4 Best Virtual Drum Machine for Home Recording

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

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

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

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

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

And in anyway it’s also more “budget safe” for small home recording project for independent musician or hobbyist.

Regardless what your music genre is. These drum machine software are what you need if you are looking for realistic samples drum sound.

And of course a stunning good looking GUI that is realistic as it sounds.

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

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

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 song writing become more “easy” and definitely boost your creativity. As you can easily jamming along with EZdrummer to create your riff.

Watch video below to learn more about EZdrummer 2 feature

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

Superior Drummer 3

Is 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 have lot of new feature like Offline audio to MIDI conversion, Import your own samples etc.

Here you can watch the demo video of Superior Drummer 3

And bellow is the making of video.

Cool eh? please visit the Superior Drummer 3 page at official Toontrack website if you interesting with this product.

Superior Drummer is come in VSTi, AU, or AAX plugins format, which mean you need the DAW software to run it.

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 best Virtual Drum machine list, regardless there is other drum machine products by Native Instrument.

Why?

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

Just like other virtual drum software, it come 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 about Studio Drummer please visit Native Instrument official site.

Note and conclusion

That’s our list for 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 🙂

These softwares definitely will help you to craft 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 company. We here just provide you information for references only.

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