CONTACT WHO: Forever 89 WEB: forever89.studioKEY FEATURES Drum machine plugin using ‘sample modelling’ engine. Formats: PC/Mac, AU/VST3
It’s been a particularly exciting few years for drum plugins. In a space previously dominated by a mix of vintage hardware emulations, Battery-style samplers and faux-acoustic drum kits, an influx of recent plugins put a genuinely fresh spin on drum creation, from Audiomodern’s Playbeat 3, with its smart randomisation tools, to Modalics’ rhythmically creative Beat Scholar. Enter Visco, a virtual drum machine from Forever 89, a new Berlin developer founded by ex-Ableton and Teenage Engineering employees (the name refers to the era of creativity that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall.)