Scott McCabe DS8 Drum Works v1.0 released

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.