DS8 Drum Works is a new FREE VSTi drum machine for Windows with an open plugin filter architecture, the SDK is available from Scott if anyone is interested in knocking up a filter plugin for this freebie.
Features of the DS8 are:
- Up to 32 Drum Kits.
- Use up to 256 pads per Program.
- VST 2.1 Support which allows you to map all 16 MIDI channels to any 16 Drum Kits.
- Easy and intuitive interface. Makes customizing and creating and editing drum kits easy.
- Supports Mono and Stereo WAV and AIFF formats in 16 and 32 bit format.
- 8 Velocity layers per pad are provided to bring extra realism to your drum tracks.
- Modular Filter design to open doors for 3rd party filters (SDK available). Pads can have up to 4 filters each.
- Provides complete customisation of Chokes and Triggers.
- 12 Mono and/or 6 Stereo outputs.
- Import LM-7, LM-9 and most LM-4 Drum kits.
- Kit Archiving for those looking to trade, backup or download kits.
