Free VST/AU snare plugin samples cherry wood drum

By Ben Rogerson
( Computer Music )
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Cherry Snare is available for PC and Mac

We've seen a fair few plugins that are dedicated to creating kick drum sounds - now here's a free one that devotes itself to the snare.

VST4Free's Cherry Snare contains 208 24-bit/44.1kHz samples of a custom cherry wood snare drum. These were captured using five microphones, and you can mix the levels of each mic channel individually in the plugin. Each channel also comes with a Punch knob that can be used to sculpt transient sharpness, plus Release and Pan controls.

There are five stroke techniques, up to three velocity layers and up to five round-robin samples per layer. You can tune the snare to your liking, while the Vari-pitch control applies an LFO to the pitch to produce a variety of subtle and unrealistic variations.

Cherry Snare can be downloaded for free from the VST4Free website. It comes in 32/64-bit VST/AU formats for PC and Mac.

Ben Rogerson
Ben Rogerson

I’m the Deputy Editor of MusicRadar, having worked on the site since its launch in 2007. I previously spent eight years working on our sister magazine, Computer Music. I’ve been playing the piano, gigging in bands and failing to finish tracks at home for more than 30 years, 24 of which I’ve also spent writing about music and the ever-changing technology used to make it.