Free simple drum machine ?

[hotroder]

Greetings I am learning to play the bass guitar and I need a simple, free or inexpensive drum machine to keep time with. I know there are free metronomes out on the web, but I'd rather have a drum machine, does anybody have any suggestions ? Thanks

[Mihai Sorohan]

Depends what kind of drum or musical environment you want, not to mention the OS (Windows, Linux or Mac).
There are quite a lot of free options.
Take a look here Drum VSTi and take a look to RiffWorks T4.

[mattphelps]

There are a lot of sites selling drum machine on web. you can just search, compare, and buy.

[doctornash]

If you're on Windows 2000 or XP, try FlexibeatzII:

www.flexibeatz.weebly.com

You can hear complete productions done JUST with this application at:

www.myspace.com/flexibeatz

and even these aren’t fully exploring its potential.

The type of sound processing and effects algorithms it features are not commonly found in a freeware application, and it's just fun to use and inspires creativity. As such, it isn't an application one is likely to outgrow it in a hurry, and it will STILL probably have a place on one's desktop even if one acquires paid applications of the calibre of Reason, FL Studio, Guru etc

Features:

* TR909/X0X style pattern sequencing interface
*Plays any wav files in its 10 channels
*Note resolution to 32nds
*Chain patterns up to 999 measures
*Dynamically vary pan, pitch and level of each sound in each channel, as well as each sample's play start and end point while the sequence is playing
*Set swing and accent
*Mute and solo per channel
*Lock BPMs of sounds in channels to master tempo
*Auto stretch samples to fit a specified fraction of a measure, or to multiple measures
*Dynamically specify which sounds can cutoff (mute) which other sounds
*Randomize sample selection per channel and notes per pattern per channel
*Auto-generate arpeggiator patterns
*Ability to process and add effects to the samples in each channel: reverse, 3 types of distortion, master LP filter, freely draw and apply pitch envelope to a sound, freely draw and apply LP, HP or BP filter envelope to a sound, freely draw and apply a volume envelope to a sound, chorus, delay, compression, change amplitude of positive and negative halves of the waveform independently, reverb, lo-fi (bit and sample rate reduction), 3-band parametric EQ (featuring LP, HP, BP, Lo Shelf, Hi Shelf, Notch, Peak), stutter effect, auto chop up waveform and randomly re-assemble, apply waveshaping by manipulating individual harmonics, change pitch without affecting duration, change duration without affecting pitch, vocoder, ring modulator, auto-wah
*Ability to synthesize sounds from scratch, and use these in the channels as instruments, or combine them with samples in various ways (such as FM'ing one with the other)
*Record sequence to a .wav file while its playing
*Record level slider movements
*Export patterns to .wav files without playing them
*Automatically isolate the 'hits' in a drum loop and export each slice as a separate .wav file, and import each slice into a separate channel
*Graphical time and frequency spectrum display of each sound in each channel
*Slave playback via midi sync to another sequencer (eg a DAW, hardware sequencer etc)