Sitala is a free drum plugin and standalone app.

Sitala's beauty is simplicity. It's fast and musical. Six knobs. Sixteen pads. Drag and drop. Playable like instrument.

16 Assignable Pads:

• Drag and drop kit management: drag and drop samples into Sitala from your DAW or file browser, and easily drag around sample pads once in Sitala to rearrange them.
• Built in file-browser: built into the sample viewer making it super fast to select samples without ever having to deal with dialogs.
• Sample preview: browse through a directory or sets of directories using left and right arrows to quickly listen to and view sample analysis.

• Velocity sensitive.

• Assignable trigger and kill groups.

• Mappable with MIDI learn, sequential notes or General MIDI.

• Each sample is analyzed for dynamics and pitch, and the controls are automatically adjusted to have a wider effective range and more musical expressiveness.

Controls:

• Shape: Adjust attack, length and sustain of your sounds while the overall volume remains constant.
• Compression: Make sounds punchier with more sustain. Automatic gain makeup maintains the overall volume while changing dynamics.
• Tuning: Pitch sounds up or down by up to one octave.
• Tone: Emphasizes the highs or lows in a sound. Accentuate or scoop the mids to position the sound in the mix. Adapts based on the pitch content of each sound. Operates as a high-pass, low-pass, sweepable mid-boost or mid-scoop EQ.
• Volume
• Pan

Audio Engine:

• Selectable stereo output or 16-channel one-output-per-pad.
• Standalone, VST and Audio Unit support.