99Sounds has announced the release of Drumplayer, a free VST instrument plugin that integrates drum sounds from the 99 Drum Samples library. The plugin aims to provide a straightforward interface to craft drum loops.
The concept was born from a desire to create a user-friendly drum instrument with production-ready drum kits. The plugin was created in collaboration with SampleScience, known for its sample-based instruments:
- Drumplayer is equipped with 20 drum kits, including 808, 909, vinyl, electronic, tape, and other drum styles. These kits suit various genres, including hip-hop, electronic, lo-fi, glitch, and experimental.
- The plugin also includes a set of drums sampled from the Commodore 64 and a Nintendo Game Boy.
- Every kit contains 14 drum sounds encompassing kicks, snares, hi-hats, cymbals, and percussion.
- The kits can be customized with a 14-channel mixer. The mixer has volume and stereo pan controls per channel. Furthermore, drums can be routed to AUX channels for added processing within the DAW.
- While Drumplayer offers global pan and volume controls, users can also access distortion, filtering, reverb, delay, and other built-in effects.
- Additionally, there is an option for note velocity range adjustments and an LFO for modulation.
Drumplayer supports 32-bit and 64-bit VST and AU plugin hosts on Windows and macOS.
Features:
- 20 drum kits (Analog, Commodore 64, Cassette 808, Cassette 909, Dub, Dubstep, 80s, Electro, Game Boy, Heat, Heavy, LoFi, Samplefino, Tech, Thrash, Toy, Trap, Vinyl, Analog Kicks, Bonus Kicks).
- 14 drum channels (Kicks, Snares, Hi-hats, Percussion, Cymbals).
- Multi-out support (per channel).
- Volume/pan controls (per channel).
- Effects (global).
- Modulation (global).
- Adjustable velocity curve.
- VST/AU plugin for Windows and macOS.
Price: Free.
