Most usefull drum library/vst for modern radio music

[pawder]

Hey guys, what do you think is the most useful drum library or plugin/instrument you know and use for modern radio music (pop, hiphop, alternative)? Useful to me means that the drums sound good without having to do a lot of tweaking and that the tool is quick to use, again without a lot of options for fine tuning.

A negative example for me is XLN Audio Addictive Drums 2, which has too many parameters for my taste. A second negative example is drums stuff from UJAM, which in my opinion doesn't sound particularly good. Please don't hate on my opinion about those plugins, as well as my wish for fast-to-use workflow, everyone has their own taste.

Which drum plugins/libs do you prefer to use in this regard?

[WackyZoundz]

Here you can find a few simple drum kit plugins, maybe there's one you like: https://plugins4free.com/instruments/Drumkits/

[manfex]

I do like beatmakers, but they do need some extra tweaking to sound good. Better option is the ava music group prism-series which are much more usable out of the box. For acoustic drums I love Adam monroe’s beats, it sounds good and it’s really cheap. The ava libraries are on sale at native instruments at the moment

[mixyguy2]

Two very good freebies IMO:

https://www.powerdrumkit.com/
https://stevenslatedrums.com/ssd5/#SSD5FREE

[DSmolken]

These are on the more expensive side, but I'd take a close look at the Wave Alchemy and Goldbaby stuff for drum machines. I'm especially fond of their samples of higher-end modern drum machines like the Tanzbar and Pulsar23. Soniccouture also have that very interesting library that's basically getting machine-like sounds out of acoustic drum samples, very modern pop, and for more "traditional" alternative Moonkits and Sunkits. They do have lots of parameters, but also a generous selection of presets that let you ignore all the parameters and just find a sound you like.

Ava and That Sound stuff is good and very much focused on these styles, too. And for old-school hip-hop, Drumdrops Motown and Memphis kits are by far the best at really sounding like you sampled a 60s record - they also do other styles, of course, but the Motown one is especially worthwhile as they went all in including the drum kit leaking into horn section mics.

[whyterabbyt]

These are on the more expensive side, but I'd take a close look at the Wave Alchemy and Goldbaby stuff for drum machines.

FWIW, some of the Goldbaby stuff (ie the three Urban Cookbook sets) is going very cheaply (9eur each) in VSTBuzz's closing-down sale.

[mixyguy2]

EZDrummer is also worth a look.

[Mr Arkadin]

Perhaps the new Triaz Player:

https://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/product/triaz-player/