Warped hurdy-gurdy and vielle held until they groan. Church organs sunk into swamp water. Bagpipes, bowed strings, choir and bells drawn out into long, dark textures.
Drone Maker is a custom drone engine built for underscore and atmospheric sound design. Pedal tones for film and game scoring, beds for ambient and dark folk, dread for horror and dungeon synth.
54 presets built with our custom drone engine
Granular & Freeze modes for expansive, cinematic ambiences
Two LFOs controlling pitch, comb filters, and swells
Custom Reverb and Delay FX units
16 ambience layer beds (controlled independently)
Load your own sounds to create drones and textures from any source material
AU, VST3, AAX and Standalone for Mac, Windows and Linux
Royalty-free output
Free updates for life
Motion
Everything moves. A held note reshapes itself continuously, drifting through phases that keep it alive for as long as you want it, and two custom LFOs work across minutes so a single chord can traverse large distances and evolve in time.
Freeze catches any moment and suspends it. Reverb and delay open the room around it to expand your sound and sonic motion.
Place
Sixteen ambience beds sit on their own layer with independent levels: insert rains, fire, incantations and more. Put a drone in a downpour, a chapel, or a burning hall for an even more atmospheric experience.
Anything becomes a drone
Drop in your own sounds to the custom drone engine to make your own textures and atmospheres. A field recording, a single guitar note, a voice sample: everything becomes a sustained, moving wall of sound.
Expand it with our Sample Booster Packs
Nox: Warped Horror Drones. 25 dark, tortoured presets. Bells rung in empty villages, muffled screams, rusting strings scraped past breaking point, thick, acrid air that seeps from the unknown depths.
Reliquary: Medieval Drones Vol. II.25 presets. A Sacred and ambient medieval expansion. Recorders, church organs, processed choirs, degradation and mysterious fog
Both packs install instantly from inside the plug-in navigation.
System requirements
macOS macOS 11.0 Big Sur or later. Universal binary, native on Intel and Apple Silicon with no Rosetta required. AU, VST3, AAX and Standalone.
Windows Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. VST3, AAX and Standalone.
General Around 500 MB free disk space. 4 GB RAM recommended. Runs in Logic, Ableton Live, Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, FL Studio, Bitwig and any other AU or VST3 host, or on its own with no DAW at all. Works entirely offline with no account or activation.
Licence
Perpetual licence, no subscription
Install on any machine you own
Royalty-free use, worldwide
Sounds cannot be resold as sounds or used to train generative audio model
Aways looking for unique sounds for my library. I auditioned Drone Maker and was impressed by the quality and care taken. I have been using Drone Maker to blend with deep sub and motion ambient drones, and the results have been outstanding. Keep up the good work! Best, Kennebec Moon
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A dream for drone lovers
Superb virtual instrument. Very versatile and and a dream for any drone lover!
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Best buy of the year
Easily the best money I have spent on a sample library this year. It has paid for itself twice over already.
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Sounds expensive
It sounds expensive, which is the highest compliment I can give a library.
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Huge and controllable
The samples are enormous and the FX give you proper control over them. I could drone on forever… !
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Does one thing perfectly
It does one thing and does it better than anything else I have tried - inspiration galore!. I would happily have paid double.
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Whole cues from one patch
Perfect for scoring work. I have pulled entire cues out of a single patch - always get’s me writing
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Great sounds, slight learning curve
Took me an evening to work out what everything actually did, but once it clicked I was pulling sounds out of it that I cannot get anywhere else. Worth pushing through the first session.
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Deep but fast for songwriting
Deep enough to lose an afternoon in, simple enough to dial in while someone is sat behind me waiting.
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The sounds are the one!
The modulation and the otherworldly soundsis what sold me. I have not found anything else that’s both medieval and fantasy in this way
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Effects are super ethereal!
On some presets it Sounds like a tape machine left out in the rain. Proper nice!
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Make your own sounds
The presets are already decent but drop any old loop into the sample loader and it gives you back something you would never have written yourself. Brilliant for getting unstuck.
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Super unique!
One of the most unique plugins in my collection, and it looks incredible too. I keep finding new corners of it!
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