Virtual Drums/Percussion news

Toontrack announced the availability of Beatstation, part sound design tool and part audio engine in one virtual instrument.

NTS Audio Labs has updated Drum Loop to v1.3, saying that this update is "a massive technical enhancement of the instrument."

Music City USA SDX is the fourth Toontrack expansion pack for Superior Drummer 2.0

MoReVoX DriveDrums has been developed by generating distortion through different kind of devices: Vacum Tubes, Analog Tapes, Preamps have been used to create samples with various types of distorsion.

FXpansion & Electric Himalaya present Himalaya: Antiquity, a collection of all-new presets for DCAM: Synth Squad.

FXpansion presents the latest addition to the BFD family: BFD Eco, a streamlined software instrument for acoustic drums, based on the BFD2 engine.

The Music City USA SDX is the newest library of drum samples and MIDI grooves for Superior Drummer 2.0.

Rayzoon announced that Jamstix 3, the latest installment of its virtual drummer, will be released on May, 5th 2010.

Xfer Records has announced the release of its Nerve Drum Machine VST/AU instrument for Mac OS X and Windows.

More details have been revealed this week about Toontrack´s Tonal and Percussive, Open Surface, New Generation Virtual Instrument – ´Beatstation´

Summarised by the developers as a ´Tonal and Percussive Open Surface New Generation Virtual Instrument´, Beatstation is designed to represent a new direction for Toontrack.

ABBEY ROAD 70s DRUMS is the second of Native Instruments' collaborations with Abbey Road Studios London-built with samples of two vintage drum kits from the 1970s.

Vengeance Sound has released Vengeance Producer Suite: Metrum, a Kick Drum Synthesizer plug-in.

WOK has announced the release of daBUMZ, a new drum synthesizer VST instrument plug-in for Windows.

Xfer Records has announced Nerve, a new software drum machine designed to bring beat creation and manipulation to your host sequencer.

This is the first 3rd party expansion pack for Toontrack's Superior Drummer 2.0 and it features 64 drums and 39GB of material.

Native Instruments has introduced Abbey Road 60s Drums, a virtual instrument created in collaboration with the British recording studios.

Rayzoon announced that Jamstix 3 is now in a public beta for Jamstix 2 owners.

Sknote has unveiled Kitz, a drum plug-in that offers the simple concept of "one drumset in one plug-in".

Intelligent Sounds & Music (ISM) has released updates for the Windows version of BazzISM (v2.1), MuSiCX (v1.02) and EQISM220 (v1.02).

Funk ADpak features a Pearl Reference Series kit with cymbals from Paiste and Sabian, 400 MIDI grooves and over 30 production presets.

Rayzoon has announced that a Public Beta version of Jamstix 3 is available now to all Jamstix 2 owners.

LinPlug has released the Mac version of the RMV Drum Addiction v5.0.5 update that was released for Windows last week.

Toontrack Music has announced that the Electronic EZX expansion for EZdrummer is now shipping.

XLN Audio has updated Addictive Drums to v1.5.1 and announced the Funk AD Pak for Addictive Drums, focusing on contemporary funk beats and sounds.