Model DT-33
Drum Thief
Performance Extractor
drum thief
Point it at a drum video. Walk away with the MIDI.
Drum Thief separates the kit from any clip and hands you tuned, grid-locked kick, snare & toms.
Drop a file in. Get clean MIDI out.
No stems to prep, no click track to chase. The deck runs the whole chain locally, start to finish.
Load
Drop a drum video or an audio file. Mono phone clip, board recording, whatever you’ve got.
Separate
It pulls the kit out of the mix and splits it into kick, snare, and toms.
Detect
Finds every hit per lane and gates the bleed — you can see why anything was dropped.
Lock
Quantizes to a beat grid you tune by ear, or carve a tempo where the take drifts.
Export
General MIDI, laid out on the GM drum map, ready to drag into your DAW.
Tuned by hand, like a real deck.
Detection is a starting point. Every control is here to make it yours.
Sensitivity
Big knobs, by ear
Spun-aluminum sensitivity per lane — fewer hits or more, dialed until the transcription matches what you hear.
Tempo glass
Carve the tempo
A blue tuning dial reads the take’s natural drift. Tune the BPM by hand anywhere the grid slips off.
Capstan lock
Lock tape to grid
Conform the audio itself to the quantize map — not just the notes — so playback lands on the beat.
Monitor A/B
Hear the quantize
Flip between the raw tape and the grid to hear exactly what the quantize did before you commit.
Sampled kit
Its own voices
Auditions clean one-shots lifted from your own stems — a real kick, snare, and toms, not a bleep.
Sections
Part by part
Select passages to clear or re-tune, and hold shift to work several sections at once.
Hi-fi jewelry on studio-deck bones.
Kick, snare, and toms on their own lit lanes — every hit visible, every knob live.
What’s under the hood.
Specifications
- Exports
- General MIDI — kick 36 · snare 38 · toms 45
- Runs
- Fully offline. Your audio never leaves the Mac.
- Requires
- Apple Silicon · macOS 11 Big Sur or later
- Size
- 485 MB · nothing else to install
Everything the deck needs is inside it — the separation engine, the models, the works. No Python, no Terminal, no setup. Download, drag it to Applications, and open it.
Built for producers who’d rather tune a knob than fight an algorithm.