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Dread Drumz
The Ultimate Drums for Reggae and Dub Music. From authentic vintage sounds to creative modern vibes.
Get ready to bring the heaviest drum vibes to your tracks!
Dread Drumz is your go-to for all things roots, dub, and reggae drums.
Whether you're after that classic reggae feel or something with a modern twist, this plugin’s got you covered with a massive library of kits and samples.
Mix and match, tweak, distort, and create your perfect drum sound with the built-in effects racks.
Need some groove ideas? Dive into our huge MIDI loop collection with everything from intros to breakdowns. Dread Drumz makes it easy to craft killer rhythms for your next track.
Don’t wait—pre-order Dread Drumz now!
Whether you're after that classic reggae feel or something with a modern twist, this plugin’s got you covered with a massive library of kits and samples.
Mix and match, tweak, distort, and create your perfect drum sound with the built-in effects racks.
Need some groove ideas? Dive into our huge MIDI loop collection with everything from intros to breakdowns. Dread Drumz makes it easy to craft killer rhythms for your next track.
Don’t wait—pre-order Dread Drumz now!
Dread Drumz Demo 1 Mix
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Dread Drumz Demo 3 Mix
Dread Drumz Demo 4 Mix
The Early Access version is fully-functionnal. All drum samples and elements are available, but a few minor glitches are to be expected.
The presets and MIDI library is currently under creation and will be available automatically upon plugin release.
What's inside ?
Dread Drumz features authentic acoustic drum kits, meticulously recorded in a professional studio in the south of France by Karigan, an exceptional reggae drummer.
Together, we captured the essence of reggae's iconic eras—from the early '60s to today—bringing you the unmistakable sounds of Rocksteady, One-Drop, Rub-a-Dub, and New Roots.
In addition, the plugin offers custom-built kits designed for a wide range of reggae-related genres, including Dub, Dancehall, DubHop, Electro Dub, Afrobeat, and more.
You can even blend sounds across each channel, giving you ultimate flexibility and creative control over your drum tracks.
The plugin also allows you to output each channel into separate tracks into your DAW for further processing.
Together, we captured the essence of reggae's iconic eras—from the early '60s to today—bringing you the unmistakable sounds of Rocksteady, One-Drop, Rub-a-Dub, and New Roots.
In addition, the plugin offers custom-built kits designed for a wide range of reggae-related genres, including Dub, Dancehall, DubHop, Electro Dub, Afrobeat, and more.
You can even blend sounds across each channel, giving you ultimate flexibility and creative control over your drum tracks.
The plugin also allows you to output each channel into separate tracks into your DAW for further processing.
You'll have access to an extensive library of MIDI loops that can be played directly within the plugin for easy previewing.
Plus, you'll have the ability to drag and drop loops straight into your DAW's MIDI tracks.
The collection includes a variety of grooves, small fills, accents, intros, breaks, and more—giving you all the building blocks to craft the perfect drum track.
Plus, you'll have the ability to drag and drop loops straight into your DAW's MIDI tracks.
The collection includes a variety of grooves, small fills, accents, intros, breaks, and more—giving you all the building blocks to craft the perfect drum track.
The Ultimate Drums For Reggae and Dub
Authentic Drum Kits
Dread Drumz features several full-sampled drum kits used in Reggae music.
Get classic reggae drum sounds, here are the included kits (and their variations):
- Early 60’s
- One Drop
- Rub-a-dub
- New Roots
Dread Drumz also features many custom-built drum samples suitable for modern productions.
From Electro-Dub, Ragga DanceHall, to Caribbean music, Afro beat, etc…
Full Dub FX Pack
Classic Effects, Modern Workflow
Dread Drumz also features many custom-built effects, available into each channel :
- Different types of Filters
- Saturation & Compression modules
- Tape Delay FX, with unique settings
- 2 Reverb Types (Spring, Plate, Hall, Space…)
Easy to Use interface
Ready for Production
The plugin is build to make things simple for you.
- A single page where you can play drums and tweak the effects right away.
- A Mixer where you’ll have more control over the different drums, Overhead, and Room channels.
- A comprehensive MIDI loops browser, from where you’ll have access to hundreds of carefully produced MIDI loops.
Don't take our word for it
Hear It from the Pros
From bedroom producers to professional studio wizards, our users share their experiences with the transformational impact of Dread Drumz on their creative process.
Such a great plugin
This is such a great plugin, you have done a great job.
I look forward to the updates to complete the midi loops.
Overall, great sounds and looks great, I'll be recommending to other producers.
I love all the plugins, they have helped make some amazing dub grooves.
Cheers!Dubba Wilks
Dub Producer
Plugin Specifications
- +6000 drum samples.
- 8 velocity layers and 8 round robins.
- 16 channels Mixer.
- Custom Classic Effects : Filter, Saturation, Delay Reverb, Compressor.
- Hundreds of MIDI loops
- Amplitude Envelope controls
- Microphones blend options for Kick and Snare elements
- Easy-to use interface, Deep possibilities
- Room, Delay, Reverb Send Channels
- Over 50 ready-to-use presets.
Changelog
v0.9.7a :
- Fixed: A crash occurring when using the Samples Browser
- Fixed: A glitch occuring on the Samples tags wrapper
- Fixed: Failing AU validation
- Misc: Internal cleanup
v0.9.7 :
- Added: The Kick, Sidestick and Snare Samplers can now be separated and routed on external outputs
- Added: The ability to save the current channel routing setup and load previously saved routing setups, using a menu
- Added: More controls to tweak the Reverb's Phaser module
- Improved: The 'Humanizer' parameters will no longer act on the highest velocity values (to prevent softening a intended strong hit)
- Improved: The Settings panel and controls have been refactored
- Improved: Minor design tweaks
- Fixed: HiHat Closed ALT key was not choking the open hat correctly
- Fixed: Samples Browser's category buttons graphic glitch
- Fixed: Logic Validation issue
- Fixed: Flam sequences were tied to the tempo of the host
v0.9.6 :
- Added: Samples Browser
- Added: Phase parameter added to the Reverb (pre-reverb)
- Added: Non-acoustic drums sounds have nhave been properly named
- Added: Drum Presets name are now displayed in the Sampler
- Added: Auto-load dual mics elements option in the Samples Browser
- Added: Unused channels can now be deactivated
- Improved: Some samples has been cut and phase-aligned again
- Improved: Delay stereo width
- Improved: Light performances improvements
- Changed: The Sidestick and Snare TOP & BTM elements has been re-ordered. Now the TOP mics appear in the list before the BTM mics
- Fixed: Solo & Mute buttons were sometimes not being recalled properly
- Fixed: Presets category folders were not properly located in the Quick Save panel
- Fixed: Several MIDI glitches (flam, velocity, mapping)
- Fixed: Offline Authorization
- Fixed: Envelope glitches
- Fixed: Drum presets files saving
- Fixed: MIDI clips not catching up to the tempo when playing in the MIDI Browser
v0.9.5a :
- Fixed: The HiHat Pedal key wasn't choking the Open HiHat
- Fixed: The Open HiHat choking function wasn't updated properly when changing the MIDI mapping
- Fixed: The Cymbals choking function wasn't updated properly when changing the MIDI mapping
- Fixed: The Kick Presets were not installed properly
v0.9.5 :
- Fixed : an authorization glitch has been introduced in the previous update
- Fixed : Wrong data files versions in the previous installer on MacOS
- Improved: Handling external files
- Changed: Midi Packs Images
v0.9.4 :
- Added: Tooltips! (Activate with the bottom-left 'i' button)
- Added: Notification System (Automatic update detection)
- Added: Preset 'Quick Save' option in the top bar
- Added: alternative note triggers for main drums (snare, timbale, toms, ...)
- Added: Drums AMP envelope Decay Curve control
- Added: Snare drum elements to the Timbale/Clap channel
- Removed: Drums AMP envelope Release controls as is was useless (in a one-shot sampler mode)
- Improved: (QoL) MIDI files that belong to the same Riddim are now visually grouped
- Improved: Flams articulations handling
- Improved: Drum & FX presets versions handling
- Fixed: Now the MIDI Mapping is saved between presets, and the library's MIDI files can be exported with a modified mapping
- Fixed: Midi Map file bug lead to triggering the wrong drum elements
- Fixed: Cymbal choke not working for multiple hits
- Fixed: Preventing Samples link file some times not being properly copied on MacOS
- Fixed: Minor GUI glitches
v0.9.3 :
- Added: Button in the Settings panel to open the (upcoming) user guide
- Improved: Global performances
- Fixed: MIDI Pack browser bug
- Fixed Delay FX buttons bug
- Fixed: Missing image on front page's drums
- Fixed: Channels pitch not recalling the set values
v0.9.2 :
- Added: Output Routing setup is stored when saving a DAW project AND while browsing presets
- Added: A button to link the sampler's pitches
- Added: If the internal MIDI play button is activated, the MIDI clips keep playing
- Added: Clicking the 'Play' button on a mixer channel selects this channel
- Fixed: Output Routing setup not being recalled on project load
- Fixed: Several Sampler controls not being correctly recalled when changing presets
- Fixed: The "Sync to Host" button state is no longer saved in the preset
- Updated: preset files
- Updated: MidiMap settings file
v0.9.1 :
- Added: External outputs for send FX
- Added: Alternative triggers for snare and timbales (allows to play rolls more easily on MIDI KB)
- Fix: The output names in the output menus are now correct
- Fix: The external outputs were not working past the 12th output channel
- Fix: The OpenGL option appears now in the Settings panel (activate the option if you're experiencing a laggy GUI)
- Fix: Some MIDI loops names and details have been corrected
- Minor internal changes
- Minor performance optimizations
Having Questions ?
We've compiled a list of frequently asked questions to help you get in tune with Dread Drumz.
If there’s something we haven’t covered, just drop us a note – we’re here to assist!
If there’s something we haven’t covered, just drop us a note – we’re here to assist!
Are your products compatible with apple silicon computers?
Yes, all of our plugins are compatible with the Apple Silicon chipped Mac computers. That means all of the plugins will work natively without using Rosetta.
Which limitations are in the demo versions of the plugins?
Do you store my credit card information?
No. We never see your credit card information, since it is all handled by PayPal or Stripe (World’s Famous well known Credit Card Processor).
Do you offer refunds?
We unfortunately cannot refund products that have been purchased for several reasons (no matter downloaded or not). Our watermarking system generates unique serial/license numbers per download and would make a resale impossible. Furthermore there is no way to prevent unauthorized re-use once it’s been downloaded.
What if I have a question or an issue ? Do you provide support ?
Of course! If you have any questions, or if you’re facing an issue with my plugins, don’t hesitate to contact me via the contact form on this page.
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Ready to level up your beats?
Dread Drumz is your go-to for all things roots, dub, and reggae drums.
Whether you’re after that classic reggae feel or something with a modern twist, this plugin’s got you covered with a massive library of kits and samples.
Mix and match, tweak, distort, and create your perfect drum sound with the built-in effects racks.
Need some groove ideas? Dive into our huge MIDI loop collection with everything from intros to breakdowns. Dread Drumz makes it easy to craft killer rhythms for your next track.
Don’t wait—pre-order Dread Drumz now!