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The Boom Black Friday deal is 70% off, $29, until Nov 26, 2026, on AIR Music Technology's drum machine plugin in AU and VST formats.
Boom started life inside the Creative Collection of instrument plug-ins bundled with Avid Pro Tools. As demand grew, AIR released it as a standalone drum machine plugin.
The interface is modern, with a nod to the vintage drum machines it takes its cues from. The maker says Boom has turned up on hit albums, feature films and radio projects.
Boom ships with 10 electronic drum kits, and each kit holds 10 drums. The kits cover several styles:
Over 50 presets are included, spanning contemporary and classic electronic and urban genres.
Each drum in a kit has its own panning, volume, tuning and decay controls. Every drum channel also gets a tuning screw, a control that makes a sonic adjustment specific to that drum.
You can mix drums from different kits into a custom kit. Individual drums trigger via standard MIDI pitch mappings, so you can play them from a keyboard or pads, or program them in your DAW.
Boom has a built-in sequencer for creating and triggering your own patterns, and patterns save and recall as presets. In Pattern Select mode, the keys along the bottom of the interface choose patterns. They are colour coded to show how they map to a MIDI keyboard from middle C upwards, so you can switch patterns remotely.
The Matrix display in the top left is where you program a pattern. You can also enter steps with the bottom keys in Pattern Edit mode.
A few extras sit alongside the sequencer. You can copy one pattern to another. Playback runs in normal, double, half or triplet time inside your host. There is also a swing control that mirrors the feel of classic MPC and other vintage drum machines and samplers.
Boom supports up to macOS 12 Monterey. It is not natively compatible with Apple Silicon Macs, so if you use one, that is worth knowing before you buy.
If you already own Pro Tools, AIEP 3, AKAI VIP or MPC Software, AIR offers a crossgrade route for Boom.
Yes. The Boom Black Friday deal takes 70% off, bringing the AIR Music Technology drum machine plugin to $29. The offer ends Nov 26, 2026.
Boom includes 10 electronic drum kits with 10 drums each, covering 808 and 909 variations, Dance and Urban kits, and a retro kit inspired by a CR78 merged with a 606. Over 50 presets and an onboard pattern sequencer come with it.
Boom is available in AU and VST formats. It supports up to macOS 12 Monterey and is not natively compatible with Apple Silicon Macs.
Yes. The onboard sequencer lets you build patterns on the Matrix display or with the keys along the bottom, copy one pattern to another, and play back in normal, double, half or triplet time with a swing control. Patterns save as presets.
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