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Flash Drum 0.9.2 (beta)

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@TiiPaa TiiPaa released this 01 Oct 18:22
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v0.9.2
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Flash Drum is a free drum machine plugin (VST3, Windows 64-bit). It started as a sidekick for a Roland TR-606 and grew into a full instrument: a 64-step sequencer driving 14 modular lanes, each one able to host any of 25 instruments — synthesized, sampled (a real TR-606, multisampled), modelled, or hybrid (texture slicing, your own WAV files).

This is a beta: feedback and bug reports are welcome in Issues.

Install

  1. Download FlashDrum-Setup-0.9.2.exe below and run it.
  2. Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": the installer is not code-signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.
  3. Accept the administrator prompt: the plugin goes to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3, where every DAW looks for VST3 plugins.
  4. Rescan your plugins in your DAW. Tested in Studio One and REAPER.

To uninstall: Windows Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Flash Drum → Uninstall.

Highlights

  • Sound engines — synthesized kicks, snares, hats, toms, claps, cymbals, an 808-style kick and percussion; TR-606 multisamples (every hit picks a different layer); six modelled 606 voices; Rift (slices long textures); One-Shot (drop a WAV on the grid).
  • Sequencer — 64 steps, per-lane length for polyrhythms, swing, humanize, per-step sound locks, probability, conditions (1:2, 1:4, not first…), ratchets, microtiming, fused cells that morph from one sound to another, pattern generators, a 16-pattern bank and a song mode.
  • In your DAW — 14 stereo outputs plus the main mix, choke groups, 16 MIDI-learnable macros, drag your pattern into the DAW as MIDI, presets for instruments, patterns, kits and songs.

Changes since 0.9.1

  • Grid header: the column headings sit over their columns again (they were shifted one column to the left).
  • Kick-like voices: switching the Frequency row between Hz and Notes no longer shifts the rows below it.
  • Installer: the uninstaller now lives in C:\Program Files\Flash Drum, outside the plugin folder; the GPL is shown for information (nothing to accept); the third-party notice is plain text; the full license texts of every third-party component ship with the plugin (THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt).
  • Internal clean-up of the audio engine and the Sound panel, with no change to the sound.

Known limitations

  • Windows only for now.
  • The installer is not code-signed (see step 2 above).

Flash Drum is free software under the GPL v3; its source code is in this repository.

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