Instrument Type: Groovebox

Ironhead:Spawn is a bundle of 13 individual polyphonic synths, built from mutated versions of the original Ironhead synthetic junk yard percussion kit instruments. They have grown, taken on lives of their own, and have been modified to be played across the keyboard like “normal” instruments. Their sound design abilities have expanded and they’ve been altered for a greater balance between percussive and melodic instruments, opening up a wide variety of sounds that are not possible with the original Ironhead, but while maintaining the unique Ironhead character and complimenting the original kit.

Kicks, snares, hats, cymbals, bells, rubbery basses, plucked strings, knocks, bonks, metallic smacks, tuned percussion, weird morphed noises… you can make entire pieces of music just using this bundle. The best way to think of the difference between Ironhead and Ironhead:Spawn is that Ironhead is a drum kit and Ironhead:Spawn is a whole band.

Features:

• 13 plug-ins dedicated to unique percussive and melodic sounds.
• Morphing for each instrument, controlled by LFO, mod wheel, or automation.
• Minimalist vector based interface for fast, fun, easy sound adjustments.
• Instrument randomizers.
• Adjustable level of random tonal variations per-hit.
• Dual delays in each synth.
• Over 40 presets in each plug (over 540 presets in the bundle).

As an added bonus, just as with Ironhead, Ironhead:Spawn also comes with Tunguska… a morphing multi effect plug-in that includes a pitch shifting granulator, filter, envelop follower, distortion, downsampling, and delays.

http://www.ugoaudio.com/

Ironhead is a morphing percussion synth with a fast and easy interface and a unique synthetic junk percussion sound. The 15 instruments in Ironhead’s kit are named after the types of sounds they produce and Ironhead can go from familiar drum/percussion sounds to wild sweeps, thumps, knocks, smacks, clangs, and bangs.

Features:

• Fast and easy interface.
• 15 unique sounding percussion instruments.
• Morphing (controlled by LFO, VST automation, MIDI).
• Variance.
• Dual delay (BPM sync with dotted notes).
• Kit randomizer.
• 128 preset kits.

http://www.ugoaudio.com/

Hexagon ’85 is a virtual electronic drum synthesizer.

Features:

• 5 analog drum synthesizers:
  • Bass drum.
  • Snare drum.
  • Low tom.
  • Mid tom.
  • High tom.
• 4 mono samplers:
  • Closed hihat.
  • Open hihat.
  • Crash cymbal.
  • Ride cymbal.
• 8 outputs.
• MIDI CC support.
• Automation support.

http://marvin.starfree.jp/

HCX is a classic hi-hat synthesizer with analog synthesis.

Features:

• 3 sounds
  • Closed/Pedal/Open hi-hat.
• 6 pulse wave oscillators
  • 2 oscillator types.
  • General pitch control.
• Tone controls for Closed & Pedal hi-hat/Open hi-hat.
• Decay control for each part
  • 2 envelope types for Open hi-hat.
• Level balance control.
• MIDI CC support.
• Automation support.

http://marvin.starfree.jp/

Freqatic is an FM Synthesis based Drum Machine featuring Kick, Snare, Tom (Lo/Hi), Hat (Open/Pedal/Close) and Cymbal.

Parameters:

• Effect/Output Section:
  • Overdrive.
  • Echo/Reverb.
  • Pan (Independent Pan-Lo/Pan-Hi for Toms).
  • Volume.
• OSC Section:
  • OSC Freq (Independent Tune-Hi/Tune-Lo for Toms).
  • OSC Bend.
  • Decay Time. (Independent Open/Pedal/Close for Hat).
• FM Section FM1 and FM2 will make modulation for OSC.
  • Tune: Modulation freq.
  • Bend: Modulation freq bend.
  • Attack Time.
  • Decay Time.
  • Modulation Depth.

http://www.g200kg.com/index_e.html

Features:

• User-programmable drum synth.
• Create your own sounds using parameters like body, decay, noise, mod, etc.
• Velocity sensitive.
• LED indication for each key stroke.

http://www.gtgsynths.com/

Third Harmonic Studios EXD-80 is a VSTi drum synthesizer that uses subtractive synthesis to produce electronic drum and percussion sounds. EXD-80 can produce a wide variety of sounds ranging from emulations of classic drum machines to distorted, glitchy blips and zaps.

Features:

• 8 Drum modules – kick, snare, (closed and open) hi-hats and five individual percussion modules.
• 8 Outputs (4 x stereo pairs).
• Each output pair has its own stereo effects section featuring a granulator and waveshaper.
• User definable MIDI note mappings for each drum sound.
• VST Host/MIDI automation of a large number of parameters.
• Each percussion module features an oscillator with 7 waveforms (sine, saw, ramp, triangle, square, white noise, pink noise) plus an FM oscillator, state-variable filter (low pass, high pass, band pass and notch) with selectable cutoff slope (6dB – 36dB).

http://www.thirdharmonic.net