4 Best Virtual Drum Machine for Home Recording

Looking for realistic sounding virtual drum machine/VSTi software for your music creation project?

Here are our four best references for a virtual drum machine with the most high–quality realistic sound you can get on the music production software industry.

If they said that creativity is limitless, that’s true. Because in this digital era you can create your own music even by your self.

Why not! if you can’t find a real drummer to work with, then use virtual drum machine software anyway.

I know, a real drummer from a real player is always better. But, if you are a guitarist and there is no real player that you can found one. Then, virtual drum machine software is the best virtual drummer you can get to work with.

And in any way, it’s also more “budget safe” for a small home recording project, for an independent musician, or just for the hobbyist.

Regardless, what kind of your music genre is. These virtual drum machine software are what you need if you are looking for a realistic sample drum sound. And of course, a stunningly good looking GUI that is as realistic as it sounds.

4 Best Virtual Drum machine for Home recording Project (Digi’manx’ list)

Okay! here is the list we made for four best of virtual drum machine (VSTi) software you can pick one as your virtual drummer.

EZdrummer 2 by Toontrack

If you are looking for Virtual drummer software that you also can work in standalone mode and not just as VSTi, AU, or AAX plugins on your DAW, then EZdrummer 2 is maybe what you looking for.

It is designed for the song-writing process to become more “easy” and definitely boosts your creativity. As you can easily jamming along with EZdrummer to create your riff.

Watch the video below to learn more about EZdrummer 2 feature.

Visit the Toontrack website if you want to try before buy and dig more information about the product.

Superior Drummer 3

It’s the newest version release of Superior Drummer. Yep! this awesome virtual drum machine software is also a product from Toontrack.

Whats new in Superior Drummer 3;

Of course, it’s more way better than the previous version Superior Drummer 2. Now Superior Drummer has a lot of new features like Offline audio to MIDI conversion, Import your own samples, etc.

Here you can watch the review video of Superior Drummer 3.

And bellow is the making of video of Superior Drummer 3 (Official).

Cool eh? please visit the Superior Drummer 3 page at the official Toontrack website if you are interested in this product.

Superior Drummer comes in VSTi, AU, or AAX plugins format, which means you need the DAW software to run the software.

Addictive Drum 2 by XLN Audio

This virtual drum software is also come in Standalone and VSTi plugins format: VST, AU, or AAX plugins.

Addictive Drume 2 should run on any supported DAW like Cubase 7, 8, 9Live 8 & 9, Logic Pro 9 & X, Pro Tools 10, 11, 12, Reaper 4 & 5, Reason 9.5, Sonar X2, X3 and Artist/Pro/Platinum.

Below is the video of Addictive Drum 2 that you can watch to learn more about the features

Please visit the XLN Audio official website to learn more about Addictive Drum 2.

Studio Drummer by Native Instrument

Studio Drummer is our choice for the best four of Virtual Drum machine on the list.

Why?

Because whatever your music genre is, Studio Drummer offers you a great realistic sounding drum sound for you to craft your music ideas to reality.

Just like other virtual drum software, it comes with the individual mixer, room sound effect, compressor, EQ, Transient, etc.Watch the video below to learn more!

You will need Free Kontakt 5 player to run Studio Drummer on your DAW or run it as Standalone application.

To learn more about Studio Drummer please visit Native Instrument official site.

Note and conclusion

That’s our list for the four best virtual drum machine software that you can pick one for creating your music. Or buy them all!? it’s all up to you 🙂

That Virtual Drum Machine software definitely will help you to craft the drum track for your music creation. And work in silence using headphones and work on it anywhere you want.

Please note! that we not affiliated with those companies. We here just provide you information for references only.

All video above is the property of; Native Instruments GmbH, Toontrack, XLN Audio, and Consordini Musical instruments.