

You get both standard and Cocktail kits in the box (which equates to 5GB of uncompressed WAV files), and you can buy more as expansion packs. The drums are shown graphically, and can be clicked to be heard. It delivered on this premise, and has gone on to become one of the most popular drum samplers on the market. When it was launched, back in 2006, EZdrummer was designed for producers, songwriters and other musicians who wanted to create great-sounding drum tracks using a simple, no-nonsense interface and with the minimum of fuss. NEXT: FXpansion BFD3 Prev of 7 Next Prev of 7 Next If that sounds like the kind of thing you're after, read on. Of course, there are many drum kit sample libraries on the market, too, but the products we're covering here are all self-contained solutions that can operate as plugins and work straight away within your DAW (some will also work standalone). We should reiterate that a drum sampler isn't the same as a drum machine plugin - we have a separate round-up of those - and is often (though not always) primarily designed to produce 'real' rather than electronic sounds. As their name suggests, they're powered by samples of real drum and cymbal hits, and are designed for producers, songwriters and other musicians who want the ultimate in tone-shaping flexibility. These are the products that are often referred to as drum samplers. While many DAWs now come equipped with their own highly-capable solutions for creating authentic-sounding acoustic drum tracks, there remains a large market for third-party products that contain high-quality, editable kits and drum grooves that can be used to trigger them.
