AudioDeluxe is currently offering UVI Drum Designer at 74% off, bringing it down from $149 to $39. The deal expires on March 1st, so there are around five days left at the time of publishing.
I’d recommend picking this up if you don’t already have a large collection of drum sounds, because the content alone makes it a solid deal at this price.
Drum Designer packs over 5,700 samples, 2,500+ drum presets, and 398 ready-to-use kits. If you want a drum instrument with a huge built-in library and a sequencer to build and process loops, this is one of the better options at this price point.
But it’s not just the sounds. This is a complete drum production instrument built around four dedicated engines: Kick, Snare, Clap, and Cymbal.
Each engine gives you component-level control over its respective sound rather than just playing back a fixed sample. The idea is that you can surgically shape individual elements of each hit (adjusting pitch, gain, pan, filters, and envelopes per layer) rather than being stuck with a static sample you can’t meaningfully edit.
The Kick Designer splits the sound into Body (sample-based) and Tone (synth oscillator) layers. You can adjust each independently, change the phase of the Tone layer to avoid phasing issues, draw custom amplitude envelopes, and even extend the Tone duration beyond what a traditional sample would allow.
The Snare Designer adds two discrete Noise layers on top of the Body and Tone components, each capable of adding room sounds, transient emphasis, or ramps.
The Clap Designer breaks the sound into three “shot” layers plus a noise layer, with step editors for time, gain, pan, and pitch per shot, plus a Humanize control for subtle randomization on each trigger.
The Cymbal Designer uses two noise and metallic texture layers, with phase locking available for more consistent behavior or unlocked for natural variation.
Each engine also has its own FX page with a Transient Designer, Soft Clip, Stereo Width, EQ, and a Convolver with selectable impulse responses.
The Kit view brings all four engines together in a single instance with an 8-part sequencer (one Kick, two Snares, one Clap, and four Cymbals).
The sequencer runs up to 8 bars at resolutions up to 1/64t, with per-part control over Velocity, Pan, Pitch, and Decay. You can also drag and drop sequences directly into your DAW as MIDI. The Kit FX page adds a bus Compressor, Post Clip, EQ, Delay, and Reverb, and a multi-output version is available if you want to route each part to its own channel.
The individual engines can also be loaded as standalone instruments outside of the Kit, which is useful for designing single hits without the full Kit overhead.
Drum Designer requires the latest version of UVI Workstation or Falcon (AU, AAX, VST, and VST3), a free iLok account (no dongle required), and an internet connection for license activation. It runs on macOS 10.14 Mojave through macOS 15 Sequoia and Windows 10 and 11 (both 64-bit).
The license allows three activations on any combination of machines or iLok dongles.
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Last Updated on February 23, 2026 by Tomislav Zlatic.
