Not especially 'hard' or realistic. The subtle nuances and natural variations between hits in, say, a drum roll, are easily emulated, helping to avoid the recognisable 'machine gun' effect of every hit sounding exactly the same. These cover the full range of standard drum hits, from bass drums and snares to hi-hats and cymbals, to more exotic-sounding percussion instruments. Our Verdict It's not suitable for all occasions, but Drumaxx's decidedly different take on digital drums is a breath of fresh air. Using this, you can edit the physical properties of the drum and the way it's struck, rather than being restricted to sample, filter and envelope settings. 
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When triggering patterns via MIDI, the rhythm will play as long as the note is held or until you release the sustain pedalwhich enables some neat improvisations.
Other niceties include swing and tiny velocity sliders next to each step. From here, the physical properties of the drum head, the mallet and the striking action can be modified, enabling you to control parameters such as the membrane material, drumaxs thickness, tension and iamge.
There are also high- mid- and low-frequency filters, enabling frequencies drumaxs be filtered out and resonances controlled or highlighted. But Drumaxx has no problem delivering everything from snares and cymbals to glitchy special effects sounds and dance hits. These cover the full range of standard drum hits, from bass drums and snares to hi-hats and cymbals, to more exotic-sounding percussion instruments.
The mid-range filter is also attached to an envelope generator, enabling the cutoff point to be modulated when the drum is struck. Any of these can then be modulated by MIDI velocity, enabling natural variations in timbre to be performed or programmed. It could certainly produce more novel results than the usual and kits.
Drumaxx's sequencer is well implemented and a neat bonus, although we wouldn't go so far as to say that it's a key selling point. However, it should appeal to anyone looking for interesting, original percussion for experimental genres, or those seeking the kind of flexibility, customisation and on-the-fly tweakability to which synthesis is ideally suited.
Listen to Drumaxx in action: Fun and easy to program. The latest product to pad out Image-Line's ever-increasing range of virtual instruments is Drumaxx, a physical modelling-based drum synthesizer with built-in sequencing.
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MIDI notes can trigger individual drum pads or entire sequences in, with the exact notes for each being user-definable. Most drum machines use subtractive synthesis ie, oscillators drumaaxx filterssamples or a combination of the two, but physical modelling recreates instrument sounds using a mathematical model of a physical sound source - in this case, imaeg drum.
Using this, you can edit the physical properties of the drum and the way it's struck, rather than being restricted to sample, filter and envelope settings. The bass drums and snares produced by Drumaxx are fairly restrained and conservative - don't expect huge trance kicks or slammin' hard house snares - while the hi-hats are somewhat more versatile and could slot into a broader range of lije genres.
The level of realism is quite impressive for completely synthetic drums, although Drumaxx is no competition for decent sample libraries and drum ROMplers. We tested Drumaxx on a Windows system and experienced no issues - however, many OS X users have reported serious problems getting Drumaxx to work on their machines, so do give the demo a good go first if you're on a Mac.
Select a drum pad to edit its sequence by clicking the buttons: It won't take the place of a real drummer or a set of good drum samples for professional recordings requiring acoustic tubs, nor is it likely to be a main source of beats for use in club music.
In fact, sequences can be any length from one step to 64, with the Crumaxx Bar selector used to switch through the additional banks of steps. Cons Somewhat brief manual.
The sequencer itself is an old-school affair with 16 programming buttons shown on the GUI. Browsing the preset kits and patterns - which cover a fairly standard range of rock, hip-hop and dance drums - you may start to wonder where Drumaxx fits in, as none of the examples are authentic enough to carry tunes in their respective genres.
In use As for Drumaxx's sound quality, drumaxx are clean and well defined, with an impressive low end on bass drums and a clear treble on hi-hats and imagf.
Despite being more realistic than your average beatbox, the sounds have an unmistakably synthetic quality. From these relatively simple controls, it's almost surprising that such a wide range of drum sounds can be synthesized.
Not especially 'hard' or realistic.
It's not suitable for all occasions, but Drumaxx's decidedly different take on digital drums is a breath of fresh air. Another useful application of this drum machine could be in creating beats to layer with and bolster existing drums in genres like DnB and dubstep.
Image-Line Drumaxx review
In detail Clicking a drum pad in the top half of the screen brings up the relevant settings for that sound in the Modelling Controls section, which occupies the midsection of the GUI. The subtle nuances and natural variations between hits in, say, a drum roll, are easily emulated, helping to avoid the recognisable 'machine gun' effect of every hit sounding exactly the same. As for Drumaxx's sound quality, things are clean and well defined, with an impressive low end on bass drums and a clear treble on hi-hats and cymbals.
Drumaxx gives you 16 fully editable drum pads to work with - each of which can be routed to its own output for further mixing and effects processing.
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