Best Free Drum VSTs: The Ultimate List
Looking for free drum kit VSTs and samples to use in your productions? Look no further—we’ve got the ultimate list with no added filler.
Free Acoustic Drum Kit VSTs
Free Producer Drum Kit VSTs
| Straight From Da Trap V1 | https://producersources.com/product/straight-from-da-trap-v1-drumkit |
| Real Drum Samples Free | https://realdrumsamples.com/ |
| Drumatic 3 | https://www.kvraudio.com/product/drumatic-3-by-e-phonic |
| Sitala | https://decomposer.de/sitala/ |
| GB Drumbox | https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2019/11/14/gb-drumbox/ |
| Grooove BPB | https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2016/12/23/grooove-bpb/ |
| MiniSpillage | https://www.audiospillage.com/minispillage.html |
| RVK-808 | https://electroniksoundlab.com/free-stuff/ |
| Trap Gods Kontakt Library | https://beats24-7.com/product/trap-gods-free-kontakt-library/ |
| KPR-77 Drums | https://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/product/kpr-77-drums/ |
| C4 Drum Kit | https://vstbuzz.com/freebies/c4-drum-kit/ |
| Pierre Bourne Type Drum Kit | https://bvker.com/pierre-bourne-drum-kit/ |
| 99 Sounds Drumplayer | https://99sounds.org/free-drum-vst/ |
Free Drum Machine VSTs
Sound Effect/Cinematic Drum VSTs
| Kick Maker | https://teragonaudio.com/KickMaker.html |
| Punching Percussion | https://vstbuzz.com/freebies/punching-percussion/ |
| Cling Film Frame Drums | https://vstbuzz.com/freebies/cling-film-frame-drums/ |
| Toaster Percussion | https://vstbuzz.com/freebies/toaster-percussion/ |
| Cinematic Synthetic Drums | https://impactsoundworks.com/product/cinematic-synthetic-drums/ |
My favorite free drum plugins
1) ML Drums
ML Drums is the newest addition to the list. Mikko Logren, owner of ML Sound Lab, spent nearly two years perfecting this sampler, making it the most ideal free drum kit in the roundup. The aim? To create the easiest virtual drum sampler.
The stock preset sounds great right away and you can easily tweak settings in the mixer tab if you don’t like as much room sound, reverb, compression, EQ, etc.
ML Sound Lab offers both a free and paid version of the software and will be releasing additional sounds via the shop tab in the plugin. The current paid version retails around $30 USD.
2) MT Power DrumKit 2
The list begins with one of my favorite free drum kits. MT Power DrumKit 2 from Manda Audio is easily the best free sample library you can find on the internet.
The drum kit is pre-processed, meaning they are mix-ready. You don’t need to waste time using EQ and compression to get great-sounding drums right after installation.
For electronic drum set owners, the MT Power Drumkit 2 is perfect for using samples instead of your included module’s sounds.
Included as well is are grooves, composed of thousands of different rhythms (MIDI packs) to fit any genre. The patterns sound surprisingly great, despite this library being completely free.
MT Power DrumKit 2 is available for both Mac and PC.
If you enjoy the plugin, consider donating to Manda Audio via PayPal on the website’s right sidebar.
3) Sean Pandy Drums
Chokehold.net hosts a free drum kit called Sean Pandy Drums. The library is a VST drum rompler with a kick, snare, four toms, and a Sub Blower gives your mixes extra punch.
Each drum contains six velocity layers and up to ten round-robin samples, eliminating the possibility of drums sounding unrealistic. Sean Pandy is a metal producer that posted some drum samples online many years. According to Chokehold, the samples are completely free to use.
Frustrated with no way to use the plugins easily with Kontakt or Drumagog, they went ahead and created a free plugin utilizing the samples.
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Well, Drummica sounds quite good — unfortunately it took me about three hours to install it and get it running, and even MORE unfortunately, it requires you to pay for a full version of Kontakt, otherwise it times out after 15 minutes. I REALLY wish you had mentioned that.
I’ve been using it for several years and it comes for KONTAKT PLAYER, not KONTAKT FULL.
Thank you for this post.
Thanks for providing these resources! I tried going to the DrumMic’a By Sennheiser link but there’s nothing there about a drum kit. Is there a different link available?