And The Beat Goes On With These Vintage Drum Machines!

On the percussion side “Bloq” covers a lot of ground in it’s 22 classic drum machines, including classics like the TR-808, TR-909 and TB-303 as well as more obscure gems like the Sequential Circuits Drumtraks and the MXR 185.

The Bloq drum machine’s interface also includes a compressor, EQ, tape emulator, delay and reverb and has a set of eight virtual drum pads.

The eight pads play the respective sounds within a given kit and can also be triggered using the keyboard keys C1 to Bb1. Each voice can be soloed or muted using the S and M buttons to the left of the pad, while clicking the display above the pad allows any sound to be selected within any kit.

The Learn button allows each pad to be assigned to a key of your choice, simply click Learn and press the key to which you wish the currently edited voice/pad to be assigned. The sampler mode can be toggled between Modern and Vintage sampler mode, which replicates a 12-bit drum sampler such as the Akai MPC 60 or Emu SP-1200.

With filter and envelope tools, transposition, and the ability to easily create hybrid kits with drums from multiple sources Bloq Drums offers plenty of flexibility, including allowing each pad to be individually treated with transient shaping, ADSR, HPF and LPF filters, FX sends, tuning and the ability to assign each hit to up to 16 separate outputs.

For Logic users, the drums are assembled into a collection of Ultrabeat kits, with all of its integrated features available for tweaks and touch-ups. As for Ableton, each machine is collected into its own massive drum rack, with oodles of smartly designed macros.