only instrument takes original samples, analyses them and matches their waveforms as closely as possible to the real thing. As you might expect, the voices have more tweakability than those on the original hardware, but it’s still pretty simple to use.

Controls vary a little, depending on the channel, but most have tuning, tone and decay knobs as well as velocity, level, pan and selectable output. There are 15 channels available and you can create cool-sounding retro drum patterns with it. It’s simple to use and rather easier than trying to track down a real 808.
W: http://tactilesounds.blogspot.co.uk – Platform: PC

Minispillage – Drum synth module

There are fewer freebies on the Mac platform than Windows, but they tend to be pretty good. Minispillage comes from developer Audiospillage, and is a free, pro-quality drum synth plug-in with 64-bit DSP processing. It features three fully editable drum pads that can create a range of drum and percussion sounds: Bass Drum, Wood Drum and Electro Hi-Hat.

The Bass Drum module uses a single oscillator with pitch sweep, internal FM and harmonic controls. The Wood Drum synthesises natural and synthetic timbres from log drums to toms, and the Hi Hat module is a six-oscillator closed and open hat generator with noise source and dual resonant filters. It’s more advanced than you might expect.
W: http://www.audiospillage.com/minispillage.html – Platform: Mac AU

DSK SynthDrums – Drum synth

Synth drum kits form the basis of many kinds of music, and DSK SynthDrums is a quick way to bring them into your projects for free. It can store 12 patches and has a system for easily assigning sounds to the keyboard.

There’s selectable output and MIDI automation support inside your DAW, plus multiple effects, including filters, stutter, distortion and EQ. Each of the sounds can be controlled using the extensive synthesis sections, and patches can be copied and pasted, saved and loaded using the utility section at the top.

By tweaking pitch and other characteristics, it’s easy to create some authentic-sounding electronic drum parts in just a few minutes.
W: http://www.dskmusic.com/dsk-synthdrums – Platform: PC

Teragon Audio KickMaker – Dedicated kick drum synth