Excite Audio has expanded its Bloom range of simplistically designed plugins with a brand new Drum Machine.

This new tool offers “vintage drum discovery” via its samples of “iconic hardware units” from across the ages. It contains an expansive collection of one-shot samples and loops to elevate tracks with distinctive analogue drums and experimental textures. There’s 250 presets crafted by professional sound designers, and 112 samples on board overall.

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The Drum Machine joins the Bloom family, which currently also includes the Palette Object, Vocal Edit, Bass Impulse, Drum Breaks and Vocal Aether plugins. All signature sounds for the Drum Machine were recorded by Excite Audio directly from a range of analogue drum synthesisers that soundtracked the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Inside the Bloom Drum Machine, you can access a sequencer that enables you to craft patterns and dial in modulating effects in sync with your track. A range of edit tools are also featured, so you can refine and make the library of samples your own by adjusting start and end points, and by manipulating playback speed, direction, and timbre.

There’s also three effects modules: Bitcrush for adding bit depth and sample rate reduction, Dynamics to control compression and gating, and Reverb to create space and depth using Hall, Plate and Spring algorithms from Excite Audio’s Lifeline Series.

Check it out in action below:

Bloom Drum Machine is available now for an introductory price of £39 via Plugin Boutique. You can alternatively get your hands on a streamlined Lite version for £19. It can also be purchased as part of an Excite Audio (£199) or Bloom (£109) bundle deal.

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