Turn Your Sample Packs & Maschine Expansions into Drum Kits
Kit Maker turns the drum packs you already own (and your Native Instruments Maschine Expansions) into organized, ready-to-load drum kits for MPC, Ableton, Deluge and more. Drag in a pack, click Make Kits, and load them in your setup.
$35 — one-time purchase. No subscription.
As featured on the Native Instruments blog
From sample packs to finished drum kits
Your sample packs are just folders of loose files, and building a kit by hand kills the momentum. Kit Maker builds the kits for you, automatically.
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Drop in your packs
Any drum packs (Splice, Loopmasters, or your own) and Maschine Expansions you already have.
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Kit Maker builds the kits
Automatically, for MPC, Ableton, Deluge and every supported format.
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Laid out as real kits
Samples are sorted onto the right pads: kicks, snares and hats in a logical, playable layout.
No tidy folders? Kit Maker still builds kits from a loose pack by reading the filenames.
Make kits for the gear you actually use
Kit Maker exports to a growing list of DAWs and hardware.
Click a format to learn more.
Direct kit presets
Akai MPC
.xpm kits for MPC Live, X, One, Force and MPC software.
See MPC →
Ableton Live
Drum Rack kits, ready to drop into Live.
See Ableton →
Ableton Move & Note
Kits built for Move and Note.
See Move →Synthstrom Deluge
Deluge kits, named and ready to load.
See Deluge →BeatMaker 3
.bmk2 kits for BeatMaker 3 on iOS.
See BM3 →NanoStudio 2
Kits ready to use in NanoStudio 2.
See NanoStudio →+ More DAWs, via the Numbered Files method
No direct preset for these, but Kit Maker still builds the kits: it exports the 16 samples as numbered files you drag onto the DAW’s pad grid, creating individual kits, each keeping the same consistent layout.
Turn your Maschine Expansions into kits for any DAW
Own Native Instruments Maschine Expansions? Kit Maker reads them and rebuilds those sought-after kits for MPC, Ableton and the rest. You get the Maschine sounds you love, right in your setup, without the hardware. Convert your Maschine Expansions →
Swap kits, hear new sounds on your patterns
Kit Maker sorts each sample onto the right pad, so kicks, snares and hats land in the same playable layout across every kit. On formats that support pad colors, it also color-codes each pad by drum type.
So you can lay down a pattern, swap to a completely different kit, and instantly hear it with brand-new sounds. The layout stays put, so there’s nothing to relearn and nothing to rebuild.
See it in action
A two-minute overview of dragging in a pack and getting playable kits back.
Watch the overview video
“Game changing, very useful tool for making custom kits on my MPC.”
— Customer Review
“Native Instruments Maschine users thinking about getting the AKAI MPC One: shut up and take my money!”
— YouTube Comment
“Man you guys created a gold mine. Been loving this app from day one.”
— YouTube Comment
Questions, answered
Which DAWs and hardware does it support?
Direct kit presets for MPC, Ableton Live, Ableton Move & Note, Synthstrom Deluge, BeatMaker 3 and NanoStudio 2. Logic, Bitwig, Koala, Reason and many more work via the Numbered Files method. See the full list above.
Do I need to own the sample packs already?
Yes. Kit Maker organizes packs you provide; it doesn’t include sounds of its own. Point it at the drum packs (or Maschine Expansions) you already own and it builds the kits.
Is it a subscription?
No. Kit Maker is a one-time purchase of $35. Buy it once, use it as long as you like.
Can it really convert my Maschine Expansions?
Yes. Kit Maker reads Native Instruments Maschine Expansions and rebuilds those kits for your DAW, largely faithful, with a few limitations. Native Instruments has even featured it as an option for Expansion owners.
Mac and PC?
Both. Kit Maker runs on macOS and Windows.
Still have questions? Visit the Kit Maker FAQ.
Start making kits from packs you already own
$35 — one-time purchase. No subscription. · For Mac & PC