XLN Audio DB-30 Drum Butter interface

XLN Audio DB-30 Drum Butter

At a Glance

TypeEffect
CategoryDrums
PlatformWiN
DAWAny
Available on Windows desktop.

XLN Audio DB-30 Drum Butter is a drum multi-effect plugin for shaping loops, individual samples and acoustic drum recordings. Its six modules take beats from lean and clean to weighty, gritty and dense. Boom Shack adds low-end heft and high-frequency sparkle, while Shift reshapes pitch and formants. Space supplies reverb depth, Compress brings drum mixes together, Saturate adds edge, and More pushes density and loudness for extra impact. Rearrange the modules to explore how processing order changes your groove, then use focused controls to target frequencies and shape transients and sustain independently. With an intuitive layout inspired by XLN Audio’s RC-20 Retro Color, DB-30 suits producers who want creative drum processing without a complicated workflow. Use it to beef up sampled breaks, give programmed beats more character or add cohesion to recorded drums across genres.