Play Online Virtual Drums!In fact, many of them are not even worth your time. So I've sorted out those lousy ones for ya and made a small list of the best virtual drum machines out there. They are all free, so go bang away! (The pictures are screenshots, click the links to use the virtual drums.) Or if you'd rather play some real drums, check out our drum charts or chart books. Virtual Drum Set #1 - VDK from UGOPlayer |
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The UGOPlayer virtual drum machine might be your best bet as far as the features go. This one is pretty stacked.
The main drum interface is pretty easy to operate with your mouse or keyboard. But the feature that makes it stand out from the rest is located right below the green LED screen. Those two arrows allow you to toggle among three different drum kit sounds-the default Orchestra, Copper, and Mexican- basically giving you three different drum sets.
It also includes two separate recording features, allowing you to capture and keep more than one round of playing at a time. Just make sure when you're done recording you don't hit the record button again, but just go straight to the green play button, or else you'll lose your beat. The blue link button can loop your recording so it keeps playing.
The blue button with the wrench allows you to customize the background and toggles between blue, reddish-pink, green, and yellow. The button to the left of that turns on and off a virtual set of sticks and legs that hits the drums as you play them. The white "i" button switches the player into info mode, telling you all about each feature.
Towards the bottom is a red button with a book and clicking it will put you in tutor mode. Basically a Simon Says kind of game where the computer plays a beat, you play it back in the same order, and then it adds on another note and you do it again.
Virtual Drum Set #2 - Wicked Penguin
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When you first go to Wicked Penguin's set it asks you if you "feel like getting rid of some frustration." Well I don't know how good virtual drums are at letting off frustration (and do be careful not to press the keys too hard, wouldn't want to break the keyboard), but it's still a good set to jam on nevertheless.
What immediately caught my eye about this virtual set was the cool 3D design. But besides looking cool this kit also delivers a very crisp sound (listen to that snare!).
The one major drawback is that it's missing a recording option. But apparently to make up for it they have included three loops (dance, reggae, and synth) to play behind your drum beats, which is definitely a cool feature.
If you want to play online virtual drums, this 3D set will definitely appeal the best to your optical sense. It uses Adobe Shockwave, so if you don't have that you're going to have to download it to play the kit (the download was just a couple seconds for me). You can use the link on their page.
Virtual Drum Set #3 - Ababasoft
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Now the garbled keyword rubbish down below on this page is a bit of a turnoff, and there are tons of ads, but if you bypass those the Ababasoft drum machine is pretty cool.
On this one you also have the option of using both mouse and keyboard, however the keyboard choice is quite latent. There's actually no apparent map that tells you which key corresponds to which note. So here's my map for you :)
Cymbals (L to R): i, o, p, l
Hi Hat: ;
Snare: v
Toms (L to R): g, h, j
Base Drum: space bar or c
Every note you play is recorded onto the drum tab sheet below (up to 27 at a time), and then when you are ready you can adjust the tempo to your liking (between 60 and 600 beats per minute), decide if you want a loop or not, and play back your tune. Also, if you're not completely satisfied with the beat you've created you can click on the individual drum tab note you would like to discard and it will delete. Pretty nifty.
A plain, but practical virtual drum machine.
So if you're looking to play online virtual drums, one of these drum machines will likely do the trick for ya. If you know of another good quality virtual drum set feel free to let me know with a link and quick review.
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