Audiospillage Elektroid is dope and can be a sampler/sequencer. They also have a free drum synth, Minispillage, but you might of already tried it. Also, it’s real easy on the cpu and not overly cluttered with crazy parameters and such. Yeah and Microtonic is really good to.
I just got Nicky Romero’s kick drum plugin from sonic academy(I think). It’s great. Simple and effective with a rather low CPU usage. I’d check that out. I grabbed chromaphone recently too. Which is a physical modeling drum synth but my CPU spikes like crazy.
Otherwise ,If you’re using ableton, Just use one of the plugin synth instruments to create drum sounds. That is the simplest way to start making sounds from scratch. Take the analog plugin and make a pitch envelope going from high to low. Voila! Drum sounds! Its way easier than using reaktor and you don’t have to hurt your delicate reputation.
uTonic is microtonic,right? I tried demo of this and I liked it but I’m not sure how to skip the plugin’s sequencer and just let Ableton fire off the drum hits. How do you do that?