I have no idea how I got started on this one? (I think it was a post on the Reaper forum) ?? Anyhow its done
What is it? A drum plugin that IMHO offers the lions share of what a (dare I say the word) Pro drum plugin\machine has to offer.
SoFtDrum is a VST plugin designed to use Soundfonts as its sample source. Offering the ability to have as many velocity split samples as required within the MIDI velocity range of 0-127, multi sample drums can be packaged into a single file making loading of multi sample drums and maintaining a drum library very simple. Plus the fact that creating and editing a soundfont for drums is very easy using even freeware it takes just minutes to make a drum soundfont from .wav files. SoFtDrum's CPU use is quite low for a plugin made in a modular application (Thanks Jeff+).
For each of the twelve pads SoFtDrum also offers the ability to coarse tune over two octaves up and down plus has fine tuning, MIDI amp velocity control, attack and release controls, panning, volume, assignable trigger note, multi outs (select from six) and offers two assignable groups designed to emulate the hihat and other percussion instruments.
To reduce the file size asseca has packaged the files as a self extracting .exe, The installer contains a self-extracting 7-Zip file. http://www.7-zip.org
You may manually extract the files (except "setup.exe") by using the 7-Zip or WinRAR utility. If there is a problem for any I will work out way to also provide a .zip file.
IMHO the only thing missing from this VST plugin is a large library of quality soundfont drums. That is where you all come in, you create the library and I will proved plugins with filters, velocity filters, distortions, effects, step sequencers, smaller versions, larger versions and the one I want most from this
A version with the update to Drum Direction built in so I can load one plugin as an effect and plug my electronic drum pads direct to my soundcard and play If any of the soundfont sites out there would like to create and maintain a soundfont drum library that would be real cool, contact me if you would like to link to or host the VST files.
Create a large enough soundfont drum library and I will give you all the project files to build what ever you want from Softdrum
Three versions are included in the SoFtDrum.exe package SoFtDrumUlt, SoFtDrumLt and SoFtDrum. The only difference between them is the way that polyphony works. Polyphony works a bit different in SoFtDrum compared to most drum plugins in that each pads polyphony works independent, meaning that the only way a pad can be cutoff because of reached polyphony is from itself. On the up side that means no crash cymbal will ever be cutoff by a tom roll
On the downside it means that the full sixteen voice version of SoFtDrum can ask your CPU to play 192 voices at full polyphony 
The three versions work as follows:
SoFtDrumUlt - 1 voice polyphony per pad = 12 voice polyphony total
SoFtDrumLt - 6 voice polyphony per pad = 72 voice polyphony total
SoFtDrum - 16 voice polyphony per pad = 192 voice polyphony total
Download http://frettedsynth.com look on the synth page for SoFtDrum and its example library.
Sorry for the long post I'm rather happy with this one
Peace
Fretted Synth
