Think of a living preset bank. One that doesn't just store sounds, but patterns – ready-to-use 909 grooves you can combine, tear apart and develop further in seconds. That's Grid-909.
160 Pattern Sets. 8 Genres. One Click.
Grid-909 contains 160 finished drum pattern sets, spread across eight genres: House, Techno, Electro, Trance, Breakbeat, Acid House, R&B and UK Garage. Each genre brings 20 patterns per drum instrument – all built according to the rules that define each genre. Four-on-the-floor kick for House, industrial mechanics for Techno, syncopated broken beats for Breakbeat. Genre-authentic, not randomly thrown together.
Instead of staring at an empty grid, you hit Generate and have a working groove. From there, you decide what stays and what changes.
The key trick: each of the 11 drum tracks has its own Generate button. Kick is working, snare is fine, but the closed hi-hat needs something different? One click. Only that track gets a new pattern from the library, everything else stays untouched. Within minutes you have a combination that no single pattern in the library knows – but still sounds like someone built it who knows what they're doing.
Few Controls. Real Impact.
Shuffle is bipolar. -50% to +50%, global or per drum track. That means: kick behind the grid, hi-hat ahead, snare straight. Anyone who's tried to dial in that pocket by hand in a DAW knows what that's worth.
Velocity is edited directly in the grid with a drag up or down. No menu, no popup. The downbeat boost is already built in – steps on the one, three and the quarters automatically get slightly more weight, which makes the groove feel more grounded without touching anything.
Add fill patterns per genre, a snapshot system for saving complete pattern states, and up to 64 undo steps. Take a groove apart and lose your way back: no problem.
Not Just for 909 Sounds.
Grid-909 produces MIDI only. No audio, no built-in sounds. That means it drives any drum machine, sampler or drum plugin that understands MIDI.
The Settings tab exposes the full MIDI mapping. Ready-made presets for Bitwig V9 Pro, Audiorealism ADM1x, D16 Drumazon 2 and Roland Cloud TR-909 are included. Using something else? Select Custom and enter the MIDI notes directly. Each of the 11 drum tracks also gets its own MIDI channel – anyone running multiple drum plugins in parallel or needing complex routing has full flexibility to do so.
Bring Patterns In or Take Them Out.
MIDI import via drag & drop: drop a .mid file from your DAW or hard drive onto the plugin, and the notes land in the grid automatically quantized. When you're done, drag the Drag MIDI button straight into your DAW – finished MIDI file, shuffle applied, all muted tracks excluded.
Multi-bar patterns up to 16 bars, page navigation, per-drum solo and mute, a lock system that excludes individual tracks or entire pages from generation – all there.
Who It's For.
Für alle, die beim Drums-Programmieren lieber Entscheidungen treffen als jeden Schritt von Hand setzen. Für Producer, die schnell einen funktionierenden Groove brauchen und dann gezielt eingreifen wollen. Und für alle, die ohnehin wissen: Der Sound steckt im Groove, nicht in den Samples.
Try Before You Buy
The demo runs with full functionality. Three starts, after which MIDI is briefly muted every 30 seconds. After three starts the demo expires. Enter a license key in the Settings tab and that's it.
Formats: VST3, AU, Standalone
Systems: macOS 10.14+, Windows 10+
Demo – 0,00 € Vollversion – 19 Euro Inklusive 19% Steuer
License Information
This product includes a professional license system with the following features:
- Online activation with hardware fingerprinting
- Up to 3 device activations included
- Automatic license delivery via email
- Customer portal for license management
After purchase, you will receive your license serial number via email within minutes.