get ready to rock by adding realistic sounding acoustic drums to your tracks for free in this
video i'm looking at 7 free drum kit plugins that you can add to your home studio music
productions i'm zane welcome to simple green tech links to all of the plugins mentioned in
this video are down in the description now let's get started and the first free drum plugin on
the list is jamstix from rayzoon this is a virtual drummer it's a slimmed down version of
their paid plugin in the free version you get 8 drummer models 21 style models and 200 acoustic
drum samples you can create grooves within the plugin itself and it can make your drum beat
sound more natural it can be used in multi-output mode so you can route each drum to its own track
to give you more control over your drum sound you can grab jamstix free on both mac and windows
the next free drum kit on the list is ssd 5.5 free from steven slate drums
this is a very nice free drum plugin it comes with three kits and several grooves
you'll get all of the features of the full plugin but access
to only one of the deluxe 2 kits but that kit also comes with three kit presets you can route
the drums in multi-output mode for even more control over your sound and if you're after great
drum sounds give the steven slate ssd 5.5 drum plugin a try it's available on mac and windows
up next is an interesting free drum plugin this is organic calfskin kit this is a rompler style
plugin and by default it comes with a fairly dry sounding kit but you can sign up to their website
and they have several other kits that you can load into it you get three versions of this kit
one that's played with sticks another one that's played with mallets and another one
with brushes you can use multi-output with it and send the drums to their own tracks
and it even has overhead and room mics too you can get this one on mac and windows
before i get to the next free drum kit plugin on the list i just want to ask if you're enjoying
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helps my channel out and i appreciate it so much now the next free drum plugin on the list is
MT power drumkit 2. this is a virtual drummer style plugin that offers you
the realistic sounds of a drum kit all the samples have been specially recorded and
processed making them ideally suited for use in pop rock and metal productions mt power drumkit 2
also includes some decent grooves that provide a good starting point for your songs
it can be used as a multi-output instrument and you can get this one on mac windows and linux
the next free drum plugin on the list is spitfire labs
drums spitfire labs has several high quality instruments in this collection
including this one spitfire lab's drums was recorded using top of the line mics you get
a very nice sounding acoustic drum kit with this plugin and it's available on both mac and
windows
next on the list is sean pandy drums this is an acoustic drum rompler with a kick snare
four toms and a sub sub-blower so you'll need to use another plugin for your symbols every
drum has 6 velocity layers and up to 10 random samples giving you some variation in your play
there are two versions of this plugin the stereo version which will output all of the
drums to a single stereo track and the multi version which allows you to use multi outputs
to send the drums to their own tracks you can get sean panty drums on both mac and windows
the next free drum kit plugin is the cakewalk drums that come with
cakewalk by bandlab if you already have cakewalk you probably already have this plugin
if you chose to install the add-ons it's a fairly dry sounding kit but you can add compression and
eq to take things up a level also if you have this installed you can use it in other daws
too so you're not stuck with just using it in cakewalk this one is available on windows only
and if you want to check out even more free vst plugins
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