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AudioThing Drum Machines Bundle

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The Drum Machines Bundle features all AudioThing drum machines/modules plugins (VST/AU/AAX) with 25% discount.

Ranging from vintage drum machine emulations to custom drum modules, this bundle is perfect for every kind of composer, producer, and sound designer.

B00GA

Micro-Sound Rhythm and Tone Generator

From Minimal Rhythms to Heavy Drones

B00GA is a studio and live instrument designed to create experimental rhythms and tonal textures. Inspired by a rare piece of lab equipment, the Hewlett-Packard Word Generator 8006A, it offers an excitingly different way to sequence clicks, pulses, and noise.

Use it to create tight grooves, off-kilter beats, and forever shifting micro-sound patterns. Speed them up into rich drones and tonal structures. It comes with a suite of five vintage-flavored effects that allow for unique radiophonic effects. From brain-dance to the dance floor to advanced sound design, let’s B00GA!

The Word Generator

The starting point for B00GA was a rare piece of US-American test equipment, the binary word generator. “Word generators are used to produce the complex waveforms necessary for logic circuit testing, telecommunications system development, and for interface simulation.”

When Hainbach found one for a few bucks on eBay, he quickly realized the musical potential: without any modification, it became the rhythmic core of his test equipment music. Word generators are also in use at the famed Willem Twee studio and are generally much appreciated for their precise timing and their ability to morph from rhythm to continuous tone to even the radio frequency spectrum.

They are also notorious for overheating, which means few of the most musically useful units survive. Their main use in test equipment music is in “pinging”, causing other devices, like filters or lock-in amplifiers, to resonate and play rhythmic patterns.

The Plugin

Originally, AudioThing stayed very faithful to the Word Generator design – a set of pulses created by two rows of sequencing. Like the original, they had intended it to ping other plugins, like their test equipment channel strip Dials or resonator Gong Amp. But they quickly discovered that even tiny sounds contain a lot of character. Hence, they expanded the scope of B00GA to become an instrument in its own right, with pinging being a secondary (though still beautifully effective) function.

Functions Overview

B00GA combines a dual sequencer that is variable in speed from 0.1 Hz to 5 kHz with a crossfading sample player and a noise synthesizer. You can select samples from the factory banks or add your own sounds. By crossfading between them, you get new combinations, and randomizing will change the sound per step, so no pattern repetition sounds the same. The noise section allows you to generate, filter, and shape noise bursts freely. It is useful to create percussion and crackling textures. The effect section includes a new passive bandpass filter designed especially for this instrument, as well as tape echo, spring reverb, and phaser.

Effects

You might know the effect section from previous plugins, but for B00GA they added something new: a model of well known passive octave bandpass filter. This is especially useful for beautiful radiophonic sound effects.

Passive Bandpass Filter, 10 bands of octave filtering. Modeled to sound like the original duck-green passive filter, not to be scientifically exact. The mix knob allows mixing of the dry and filtered signal.
Spring Reverb, classic spring reverb with a warm, vintage character. Perfect for adding depth, space, and retro charm to any sound.
Phaser, a rich, swirling phaser effect inspired by vintage analog units.
Tape Echo, an authentic tape delay based on our Space Echo emulation Outer Space.

You can rearrange the effects in any order using drag and drop.

Features

2 Sequence Lines (Pulse and Noise)
28 Pulse Banks
8 Patterns per preset
Several step randomization options
4 Effects (echo, spring reverb, octave filter, phaser)
Resizable Window
Preset system with randomizer
Brightness and Contrast Controls

Hats

Hats is a drum synthesizer plugin dedicated to hi-hats and cymbals sounds, which features two independent sources: synthesized noise and sample section. Instead of generic white or pink noise, the noise section features 6 square wave oscillators with different pitches and phases, like the famous 808 - the result is a noise sound with a controllable metallic character.

The factory bank comes with more than 50 samples, ranging from rare analog drum machines to real acoustic hi-hats and cymbals. Some of the samples were also processed with a classic Aphex Aural Exciter and recorded to tape with a vintage Revox B77 MkII.

Both sources can then be processed with 4 effects: Ring Modulator, Bit Crusher, Filter, and Reverb. The effects can also be arranged in any order with a simple drag and drop.
The filter section features a HighPass and BandPass in series; both filters are 12dB/oct state variable filters with zero delay feedback.

Features

Two Sources: synthesized noise and custom sample
55 Samples / 80 Presets
Ring Modulator, Bit Crusher, Reverb, Filter (SVF/ZDF)
Preset system with randomizer
Formats: VST, AU, and AAX (64-bit only)
Platforms: OSX, Windows

Learn more about Hats.

SR-88

SR-88 is a sample-based plugin emulation of the Sound Master Memory Rhythm SR-88, a rare analog drum machine from the 80s.

The instrument features 5 classic analog sounds: Kick, Snare, Hi Hat 1, Hi Hat 2, and Cymbal, which can be pitched, panned or mixed independently. You can additionally shape the sound with the Low Pass Filter (Zero Delay Feedback), Overdrive, Compressor and Reverb. The sequencer lets you easily build patterns that can be dragged and dropped to your DAW/host.

Features

5 classic analog drum sounds
15 Factory Presets / 15 Factory Patterns
Low Pass filter with Zero Delay Feedback
Overdrive, Compressor, and Reverb Effects
Sequencer with MIDI Drag to DAW
Preset system with randomizer
Size: MAC 158 MB / PC 110 MB
Formats: VST, AU, and AAX (64-bit only)
Platforms: OSX, Windows

Learn more about SR-88.

Latin Percussion

Latin Percussion is a sample-based plugin emulation of the Sound Master Latin Percussion, a rare analog drum machine from the 80s.

The instrument features 6 classic latin sounds: Bass, Low Conga, High Conga, Bongo, Claves, and Maracas, which can be pitched, panned or mixed independently. You can additionally shape the sound with the Overdrive and Reverb. The sequencer lets you easily build patterns that can be dragged and dropped to your DAW/host.

Features

6 classic latin sounds
20 Factory Presets / 9 Factory Patterns
Overdrive and Reverb Effects
Sequencer with MIDI Drag to DAW
Preset system with randomizer
Size: MAC 108 MB / PC 70 MB
Formats: VST, AU, and AAX (64-bit only)
Platforms: OSX, Windows

Learn more about Latin Percussion.

Hand Clapper

Hand Clapper is a drum synthesizer dedicated to claps sounds.

The internal design is inspired by a famous Japanese percussion synthesiser from the ’80. There are three internal noise sources that are used to recreate the classic sound of vintage analog drum machines (such as 808, 909, HC2, and more).

You are not limited to just the on-board sounds though, you can also load in any sample you want.