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DrumFlex vs GetGood Drums
GetGood Drums is a brand with several drum libraries. This page covers Modern & Massive 2, its flagship plugin, which needs no Kontakt, set against DrumFlex. Both play drum parts from MIDI, at very different scales. Modern & Massive 2 has 9 snares, 7 kicks, 21 cymbals, a full mixer and more than 1,500 MIDI grooves, on Windows and Mac. DrumFlex is a drum kit that's modeled rather than sampled: kits for each style, a 14.2 MB download, $79.
What they have in common
- Windows 10, 64-bit, with a VST3 plugin in each. DrumFlex also runs on Windows 11.
- Nothing else needed. Modern & Massive 2 needs no Kontakt or other software. DrumFlex needs no other program either.
- Drum parts from MIDI. Modern & Massive 2 comes with 1,500+ MIDI grooves. DrumFlex opens and plays a MIDI file, and plays from an electronic drum kit that sends General MIDI drum notes (it doesn't read the hi-hat pedal's controller or cymbal chokes by aftertouch) or from General MIDI drum keys on any channel.
- A mix and effects. Modern & Massive 2 has a full mixer. DrumFlex has a level for each part of the kit, a room and an EQ.
Where Modern & Massive 2 stands out
- Mac as well as Windows, with AU and AAX plugins as well as VST3.
- A bigger kit. 9 snares, 7 kicks, 4 sets of toms (13 toms) and 21 cymbals.
- Fluid+. A feature of its sampler engine that, the maker says, models how drums, cymbals and recording spaces react.
- A full mixer. 100+ mix presets, effects, and multi-out routing. DrumFlex has one stereo output.
- Grooves. 1,500+ human-played MIDI grooves. DrumFlex has no library of grooves.
Where DrumFlex stands out
- Small. It downloads at 14.2 MB and installs at 31.4 MB. Modern & Massive 2 needs 20 GB installed, and 40 GB while it installs.
- Every piece, tuned. Stick hardness, tuning, ring, pitch glide and snare wires, then tuning, ring and muffle for the kick, snare and toms, the kick's beater, the sizes of the kick and toms, a room and an EQ.
- No hub, no online activation. A license key and your email address, entered once for each Windows user on each computer, no account, and one license for one person, to use on all of their own computers. DrumFlex never connects to the internet. Modern & Massive 2 is installed and activated through Cradle Hub, needs an internet connection, and counts each activation toward 3 machines.
- $79, where Modern & Massive 2 lists at $219. GetGood Drums showed $179 in a Black Friday sale on 7 November 2026.
Which to pick
- On a Mac: Modern & Massive 2.
- For a large kit, with a mixer and a library of grooves: Modern & Massive 2.
- To route drums to separate channels in your DAW: Modern & Massive 2.
- On Windows, for kits you can tune piece by piece, with a small download: DrumFlex.
- If you'd rather have no hub, no account, and a price of $79: DrumFlex.
Owning both
Modern & Massive 2 is a big library with a mixer, and DrumFlex is a small instrument you can open and play at once, so some players could keep one for each job. DrumFlex's demo, which you can download and try before you buy, is here; GetGood Drums' page for Modern & Massive 2 doesn't list a trial, so check its site for what it offers. This page doesn't compare how they sound. That's for your ears.
The facts side by side
Every fact about GetGood Drums is from GetGood Drums' own pages, checked on 7 November 2026. Prices are list prices in US dollars; sales come and go.
| DrumFlex | GetGood Drums | |
|---|---|---|
| How it makes its sound | Modeled. It computes every hit as it is played, from the drumheads, the stick, the snare wires and the cymbals. It plays no recordings. | Sampled, with what the maker calls Fluid+ technology, a feature of its sampler engine that models how drums, cymbals and recording spaces react. |
| Price | $79, one-time | $219 list; $179 in the Black Friday sale shown on 7 November 2026 |
| Download and disk space | 14.2 MB download, 31.4 MB installed | 20 GB installed, 40 GB during installation |
| Memory the maker asks for | 4 GB, with 4 cores or more and 100 MB of disk (the minimum we state for every Flex program) | 8 GB of RAM; a processor that supports AVX2 |
| Runs on | Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit | Windows 10 (64-bit, version 2004 and above); macOS Mojave 10.14 and above |
| Forms | Standalone and VST3 | VST3, AAX; AU on Mac |
| Needs another program | Nothing else | Nothing else (installed and activated through Cradle Hub) |
| Copy protection | A license key and your email address, entered once for each Windows user on each computer. No account and no online activation. | An internet connection and Cradle Hub |
| Computers per license | One license for one person, to use on all of their own computers | 3 machine activations, as for each Cradle product license |
| Demo | A demo to download and try before you buy | None published |
| Kits and sounds included | Kits for metal, rock, pop, funk, jazz, smooth jazz, ballad and Latin, and a starting Session Kit; four slots to layer kits | 9 snares, 7 kicks, 4 sets of toms, 21 cymbals, 100+ mix presets and 1,500+ MIDI grooves |
More: virtual drums compared: modeled, sampled and drum machines, a table of 27 products, and all about DrumFlex.
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