VRAC+ is the paid, feature-complete version of Beatsurfing's free VRAC, released in late July 2026. Its premise is drumification: load any audio — a vocal take, a field recording, a guitar chord — and a Drumify control reshapes it into a percussive hit, which an X/Y pad then morphs across a bank of kick, snare, hat and clap models. Because every element shares one source, the resulting kit is cohesive by construction rather than by EQ.
The paid version is where the concept becomes workable. An auto-slicer with a sensitivity control finds every transient in the source, so you step between hits with the arrow keys instead of hunting for a sample start by hand. A Record In function captures audio straight from a DAW track or a live input, up to two minutes, with no bouncing files in and out. Sample length support jumps from 60 seconds to 60 minutes.
Pad count doubles to 16, and each pad gets a real chain: Warp for three-band dynamic reshaping, Impact for transient shaping, Instability for per-hit randomness that stops repeated triggers sounding machine-gunned, Tone Shift for spectral movement, Super for saturation and stereo width, and a 3-band EQ. Velocity drives Length and Tone Shift as well as Volume. Eight stereo output pairs let the kit be mixed as a multitrack session, and you can drag out a single pad or the whole kit as audio.
Alongside your own material, VRAC+ ships a library recorded specifically for the plugin with a Brussels-based professional foley artist — source textures meant to be mangled rather than finished drum sounds. Presets move freely between VRAC and VRAC+, so upgrading strands nothing.
The trade-offs are inherent to the design. Every kit carries the character of its single source, which is the whole point but also the ceiling. The drumification models are morph targets, not editable synthesis engines. And Beatsurfing has not yet published a public list price, with VRAC+ still in its Early Bird window at the time of writing; the company's other instruments list between 79 and 149 EUR.
It solves a different problem from XO or Battery 4, both of which organise and trigger one-shots you already own. VRAC+ manufactures them. If your kicks sound like everyone else's, that is the argument. Producers who prefer a curated library approach can look at XO through Best Service instead.