The drum machine changed music. There’s no getting around it.
Every DAW software these days comes with some sort of sampler or drum machine built right in. They’ve become a pillar of modern music production.
But picking a sound can be tough when you have infinite possibilities at your fingertips.
That’s why these drum VST plugins are so great. They impose some limitations to help you corral the creative juices a bit.
May 22, 2019 This video contains 13 free virtual instruments plus 3 free VST instrument bundles, which at the moment contain 80 different instruments, making a total of 93 free instruments. Among them are.
So here’s the 10 best free drum VST plugins for making your drums pop.
1. T.REX 606
The name says it all. The T.REX 606 is a compact rompler modelled after the iconic Roland TR-606 drum machine.
The simple interface keeps things basic. Which is nice these days when so many VSTs are needlessly complicated.
It’s just volume, reverb and 7 classic sounds. Easy peasy.
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2. Djinndrum
The Linn LM-1 is a classic drum machine. It’s been used by everyone from Peter Gabriel, to Prince, to Michael Jackson.
But let’s face it, these days they’ve gotten a bit pricey for what they are.
No problem, The Djinndrum has you set for all that classic sound that the LM-1 packs in.
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3. Drum PRO
Drum Pro has 20 built in drum kits, 12 pads and global effects, what more do you need from a drum machine plugin?
The Drum Pro has you covered no matter what you’re making. Big EDM? Check. Techno? Check. Everything else you need for sweet drums? Check that too.
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4. Line of Legends
This plugin may not look as technical as others. But don’t let the looks of Line of Legends fool you.
This plugin boasts 47 high quality samples, 8 individual output channels, and punch, release & attack knobs for some serious tweakage.
Heads up: you may have to set up the output channels in your DAW if it’s only showing one channel. So check your DAW manual to figure out how.
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5. Sean Pandy Drums
Sean Pandy Drums is based on a sample pack made by heavy metal drummer Sean Pandy. So if you’re looking for a heavier drum sound on your mix, this VST will definitely give you it.
The ‘Sub Blower’ is especially good and certainly lives up to its name…
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6. KickMaker
2 of the most important elements in any track that thumps is the kick and bass. So they deserve some serious attention.
That’s what makes KickMaker so great. It’s a plugin built for crafting the perfect kick. So what’re you waiting for? Get kickin’.
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7. Beat Factory Drums
Beat Factory Drums is easy to use, sounds great, and packs a serious punch.
It has fully tweakable ADSR parameters so you can customize each and every kit to your sound. Not bad for a FREE plugin.
All you have to do is enter your email and that’s it.
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8. MT Power Drum Kit 2
MT Power Drum Kit 2 isn’t just a plugin for drums. In addition to top notch drum sounds that cut through any mix, it also has a fully pre-programmed groove library.
It’s wicked for composing your own patterns, or stringing together grooves for the drum accompaniment you need.
Download it here for free
9. Dub Turbo DrumTROOP
The DrumTROOP drum machine is big both in its sound and what it offers. It’s a powerful tool for everything from EDM to house and back again.
Their website calls it a “weapon of mass production.” I can’t really disagree with that. It’s definitely massive is every respect.
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10. Single Cycle Vintage Drum Elements
Vintage Drum Elements has a nice, warm analogue sound that so many vintage drum machines have.
The 12 pad interface is easy to use and tweak, and the preloaded samples are all top notch.
Name your price or enter your email to grab it on the Single Cycle Bandcamp.
Download it here for free
Drumming up the perfect sound
Nothing beats a banging drum track. They’re the backbone of tons of top notch songs.
And the drum machine is a superb way to hone in on a specific sound for your tracks.
So grab these sweet plugs and program away!
Already set for drums? Grab some of our other favourite free VSTs.
VST Sound Instrument Sets provide high-quality content straight out of the box, expanding the used sound library with fantastic-sounding VST Sound presets and MIDI loops. In order to provide attractive sound sets Steinberg is working together with various sound designers and artists to churn out content that is categorized and easy-to-use for all kinds of music productions, while expanding the sound libraries of products like Cubase or Sequel. One or more demo songs are included to show you the full creative potential of each instrument set.
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Future Bass - VST Sound Instrument Set
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Future Bass brings 150 brand-new presets for Retrologue 2 packed with speaker-pounding basses, playful glitches, shimmering lead sounds, evolving pads and much more. Every preset is created to inspire you with sounds in the styles of Future Bass, Chill-Trap, Future Pop and EDM.
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Add to cartBouncy Vibrations - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE 5: Get thousands of club-ready sounds for Groove Agent 5 that are inspired by African rhythms, Caribbean percussion and catching the vibe of bouncing beats from Paris, New York and Berlin. Bouncy Vibrations comes with 30 new kits filled with percussion, brass, guitar loops and synth basses that instantly deliver sunsational summer vibes.
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Add to cartModern Jazz Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Modern Jazz Essentials delivers all the detail and complexity that modern jazz drumming is renowned for. Featuring ten modern jazz Styles for Acoustic Agent drum kits, it allows you to quickly create sophisticated rhythms, exploring in depth the subtly nuanced playing of today’s outstanding contemporary jazz artists.
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Add to cartSimon Phillips Jazz Drums - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Simon Phillips Jazz Drums features over 7 GB of sounds that brings this legendary drummer’s award-winning jazz flair and equipment to all Groove Agent users. Recorded at Phantom Recording Studios on a unique prototype Tama drum kit — exclusively produced for Simon with maple/bubinga shells — the library includes brush styles, sticks and 24″ cymbals carefully chosen from his extensive private collection.
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Add to cartMetro Heights - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): From the basements in Highland Park L.A. to the indie studios in Brooklyn Heights NY - Metro Heights captures the raw drum sound of the underground rock hotspots in America. Recorded at the legendary Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville this library boasts more than 17,400 samples, 21 new drum Styles and brings out the best of the beautiful vintage 60's Slingerland drum kit.
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Add to cartSongwriter Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Songwriter Essentials combines the all-around characteristics of timeless Americana with classical folk-rock drumming that instantly add to your percussive repertoire. Staying true to the art of songwriting, these grooves and patterns build the heartbeat for your next musical piece right up to more intricate drum instrumentations that have complemented some of the most beautiful songs to date.
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Add to cartRock and Roll Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Heralding the earliest, most famous and respected drummers in rock 'n' roll history, Rock and Roll Essentials conveys depth and character to your rhythmic expressions. These unmistakable grooves, fills and patterns defined rock 'n' roll music, ranging from the rocking backbeats that shook the world with peerless bass drums to the perfect rock-steady beats of some of the greatest recordings.
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Add to cartAlternative Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Covering a wide range of impeccable rhythms and patterns, Alternative Essentials reminisces the subculture of independent rock music from the 1990s and revives the authenticity of hand-made garage rock music. The included grooves elevate the musical diversity that great alternative rock bands drew from, combining heavy metal, hardcore, '70s blues rock and British punk to become the soundtrack for the masses.
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Add to cartFuture Electronica - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Future Electronica brings innovative sounds and must-have grooves for future beat production to your library. Fusing elements of future R&B, trap, downtempo chill and future bass music, this cutting-edge expansion pack including 30 kits covers the sound of one of today’s most inspiring electronic music branches. If you’re in search of inspiration to bring your beat productions to the next level, look no further! The future is here.
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Add to cartMetal Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Inspired by some of the most influential metal drummers of all time, Metal Essentials makes sure that the drive, aggression and rhythms of your percussive foundation are spot on. The 10 exclusively recorded Styles cover different tempi and rhythms that can instantly be played on the pattern pads. You can choose from many intros, main parts, fills and endings, and control the complexity and intensity of each beat from within Groove Agent.
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Add to cartAnalog House - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Retrologue 2: Whether you want to go for underground house music or aim for the next club anthem for the summer, Analog House provides you with the ultimate collection of sounds that you need to find your inspiration.
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Add to cartPop Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): With a wide variety of grooves that have been created to inspire songwriters, Pop Essentials is your toolbox for contemporary music productions in need of grooving midtempo rhythms and infectious uptempo patterns. Whether it’s catchy pop tracks, heavy-rotation pop rock or danceable chart-toppers you’re looking for — Pop Essentials gives you a perfect starting point to score your hit.
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Add to cartNashville - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Nashville VST Sound Instrument Set brings you the sound and spirit of world-famous Music City and puts it right into your productions. Recorded by Grammy-award-winning sound engineer Chad Carlson at the legendary Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, the drum kit comes with over 8,000 samples and hundreds of grooves. Get the authentic sound and groove of contemporary country music as it is produced today with Nashville drums — the backbeat of country.
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Add to cartRock Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Rock Essentials delivers 10 hard-rocking Styles of in-your-face blues-rock, heavy uncompromising hardrock and epic rock ballads for those who want to rock. From incredibly paced rhythms, aggressive midtempo parts to hard-edged fills, Rock Essentials covers everything you need to create the perfect drum tracks for memorable solos and catchy choruses.
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Add to cartBeat Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): With Beat Essentials you get closer to the sound and music of the British beat era that made its mark on rock and roll history. Tight infectious rhythms, purely intuitive four-four grooves, characteristic fills — the 10 exclusively recorded Styles captures the rhythmic legacy of one of the most popular music genres of all time with influences from early rock and roll, rhythm and blues, folk and country.
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Add to cartSimon Phillips Studio Drums - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): This premium VST drum library captures Phillips’ concept of drum sound that is based on 40 years of experience in playing, recording and mixing music with some of the most talented artists in music history such as Frank Zappa, Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck. Simon Phillips Studio Drums comes with over 27 kit pieces and over 6 GB of samples plus 14 groove Styles — played and recorded one-by-one by the legend himself.
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Add to cartFusion Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Rapid fire high-hat patterns, odd time signatures and deep smacking grooves — Fusion Essentials offers the perfect rhythmic groundwork for excursions across and between the established music genre of rock, jazz and funk.
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Add to cartColliding Worlds - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Recorded and produced by composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Simon Stockhausen, Colliding Worlds comes with over 3 GB of percussive sounds for big productions that will make an impression. Create productions larger than life with over 1,700 exotic samples and multiple instruments from separate worlds in 30 production-ready construction kits.
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Add to cartNeuro Mindset - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Neuro Mindset is a full production kit for drum and bass, neurohop and dubstep. From fast paced and brutal beats to ambient and cinematic soundscapes, Neuro Mindset combines the complexity of music production with the purity and brilliance of sonic aesthetics to project perfectly the neuro state of mind.
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Add to cartThe Songwriter's - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): There is no ultimate formula for writing great songs, but using the right tools will help you to find true inspiration. And The Songwriter’s is just that: giving you the perfect rhythmical fundament to craft your songs. Whether you want to compose subtle rhythm arrangements or epic tom-driven drum tracks, The Songwriter’s brings you a step closer to the magic of songwriting.
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Add to cartFunk Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): From down and dirty tight whipping funk grooves to nonstop sweaty dancefloor-filling soul funk — if you are looking for strong grooves with energy and attitude, get down with Funk Essentials. Funk Essentials captures the state of mind of funk in 10 exclusively recorded styles ranging over different tempi and rhythms that can instantly be played on the pattern pads.
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Add to cartBlues Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Blues Essentials condenses the sound and spirit of one of the most influential musical genres that has inspired generations of singers, songwriters and rock bands. Covering classic grooves from chicago blues to heavier blues rock and blues as it is lived today.
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Add to cartFuture Past Perfect - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Replete with hundreds of cutting-edge drum sounds guaranteed to fill the dancefloors over the next decade, Future Past Perfect offers you a full-on beat production toolkit for New York house, future house, progressive house plus classic sounds from the last two decades of house music and techno.
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Add to cartJazz Essentials - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Recreate the magic of expert jazz drumming with Jazz Essentials. Recorded by veteran jazz drummers, each of the 10 styles presents the full, vibrant dynamism of jazz drums in a specific style with astounding authenticity.
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Add to cartMetronomic Cinema - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Explore thirty first-class kits and over 750 pristine samples that feature both meticulously recorded acoustic drums and the latest electronic sounds. Add intriguing sonic textures with instruments like exotic hand drums or surdo drums, or delve into the wealth of percussive FX. Metronomic Cinema: drums made for the big screen.
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Add to cartPrime Cuts - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Groove Agent / SE (4 or higher): Prime Cuts brings the latest influences in hip hop to Groove Agent, Steinberg’s ultimate drum studio and virtual drumming instrument. Created by British producer Beat Butcha, Prime Cuts provides over 240 grooves that inspire while adding more than 700 crisp drum and production samples to Groove Agent’s sound library.
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Add to cartGranular Guitars - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Padshop / Padshop Pro: Granular Guitars VST Sound Instrument Set spans a whole three gigabytes worth of studio-grade recorded samples, covering the unique sounds of different six-string and twelve-string guitars and more sonic variety heavy on experimental sounds.
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Add to cartSounds of Soul - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Retrologue: Exclusive to Steinberg’s acclaimed Retrologue VST synthesizer, Sounds of Soul takes you on a musical journey through four decades of synth sounds and their remarkable impact on modern music.
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Add to cartGranular Symphonies - VST Sound Instrument Set
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Download Filesize: 1,47 GB
For Padshop / Padshop Pro: This unique collection offers ominously dark pads and ethereally fragile instruments, fantastical textures and expressive leads, thunderously heavy drones and sparkling, crisp percussive sounds, to name but a few.
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Add to cartVintage Classics - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Retrologue: The Vintage Classics - VST Sound Instrument Set for Retrologue spans the typical synthesizer sounds of three decades. With 400 presets for leads, bass, pads and effects loaded into the virtual-analog Retrologue synth, Yamaha sound designer Dave Polich has superbly recreated the genuine magic from the '70s through to the '90s.
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Add to cartZero Gravity - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Padshop / Padshop Pro: With 250 new presets and a fully loaded new SoftGrain Wave ROM, Zero Gravity is the first expansion pack for Steinberg’s Padshop and Padshop Pro VST granular synthesizers. With sound sources ranging from synthetic and drones to natural FX and voices, there are more than enough samples to get deep into the world of grains.
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Add to cartPrologue Discoveries - VST Sound Instrument Set
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For Prologue: From deep and crunchy dub step over drum'n'bass and electro to atmospheric chilly sound scapes and lush pads, Prologue Discoveries VST Sound Instrument Set provides a wide range of content for modern electronic productions, containing over 180 VST instrument sounds alongside more than 200 MIDI loops.
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