Drumming

• Beatfish Conrad Parker's "code challenge" drumbox/music machine
• Beats By Design an "artificially intelligent drum machine", requires jMusic and of course Java
• Breakage unique AI-driven drum machine from Ollie Glass, requires Java
• DrumPatterns a tool for learning drum rudiments and other patterns
• Drumpiler "the Compiled Drum Machine", from Stefano Maini (aka Sty)
• Drums++ a programming language for percussion patterns
• FlamTastic Drumputer Web-based drum rudiments/pattern composer, translates input to MIDI file
• Fultron 2002 a drum machine project from Curtis Lee Fulton
• Gneutronica GTK2-based drum machine from Stephen Cameron
• Groovit a matrix-style drum-pattern composer
• Hydrogen
  • Hydrogen the advanced drum machine for Linux
  • Blues Box a collection of blues and rock rhythm patterns for Hydrogen
  • Rhythm Galaxy vol.1 percussion samples from Hydrogen programmer and sound designer Artemiy Pavlov
• MuSing Java-based beat generation program (commercial with free demo)
• Rhythm Lab nice utility for realizing and testing polyrhythms, from Aaron Lav
• Slag pattern-based audio sequencer/drum box from Alex Marandon
• Smack Loki Davison's "100% sample-free" drum synthesizer
• TK-707 excellent software emulation of the Roland TR-707 drum machine
• Trommler
  • pyTrommler worthy successor to the original drum machine
  • TromVSpacer "...interface between the Trommler drum machine and the VSpace language...to "spatialize" tracks made with Trommler"
  • midi2trommler converts MIDI files to Trommler format
• Virtual Drum Machine more interesting software from Cedric Roux
• Xdrum a user-configurable software drum-machine for X and the Athena widget set
• orDrumbox audio sequencer and sofware drum machine in Java
• Samples, Loops, and MIDI Files
  • Loopasonic good selection of audio loops
  • MIDI Drum Files beat loops in Standard MIDI File format
  • NS_Kit good drums from the Natural Studio
  • Sounddogs excellent collection of royalty-free samples and loops