Classic Pad layout
DMC60 turns folders of samples into playable kits, plays any sample chromatically through a full synth engine, sequences it all with hardware-style swing, and runs every voice through a gritty 12-bit / 26.04 kHz engine with an SSM2044-style filter.
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Most samplers make you drag, map, trim, rename, save, repeat. DMC60 makes kit building feel like loading a drum machine again.
Point DMC60 at one folder, each subfolder, or a whole library tree. It creates ready-to-play .dmcpgm programs automatically.
You get the 12-bit attitude, hardware swing, choke behavior, and MIDI controller hands-on without losing a day to file management.
Every sample is converted to 26.04 kHz with Lagrange interpolation and a ~13 kHz anti-alias path. The aliasing isn’t a bug — it’s the dust on the record.
A 12-bit signal path (–2048 / +2047) restores the bite of early hardware samplers. Quiet sources break up. Loud sources punch.
Four-pole, 24 dB/oct, with smooth resonance and self-oscillation. The same circuit family that gave a generation of drum machines their voice.
Most plugins try to make samplers sound clean. DMC60 does the opposite. The internal pipeline — sample-rate conversion, bit reduction, ladder filter, drive — is tuned to get out of the way of the sound and let the medium speak.
128 sample slots per program, organized the way drum machines were always meant to be — pads on the bottom row, banks A–H on the wing, programs as your kits. Per-sample pitch, loop, ADSR, filter, drive and pan, all live.
Save kits as .dmcpgm programs with embedded samples, tags, and authoring metadata. Browse a factory library or your own, search by name or tag.
Hit pads to the beat and DMC60 drops slice points in real-time — non-destructive, marker-only, the sample stays whole. Or let the onset detector watch spectral flux and mark every transient. Or divide by count. Or place them by hand. Slices land on pads with a shared mute group, ready to play.
Building a sample kit by hand is the slowest part of every drum machine. DMC60 ends it. Hand it a folder of WAV / AIFF / FLAC files and it builds a finished .dmcpgm program — pads filled, banks laid out, ready to play. Hand it a sample library and it builds the entire library, in batch, in a single pass.
No other plugin sampler does this. What used to be an afternoon of dragging files into slots is now a click.
Keygroup programs stretch a sample chromatically across the full 128-note MIDI range — concert pitch, whole keyboard, not just 16 pads. Behind it sits a real synth voice: three tempo-syncable LFOs with delay and fade-in, two assignable mod envelopes, and a 16-slot modulation matrix routing velocity, aftertouch, mod wheel, key-track, and random to pitch, filter, amp, pan, and beyond.
Stack up to 7 detuned unison voices with stereo width, glide between notes with legato, and pick your oscillator flavor — Clean (anti-aliased) or Vintage (naive, 12-bit crushed). A factory preset catalog covers basses, leads, pads, keys, plucks, and FX.
Every pattern carries its own mixer state — levels, pans, sends, mutes — so switching patterns swaps the mix with the beat. No snapshot juggling, no extra recall step. A 96 PPQN engine drives customizable bar lengths, up to 4 bars per pattern, with full undo/redo, count-in, metronome, and an erase mode that scrubs notes under your fingers in real-time.
Song mode is a list, not a maze. Add a pattern, set how many times it repeats, drop in tempo and mix moves between rows, and loop any region while you tweak. Build a full arrangement in the time it takes to remember which bar you were on.
Every track gets a 6-band EQ — high-pass, two shelves, two mids, low-pass, switchable pre or post fader — and the master runs through a Glue-style compressor with auto-gain and a real gain-reduction needle. Eight send buses carry a tempo-synced delay and a plate reverb, with per-track send bars right above the faders.
The mixer expands to full window height with DAW-style fader scaling, and every pattern still recalls its own complete mix.
Plug in any class-compliant MIDI controller. Pads trigger voices, knobs and faders address volume, pan, tune, ADSR, filter, drive, master and tempo over a fixed CC map on Channel 4. Aftertouch is wired through. No mapping screen, no JSON files.
Arturia MiniLab 3 gets first-class macros: 8 knobs and 4 faders drive the synth engine on keygroup tracks or the selected pad on sample kits — and the on-screen controls follow your hands in real time. Hot-plug detection brings any controller online mid-session, and a built-in MIDI monitor shows every incoming note and CC.
In a DAW, a Host Sync toggle lets DMC60 follow the host transport — play, stop, position, tempo — or run its own clock independently.
A floating sample editor with zoom, start / end, and loop handling. An on-screen keyboard with QWERTY mapping for laptop jams. A preset browser with search and tags. Five LCD color themes, scalable UI, and persistent window state — the things you need when DMC60 is open all day.
Beta builds keep themselves current: DMC60 checks for updates on launch, verifies the download, and hands you the installer. And when something feels off, Help → Send Feedback files a bug report straight from the app — DAW, OS, and session details attached automatically.
‘Point it at a folder, get a playable program back. The fast part is not having to map 128 samples by hand.’
‘The 12-bit engine, 26.04 kHz conversion, drive, and SSM2044-style filter make clean samples feel like they came from a dedicated drum box.’
‘Per-pattern mixer states, customizable bar lengths, swing, song rows, and real-time erase keep the sequencer useful beyond quick demos.’
The beta is open! macOS 14 Sonoma or newer with Apple Silicon. Sign up, click the confirmation link we email you, and your license key and download link land in your inbox together.
No. It is inspired by the workflow and sonic attitude of early sampling drum machines, with its own engine and modern plugin workflow.
Any macOS DAW that loads AU or VST3 instruments. The standalone app works without a host.
macOS is first. Windows support is on the roadmap.
Yes. WAV, AIFF, AIF, and FLAC are supported, including folder-to-program batch creation.
No. Keygroup programs stretch any sample chromatically across the full 128-note MIDI range and run it through a real synth voice — 3 LFOs, 2 mod envelopes, a 16-slot modulation matrix, unison, and glide — with a factory preset catalog of basses, leads, pads, keys, and plucks.
Yes, and beta keys are free. Sign up below, click the confirmation link we email you, and your license key arrives together with the download link. A beta key is valid for 60 days on up to 3 machines and unlocks saving and export.