For Knight Drum owners
Upgrade your Knight Drum. Free.
If you own Knight Drum, every update is yours at no cost, including this one. Download the latest version, install it over the one you have, and keep making beats. Your license, kits, grooves and projects all carry over.
How to upgrade
Three steps, about two minutes.
Download
Grab the installer for your computer with the buttons above. It's the same download new buyers get.
Install over your current version
Close your DAW, then run the installer. It replaces the version you have in place. No need to uninstall anything first.
Open it
Open your DAW or the standalone app. Knight Drum is already activated with your existing license. No new key needed.
What carries over
The update replaces your old version. Nothing you made gets left behind.
- License
- Same key, already active
- Library
- Kits, grooves and samples
- Projects
- Saved sessions open as before
- Your DAW
- Songs with Knight Drum load the new version
What's in this update
The biggest Knight Drum update yet.
Song arranger
Lay your patterns out into full songs on pattern, audio and MIDI tracks, with cut, split and loop on a real timeline.
Sampler mode
A full polyphonic MPC-style drum sampler: six banks of pads, 108 in all, with chromatic pad mode.
Live FX
Seventeen performance effects on an XY pad. Latch them, or paint them onto steps and song bars.
Drag-out export
MIDI, a full audio bounce, or one WAV stem per channel, dragged straight onto your DAW's tracks.
Locks to your DAW
With SYNC on, the arranger follows your DAW's playhead, so you can write the whole drum track in Knight Drum.
Record & resample
Sample your mic, your computer's audio or Knight Drum itself, then chop it across the pads.
If something's off
Quick fixes for the usual snags.
It's asking me for a license key.
Enter the same key you got when you bought Knight Drum. It's in your purchase email. If you can't find it, email support@knightdrum.com from the address you bought with and we'll send it again.
My DAW still shows the old version.
Quit and reopen the DAW. In Ableton Live, go to Settings, Plug-Ins and click Rescan. Logic picks up the new version on its next launch.
Windows says "Windows protected your PC".
That's SmartScreen being cautious with a new installer. Click More info, then Run anyway.
The key won't activate behind a firewall.
Use the offline unlock code page with the same key. It works without Knight Drum reaching the internet.
I never bought Knight Drum.
Then this page isn't for you yet. Get Knight Drum, or try it free for 7 days first.