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How Drumagog 6 compares
Weighing Drumagog 6 against another drum replacer? Each page here takes the two through the questions buyers ask, with the maker’s own documentation beside ours.
The short answer
Most drum replacers sit on a single drum track, and play a sample on every hit. A drum instrument like Superior Drummer 3 takes another route. From your recording, it builds MIDI for its own kits.
Drumagog 6 replaces drums right on your track while the song plays. In Drum mode, every hit it finds appears on the waveform where you can check it and fix it. Kit mode can replace the whole kit from a single drum bus. The library also ranks every sound by how closely it matches the drum you recorded.
No other tool on this page puts all of that in one plug-in. A paid license also comes with the factory library of 536 GOGs, with sounds for the kick, snare, hi-hat, toms, ride and crash.
Drumagog 6 is the one to choose if you want to
- fix any hit without leaving the plug-in
- replace hi-hats and cymbals as well as the kick, snare and toms
- get the whole kit from one drum bus with Platinum
- use your own samples by dropping them in
- skip the iLok
Drum replacement plug-ins
vs Slate Trigger 2
Can I fix a hit it gets wrong? Do I need an iLok?
In Drumagog 6, you move, add or remove any hit right on the waveform. Slate’s support pages send you to your DAW to edit the audio. Drumagog also runs without an iLok, and it covers the hi-hat and cymbals.
Read the comparisonvs XLN Addictive Trigger
Can I use my own samples? What about hi-hats and cymbals?
XLN’s help center says Addictive Trigger can’t load your own samples. In Drumagog 6, any file you drop onto a drum plays right away. It also has GOGs for the hi-hat, ride and crash.
Read the comparisonvs UVI Drum Replacer
What sounds come with it? Can one copy do the whole kit?
Drum Replacer plays the samples and instruments you bring to it. With a paid Drumagog license, you get 536 GOGs. Drumagog 6’s Kit mode replaces all six drums from a single copy.
Read the comparisonDrum instruments and DAW tools
vs Superior Drummer 3
Does it work on my track while the song plays? What happens to my drummer’s own sound?
Toontrack says Tracker works offline on audio you bring in. Drumagog 6 replaces drums on the track as the song plays. With BLEND, you keep as much of the original drum as you like.
Read the comparisonvs Logic Pro Drum Replacement
Can I change my mind afterward? What about the cymbals?
Logic’s command writes a MIDI region for one drum at a time. With Drumagog 6, the replacement stays live on the track. It covers the hi-hat and cymbals, and it runs on Windows too.
Read the comparisonFeature by feature
Here is how the six tools line up on the things buyers ask about. Each row comes from the maker’s own site, manual or support pages.
| Drumagog 6 | Trigger 2 | Addictive Trigger | UVI Drum Replacer | Superior Drummer 3 | Logic Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works right on your drum track | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Audio goes into Tracker | A Sampler track |
| A whole kit from one drum bus | ✓ Platinum | — | — | — | With more refining | — |
| Fixing a single hit | ✓ On the waveform | — | — | — | ✓ In Tracker | ✓ As MIDI notes |
| Sounds in the box | 536 GOGs | 46 snares, 33 kicks, 8 tom sets | Kicks, snares and toms from Addictive Drums 2 | Your own | 7 kits, 25 snares, 16 kicks | Logic’s Library |
| Sounds ranked against your drum | ✓ | — | — | — | Search with filters | Find similar sounds |
| Hi-hats and cymbals | ✓ | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Using your own samples | ✓ | ✓ Copied into a folder | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Editing the MIDI on a piano roll | ✓ | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ In Logic |
| Running without a DAW | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | Inside Logic |
| Living without an iLok | ✓ | Needs an iLok ID | ✓ | Needs an iLok account | ✓ | ✓ |
| macOS and Windows | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mac only |
| What it costs | $99 Pro, $199 Platinum | $119.99 | $149 | $99 | $399 | $199.99 |
List prices in US dollars, taken from each maker’s own site in October 2026. Prices and versions change over time. Product names are trademarks of their owners, mentioned here for comparison only.
Which drum replacer should I use?
Start from the job in front of you. Each of the usual jobs below ends up in the same place.
You’re mixing a snare or kick close mic
Use Drumagog 6 in Drum mode. Every hit it finds lands on the waveform, where you can move it or add a ghost note that was missed. With REMOVE SIMILAR, a whole run of false hits clears at once. The manuals for Trigger 2, Addictive Trigger and Drum Replacer offer detection settings to adjust instead.
You only have a drum bus or overheads
Use Drumagog 6 Platinum in Kit mode. One copy finds the hits on all six drums. Each drum then gets a lane on the TRIGGER page and a channel strip on the MIX page. By contrast, Trigger 2 and Addictive Trigger each handle one drum per copy.
You’re playing live
Use Drumagog 6 in Live mode. On stage, it plays each sample the moment the drummer hits the drum, and the audience hears the replacement as the drummer plays. The kit sounds the way you want it, night after night.
You want the right sample, fast
Play the song once, and Drumagog 6 ranks every GOG in your library by how close it sounds to your drum. Each row shows a percentage. Step through the top matches while the song plays, and keep the one you like.
You want MIDI from a drum take
Drumagog 6 turns every hit into a note on its piano roll. Drag the take into your DAW as a MIDI clip. Ready-made note maps cover General MIDI and Toontrack’s Superior Drummer and EZdrummer.
You work in more than one DAW
Drumagog 6 runs as VST3, AU and AAX on macOS and Windows. A standalone app comes with both editions. In REAPER, Studio One, Cubase and Nuendo, ARA 2 puts the hits on the waveform before you press play.
Questions buyers ask
Which drum replacer can replace a whole kit from one track?
Drumagog 6 Platinum. Put one copy on a drum bus, an overhead pair or a room mic, and Kit mode finds the hits on all six drums. Each drum then gets a lane on the TRIGGER page and a channel strip on the MIX page.
Can I edit the hits a drum replacer finds?
In Drumagog 6, you can. In Drum and Kit mode, every hit sits on the waveform as a marker. Drag one to move it, or double-click to add a hit that was missed. REMOVE SIMILAR and KEEP SIMILAR fix whole groups of hits at once.
Will my Drumagog 5 GOGs work in Drumagog 6?
Yes. Drumagog 6 plays every GOG from Drumagog 3, 4 and 5 as it is, without converting anything.
What does the free trial include?
The complete Platinum edition for seven days, with five demo GOGs and any samples of your own. The full factory library comes with a paid license.
Which features need Platinum?
Kit mode, automatic hi-hat and tom tracking, STACK, the gate, the transient shaper, the convolution reverb, Morph|Engine and plugin hosting. The free trial includes all of them.
What sounds come with Drumagog?
A paid Pro or Platinum license includes the factory library of 536 GOGs. The store inside Drumagog adds collections from us and from other publishers, each with demos you can audition before you buy.
Can I use my own samples?
Yes. Drop an audio file onto a drum to play it right away, or drop a folder to build a GOG from it. + IMPORT… on the LIBRARY page brings a whole collection into your library.
Which DAWs support ARA 2?
REAPER, Studio One (as an Event FX), Cubase and Nuendo. In every other DAW Drumagog works as a regular insert.
Do I need an internet connection?
Only to sign in the first time on each computer, to download the included library and to use the store. After that Drumagog works offline for as long as you like.
Hear the difference in your own session.
The free trial is the complete Platinum edition for seven days, Kit mode included.