PAID virtual Drums
A guitarist needs drums to rock. Here is a list of paid Drum Machines.
The information on each individual drum machine does not contain all the features of the software, but rather the essence and most important data. Detailed information can be found on the provider's website.
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Built for Kontakt (Kontakt Player - free).
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https://www.fxpansion.com/products/bfd3/
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Borsta - Brushed Percussion
Slammer - Drm Instrument
Skaka - Shaken Percussion
Ting - Percussion Instrument
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- 9 full drum sets
- 48 snare configurations
- 40 cymbals
- More than 100 presets
- Flexible routing
- Hyper-intuitive user interface
- Huge selection of sound sculpting tools
- Only 13GB install size
- Includes Hard & Heavy Midi-Grooves
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Presets: https://www.komposition101.com/sd3-presets
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Requires the free Kontakt Player v8+ from Native Instruments.
- Kick - Open and Dampened
- Snare Low - Open and Dampened
- Snare Medium - Open and Dampened
- Snare High - Open and Dampened
- Snare - Big Fat Snare Drum
- Snare - Cross Stick
- Four Toms - 10", 12", 14", 16"
- Hats - Closed, Pedal, Open, Closed Tip, Half-Open
- Ride - Tip, Bell, Crash
- Crash (x2) - Crash, Choke
- China - Crash, Choke
- Splash - Crash, Choke
Modern Drum Samples
- Kontakt Player (v8+)
- Slate Trigger 2
- WAV & One-Shots
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Requires the free Kontakt Player 6.6.1 or later from Native Instruments.
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See also the FREE | Mini Snare Pack.
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Perfect Drums
- Allows you to create your own instruments using your own samples.
- Full access to all features, including the sampling engine, mixer, routing, and export.
- Includes the complete factory sound library.
- Intelligent Sampling Engine: Users can create their own drum instruments from their own or imported samples.
- Extensive Sound Library: Includes 131 meticulously recorded drum instruments from renowned manufacturers, including 13 bass drums, 12 snare drums, 29 toms, hi-hats, cymbals, and more.
- Multi-microphone setup: Each instrument offers multiple sample groups such as Direct, FX, Overhead, Room, and Reverb, enabling flexible sound editing.
- Flexible mixer: Featuring channel strips, buses, routing options, and effects such as the built-in FX Sample Group Parallel Processing for direct punch in the mix.
- Fully MIDI-compatible
- Customizable mappings: MIDI mappings can be customized and saved.
- MIDI Loop Support (loops by Groove Monkee)
Perfect Drums TCI
Perfect Drums TCI is a special version of Perfect Drums designed specifically for integration with the Slate Digital TRIGGER plugin. TCI stands for Trigger Control Interface.
- Includes 54 instruments from the factory library: 13 bass drums, 12 snare drums, and 29 toms (8 complete sets).
- Each instrument features all sample groups: Direct, FX, Overhead, Room, Reverb.
- It is not sold separately but is included with the purchase of the full version of Perfect Drums.
With the TCI Pack, users of the Slate TRIGGER plugin can use real drum samples as replacement sounds when editing acoustic drums.
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See the Drum Sample Packs, Midi Groove Packs and Artifact Suite.
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Replacer is a sample loader (not a virtual drum kit) and a streamlined plugin for loading samples, designed for modern drum workflows.
Although Replacer was developed specifically for drums, it isn’t limited to them. You can also load percussion, claps, cymbals, impacts, risers, FX, vocal chops, or any creative one-shot.
Replacer is designed for use with your own samples and works with standard sample files (e.g., WAV one-shots in typical production workflows).
This plugin does not include any samples. You must load your own samples.
AtlasDSP offers a sample pack.
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Free Kontakt Player compatible.
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What Top Shelf Drums is
Top Shelf Drums by 3 Sigma Audio is not a standalone software program, but rather a sample library—that is, a collection of high-quality drum sounds. This library contains professionally miked and multi-sampled (multi-velocity, round-robin) sounds from renowned drum kits such as Pearl Reference, DW Collector’s, Sonar HiLite, and others. Each kit is assembled from original instruments recorded in top-tier studios.
The goal of Top Shelf Drums is to provide producers and musicians with “top-shelf” drum sounds—sounds that are otherwise only heard in high-end studio productions.
Components of Drum Kits: NKI Instruments & NKM Multis
When you purchase a kit such as the Ref Kit, Master Kit, or Cali Kit, you receive various file formats, including:
- NKI Instruments: These are Native Instruments Kontakt instruments. These files (with the .nki extension) already contain all microphone positions (Direct, Overhead, Room, Effect Channel), layers, and round-robins, and are immediately playable in the full version of Kontakt (not Kontakt Player).
- NKM Multis: These are Kontakt multi-files that load multiple instruments (e.g., kick, snare, toms) simultaneously and combine them into a complete drum kit.
This means you don’t have to set anything up in Kontakt yourself—everything is preconfigured. Simply load the .nki or .nkm file into Kontakt, and the drum kit is ready to use.
Compatible platforms: Kontakt, Trigger, Perfect Drums
Top Shelf Drums isn't limited to a single platform. The samples are available in several formats:
- Native Instruments Kontakt (full version required)
- Slate Digital Trigger
- Perfect Drums (including the free Perfect Drums Player)
This is a major advantage: You can use the samples even if you don’t own expensive software. With the free Perfect Drums Player, you can load and play the kits directly—ideal for beginners or users without Kontakt.
Built for Kontakt (Kontakt Player - free).
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Audio Assault offers a drum kit library. To use it, you'll need the free Drum Locker, which brings all the drum kits together.
The individual drum kits are very affordable.
Audio Assault offers MIDI packs for purchase.