MDA (Maxim) Beatbox

an odd plugin which replaces drumsounds based on frequency & threshold.

Yup... MDA (Maxim Digital Audio have been around for years and were one of the first to bring a clutch of free plugins for VST... Most people already have them, but in-case newbies don't know... The plugins are superb!!

This one is a bit of an oddity! - 'Beatbox' is a drum replacer plugin which allows you to tune in 2 frequency bands for snare & kik... So you tune into the frequency you want to trigger the plugin, then you can adjust the threshold and finaly how much of the replace drum you hear and also how much of the original... For the Hat you just bring it up or not as the case may be (ifyou want to hear a hat replace the actual sound triggering the plugin)....

Hard to describe quickly, but think of it as a 'frequency-concious gate' type tune-in device, but which then allows you to replace any of the selected frequency bands and have a different sound playback when triggered by the selected frequency.... The replacement sounds are straight 808 style affairs... This plugin therefore when first released probably was more useful in that you could replace drum sounds with 808 basic snare or kik or hat sounds, which were harder to get then, but now they are as common as muck and there is tons of great free 808 style (or actual imitator) plugin drumboxes/players.... so this one is interesting but probably not so useful as the other MDA plugs...

We now host all the MDA FX plugs for both Mac & PC... checkout the FILES section and do a search for 'MDA' or you'll find them under the CLASS selection of: 'VST_FX_APP'

Any user comments?... feel free to add some below!...