Instead than using sampling or traditional synthesis techniques, Emergent Drums employs machine learning and AI to generate sounds for drum kits. The innumerable drum samples that can be synthesized by Emergent Drums can all be finely tuned using a variety of settings. The Audia Labs AI model can create virtually infinite samples because it was trained on a huge database of drums and percussion sounds.
Producers just need to choose the type of sound they wish to create when creating drum samples with AI. After that, starting the process only requires pressing the create button at the sampler cell’s base. Producers can shape the sound of the drums in the sample editor by trimming samples, using envelopes, tweaking the pitch with coarse or fine tuning, and managing panning. The slider beneath the sampler panel can be used to generate variations on samples, resulting in more randomly generated versions of a sound or similar sounds.
Emergent Drums makes brand-new, royalty-free, and entirely original drum samples from scratch using a deep neural network that was trained on a large database of existing drum sounds. The plugin has the ability to create wholly original sounds that can be modified there or exported for usage elsewhere. New features have been added to the most recent version of Emergent Drums, including multi-output functionality that allows each drum to be customized on its own channel. A new generative model that creates drum sounds with a crisper, cleaner feel is another advantage of version 1.5. Customers can now pick between Crunchy, the original model, and Creamy, the new type.
The interface of Emergent Drums is built around 12 drum pads that feature the typical drum machine sounds, such as kick, snare, claps, toms, and hi-hats, as well as slots for glitchy, noise-based percussive sounds. By selecting the Generate button, a new AI-generated drum sample can be created for each spot. The user can control how similar the new sample will be to the old one using the slider above the button, resulting in a slightly different, or completely different, randomly generated new sample. An individual envelope, an inbuilt filter, and controls for pitch and panning can all be used to sculpt each sample. The user can create new kits of their favorite sounds by grouping the greatest samples they’ve created.
Emergent Drums is a novel approach to a drum synthesizer and appears to be a natural development of ideas already offered in items like XLN Audio’s XO or Algonaut’s Atlas 2. Both XO and Atlas 2 make it simple to create custom kits using AI, but they both depend on the user having their own collection of samples to get started. Both macOS and Windows users can get Emergent Drums in VST3 and AU formats.