LABS Drums

LABS Drums is an acoustic drum library for the LABS plugin. It delivers mix-ready drum sounds for rock and pop. The interface looks almost too simple, but the drums sound lovely. The library offers solid dynamics and more percussion sounds than you’ll probably need. It’s also tailored to General MIDI specifications, which is handy if that’s part of your workflow. One drawback is that you can’t customize the drum kit, but that’s not an issue if you want drums that sound great out of the box.

Spitfire also offers a Vintage Drums pack through LABS with a warmer, lo-fi character sampled from a 1975 Ludwig kit. And if you like simple drum plugins in general, check out Soft Drums Lite by Somerville Sounds. Keep in mind, though, that LABS+ is the current version of the LABS platform, and it still works, but it’s not as good as the original LABS.