Uppercussion and Icebreaker Audio release "Bitkits" - Ten free 8-bit drum kits for Maschine, Live, Geist and more

Uppercussion and Icebreaker Audio have teamed up to release Bitkits, a free collection of ten 8-bit drum kits for Maschine, Live 9, Geist, Battery, and several other formats.

The samples in Bitkits come from a time when 8-bit sounds were the standard for video games and digital synthesizers. The kits give you 8-bit versions of kick, snare and hihat sounds, as well as a large collection of beeps, buzzes, noises, arpeggiations and other sound effects typical of the 8-bit era.

All of the samples in Bitkits were created using the BitRate digital drum machine for Reaktor, created by Icebreaker Audio. BitRate features realistic emulations of digital sound engines from the late 80s and early 90s in an intuitive interface.

Bitkits Tech Specs:

• 10 Bitkits kits.
• 160 samples, 16 samples per kit.
• Samples are 24-bit, 44.1 kHz.
• Formats include Maschine, Live 9, Geist, Battery, Kontakt, EXS24, Halion and Reason NN-XT, and single WAV samples.
• Sample folders are easily accessible and sorted by sound type.
• Total size is 25 MB.

Bitkits is available as a free download.

Listen to Audio Demos on SoundCloud.