Sonic Charge Microtonic

If you’re looking for a drum machine, you probably know by now that drums are the backbone of most electronic music genres. If you want to create club hits, then you need a catchy pattern and powerful kick drums; there’s no way around this. Depending on the digital audio workstation you have chosen, you may already have some tools that got you started. But no matter if you’re a beginner or pro, it takes a lot of time and patience to actually create powerful drums with just the stock plugins.

So if your goal right now is to create drums that sound great and arrange them in a cool pattern, then Sonic Charge Microtonic may be what you’re looking for.

Once you open Microtonic, programming your first drum pattern shouldn’t take long. The interface is simple and intuitive, especially if you’ve used a subtractive synth before. All the percussive sounds are created through synthesis, so this means that it’s all a matter of tweaking parameters until you hear something you like.

The application comes with a few programs of its own, and each program has plenty of presets of its own for each drum sound. A pattern can be constituted of no more than eight sounds, and they can be programmed via a very intuitive step sequencer.

The fact that you can easily synthesize each percussive sound gives you a lot of sonic freedom. You can adjust the frequency, select one of three waveforms, add distortion, noise, and even swing.

Your project can contain up to 12 different patterns that you can chain one after another, effectively creating the drum structure of a whole song. So if you’re looking for a simple drum machine that can also produce some powerful sounds, Sonic Charge Microtonic may be the plugin you need.