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One of the best music applications available
This is a fantastic groove box that is easy to use and offers a very complete set of features. Highly recommended.
Great developer with frequent updates.calvinbrodice
Seriously one of the TOP apps of all time!
This app is utterly fabulous, and this developer is amazingly responsive. Feature after feature has been added every week. Groove Rider 16 is a groove box. And it is so feature rich, well designed, and just plain fun to use that I can’t put it down. All my iOS DAWs seem like work rather than play. This is mainly designed around 4-bar patterns, so take the reviews saying this is a full fledged music production system, the best DAW ever, etc. Sure, you can make songs by chaining patterns together, and can export patterns into DAWs, but it’s main attraction for me is as a quick and fun jammin’ idea powerhouse.
That said, it has HUGE power under the hood. A good library of samples included, the ability to import your own, and a surprisingly good synth, that is super-basic, but able to dial in great sounds in a fraction of the time I spend messing around with full synth apps. Did I say synth ... I mean up to 16 of them if you want.
At the very least, consider this an introduction into the best features of high-end hardware groove boxes at a tiny fraction of the cost. If it doesn’t gel with you ... then you just saved yourself hundreds of dollars on hardware, cause you won’t like it either.Show lesswareismike
Better with each update!!
Love this app! I own the Korg er,ea and em1. Purchased the sold the elective 2 because I didn't like the layout and menu diving. This is the best replacement I have found. Any chance the next update will allow the user to change the incoming/outgoing midi notes?Ifelayo
First real groovebox experience for iOS
I really love my boxes. Even with today's awesome apps and software, I cannot let go of my MC-303, EA-1, ER-1, EMX, SP-404, Sampletrak and whatnot. Then Jim releases this and my stuff is gathering some dust (until I reintegrate them to my workflow, of course)
Highly recommend this powerful and intuitive groovebox, which as stated in my review title, is the first to fully embrace the full experience. No diving in menus to get stuff done. And the dev keeps the updates flowing.
Pure love <3Show lessSenhorLampada
Best iOS groovebox
Update: Skins are a great addition! Loving it!
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Update: I hope this app lives forever. I’ve had it a few days now and can say beyond a doubt that it is actually the only true groove box ever made on iOS. What an amazing experience to get back into that workflow and that way of thinking. Wow.
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This thing is amazing, and reminds me most of my Korg EMX-1 synth from back in the day, except that it is more powerful! So fun, and so nostalgic. If I could have either right now I would definitely go with this app.
I am about to start reading the manual, so if these capabilities are there, I apologize. Would love to have the ability to create choke groups for hi hats. Also, can you name the user patterns? If we can already do this, then forgive me! Job well done on an incredible and much needed app!Show lessindieninja
The IOS Groovebox of grooveboxes
- which is no small feat, there’s a lot of cool ones on the platform. The developer is quite amazing, huge updates keep coming, the app’s power keeps doubling, I don’t think dude ever sleeps. Buy this, his synth Poison, and whatever else he makes...littlewoodg
Amaze-⚽️ 🏀 ⚾️ groove creation station!!!!!!
Amazing pro level app from the dev who made the phenomenal Poison-202 synth! Anything I can say has probably already been said so I’m just going to use this as a platform to beg the dev for my feature requests. 1) the X-Y JimAudio manipulator pad needs to be like 25-50% bigger PLEASE! [erhaps not all the time but for some functions it would work during live play SOOO much better IMHO... Secondly, okay so the people who you’re really making this app for have already invested tons of $$ in Novation’s iMachine-Launchpad-Blocs-, Retronyms AudioCopy, Beatmakers Intua, Sampletank, Beat Hawk, (and a couple more I’m forgetting) sound bank/libraries.. make it a $5-10 IAP +/- but plz be our hero musical savior and incorporate a way to import these sample libraries into groove rider and manipulate them with your terrific program.
Thank you!!!Show lessBK Holiday
Love it!
I'm a huge fan of Poison 202, so naturally I picked this gem up the day after its release. The updates have been coming fast and furious (and hopefully an iPhone X update is on the way).Zjenji
What the new Electribe series should have been.
Based on a combination of the synth and sampler version of the Electribe 2 hardware. It is both a sampler and a synth. Being able to shift timing off the 16th note is amazing allowing me to make music that doesn’t sound so robotic. Wonderful workflow and sounds amazing. I am having a blast controlling this app from my Electribe. Adding a line in for sampling and time stretching would make this app even better. Great app. I love it.Show lessEeby.
Best iOS music app hands down.
I’ve been making music on iOS for bout 3 years now and nothing strikes a more perfect balance between, fun, immediacy, and great sound sculpting options like this thing. Feels like an instrument. Between the great synth engine, sample import AND resampling options, and the wonderful tools like the touchpad, erase button, chord modes, arp, groove presets, and super handy fx routing, you pretty much feel like you can do no wrong here. So sit back, relax, and ride those grooves. And special thanks to the developer for rolling out quick updates that tweaked the app to amazingly be better than it was on release. Great stuff here. I can see myself making music with this for a LONG time.Show lessLeom187
