Simmons Drums 2 User Reviews

Simmons Drums 2
Simmons Drums 2
Simmons Innovations Ltd

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Broken

A lot of things in the app are buggy at best, or completely broken otherwise… the play along feature is a great example… i’m still trying to figure out what the point of it is… The phone connects to the drum module with Bluetooth and yet when you try to play along, the song plays through the iPhone speakers and will not play through the drum kit. So if you put headphones on or anything like that, you drown out what’s coming through the iPhone. Not to mention, if I wanted to do it this way I could simply go to my music app and turn the song on… What is the point of connecting the Bluetooth and doing it this way if you’re still going to make me listen to the song through the device speakers instead of having it play through the headset on the drum module via Bluetooth? There is the loop feature… but it is also hopelessly broken… start playing a song from play along mode and then go ahead and try to stop it, start it over from the beginning and then start the loop… you can’t. It doesn’t matter how you rewind the song, it always starts playing automatically before you can even start the loop recording process… You can pause it, you can stop the music, but the second that you rewind it back to the beginning it automatically starts playing again, making it virtually impossible to start a loop from the beginning of the song. The rewind button is useless… It doesn’t work half of the time.

Overall, the software is completely broken and should not have been released yet. This is beyond simple development bugs that need to be fixed and can be dealt with later… This app for the most part performs extremely poorly and does not do what it is intended to do half the time. don’t get me started on the drum kit itself. I’ve owned mine for two weeks now, and the cymbals are falling apart.
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Play along not working

Play along audio comes out of my phone instead of my titan 50. I even bought a month of Apple Music just for this app and it doesn’t work..
I was under the impression that it was all audio pass through like a bluetooth speaker would be but it is not. All of the other features of the app are cool and all but not having bluetooth audio is a real buzzkill considering how much that aspect was advertised.
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I really enjoy it but

I have recently tried a few e kits and not to be a beginner the feel is good the sounds are natural but the one thing I really feel it’s missing is the function to tune up not just down the cheapest modules have that function can we please get that update somehow please other than that I love the kit hands down….BUT WE REALLY NEED the ability to pitch each drum up or down seriously
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I really enjoy it but

I have recently tried a few e kits and not to be a beginner the feel it good the sounds are natural but the one thing I really feel it’s missing is the function to tune up not just down the cheapest modules have that function can we please get that update somehow please other than that I love the kit hands down
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Could be better

It’s a great app don’t get me wrong, it just has so many bugs and is so limited I’d rather use my drum sets built in module instead, I think if it was updated to fix some issues it would definitely be a 5 star app

The play along doesn’t work

The play along featuring is not working. The sound comes out of the phone instead of the headphone, rending this feature useless. It would be nice to add a metronome click to the play as well for practice

It’s good but there’s room to improve

Overall the app is decent, but my main issue I have with this app is the playback. I can’t access my personal Apple Music library, which is quite annoying because I have playlists made for practice. And the audio doesn’t come through my headphones that are plugged into the drum module it comes out of the phone. What’s the point of a Bluetooth connection if it’s gonna do that? I love what the app is trying to do but that playback section completely misses the mark and it was the main reason I bought a Simmons drumset
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Play along

Play along feature doesn’t work and also only allows songs from Apple Music or local downloads. Paid good money for the titan 70 and can’t even use the feature advertised… please fix asap

Easier interface to edit your kits

Use your iPad to edit your kits and settings instead of using the module. I prefer this instead of hunting around.

Great…. But I wonder why…..

The app is great, but just wondering why the Simmons Pack downloads are not integrated into the app? It’s a pain for me personally to pull out a PC to do the pack changes. Hopefully this will be an option in later updates.

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