![]() ![]() ![]() I suspected that significant licensing and design issues were preventing Sonoma from moving forward, so I went ahead and upgraded my PC. I held off moving to a 64-bit PC system in anticipation of v4, but suddenly everything went quiet. Still, it wasn’t long before Sonoma were promising a DrumCore Version 4 with 64-bit AAX/ VST3/ AU support, and at this stage its future looked bright. ![]() At the end of my review, in SOS February 2010, I noted that Sonoma Wire Works had recently acquired DrumCore and other Submersible products, and expressed my uncertainty over their future. While the stand-alone component closely resembled previous versions of the software, the plug-in borrowed the fresh look and feature innovations of KitCore and thus signalled the ‘virtual instrument’ direction that DrumCore was headed in. Soon after KitCore’s arrival, DrumCore 3 was unveiled, and this time it worked as both a stand-alone product and a VST/ RTAS/ AU plug-in. It was the first of Submersible’s drum-related products I had the opportunity to review and I found it very easy to use. When its developers, Submersible Music, finally produced a plug-in, it was a version of their KitCore virtual instrument, which had been developed to provide a simple and cost-effective way for people to make use of the drummer MIDI libraries. Version 2, reviewed in December 2006, introduced tempo-sync via Rewire, more MIDI and audio loops played by world-famous musicians, and support for REX2 and Acidized files, but although both PC and Mac versions were available at that point, the software still didn’t integrate as a plug-in. At that stage it was a Mac OS X-only product that couldn’t be used as a plug-in, but it did include a very desirable drum library featuring contributions from some of the world’s best drummers. When DrumCore first appeared in the pages of SOS, way back in February 2005, it was a loop-auditioning interface that enabled musicians and producers with hard drives full of audio and MIDI loops to organise their collections of files. DrumCore users have been waiting a very long time for a new version, but version 4 is finally here - and available for both Mac and PC. ![]()
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