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Reviewed By irpacynot [all]
July 21st, 2025
Version reviewed: 2.1.3 on Windows
Great plugin for pretty specific uses. It has a very creative and easy-to-use design with respect to the "grooves" element, which is the only thing I would probably use it for. Has 4/4 and 6/8 grooves, with a fairly decent selection. But what makes the grooves portion so cool is how easy it is to create and vary the drums. Each set of grooves has a selection of fills associated with it, and you can mix and match to your liking.
There are two main things I don't care for: 1.) It's not very natural sounding. The tones are excellent, but they don't sound like real drums. There's no option (that I saw) that allows the plugin to assign dynamics other than to do it manually with the actual MIDI clips. The second issue is the lack of rimshot grooves -- there are none. Now, the plugin shows something called a "sidestick," which I assume is likely their name for a rimshot, but I had zero luck hearing anything when assigning its channel designation in the settings.
Still, for what it is, I think it's a great idea. I hope we'll see it expanded. Perhaps some type of rompler option, which would allow me to easily play grooves with pre-existing MIDI clips with varying dynamics the plugin and process.
Reviewed By nrnono [all]
March 7th, 2023
Version reviewed: 2.1.1 on Windows
It is "nagware", so free only if you have patience to deal with nagging for payment every time.
Besides that it is, affordable and has good sounds, I chosen it for plain vanilla rock drumming after auditioning a few free options.
Reviewed By nonewwavenofun [all]
March 8th, 2020
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows
A solid multi-band EQ with a nice interface. I'd also recommend their drum machine VST. Decent CPU usage from what I can tell.
Reviewed By Gabriel_West [all]
January 13th, 2018
Version reviewed: 7 on Windows
One of the best Drum Kit VST available, especially suiting for Pop Rock composers.
It doesn't takes much space and has a really clean and nice interface.
And its absolutely free, what do you want more?
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