Flame Sound is providing Analogue Drums, a $39 assortment of analog drum machine samples, as a free obtain for BPB readers till Sunday, August 2nd (23:59 CEST).
Yesterday, I launched VATRA, the primary Flame Sound plugin, and it’s been an enormous deal for me after nearly two years of improvement.
To have a good time VATRA lastly being reside, I needed to thank everybody on BPB with an unique freebie from Flame Sound. Analogue Drums is the proper selection as a result of, in fact, all of us love punchy drum sounds, nevertheless it additionally has some fairly cool processed hits you gained’t discover in different drum libraries.
The library relies on the MFB-522 drum machine, however I made positive it goes far past clear drum hits. I sampled the sounds by way of a variety of analog and fascinating gear I had on the time, together with varied tube preamps, a Tascam 244 Portastudio, a Saba CD 262 cassette deck, and, my favourite, the Dynacord Echocord Mini tape delay.
The MFB-522 is one in every of my favourite drum machines. It sounds much like the 808, however I favor the 522’s kick (I included some tremendous lengthy ones on this pack), and it may well get tremendous snappy. Additionally, it sounds superior if you add some grit, which is precisely what I did for this one.Â
Which means you get the whole lot from clear analog drum sounds to tube, cassette, and 4-track processed variations, plus some severely distorted and closely processed hits.
The Echocord sounds are particularly enjoyable for me as a result of they have been captured by working the drum machine by way of the tape echo and twisting the controls to create motion, transitions, and varied particular results.
So even in case you are not particularly on the lookout for analog drum machine samples, there may be loads right here for layering, fills, transition results, and peculiar little noises that may make a monitor really feel extra alive. The processed and tape echo folders are in all probability the place I might begin if you need the extra characterful stuff.
I additionally went loopy with round-robins for this one. It took ages to pattern, however you’ll be able to actually hear it was definitely worth the effort when sequencing these drums.
Analogue Drums contains 1,135 particular person samples from the MFB-522, with as much as ten round-robin variations per hit. The sounds are organized into six kits: Clear, Tube, Cassette, 4-track, Echocord, and Processed.
The pack additionally contains ready-made equipment presets for Kontakt 5, FXpansion Geist, and OSC Poise, with spherical robins already programmed. You get 35 Geist kits, 35 Poise kits, and eight Kontakt 5 kits.
All samples are offered as 24-bit WAV information at 44.1 kHz, so you too can use them in any DAW or sampler that helps WAV. The library takes up 233 MB on disk, and the ZIP obtain is round 190 MB.
And if you wish to hear what VATRA does to those drums, there’s a free 7-day trial of the complete plugin (no signup required).
Analogue Drums is free for BPB readers till Sunday, August 2nd, after which it returns to its common $39 value.
Obtain: Flame Sound Analogue Drums (FREE till August 2nd)
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Final Up to date on July 30, 2026 by Tomislav Zlatic.
