BPB proudly presents Cassette Drums, a freeware drum machine VST/AU plugin bundle based on our popular Cassette 606, Cassette 808, and Cassette 909 drum sample packs.
Cassette Drums is a freeware VST and AU plugin bundle consisting of three individual plugins: Cassette 606 VST, Cassette 808 VST, and Cassette 909 VST. The plugins were designed and developed by Crimson Merry, whose work can be followed on Instagram and Twitter. The included plugins are compatible with any PC and Mac-based digital audio workstation capable of hosting VST or AU plugins. Both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported.
The instruments are based on our free Cassette 606, Cassette 808, and Cassette 909 sample packs, featuring the sounds provided by Edgar Maguyon, Gregor Zemljic, and Reddit user Anderson303. Each plugin comes with a set of three drum kits: Clean, Warm, and Hot. The Clean kits are based on the raw, unprocessed recordings of these iconic analog drum machines, whereas the Warm and Hot kits feature the saturated drum hits that were re-sampled from an audio cassette deck.
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- Cassette 606
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- Cassette 808
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- Cassette 909
Each plugin features a customized user interface with direct access to volume and release parameters for each drum hit. It is also possible to route the drums to individual outputs if you’d like to process them separately in your digital audio workstation of choice. A global volume is also available, as well as an on-screen keyboard for quick and easy playback of the included sounds.
To install the plugins on your computer, simply extract the downloaded ZIP archive’s contents to the default VST or AU plugins folder on your system. Make sure that all of the files from the archive are extracted to the same folder.
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BPB Cassette Drums (130 MB download size, ZIP archive, 32-bit & 64-bit VST/AU plugin format for Windows & macOS)
Have fun using BPB Cassette Drums and let us know how you like them in the comments section below. You might also want to check out our free FilterCrusher plugin, made by Audio-Assault. Thanks for reading BPB!
DISCLAIMER: This plugin is in no way affiliated or endorsed by the Roland Corporation.
99 Comments
Fazil
onThank you so much. Its very good.
Tomislav Zlatic
onThank you and many thanks to the developer for his excellent work on the plugins!
Xav
onI tune in almost twice a day, I don’t have time to go looking thru the internet for plug-ins, so you save me so much time I can’t thank you enough, plus I don’t get links to viruses from here, hehe. Thanks!
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks for reading BPB! :)
mitch mitchell
oncheers for these i use the samples but nice to have them in Vst form also
Tomislav Zlatic
onDefinitely, the VSTs can be a real time saver.
JoeHF
onOut-f**king-standing. Thank you!!
Tomislav Zlatic
onCheers!
Charles
onThanks a lot! Much appreciated!!
Tomislav Zlatic
onYou’re welcome, thanks for visiting!
Schall&Rauch
onthat’s great, big THANKS to everyone involved!
Tomislav Zlatic
onYou’re welcome!
Ike
onWow, this is a milestone for BPB! First you started by releasing samples and now with actual plugin instruments you took it even further! Hope you continue on this great journey and thank you so much for your service and your great work for the bedroomproducers community. Your blog really evolved since the early days. You should get some kind of award for your work!
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks so much for the kind words. In all honesty, having the opportunity to run this website is the biggest award for me. Thanks for visiting and being a part of it!
Pisces
on100% agree… Big ups
Angelo Furlan
onAnd here I thought today’s download delight would be that PETA ad featuring Alicia Silverstone. ;) Great stuff! Thanks!
Tomislav Zlatic
onOMG, those jerks in the PETA video, though. :(
Jane
onThank you very much for this beauties !
Tomislav Zlatic
onCheers!
bmovie
onLovely GUI! (I already know that the samples sounds good)
Thanks!
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks bmovie, always nice to hear from you! :)
Al Capone
onХвала Томислав :)
Tomislav Zlatic
onIzvol’te. :)
animus
onNice!
Tomislav Zlatic
onSure is!
Esol
onOh cool Tomislav! Will Deffo dl this! They look gorgeous! :)
Tomislav Zlatic
onCheers Esol, awesome looking GUIs by Crimson Merry indeed!
Bryan Lake
onAwesome! They’re so beautiful! Must play :D
Tomislav Zlatic
onCheers mate! :)
DIYfuzz
onThank you so much! I’ll put it to good use. :)
Tomislav Zlatic
onEnjoy!
Dusan
onPrvo da kazem da je BPB zaista fantastican sajt za sve koji se bave muzickom produkcijom a posebno one sa skromnijim budzetom. Instalirao sam plugin tj. otpakovao i kopirao u VST folder gde su mi ostali pluginovi ali DAW uopste ne “vidi” dll fajlove. Koristim Reaper 4.6, Windows XP sp3. Da li je u pitanju zastareli sistem?
Tomislav Zlatic
onHvala! Inace, trebalo bi da radi u Reaperu bez problema. Obavezno prebaci ceo sadrzaj foldera (ne samo DLL fajlove) i probaj da skeniras ponovo plaginove u Reaperu.
Ryan
onLoving the vsts. I’m just a little confused. So you can’t use it with a midi? In ableton I can’t seem to play with it in midi. So I’m assuming I’ll have to just record each sample to audio?
Tomislav Zlatic
onIt should definitely respond to MIDI input. Are you sure everything is hooked up correctly in Ableton? Also, have you tested these in another DAW. I’ll try to test in Live later today.
Cube
onAm I the only one who does NOT see the “download” link anywhere on the page?
Tomislav Zlatic
onIt should look like this: https://bedroomproducersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/download.jpg
Danilo
onI had the same problem. Only if you allow your script blocker to process “Selz” this appears when you scroll down.
Skyv
onDon’t want to sound to greedy but can we get Cassette 707 please. I love the sounds of the 707, so underrated compared to its more famous siblings.
Tomislav Zlatic
onI’m hoping to add a 707 here in the future, definitely.
Skyv
onSweet. Eager to see it here soon. Thanks.
Freejay MacLoud
onThank you! Very nice to have these in a sweet VST interface :-)
More broadly, thank you so much for BPB!
ali
onthank you
J.Quest
onThanks for these set of plugins, they sound great… But in Reaper they crash the project a soon as you add a couple of instruments along side them. Can you check this out plz ?
Philip Redmon
onSame problem here. Reaper crashes when reopening a project that uses these plugs. Hoping for an update, i love ’em!
Jura
on+1, crashes Reaper 64bit in Windows 10, 64bit
a
onConfirmed too! 64-bit plugins crash 64bit Reaper on Windows 7 64bit.
I need to test 32-bit plugins on old XP 32bit to see if they crash too.
Gale
onSame problem, Reaper, Win10, 64 bit. They used to work fine and now they crash the project every single time, immediately, while loading (a project with the VSTs). I miss my songs. :(
Timur Arynov (myossound)
onHi, Tom! Congrats to you and entire team who worked on this project. The GUI is amazing and sound is very good, I really like the simplicity of these plugs.
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks for the kind words Timur!
Johnny
onThank you sir.
Marcus Rasseli
onGreat! I think it will be great
Marcus Rasseli
onops… I’ll try to make some videos of it.
Jaa Ero
onnice samples in convenient VST. Thank you!
Unsign
onVery sad. Don’t work in FL Studio 9 32-bit on WinXP.
Andrés Flamenco
onThank you for this plugin, this blog is awsome!!!!
Leetenant
onhow do I tune each sound in the VST’s?
bokut
onAwesome, Tom! Big thanks.
timyr
onне работают плагины пишет Cannot find any instruments(ableton 9 win7 64bit)
Marcin M-Z
onFantastic work, sir! I love the 606 the most (and used the samples from the blog before), but all of those are fantastic. And the fact that they are vsti now (and completely free) is truly great. I’m very gratefull.
Tomislav Zlatic
onCheers Marcin, have fun using them! The 606 is my favorite one as well, btw.
A GUY
onSweet little instruments! It would be great if you could expand to lesser-known machines in the future. Pretty much everyone has Roland DM emulations in their arsenal at this point. Thank you so much, this is a top-notch site!
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks for the kind words! I’ll definitely try to sample more drum machines in the future, if I get the chance.
Jason
onDragged the folder into my plug ins folder on my mac, but it doesn’t show up in garage band. Any ideas?
Kaloyan
onHi – thanks a lot for these! I’ve already used the 909 for a TV rebrand jingle. The one thing I wish I could do with the original interface is to be able to pitch the samples. Do you plan on doing a little upgrade and adding pitch shifting options? CHeers, K.
Tomislav Zlatic
onCool, glad to hear they’re useful! An update might come at some point, but we’re working on other projects at the moment. You can find the individual samples here in case you want to pitch them manually: https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2014/04/24/roland-tr-909-samples/
Pete
onDoes the 606 crash Reaper for anyone else when you try to reopen a saved project with the 606 being used on a track?
Daniel Sherbin
onCannot find any instruments
Michele
onReally thanks for these wonderful tools. I’ve used analog versions for years and this stuff has nothing to envy to ardware versions. Thank you again
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks for the kind words!
Ren
onReaper 5.5 seems to crash when I save these vsts on a track. Using 64 bit versions. I’ve tried switching it to save minimal states. Sad, these are beautiful sounding samples.
Tomislav Zlatic
onI’m sorry to hear that! You can still download the samples separately and use them in a sampler such as Grace.
Ivansc
onOn the case for the two guys who have crashes with Reaper. I have the 606 installed and have saved a project using it & reloaded it with no issues, so it looks like this is related to how the plug is being installed.
JackGreenEarth
onHow did you import it to reaper? I checked the VST path was /home/myuser/.vst, and copied the folder into it, but when I clicked rescan VSTs in REAPER, it didn’t show up when trying to add a virtual instrument on new track under VST
Wade Cottingham
on5/14/18…I used Cassette 808 about a year ago no prob. But in latest Logic Pro, with latest Mac OSX, if I use Cassette 808 in a project, that project will NOT load again, it crashes. I re-downloaded these plugins and tried again, still they crash. Cannot use them in Logic for now.
Maurizio
onHi there!
Arrived here late and the link seems to be dead :(
Kidsonic
onThe button is dead. It takes you to a page where it just says “This link has been suspended”
Jonatan
onThank you so much to the bpb site and the developer of this awsome plugin bundle.
I used it in an instrumental track, you can check it out at SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/jonfrota/2-game-over
Again, thank you so much. Cheers!
mctb32
onAny chance to download the file? The link is not working anymore :(
Will
onHello,
The download link seems broken, could you please repost it? Many Thanks
Jim Radley
onIm a struggling artist but I did leave you a little something in compensation for this great tool. Thank you for such a great option friend!
Maks
onI received your email without any product? Why? :\
Bob
onI love this!
BUT!
It’s crashing Reaper every single time i use it.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
NAT
onI can’t seem to get it to work. I copy an paste it into my AU folder and it doesn’t appear in Logic. I have an M1 chip mac mini, could there be an issue because of that? Anyone else having this problem?
Jules
onHi, couldt you make them a little bit bigger and vst3 ? Thanx anyway ;)
Joche
onTHIS WOULD BE AWESOME ! ! !
Mac
onYes, I have the same problem. It works in Ableton but not in Logic, neither in Garageband,
Tom
onSame issue here, doesn’t work in GarageBand MacBook Pro intel i7. My mac doesn’t trust it and says to contact creator for an update. Shame, I really like the vibe, or at least what I was hoping/imagining it to be haha.
Ian
onIs there a way to get the name of the sample to show up on the piano roll key in FL? Thanks.
Ian
onAlso, how do you route the drums? And is the bottom knob release?
Ian
onignore the second question I just saw the label haha. Still can’t figure out how to route the drums though
Felix
onHi can anyone help me install. I’m on mac using logic. Tried copying the au .component file to the component folder but it’s not showing up in logic. Maybe I just can’t find in logic. Any help greatly appreciated!
Thanks
J
onApparently I’m not the only one having an issue getting this to show up in Logic.
JackGreenEarth
onI checked the VST path was /home/myuser/.vst, and copied the folder into it, but when I clicked rescan VSTs in REAPER, it didn’t show up when trying to add a virtual instrument on new track under VST
Bennysuts
onI’m struggling with where to copy these in order to run them on my Mac (with reaper
Bennysuts
onOk I got them into my VST folder, but they still wont load in Reaper. I check the security settings in my Mac but it won’t work
Alexey Vesnin
onLooks like the last link for downloads is broken – can not download the file
Tomislav Zlatic
onEverything seems fine here, can you please try again?
Jess
onHello,
I am not able to access the plug ins through Logic after I drop the folder in my VST and/or PLUG-INS folder. I would love if someone could steer me in the right direction. Thank you!