Here's the DKL synth from AO Digital Audio - a software VSTi drumbox - checkout the product info... I have used their next-up DK1 and it is excellent... This version is simpler, offering tuning and pan per pad as well as some others parameters such as note priority and setting the control In midi Note etc... The playback sound is clean and clear and it works great (works in winxp too!), albeit with only stereo output.

Here's the company's promo text about DKL:

A0 DKL is a free simplified version of the A0 DK1 virtual drum machine for PC/VST. This product is fully compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT4 and Windows 2000, Logic Audio and Cubase VST. It requires a PC with an Intel 486 processor or better and 64Mb of RAM.

A0 DKL features 16 drum pads, one mute group (also known as exclusion group), tune-able samples +/- 7 halftones, loads wave files "on the fly", and requires no external editor.

A0 DKL uses very little CPU time, providing a professional sound quality. There is no "shiny-looking" user interface, because we decided to put our development efforts in the sound quality and to keep to extremely low the CPU usage.

It's a pretty good little freebie..... any user comments?.. please add them below!!...