Flexible innovative groove box
Once I started to get familiar with the interface, this app is now the core of my workflow on iPad and iPhone. I find I can quickly create, edit and perform using some fantastic built in devices or house many of my favourite synths and other devices. What a treasure!
Great concept, kind of buggy
Great app, and worth the price if you can put up with its issues. Many bugs, such as where modules just stop working or disconnect from each other randomly. Very easy to destroy a project (for example, the delete function sometimes inserts a select all just before you hit delete, poof all your work is gone), and there’s no undo. And I’ve found others in my first day with Drambo. Just had my first crash after the recorder module become very confused and wouldn’t record over the previous recording. Looks like it’s been a year since the last update, hope it hasn’t been abandoned and that there will be an update soon to fix the bugs and make the us more usable. Just crashed again, two days two crashes, not reliable enough to be a primary creative tool, unfortunate because it could be.
Edit: the sampler is unusable and will crash your project every time if you make any simple mistake when creating zones. And because the autosave also doesn’t work, you will lose everything, over and over. Too many bugs for me, need to find something else unfortunately
Edit: the sampler is unusable and will crash your project every time if you make any simple mistake when creating zones. And because the autosave also doesn’t work, you will lose everything, over and over. Too many bugs for me, need to find something else unfortunately
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Great concept, kind of buggy
Great app, and worth the price if you can put up with its issues. Many bugs, such as where modules just stop working or disconnect from each other randomly. Very easy to destroy a project (for example, the delete function sometimes inserts a select all just before you hit delete, poof all your work is gone), and there’s no undo. And I’ve found others in my first day with Drambo. Just had my first crash after the recorder module become very confused and wouldn’t record over the previous recording. Looks like it’s been a year since the last update, hope it hasn’t been abandoned and that there will be an update soon to fix the bugs and make the us more usable.
Just crashed again, two days two crashes, not reliable enough to be a primary creative tool, unfortunate because it could be.
Just crashed again, two days two crashes, not reliable enough to be a primary creative tool, unfortunate because it could be.
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It’s pretty much a good app
jlhwdgufywdkhgcgHi. I am a Drambo user, and I started typing this at 9:00 PM. Now when I typed this sentence, it’s 9:01 PM. Anyways, it’s good enough for me to put 5 stars. Also, I wonder about a green bar appearing for a few milliseconds. It happens sometimes when I play a song. I also can’t make a good song. But probably it’s just that I don’t have much of an imagination. I’ll work on it. This sentence is to make this comment long because why not, it’s fun doing random stuff and I wanna make people look at this comment longer and longer, and even looooooooonger, so there is one last thing I need to tell you: AoIabcadhjbkcauhuoxkhsdvcedljbhvfeabvkjhaerejhhvkyraeuhvhjerhvouierabvjhoearbvjhkearhlhjvbdsckhjdscsdhjhvtudhshdewuwefowdviopudfvkjbhsdvkhjkdsihaiwbqodscbhjksxaisdjcbihkadcjsodsjnc
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Incredible!
I have tried multiple DAW type apps on iOS and never really felt they worked well - until Drambo. This genuinely feels like it can replace Ableton for me - it’s got a bit of a learning curve but some great tutorials online. Once you get going it’s really special. Highly recommend!
This is the best electronic music app on IOS full stop.
I’ve tried many iPad music apps over the years, and it’s always been enjoyable, but I’ve always felt quite constrained, and iPad has for the most part been a toy, for me. Drambo changes all of that. It’s hard to explain exactly what this app does to a newbie, and in fact it’s almost easier to list what it doesn’t do, which is audio tracks. Apart from that it does basically everything else you could want and can fit into the workflow of basically anyone. You can use this app as a standalone modular grove box, that can host auv3s. It’s similar to Bitwig or Reaktor stapled to a Digitact, but it really doesn’t stop there. You can also use Drambo itself as an AUV3 inside of other hosts such as AUM, or Logic Pro and that’s where it gets crazy. It can be a modular synth complete with wavetables and tons of other toys. It can be a a robust full featured sampler. It can be a midi sequencer with clip launching and song mode, which is a game changer for aum. It can be a midi CC modulator, with LFOs and MSEGs, which is also a game changer for aum. It can be a multi effect processor with reverbs, delays, compressor, ect. Even if you only want it for one of those use cases, it’s worth the money, and if your at all like me it will soon work its way into every project, and become your go to for just about everything. If you can only get one app for electronic music making this is the one. I would gladly pay triple what this costs.
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Believe the hype. It’s awesome!
All the reviews here stating the flexibility and shear power of this program, are speaking the truth. This app is wicked. It’s great as a sequencer, as an instrument, as a plug in audio effect, as a full blown MIDI DAW, the list goes on.
About the only thing is doesn’t do is record audio tracks in a traditional sense. You can still do it with the sampler modules though and launch the recording in time with a MIDI note. It’s not ideal but it’s also not what the app is geared towards. If you want timeline style audio tracks you go with Logic, Cubasis 3 and apps like that.
About the only thing is doesn’t do is record audio tracks in a traditional sense. You can still do it with the sampler modules though and launch the recording in time with a MIDI note. It’s not ideal but it’s also not what the app is geared towards. If you want timeline style audio tracks you go with Logic, Cubasis 3 and apps like that.
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Better than I thought it would be
Amazing and powerful
Beware, beware and save with care!
Spent all day learning Drambo and working on my first project. There’s a lot to like here, however my experience took a very unfortunate turn.
Here’s some advice: Don’t save your project with a “/“ in the name. I made the mistake of calling mine “Funk A/D” since those were the main chords in the project. (You can probably guess where this is going.) Drambo will not warn you about the invalid name, but will pretend to save your data while actually trashing the whole thing. I made multiple edits to my project, saving after each. Not only does Drambo not sanitize the user inputs, it doesn’t verify the save or implement any error handling afaict. Lost all my work.
Here’s some advice: Don’t save your project with a “/“ in the name. I made the mistake of calling mine “Funk A/D” since those were the main chords in the project. (You can probably guess where this is going.) Drambo will not warn you about the invalid name, but will pretend to save your data while actually trashing the whole thing. I made multiple edits to my project, saving after each. Not only does Drambo not sanitize the user inputs, it doesn’t verify the save or implement any error handling afaict. Lost all my work.
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Indispensable : a must have
iOS is a lovely place for music software and plugins, but Drambo is *really* standout. There’s a bit of a learning curve, because of how powerful it is, but it’s worth it. Imagine the Elektron style hardware groove boxes workflow (perhaps friendlier), but each voice is a modular synth, effect for midi processor or something in between. Embrace the madness
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