Free Snare Designer for Ableton Live, Logic, and Kontakt

If you’re obsessive about snares, this free download is for you. If you totally haven’t been thinking about snares at all, and want to let someone else obsess about it for you, this download is also for you. Meet Snare Designer.

Pretend you can play and produce drums with this free plug-in

Spitfire’s latest LABS plug-in release is out, with the theme “DRUMS.” Here’s how to get started with it – and why it may make you feel like you magically know how to actually play and properly record an acoustic drum kit.

Peter Kirn - July 3, 2018

This plug-in is a secret weapon for sound design and drums

It’s full of gun sounds. But because of a combination of a unique sample architecture and engine and a whole lot of unique assets, the Weaponiser plug-in becomes a weapon of a different kind. It helps you make drum sounds.

Peter Kirn - June 14, 2018

Erica Synths made a modular techno system called Techno System

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2018

Roland TR-8S hands-on: a more playable, powerful drum machine

Peter Kirn - March 5, 2018

Erica are set to bring the 909 into the modular age with their latest gear

Peter Kirn - January 31, 2018

Roland does for drum pads what stompboxes did for guitar effects

Peter Kirn - May 26, 2017

Get a bunch of drum and wavetable sounds for Novation Circuit

Peter Kirn - October 26, 2016

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