Last Updated on May 18, 2021.

Having a good drum sound in your mixes is essential, be it real drums, sampled drums or synth drums.

This Drum Machine is a software emulation of a real music sequencer. You can select a given preset or make your own custom rhythm pattern and use it as a backing track to play along with your favourite musical instrument.

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Not everyone has the luxury of having a drummer available to record whatever they need 24/7, so making your own drum tracks and getting them to sound good is a great way of doing things.

Luckily, there are many free drum VST plugins available that should get you sounding amazing in no time.

Here’s a table with the Free Drum VSTs that I like the best (I won’t include all of them in the table, so scroll down to see the ones I didn’t include).

1. MT Power DrumKit 2 (Windows, Mac)

The MT Power DrumKit is a free sampler which offers high-quality samples of an acoustic, realistic drum kit.

The Samples come pre-processed which should make them sit nicely in any mix without much tweaking.

In addition to the incredible drum sounds, it also has a fully pre-programmed groove library, which makes it extremely easy to set up a quick drum track for any song.

It also comes with a mixer where you can adjust the levels of each component, plus you can control the level of compression and panning.

Make sure to check out the official website here.

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2. Drumatic 3 by e-phonic (Windows)

Drumatic 3 is a virtual-analogue drum synthesizer. All sounds are 100% synthetic and allow for huge flexibility and variation.

It sounds pretty good, just remember that the sounds are nowhere close to a real drum, but that’s the whole point.

Some additional features come in the form of graphical envelopes for amplitude and modulation and a simple effects section that includes distortion, a bitcrusher and a filter.

The available sounds are: Bass drum, Snare drum, Handclap, 2 Toms, Hi-hats and a Rimshot / Bell.

You can download it here.

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3. DrumMic’a! by Sennheiser (Windows, Mac)

This is a Free drum sample Software which loads inside of the free native Instruments Kontact Player. This one allows you to change between Sennheiser and Neumann Microphones, which will change the drum sound a bit.

This one also comes with a mixer where you can adjust the volume of each individual component of the kit and also allowing you to EQ, Compress, add reverb and delay, pan, etc.

Important Note: This VST is now a KONTAKT instrument that can be used with KONTAKT Player.

4. Urban Beats by Native Instruments (Windows, Mac)

If you’re familiar with KONTAKT then you might have heard about their drum machine called “Urban Beats”, which is mostly aimed at hip-hop and R&B producers, but it does still work pretty well for electronic music, house, techno, etc.

In order to get Urban Beats you’ll have to download Komplete Start, with is Native Instruments’ free software bundle that comes with a lot of additional instruments, effects, loops and samples.

Urban beats offers five instruments and a selection of drum loop production kits, consisting of drum loops, single loop tracks, and individual slices.

You can create whole new grooves or select pre-programmed ones, or by step-sequencing patterns in the Groovebox mode.

Lastly, you can control the Gain, Saturation, Reverb and Delay, and take advantage of a resonant filter as well as convolution.

Get Urban Beats here (Download Komplete Start).

5. MiniSpillage by AudioSpillage (Mac only)

MiniSpillage is a free drum synthesizer plugin featuring high resolution 64-bit DSP processing that includes 3 exclusive drum synthesis algorithms along with distortion effects and resonant filters.

It is, essentially, a stripped-down version of the premium “DrumSpillage” plugin available on the AudioSpillage website, and even though it has been released quite a long time ago, it still remains one of the most used drum synths out there.

It’s worth noting, however, that MiniSpillage is only available for Mac computers, so if you’re a Windows user you’re going to have to look elsewhere.

Features

HD 64-bit Digital Sound
3 Editable Drum Pads

You canDownload it here.

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6. SM Drumkit by SMM (Windows, Mac)

This is one of the best free acoustic drum sample packs available. The samples are from a Vintage Ludwig drumkit which just sound fantastic.

The intention behind this was to provide a sampled collector drum kit in an easy to use format (Kontakt) as well as the open WAV samples to map in your own samplers of choice.

To use in Kontakt, however, you will need the full version since the free version of Kontakt only allows you to use it for 15 min.

This Pack adds up to 3.7GB across 3614 samples recorded in 24 bits, and each piece has up to 64 velocity layers and up to 8 round robins.

Here’s a link to the official website.

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7. Steven Slate Drums 5.5 (Windows, Mac)

These are samples of a real acoustic drumkit by Steven Slate, and this plugin is a stripped-down version of their fully featured premium plugin sold for $149.

However, even though you don’t get the fully featured version, SSD 5.5 Free is an absurdly good-sounding plugin that any beginner should have; It comes with just one drumkit but it features three different presets, each already pre-mixed, and it allows you to control the dynamics of the drums.

Even though SSD Free is a cut down version of their premium plugin, it’s much better than most other free acoustic drum plugins out there, so definitely give it a shot!

You can download it free here.

8. Drum Pro by StudioLinked (Windows, Mac)

This is a fantastic drum machine plugin no matter how you look at it. The sounds you can get out of it are great and the ease of use is unmatched.

Drum Pro offers 20 kits sampling 9 vintage drum machines (including TR-808 and TR-909) and offers dozens of presets that can help you get started quickly.

In addition to this, expansions are also available for purchase if you want to improve the versatility of this plugin.

It features global ADSR, Reverb and Volume controls, 12 different drum pads that light up when triggered and that show how each kit is set up (kicks, snares, claps, etc.), 12 volume and pan knobs for each individual component of the drumkit.

It is ideal for R&B, Hip-hop, Trap, EDM, etc.

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