It is a lot of fun to use and has nearly everything I would ever want in a drum plugin …

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Virtual Analog & MultiSynthesis Drum Machine with next gen XoX Sequencer

StiX offers an incredible variety of drum sounds from various eras: Vintage analog drum machines, early digital ones, and the rarest units. It also embraces many hybrid sounds from future eras.

Combine this with the most powerful and expressive XoX Sequencer ever created and you have the most complete and unique drum machine on the market today.

With StiX, you’re entering an exciting, lush, colorful and expandable ecosystem in the World of Electronic Drums.

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Interesting Facts

  • 10 full featured Synthesizers (one for each drum):

  • The XoX Sequencer :MultiLine Editor, Single Line Editor, Pattern and Song Modes

  • Drumkits, Drumpads, Patterns and Global Presets

  • The Preset Manager:  Having so many presets, and still being able to mass import your own samples easily, would be tedious to use without the one window Preset Manager: Multi criteria Database engine: Find the right Drum Sound, or the right Break Pattern, in seconds. Create custom tags, custom banks, favorites/hide unwanted presets etc. Export/Import all types of presets (Global, Drums, Drumkits, Patterns, Songs, Samples) or entire consolidated banks.

FEATURES

  • Midi Output:   Control your virtual instruments and hardware drum machines Live, or record the midi data to your DAW and edit it. Drag’n’Drop Midi Pattern to DAW

  • Midi Learn: Full automation of all synthesis parameters of all drumpads, mixer, effect etc.

  • Drums of the Past: 15 Wave Alchemy drum Machines (Roland TR-XoX, EMU, Drumtracks, LinnDrum)

  • Creative Boosters: AI Assisted automatic Drumkit creation. Randomize sequencer lines, full patterns

  • Swing: Sophisticated swing engine. Per Step & Sequence line Swing (with MicroPosition Feature)

  • Multi Output version and Choke function: With volume, groups and pan preservation

  • Effects: Natural Reverb, Analog Delay & Phaser, per drum crusher & distortion. Compressor on Stereo Bus.

  • Sample Accurate synchro and audio engines: The tightest beats for your tracks

  • Ultra Flexible: Envelope segment modulations, hundreds of modulation targets…Simultaneously!

  • Fast Workflow: Gang Mode to edit Sequencer Lanes, mixer levels, effects sends

HIGHLIGHTS

FEATURES

  • Each Drum sound is a Drum Model:  Combine, for each drum, Virtual Analog morphing oscillators, FM @ audio rate, Sine + Waveshaping, Samples, AM, RM, & CroSS Synthesis. Experience 4th Gen ZDF multimode analog Filters, Custom Macros Knobs, Custom P.Lock Step Modulations, 2 LFOs, 3 Unique ADSR or R-Clap Envelopes, exclusive PolyStep auto-modulator: A whole synthesizer to sculpt each of the 10 drum sounds, and the only drum machine that allows you to recreate many drums from the past with specific topologies, and create new ones with total freedom: It’s only limited by your imagination!

  • Next level XoX Sequencer:  Variable number of steps per beat, beats per bar. 4 to 64 steps per bar. Asymmetric & ternary rhythms. Per Step: Custom P.Lock parameters, Step-time Division, Gate Time, Micro Position, Velocity. Song Mode to organise patterns, Step parameters modulating Synthesis parameters.

  • The Workflow:  Fast and intuitive. XoX Sequencer Multiline and SingleLine views, Synthesis Easy And Advanced view. You’re never more than a click away from your task. Exclusive Stretch & Modal Pitch Macro Controls, Global user defined Macros controls to tailor each sound easily. The Mixer is always visible, as well as one of the Synthesis panels, one of the Sequencer views, the Pattern bank, and all drumpads.

  • Live Playing:  Start the sequencer and chain patterns live, or use the Song Mode, while adding single drum hits with your midi keyboard, mute sounds on the fly to create intros or outros, and automate each synthesis parameter of each drumpad by sending Midi CC messages.

  • The Presets:  2500 presets: 175 Global Presets, 100 Drumkits, 800 Drum sounds, 1000 patterns, 390 exclusive samples. Covering all styles, from Bossa Nova and Funk to 4 on the floor, without forgetting the most adventurous ambient or creative electronic beats. And it’s still growing!

  • The Preset Manager:  Having so many presets, and still being able to mass import your own samples easily, would be tedious to use without the one window Preset Manager: Multi criteria Database engine: Find the right Drum Sound, or the right Break Pattern, in seconds. Create custom tags, custom banks, favorites/hide unwanted presets etc. Export/Import all types of presets (Global, Drums, Drumkits, Patterns, Songs, Samples) or entire consolidated banks.

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Downloads

Latest Version: 1.6.4
Latest Version: 1.6.4
The Time limited DEMO license:
  • Time limited to 15 days
  • Allowing running the full version with all its features
  • Only iLok protection allowed

Request your TIME LIMITED DEMO License

  • Mac OSX 10.9 and later (64bits only): VST, VST3, Audio Unit, AAX (64 native)
  • Windows 7,8,10,11 (64 bits): VST, VST3, AAX (native)

Testimonials

This is clearly not a standard/ordinary drum machine. It has so many options for modulation and the synthesis/samples combination makes it a very powerful plugin. It is a lot of fun to use and has nearly everything I would ever want in a drum plugin ...

Powerful sound generation Easy and Advanced interfaces, Many sound and pattern presets, Creative Polystep modulation

Even with a few notable things missing, StiX is a highly creative virtual drum machine that comes bursting with quality sounds and encourages experimentation

StiX hat, was den Sequencer anbelangt, eine neue Referenz geschaffen, aufgrund derer er über die Konkurrenten, die denken, 16-Steps seien immer noch das hipste, haushoch hinwegsegelt. Bei mir ist StiX ab sofort der GO-TO Drum-Synthesizer Nr.1. Antesten oberamtlich vom Chefarzt verordnet!

Stix ist einerseits ein plug-in für ambitionierte soundblastler, es gibt aber andereseits auch viele effektive hilfen beim erstellen von patterns, und gute samples, sodass man auch seher schnell zu interessanten ergebnissen komment kann. Stix ist ein rohdiamant unter den drummachine-Plug-ins

Seriously ... I'm a beat programming junkie - I have Microtonic, Battery, Attack, Addictive Drums, RMV and Drumatic and they are all fine but soundwise Stix really plays in it's own league ... so punchy and analog - great job!!!

10 full featured Synthesizers (one for each drum):

  • Advanced Synthesis page:  Everything you could dream of on a Virtual Analog synthesizer: 3 multi Synthesis Oscillators with phase retrig. 3 Envelopes.
    Pitch modulation per oscillator. 2 LFOs. User defined Macros with a plethora of sources and destinations.
    Vintage prewired Modulation Matrix with bipolar mods. In short: More than 130 parameters & modes with which to design each sound.

  • Analog Engines:  Morphing Oscillators, 4th Generation Zero-Delay Feedback-Filters, 3 Fast and snappy ADSR Envelopes with time multipliers/dividers, LFO operating @ audio rate with One Shot mode, cumulative Waveforms, Midi sync and reset mode.
    All envelopes switchable to R-Clap mode. All these components have been closely modeled after some prestigious and rare analog synthesizers for unmatched authenticity in the recreation of analog percussion and drum sounds. Sample accurate audio engine.

Easy Synthesis Page:

  • Populated with exclusive Macro controls developed for fast Drum Synthesis control: Stretch, Global Pitch (Divergent, Convergent, Linear mode), custom Macro 1 and 2, velocity mapping. Main filter Cut Off and resonance.
    Exclusive PolyStep Modulator (Step Sequencer driven Macro Modulations, the place where magic will always happen), Step Matrix to define custom Sequencer P.Lock parameters.

  • MultiSynthesis & Beyond Analog:  FM Sine Oscillators (With Wave Shaping), 3rd Oscillator Sample, Sample start offset, reverse mode (v1.5). Noise has it’s own filter (v1.5).
    3rd oscillator Direct Out option (v1.5, to bypass main filter and create parallel filter topologies) CroSS Synthesis Modulations between all components. User defined Macro Controls. Sequencer driven Modulations.

The XoX Sequencer:The MultiLine Editor

  • Custom number of steps per beat, and beats per bar. Per Step Division Trigger (Stutter, Rolls). Global Swing. The multiline editor is as easy to use as any traditional XoX sequencer, and yet it’s so much more powerful and fun to use.

The XoX Sequencer:The Single Line Editor

  • To edit each sequencer line in depth. Per Step: Micro Position (Flams, per line/step Swing, Reverse, Humanize) Gate Time, Velocity, P.Lock parameters, including envelope segments. Gang Mode Control.

Pattern and Song Modes:

  • 12 Patterns and one Song, with their own preset system. Fast Song building. Lock Pattern display function. Randomizer for each sequence line or the whole pattern.

  • Drag’nDrop pattern to DAW.

  • Midi Out to control external devices or record live stream in your DAW. Each global preset includes up to 10 patterns working together.

The Mix Desk

  • the Mix Desk is always visible so that you never loose your focus on the balance of your rhythm. Solo/Mute. Gang Mode. Choke pairs (v 1.5). Stereo, or separate output versions available.

  • The Effects:  Modeled Analog Delay and Phaser. Natural Sounding Reverb, a per drum Crusher/Distortion unit. Compressor inspired by dbx design on Stereo Bus (v1.5).

  • Live Control:  You can control StiX Live, or record these events in your DAW: Play the drums (C1 octave), Chain Patterns (C2 Octave), and mute/unmute drumpads (to build intro/outro with a single pattern).

Preset Manager

  • 800 Drums presets, 100 Drumkits, and 175 Global presets including nearly 1000 different Patterns. 400 exclusive drum samples, courtesy of Le Lotus Bleu.

  • Random and Intelligent (AI assisted) Drum Kit creation, to create new coherent or completely crazy kits with one click

  • New one window Preset Manager:  Find the right analog Kick, FM snare, Sample HH, Pattern Break or Vintage Electronic Drumkit in seconds. Import/Export selection or multi-selection of presets. Batch Import and tagging of all presets and samples etc.

Total Control:

  • You can assign any Midi CC to any synthesis parameter to fine tune some midi parts, or achieve the most precise automation.

  • Last but not least, the StiX provides a wide range of modulation options.