It was designed at Sequential in San Jose by Dave Smith, Steve Salani, Donna Murray, and Chris Meyer, who wrote the MIDI software.

[2] The Drumtraks features 13 percussion voices: bass drum, snare, snare rim, toms 1 and 2, crash and ride cymbal, open and closed hi-hat, handclaps, tambourine, cowbell, and cabasa.

Each sound has a trigger button allowed them to be played live or in record mode.

[2] Sequential promoted the combination of the Six-trak analog synthesizer, Drumtraks and the Model 64 sequencer as the 'Traks Music System', which formed a MIDI workstation allowing analog synth sequencing with sampled drum sounds and computer control.

[2] Daft Punk used a Drumtraks on "Short Circuit", from their 2001 album Discovery.