Drums/percussion news

FXpansion presents the latest addition to the BFD2 Expansion Kit range: BFD Cocktail, a recording of a Yamaha Hipgig portable drumkit.

WaveMachine Labs has announced the next evolution in its drum replacement technology: Drumagog 5.

Created in collaboration with sound-design house Soniccouture, Balinese Gamelan offers an assortment of ethnic instruments for classic Indonesian music, for use in film scoring, electronic music prod…

Featuring a collection of varied percussion samples, World Impact spans the globe featuring percussion instruments from large to small, west to east, north to south, and traditional to rare, accordi…

Until now, Toontrack's content has been 100% acoustic: They felt it was time to plug-in, flip the switch and begin sampling electronic drums.

Cinematique Instruments has announced the release of Downbeat Box, described as "an exploration into the world of downbeat and ambient."

Psychic Modulation has re-worked and re-released Cerebrum-3 (v3.5) which is now available in free and full versions (the demo version is actually fully-functional, its only limitation being single in…

FXpansion presents a collection of Yamaha artist signature snares for the BFD2 library.

QuikQuak has released BarChimes v0.10, a physics simulation of a set of Bar Chimes, which includes collisions, slides and multi-chain hits of 36 semi-tone tuned bars.

Sonic Sidekick has updated Extreme Drumsynth to v1.4.0.

Modern Jazz—Sticks features a Premier Gen-X kit with a Ludwig Acrolite snare along with cymbals and percussion from Sabian, Meinl and Paiste.

MOTU has updated BPM to v1.04.

The new sample instrument for Kontakt, Bamboo & Woods includes 7 kinds of sample libraries.

iZotope has announced iDrum Beatboxing Edition, the latest addition to their popular line of iDrum Apps for iPhone and iPod touch.

Native Instruments has released a Public Beta version of Battery v3.0.5 for registered Battery users.

de la Mancha has announced the release of ballistic, a new drum sample player.

D16 Group has updated Nepheton to v1.1.2.

Drumazon has been updated.

Tonehammer has announced the release of Small Epic Percussion for Native Instruments' Kontakt.

XLN Audio has announced the release of Modern Jazz - Brushes ADpak for Addictive Drums.

Univers Sons/Ultimate Sound Bank introduces Beat Box Anthology.

D16 Group has announced that Nithonat has been released for Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AU plug-in formats and is now available for purchase for €79.

Spectrasonics has updated Stylus RMX to v1.8.2d.

MeldaProduction has updated MDrummer to v2.14.

This update is said to contain bug fixes essential for the now-shipping Metal Foundry SDX.