Make the beat.
Shape the kit.
Finish the drums.
Sixteen pads. A sequencer that breathes. Mix, character, and finish, all in one window. Load a sound, build a groove, leave with a drum track.
VST3 · AU · AAX · Standalone
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Pads, sequencer, mix, and finish. One take through the whole instrument.
One instrument. One window. First hit to printed drums.
Sampler. Sequencer. Compressor. Saturation. Space. By the time the fourth window opens, the idea you had is already gone.
Tsukuyomi keeps the whole chain in one place: pads, sequencer, sound design, mixer, effects, and finish. One window.
Hit pads from a MIDI controller, your keyboard, or the on screen grid. Velocity opens the layers, choke groups keep the hats honest, and 32 voices leave room for the rolls.
Build the sound
Every pad holds three layers. Stack them, cycle them, randomize them, or map them to velocity. Envelope, filter, drive, pitch, reverse, pan. You are not picking a drum. You are building one.
Pad layout
Program in 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, and 2/4. Then swing it, groove it, and pull Euclidean fills until the pattern moves like a person played it.
Drag whole beats
Drop a full pattern into the groove, then keep carving.
Drag individual pieces
Place kicks, snares, hats, and percussion exactly where they belong.
Start from presets
Browse by style, grab a starting point, and make it yours.
Stay in the sequencer
Combine, reshape, rearrange. No window hopping.
The sequencer opens onto a groove library by category. Open Hip Hop and you get Jersey Club, Baltimore Club, Memphis Raw, and a deep stack of regional pockets. Every other category works the same way. Load a groove, carve it, drag it into the song. The kit library swaps the whole sound map when the track needs a different world.
Groove library
Pick a category, then open the grooves inside it. Hip Hop alone holds Jersey Club, Baltimore Club, Memphis Raw, Boom Bap, New Jack Swing, Trap, and more. Load one into the sequencer, reshape it, then drag the whole beat or a single lane straight into your song.
Kit library
Switch kits without rebuilding the map. Jump from acoustic to trap to other kit types and keep writing on the same grid.
Categories
Inside Hip Hop
Drawing with a mouse does not mean it has to sound like one. Select any step and shape what happens inside the hit.
How hard the hit lands.
Sometimes it plays. Sometimes it waits.
Push ahead. Pull behind. Leave the grid.
Up to eight repeats inside a single step.
Tune the hit ±24 semitones.
Every 2nd, 3rd, or 4th loop, or fills only.
The grid stops sounding like a grid. It starts sounding like a performance.
Groove. Verse. Variation. Fill. Launch them by hand or chain them. Scenes flip on the next downbeat, so the drums evolve without the music stopping.
The groove that carries the track.
The verse that gives it air.
The turn that keeps it moving.
The fill that opens the next idea.
Start with the factory library, then drag in your own WAV, AIFF, or FLAC. Swap the kick. Layer the hats. Lock what you love. Randomize the rest. Accidents count as process.
Prefer raw samples? Explore the Tsukuyomi Drum Bundle.
Sample length
Up to 30 seconds
The point
Accidents count as process.
Shape all sixteen pads on their own, then pull the kit together on the master bus.
Independent channels
Volume, pan, mute, and solo on every pad.
Shared effects
Send each channel to delay, reverb, chorus, or parallel compression.
Whole kit balance
Keep the master clean, or print a fully custom drum mix.
Send every piece to its own DAW channel, or keep the full kit together when the mix asks for it.
Direct per piece outs
Kick, snare, hats, and percussion each hit the DAW on their own track.
Independent processing
Shape, compress, and automate one drum without touching the rest.
Master or multitrack
Print the whole kit, or only the pieces that need work.
Flip on Analog and pick a model built to give the kit a voice, not a preset smile.
Console weight. Three bands, high pass, and polarity. The kit sits like it was tracked through something real.
Surgical and graphic in one pass. Parametric detail, then a 10-band curve from 31 Hz to 16 kHz.
Boost, cut, commit. Program style EQ for low end force and open highs. Big without getting soft.
Weight the kick. Crush the snare. Leave the hats dry. Three parallel slots. Each piece moves on its own terms.
Every pad feeds each compressor on its own, then blends back against the dry kit.
ISHEEN
01
Harmonic colour compressor. VELVET or BITE before compression, presence, RAGE.
ISIBOX
02
Feedback variable mu style. Thickness vs transient.
ICARUS
03
Morphing tube style. Aggressive to Dense to Smooth.
ISI 76
04
Fast FET grab. Ratios 4 / 8 / 12 / 20 / ALL.
IA2A
05
Slow optical glue. Peak Reduction and Gain.
Character and print, built in: Impact, three band EQ, serial compression, saturation, lofi, 8 bit, volume, and stereo metering. No extra plugins required to leave.
Build the kit. Shape the sounds. Program the groove. Finish it without leaving the instrument.
01
Factory kit or your own samples.
02
Keep what works. Randomize what doesn’t.
03
Tune, filter, envelope, and drive each layer.
04
Write the groove inside the instrument.
05
Velocity, probability, micro timing. Feel over math.
06
Move across Scenes A to D without stopping.
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Balance the kit, then print it ready.
Then make the music.
Tsukuyomi locks to your host tempo and timeline, and keeps its own clock when the DAW stops. Drag MIDI out (full pattern or a single lane), automate what matters, and save as:
.ISI
Samples, pads, sequencer, scenes, FX, and routing.
.ISIS
Pattern, scenes, tempo, meter, and swing.
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