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Electronic Beat Making Plugins
Genre-Authentic Sounds and Grooves of Impeccable Quality. 100% Style. 0% Sweat.
Plugins for Electronic Beats and Grooves
Drums, beats and percussion constitute the core and heartbeat of a song, helping the music tap into our primal selves and providing an anchor for the melodies and lyrics to hang from. Electronic drum machines have been helping to provide this heartbeat for over 50 years and their influence and unique sonic signature can be found across all genres of music from disco and pop to EDM and hip-hop.
What’s In There?
- 13 Beatmaker Plugins
- 130 Drum Kits
- 370 Styles
- 6187 Phrases
- 700 Presets
- 144 Mix Presets
All Hail the Machines
UJAM understands the unique power of electronic rhythm, which is why we created the Beatmaker series – a collection of easy-to-use plugins designed to upgrade your productions with genre-authentic electronic beats and grooves of impeccable quality.
Loads of Matching Grooves
The Beatmaker series of plugins cover the most exciting sub-genres of today’s music charts:
- BERSERK will energize anything from dubstep to movie scores
- RICO adds a Latin club or dancehall feel to any pop tune you create
- IDOL puts the bright and hyper-processed sound of K-Pop beats in your hands
- GLORY is the virtual beat maker for all kinds of trap and modern hip-hop
- NEMESIS is for intense and dark electronic broken beats
- KANDY is a bleeding-edge virtual beat maker for the top of the Billboard charts
- HYPE is for huge Festival Anthems
- VICE relives the 80s with Synthwave beats
- VOID is for highly syncopated DnB beats
- EDEN is tailored to EDM, Big Room and Rave
- HUSTLE is for dirty & gritty Trap and Grime
- DOPE is aimed at Boombap and Hip Hop
- COZY is for lo-fi hip-hop grooves
Produce Genre-Authentic, High-Quality Beats with Ease
Forget about using loops, Beatmaker plugins each have hundreds of rhythmical phrases in over fifty musical styles for you to choose from, with the ability to create your own unique hits, patterns and grooves with real-time input from your MIDI controller. Optimized for live arrangement and mixing, Beatmaker plug-ins take advantage of UJAM's signature 'simple yet powerful' macro controls, allowing for dynamic and tonal tweaking on the fly.
Analog Drum Machine Dreams
For Instant Retro-Vibes
If you love the sound of classic drum machines but are short on vintage gear, CIRCUITS brings the analog warmth and classic grooves you need to let the good vibes through.
Features
- 20 Styles, 50 Presets
- 10 Drum Kits, 460 Patterns
- MIDI Drag & Drop, Resizable User Interface
- Special Control: Sweetener
Learn more about CIRCUITS.
Looking for big, bad drums for intense electronic music? Give your production the necessary oomph with this bone rattler of Beatmaker. BERSERK will energize anything from dubstep to movie scores.
Features
- 20 Styles, 50 Presets
- 10 Drum Kits, 460 Patterns
- MIDI Drag & Drop, Resizable User Interface
- Special Control: Devastate/Squish
Learn more about BERSERK.
Straight out of Puerto Rico, these kick & snare riddims shake! RICO’s samples are perfect for authentic, bouncy Reggaeton, Dancehall and Moombahton beats.
Features
- 20 Styles, 50 Presets
- 10 Drum Kits, 460 Patterns
- MIDI Drag & Drop, Resizable User Interface
- Special Control: Me Gusta
Learn more about RICO.
IDOL
IDOL puts the bright and hyper-processed sound of K-Pop beats in your hands. Keep the good feels coming with clean and polished drum samples, making beats just like the ones in countless chart-topping Korean pop songs!
Features
- 20 Styles
- 50 Presets
- 10 Drum Kits
- 460 Patterns
- MIDI Drag and Drop
- Special Control: Juice Algorithm
Learn more about IDOL.
GLORY is the virtual beat maker for all kinds of trap and modern hip-hop. Where heavy, tuned 808-kick drums meet frantic hi-hats at the top of the billboard charts. Create beats that bounce and roll with GLORY!
Features
- 20 styles, 60 presets
- 10 drum kits, 460 patterns
- MIDI Drag and Drop
- Special control: Bass Tune
Learn more about GLORY.
Put on your exoskeleton and gear up for dystopian adventures with Beatmaker NEMESIS. The action-packed drum machine has everything you need for creating powerful, dark and complex music. The heavy-hitting drum sounds in NEMESIS have been designed to be aggressive and futuristic. The Mix presets provide different types of distortion and compression for beats so tough and punchy, they’ll cut through any mix. NEMESIS really shines in any situation that requires heavily processed, broken aesthetics.
Inspired by contemporary film and game scores, NEMESIS brings the rhythms of dystopian cyberpunk scenes and epic space battles: A range of sounds from mysterious, dark and cold to explosive and intense.
Features
- 60 Plug-in Presets
- 10 Drum kits
- 30 Styles
- 12 Mix Presets
Learn more about NEMESIS.
KANDY is a bleeding-edge virtual beatmaker, employing extremely processed samples and state-of-the-art sound design for the top of the billboard charts. Easily create beats for the entire bandwidth of modern A-list pop music!
Features
- 20 styles, 50 presets
- 10 drum kits, 460 patterns
- MIDI Drag and Drop
- Special control: Sweetness algorithm
Learn more about KANDY.
Create Progressive House and EDM Grooves in Minutes
An instrument loaded with Progressive House and EDM samples, presets and full grooves, so you can lay down your drum tracks in minutes. With HYPE, you can create driving beats that put conventional sample packs to shame, all by touching a single key. It instantly syncs to your DAW’s tempo, and you can play a near-infinite variety of loops just like you would an instrument.
Features
- 10 Drum Kits, 12 Mix Presets
- MIDI Drag and Drop to DAW
- 20 Genre Styles, 460 Patterns
- 50 Presets
Learn more about HYPE.
Nostalgia Arcade
Maximum retro-futurism for digital drums: Everyone knows and loves the vibe of science fiction and horror movies from the 1980s. VICE delivers the perfect drum tracks for music that captures the sci-fi atmosphere. But it’s not only a flash from the past! It’s the aesthetics of a golden era, revived with today’s top-notch sound quality. The 1980s are back in mainstream music, particularly Synthwave – bigger and better than before! Take the fast lane to top chart positions with Beatmaker VICE.
Features
- Drum kits built from the most legendary analogue drum machines.
- MIDI Drag and Drop to DAW.
- Multiple Audio Outputs.
- 30 Styles.
- Proprietary Time Machine algorithm.
- Legit 1980s vibes.
- Pristine 21st century sound.
Learn more about VICE.
Take the Fast Path to the Club
It’s the quickest way to get up and running with Drum & Bass fills and breakdowns. The perfect rhythms are only a single note away. Each note you enter gives you a different loop, allowing you to quickly construct complex drum patterns, even if you’ve never written DnB before.
Features
- A virtual Beatmaker for crazy banging Drum & Bass Tracks
- 10 Drumkits, 12 Mix Presets
- 20 Styles and 50 Presets
- 460 Patterns (intro, verse, chorus, fill, ending)
- MIDI Drag and Drop to DAW
- Multiple Audio Outputs
- Sound Shaping Controls per Instrument: Type Selector, Filter
- Master Section featuring: Sweep, Saturate, Maximize, Multi-band EQ, Ambience
Learn more about VOID.
Put Your Hands Up in The Air
Beatmaker EDEN is a dance music and EDM specialist. For any genre from small sweaty Berlin clubs to ginormous global festivals, EDEN provides the driving beats that keep the party going.
Lightyears Ahead!
EDEN combines the latest in drum rhythms and sound design for contemporary dance music and EDM. Savvy to the variations of classic four to-the- floor stompers, EDEN is your tool for building the right foundation for the next big summer anthem. Its beats are just waiting to carry your passionate synthesizer pad cascades and forceful off-beat basslines. Set your phasers to stun and get ready rave all night long.
Features
- A virtual beat maker for street-credible Hip Hop, Boom Bap and Rap tracks.
- More than 60 styles, 690 patterns (intro, verse, chorus, fill, ending).
- 10 drum kits.
- MIDI 'Drag and Drop' to DAW.
- Multiple Audio Outputs.
- Sound shaping controls per instrument: Type Selector, Filter.
- Master Section featuring: Sweep, Saturate, Maximize, Multi-band EQ and Ambience.
- Special Control: Kick Pump Dynamic side-chain compression for that characteristic pumping sound...
Learn more about EDEN 2.
Dirt Keeps The Funk Alive
Think of Beatmaker DOPE 2 as your friend who works at the local record store and has been digging through classic records for the past 20 years to create the most authentic drums and grooves you could ask for, but on top of that is also great at mixing.
As Raw as it Gets!
Beatmaker DOPE 2 features a selection of carefully crafted drum kits and loads of matching grooves, integrated with professional mixing tools, ready whenever you need genre-authentic, great-sounding beats. Drum kits are professionally layered, compiled and mixed, but still with enough room for your own creativity and to give it your signature sound.
Features
- A virtual beat maker for street-credible Hip Hop, Boom Bap and Rap tracks.
- More than 60 styles, 690 patterns (intro, verse, chorus, fill, ending).
- 10 drum kits.
- MIDI 'Drag and Drop' to DAW.
- Multiple audio outputs.
- Sound shaping controls per instrument: Type Selector, Filter.
- Master section featuring: Sweep, Saturate, Maximize, Multi-band EQ and Ambience.
- Special Control: Vinyl Drive simulates retro turntable noise & compression to add that retro dirt and punch we all love so much.
Learn more about DOPE 2.
It’s a Trap
Beatmaker HUSTLE 2 is your fixer for bass music styles like Trap and Grime. On the money for all types of modern urban style genres from Dirty South to Hip Hop to Big Room Bass Music, HUSTLE 2 adds a wide range of basement-shaking grooves and gritty sounds to your production.
Gettin’ Real
Make your production instantly sound like you’re rolling through Atlanta in a Lambo flexing your gold grill. Bass music genres are all about the beat - booming bass drums, frantic Hi-hats and gritty snares. HUSTLE 2 captures the spirit of the genre - sounds, patterns and mix. Get busy with a virtually unlimited combination of credible beats inspired by the legendary Roland TR-808. The mix presets provide a great variety of sound characters that can be dialled in to your liking and make HUSTLE 2 fit in your mix, sounding authentic and fat, no matter what.
Features
- A virtual beat maker for massive pumping Trap, Grime and Bass Music tracks.
- More than 60 styles, 690 patterns (intro, verse, chorus, fill, ending).
- 10 drum kits.
- MIDI 'Drag and Drop' to DAW.
- Multiple audio outputs.
- Sound shaping controls per instrument: Type Selector, Filter.
- Master section featuring: Sweep, Saturate, Maximize, Multi-band EQ and Ambience.
- Special Control: Bass Tune plays fills, kicks & grooves with tonality.
Learn more about HUSTLE 2.
Lofi hip hop beats
COZY’s grooves have that perfect lazy feel that comes from hitting the snare just a little late. Combined with drum sounds that have just the right amount of tape warmth and dusty vinyl crackle, this Beatmaker will have you vibing in an instant.
Low fidelity, high quality
We couldn’t bring ourselves to sacrifice even the tiniest bit of sound quality for this Beatmaker. We used the best drum samples out there and roughed up the fidelity afterward, to make sure COZY delivers beats that don’t skimp on integrity.
Features
- 20 Styles
- 50 Presets
- 10 Drum Kits
- 460 Patterns
- MIDI Drag & Drop
- Resizable User Interface
- Special Control: Nostalgia
Learn more about COZY.
System Requirements
Operating Systems
- macOS 10.14 - macOS 12 (64-bit only)
- Windows 10 or later (64-bit only)
- You may run them on earlier versions but UJAM doesn’t support them.
For up-to-date info on UJAM products support for VST3, AAX, and Apple Silicon, please refer to the UJAM website.
Minimum Requirements
- 4 GB of RAM
- 0.55 GB of Disk Space
- 1280 x 768 px Display.
- Internet Connection required for download and authorisation.
Plugin Formats
- VST, AU 2
- AU 2 version is only compatible with Logic Pro X and newer.
Supported Standards
- MIDI
Additional Information
- Comes as downloadable installer files.
- Authorize by email address and password for ujam.com within the plugin.
- If you want to move your .blob files to an external drive, UJAM recommend the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.
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