Drum8

Drum8 is a free drum plugin (sample-based ROMpler) for DAWs and other plugin host software running on Windows and macOS.

Drum8 is a collaboration between audiolatry (software development) and Cool WAV (sound design). It features a total of 40 kits for various music genres: Hip Hop, Trap, Pop, Lo-fi, EDM, etc. There are 320 sounds in total, including kicks, snares, claps, toms, hi-hats (closed & open), percussion, cymbals, fx, and more.

The plugin sports a compact and easy-to-use interface with global controls (gain, lowpass filter, room reverb), individual controls per sample (volume, attack, pan, tune & stereo channel output), and an 8-pad configuration. The samples are conveniently mapped from C1 to G1.

Most of the samples were made with 2 hardware analog drum machines ran through Radial JDI direct box, Warm Audio ToneBeast Black, and Antelope Audio Discrete 4 Synergy Core audio interface. For the acoustic drum kits, drum modeling software and a mass amount of effect plugins were used.

Drum8 is available as a VST/VST3 plugin for Windows and VST/VST3/AU plugin for macOS.

Features:

• 291 MB extracted size / 211 MB download size.
• 40 drum kits with 8 pads (samples per kit).
• 320 samples in total.
• volume, pan, attack, tune controls and individual stereo output for each pad/sample.
• each pad has choke function to prevent bleeding.
• global lowpass filter cutoff.
• room reverb.
• 100% original & royalty-free samples.

Video demo: {See video at top of page}

System requirements:

2 GB RAM / 174 MB hard disk space. VST/VST3 host 64-bit (Windows) and VST/VST3 or AU host (macOS).