Drum bus
Triphammer
Punch, glue, smash, boom.
- 6 macro knobs
- Kick sidechain
- Auto level match
- 34 presets
Triphammer is a drum processor for a whole kit or a single drum. Six big knobs do most of the work: Punch, Glue, Smash, Drive, Boom and Room. Tell it what you're feeding it with the Source switch and it retunes its detectors to suit. Every section's full controls are one click away.
- 6
- big knobs up front
- 6
- sources: kit, kick, snare, hats, toms, room
- 34
- presets
- 0
- on every knob really means off
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What it does
Punch
A transient shaper that turns the attack and the tail up or down. A 1 ms look-ahead lets negative settings really soften a hit instead of letting its first peak slip through.
Glue and Smash
Glue is a bus compressor with stepped ratio, attack and release, like a console. Smash is a crushed parallel compressor blended in underneath, matched to the bus level.
Drive
Tape, Tube, Crunch, Fuzz or Fold, oversampled 4x, with tilt before and damping after. The level is matched for you, so more drive means more colour, not just louder.
Boom
Resonate rings the low end at the frequency you pick. Sub adds a pitched sine under every kick. Snap to note keeps the boom in the song's key.
Room and Tone
Room, Studio, Gated (opened by every hit) and Reverse, with width and its own ducking. A five-band Tone EQ shapes the result.
Sidechain and output
Key the compressors or ducking from your kick on the sidechain. Auto Level keeps the output where the input was, and the final clipper catches peaks.
Signal chain
- Punch
- Drive
- Boom
- Tone
- Room
- GlueSmash
- Auto level
- Duck
- Clip
With every knob at 0 and the clipper off, Triphammer passes your audio through untouched.
34 presets
KIT
- Default
- Kit Starter
- Console Glue
- NY Smash
- Room Blaster
- Gated '84
- Tape Warmth
- Crunch Bus
- Lofi Dust
- Destroy
- Electro Pump
- Parallel Polish
KICK
- Kick Starter
- Sub Underneath
- Kick Click
- Boom Box Kick
- Kick Crush
SNARE
- Snare Starter
- Snare Crack
- Gated Snare
- Fat Snare
- Reverse Snare
HATS
- Hats Starter
- Tight Hats
- Trashy Hats
TOMS
- Toms Starter
- Big Toms
- Gated Toms
ROOM
- Room Mics Starter
- Crushed Rooms
- Distant Rooms
SIDECHAIN
- Kick Ducks Bus
- Kick Ducks Room
- Keyed Glue
Specs
| Type | Audio effect, stereo, with a sidechain input |
|---|---|
| Put it on | A drum bus or a single drum track |
| Latency | 124 samples at 48 kHz (about 2.6 ms) |
| Window | Resizable, 60% to 160% |
| System | Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. VST3 plugin and standalone app. Mac version planned. |
| Licence | One key for everything on your order, checked offline. No iLok, no account. |
Triphammer
$20Yours to keep, on every computer you own. Try the free demo first: everything works, with a short gap every 45 seconds until you add a key.
Or get all nine for $79. Need help? Read the Triphammer manual or support.