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Best drum VSTs 2025: Our pick of sampled drum kit plugins
Want to trigger realistic drum sounds from your electronic kit? These software packages put world-class studio drums at your fingertips
KV331 Audio gives its SynthMaster Player plugin away for free: 2,000 presets for nothing
Sounds can be editing using 12 macro controls, and more can be added via expansion packs
Arturia MiniFreak: 5 things you need to know
Some highlights from Arturia's newest 'Freak box
Arturia’s new MiniFreak is a polyphonic hybrid synth that goes where the MicroFreak didn’t... and it comes with a free VST version
Two sound engines, six voices and 37-note slim keyboard
GPU Audio reveals Major, the first synth plugin to be powered by your graphics card
A Major development in more ways than one
EastWest Forbidden Planet
An expansive odyssey of evolving sci-fi synth sounds, these ever-morphing sonics will delight all Earth-based shapers of new frontiers…
Get ready for a ‘Rendez-Vous’ with Arturia: “Special announcements” coming on 18 October
A one-off livestreamed event is happening next week
1010music is called Razzmatazz “the world’s juiciest groovebox”: mini FM percussion synth promises to blow larger rivals a raspberry
The nanobox range bears more compact and creative fruit
