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Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines

7 Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines

February 27, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. We feature our recommended free and open source drum machines.

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Kickpad – experimental kick drum audio sample generator

February 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Kickpad is an experimental kick drum audio sample generator written in Go.

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Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines

Drum Machine – create and play drum beats

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Drum Machine is a modern and intuitive application for creating, playing, and managing drum patterns.

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avldrums.lv2 – AVLDrumkits LV2 plugin

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

avldrums.lv2 is a drum sample player plugin dedicated to Glen MacArthur’s AVLdrums.

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DrumGizmo – multichannel, multilayered drum plugin and standalone app

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application.

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orDrumbox – real-time drum machine and audio sequencer

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

orDrumbox is a free drum machine software, designed to be as creative as possible with some unusual features.

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Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines

Geonkick – percussion synthesizer

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Geonkick is a synthesizer that can synthesize elements of percussion. The most basic examples are: kicks, snares, hit-hats, shakers, claps.

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Hydrogen – software synthesizer

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Hydrogen is a software synthesizer which emulates a drum machine based on patterns, or via an external MIDI keyboard/sequencer.

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