Venusian Snail Traffic has released Ta-ta-poum v3.0, a free VSTi drum machine for Windows with features including velocity to sample start or reverse sample playback and a step sequencer with advanced pads that can trigger 4 different rolls and reverse effects. It also outputs MIDI so you can use it to trigger an external drum sampler or synth.
Drum sampler features:
- 10 drum channels with "solo", "mute", "play", "pan", "normal/reverse", "gate/decay", "length", "pitch", "audio output" options.
- Drum channels 3,4,5,8,9 has "velocity to sample start" feature.
- Drum channels 1,2,10 has "velocity to tone" feature.
- Drum channels 6,7 has "velocity to pitch" feature.
- Drum channels 8,9 has "exclusive" feature.
Pattern sequencer features:
- 16 advanced pads.
- 5 effects (2 advanced flam rolls + 2 feedback rolls + 1 reverse).
- 4 banks of 8 patterns = 32 patterns.
- Pattern chaining.
- Shuffle.
- Pulse divide.
- Step number.
- Reverse pattern.