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BollyX Black Friday pricing is 70% off, $29, until Nov 25, 2026, on BeatSkillz' drum machine plugin built around Indian percussion and Bollywood-flavored drums.
The maker says it pairs percussion recorded across many regions of India with drums sampled from vintage samplers and drum machines.
The library holds 50 kits and 50 patterns, with over 300 unique percussion and drum hits.
Gaurav Dayal and Sentury Status designed every sound and pattern.
Each of the 50 kits mixes processed drum hits with Indian ethnic percussion hits. The maker says the sounds are built to work together across the spectrum, and the library leans contemporary, old-school and Bollywood-centric.
The patterns are hand-crafted, and each drum kit ships with its own factory patterns. The maker names Timbaland, Afrika Bambaata, Gaurav Dayal's Bollywood Sample Series, Balkan BeatBox and Bally Sagoo among the influences.
The feature list:
BollyX works as a full drum sampler, with 8 sample pads per kit. Every pad has volume, pitch, pan and release controls, reverse, low pass and high pass filters, and sample trim.
To swap a sound, drag a file onto a pad or pick one in the built-in file browser. You can load WAV, AIFF, FLAC or MP3 files, and sample length is capped at 5000 ms.
The multi-output sends each pad to its own channel in your DAW, so you can run your own plugin collection on individual sounds.
On the master side, the EQ has low, mid and high bands. The reverb has decay and amount controls, and there is a compressor as well.
Any pad can be assigned to any MIDI key on a keyboard or controller. Every control is MIDI mappable with a right-click, and the pads come pre-assigned for the Akai MPC Mini.
The Seq page lists the 8 tracks down the left with their sample names, next to a grid of 32 steps. A marker follows the current step during playback, and a yellow step number marks the loop endpoint.
Click a square to place a trigger, or click and drag along a row to fill several steps at once. Dragging across triggers erases them the same way.
Each row has three buttons. X clears the row, M mutes it, and S solos it.
Expanding a row opens six lanes you can draw per step:
Drawing a shape across the steps gives you movement inside a pattern.
The time division menu offers 1 bar, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 per step. Five pattern slots are available, with the factory patterns for each kit or your own.
The MIDI drop button lets you drag the current pattern into a MIDI or instrument track in your DAW. Switch the sequencer off with the SEQ on/off button and the pattern plays from the DAW, so you can arrange a whole song from patterns built in BollyX.
The library relocate feature lets you move the content to any internal or external drive. Point the plugin at the new location once through the settings icon.
The BollyX Black Friday deal is 70% off, bringing the BeatSkillz drum machine plugin to $29. The deal runs until Nov 25, 2026.
BollyX includes 50 kits and 50 patterns, with over 300 unique percussion and drum hits. The maker says the sounds were designed by Gaurav Dayal and Sentury Status, and each kit mixes processed drums with Indian ethnic percussion.
Yes. Drag a sample file onto any pad or use the built-in file browser. BollyX loads WAV, AIFF, FLAC and MP3 files, with sample length capped at 5000 ms. You can also save your own kits and patterns.
Yes. The MIDI drop button lets you drag the current sequence onto a MIDI or instrument track in your DAW. Turn the internal sequencer off with the SEQ on/off button and the pattern plays from the DAW.
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