Drum8
by audiolatry
by audiolatry
4.1 / 5
(9 votes)
Drum8 is a sample-based drum plugin.
It features a total of 40 kits for various music genres. There are 320 sounds in total, including kicks, snares, claps, toms, hi-hats (closed & open), percussion, cymbals, fx, and more.
The plugin sports a compact and easy-to-use interface with global controls (gain, lowpass filter, room reverb), individual controls per sample (gain, attack, pan, stereo channel output), and an 8-pad configuration. The samples are conveniently mapped from C1 to G1.
Most of the samples were made with 2 hardware analog drum machines ran through Radial JDI direct box, Warm Audio ToneBeast Black, and Antelope Audio Discrete 4 Synergy Core audio interface. For the acoustic drum kits, drum modeling software and a mass amount of effect plugins were used.
Drum8 is available as a VST/VST3 plugin for Windows and VST/VST3/AU plugin for macOS (El Capitan to Mojave, NOT compatible with Catalina and up).
It features a total of 40 kits for various music genres. There are 320 sounds in total, including kicks, snares, claps, toms, hi-hats (closed & open), percussion, cymbals, fx, and more.
The plugin sports a compact and easy-to-use interface with global controls (gain, lowpass filter, room reverb), individual controls per sample (gain, attack, pan, stereo channel output), and an 8-pad configuration. The samples are conveniently mapped from C1 to G1.
Most of the samples were made with 2 hardware analog drum machines ran through Radial JDI direct box, Warm Audio ToneBeast Black, and Antelope Audio Discrete 4 Synergy Core audio interface. For the acoustic drum kits, drum modeling software and a mass amount of effect plugins were used.
Drum8 is available as a VST/VST3 plugin for Windows and VST/VST3/AU plugin for macOS (El Capitan to Mojave, NOT compatible with Catalina and up).
- 291 MB extracted size / 211 MB download size.
- 40 drum kits with 8 pads (samples per kit).
- 320 samples in total.
- Gain, attack & pan controls for each pad.
- Each pad has choke function to prevent bleeding.
- Global lowpass filter cutoff.
- Room reverb.
- 100% original & royalty-free samples.
(5 / 5)
Me gusta, muchos gracias.
(3 / 5)
Great find!
(5 / 5)
This blows Arturia Spark out of the water and it's free! Just goes to show sometimes free VSTs can be better than paid VSTs. Shall certainly give this one a try on my brand new computer.
(5 / 5)
Best drum machine ever, thx, besides in sonar, win 7, it can't remember its multi out after saving, I ll try ver 2.0, Great Job !
(5 / 5)
I can't believe this plugin is free! Amazing for finger drumming and quality sounds.
(5 / 5)
Very good plugin, simple to use, varied and you can make some killer drum patterns with it.
(5 / 5)
Very good drum rompler with classic, retro-oriented sounds: 808-like, 909-like and acoustic kits, similar to the kits from old workstations. I liked its electronic kits - solid, crunchy sound! Great for old-school electro, acid house, retrowave and etc. Very low CPU, because it is a rompler.
(3 / 5)
For free it's not bad and another drum vst to check out and play with. Bonus.
And, I wonder if it is possible to upload your "Wav" files?
I Think NOT
(1 / 5)
Nice design, but absolutly unusable sounds, in special the kicks. Maybe it will come a new version with the following aspect: Bruce Swedien said: "Be sure, that you have recorded right and that every instrument sounds clear and clean." The sounds here on this device are extremly preprocessed. I have no chance to correct that in the mix. Nevertheless, thank you for this uncomplicated user interface!
But 1 star?! Hmmm...
I am sorry, I can imagine, what you feel, but it is only my opinion. I thought, the more you know about different users, the better you can deside, what to do next.