Drumagog 5 has a great user friendly interface; it is easy to navigate through and leaves out all of those poor submenus with little text. It comes with right around 4 GB of sample library to use and allows you to trigger your samples quickly and swap them out fast. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE Drumagog 5 will let you open up your VST inside of it like Kontakt. Opening up Kontakt right inside of it is quick and easy and put all of my favorite sounds right at my finger tips inside Drumagog 5. One thing that is different from the other versions of Drumagog is that the morph engine is great; you can change the sound of everything really fast. Just with the push of a button you will have a completely different sound. OVERALL OPINION The main reason I use Drumagog so much is sometimes I don’t like the snares that I used and have. So all I have to do is load them u in Drumagog and it will give you a whole new snare really fast. It is part of my creative process not to throw my drums in this plug-in jus to see what cool things it can do with it. I was definitely concerned with the price of Drumagog 5 though, now they have platinum edition out and it cost even more. I think they price is a little too much unless they juice up the effects library and let you manually choose from a ton of effects. There is no doubt that the morph engine is awesome but when it comes to manual changing things they way you want them to sound can get a little difficulty and it will take some time to actually do it. I have not had another software like this one though so I will continue to use it and upgrade it whenever a newer version comes out. It is very stable!
The process of installation of WaveMachine Labs Drumagog 4 was quick and easy and was without any issues whatsoever. The plug-in did take a little while to get used to as there is a lot that you can do with the software, but the interface is pretty user friendly and after playing around with it for a little while I was able to do everything that I wanted with it. The manual for the software is pretty helpful, but I didn't need it all that much while playing around with it as the typical functions are easy to find. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE I haven't used WaveMachine Labs Drumagog 4 for a little while since I switched systems, but for the time that I was using it I really liked what it could do. I used to run Cubase SX on a Hewlett Packard lap top that had a 3.0 Ghz processor and 2 GB of RAM and was able to run this plug-in pretty effectively. I recall having sample running on a variety of drums at a time without any problems at all. While this largely depends on the type of system that you are running, I imagine that most users will be able to run this software effectively if they have a decent enough configuration. OVERALL OPINION I first used WaveMachine Labs Drumagog 4 about three of four years ago and while I no longer have it running in my set up, the program was great to have while I did have it. Since I switched over to Pro Tools I use other means to achieve what this software can do, but this is still probably the easiest way to go about replacing your drum sounds with samples. It provides you with all sorts of parameters and features to insure that you will be able to get the sound that you desire. While it does come with some samples, it is a good idea to get some more as I'm not the biggest fan of the samples that come with the program. All in all, WaveMachine Labs Drumagog 4 isn't a bad way to go if you want to replace or blend your drum sounds with samples.
