# DrumComputer - Synthetic Beats — user reviews > 146 indexed App Store user reviews of DrumComputer by Sugar Bytes GmbH, rated 4.80/5 from 621 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drumcomputer-synthetic-beats/id1502238351/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drumcomputer-synthetic-beats/id1502238351.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 556 · 4★ 34 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of DrumComputer? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Best iOS drum machine - 👍 Wicked easy to use interface - 👍 Great sound and workflow - 👍 Powerful and flexible sequencer - 👍 Tons of customization options - 👍 Excellent for live performance - 👍 Intuitive and inspiring to use - 👍 Impressive sound quality and depth - 👍 Excellent for quick beat creation **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes - 🔋 High CPU usage and battery drain - 👎 Confusing and complex interface - 👎 Lack of MIDI mapping for live use - 👎 Inability to record beats from pads - 👎 Expensive for desktop version - 👎 Presets cannot be deleted **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on startup with iOS 14.2 - Inability to import samples in some cases - MIDI out only supports single channel **Most requested features** - Add real-time beat recording - Improve MIDI mapping capabilities - Add randomization options for tempo, sequence length, and mixing - Improve preset management (ability to delete presets) - Optimize for better performance and battery life - Add a dedicated envelope for mixer level control - Improve signal flow visualization and clarity ## Newest reviews (16 of 146) ### 3/5 — Ok *2025-10-21, version 1.4.1* Sounds engines are good. Sequencer lacks: - swing per track - negative swing - individual track micro shifts back or ahead in time ### 4/5 — Great Drum Machine *2025-06-10, version 1.4.1* Love the sound and workflow. Can’t export MIDI at present, but otherwise a great app. ### 5/5 — Wonderfully gnarly sound possibilities *2025-02-27, version 1.4.0* Super versatile... but i really like it for the evil tones it packs! ### 5/5 — The best for live triggering *2025-02-27, version 1.4.0* Drum Computer is by far the best and most detailed drum machine app to connect live drums to…it is very expressive and you can use velocity to control so many things ### 5/5 — I am in love with the Drum Computer *2025-02-10* I have never encountered such a full featured awesome drum machine in my life. This thing is absolutely the G.O.A.T. The limitations are right at the Goldilocks perfect balance of creatively useful limitations with abundant creatively useful features. The individual track synth editors for each drum have a real Mooglike quality feel to them. It almost feels like having Diva attached to a hugely souped up Drumbrute Impact, all with a brilliantly gorgeous and friendly UI. ### 5/5 — So much depth *2024-12-24* I have nothing to say about this app that hasn't been said before. If you need a drum machine, just buy it. You'll get the basics you're after, plus a shocking amount of sonic depth if you choose to go down the rabbit hole. The devs really went above and beyond with this one - a rare thing these days. Easy 5 stars. ### 5/5 — Awesome awesome *2024-10-20, version 1.3.9* Absolutely amazing ### 5/5 — If you find anything like this in the music production world *2024-10-07, version 1.3.9* I’d leave music for good and listening to, Stone Temple Pilots! Period! ### 5/5 — Simply the best *2024-09-27, version 1.3.9* This is my go to drum app all day on the iPad. It’s still gets updates, amazing sounds, customization options, midi control and fun UI. BANGER! ### 5/5 — Essential *2024-07-25, version 1.3.6* My personal favourite drum machine available on iOS. ### 5/5 — Honesty, just great… *2024-04-20, version 1.3.1* For quickly putting together a groove, this is amazing. And then the fine tuning you can do makes this an essential purchase. ### 5/5 — Bug gefunden *2024-04-08, version 1.3.1* Tolle App! Gratulation! Nur auf einen Bug stieß ich kürzlich: Habe in der Standalone-Version Samples importiert. Dort erscheinen sie dann auch. Allerdings sind sie in der auv3 nicht sichtbar. Die Preset-Sequenzen werden zwar mit den importierten Samples getreu abgespielt, aber die importierten Samples sind nicht im Sample-Browser unter "user" in der auv3 zu sehen und können daher auch nicht ausgewählt werden. [iPad Pro; iOS 17.3.1] Bitte fixen... Danke! ### 3/5 — An sich super aber *2024-03-31, version 1.3.1* Leider funktioniert die Einbindung in Logic nicht zufriedenstellend. Es lässt sich als auv3 benutzen aber eine Aufnahme in einer Midispur funktioniert nicht. Lediglich als Audioaufnahme in einer separaten Spur ist möglich. Das ist leider nicht brauchbar. In GarageBand funktioniert dies tadellos. Als Standalone macht es in jedem Fall Spaß. ### 5/5 — Impressive *2024-03-29* Absolutely one of the best drum machines I have ever used. And for what it’s worth I’ve been professionally using drum machines since 1984. Pushes the boundaries on what is possible with computer generated rhythm-making. Initially I found the sound I was getting out of it a bit too harsh for my style of music-making, but it’s is so well conceived that me and DC began to influence one another over the course of a year—I’ve changed aspects my sound and ways of working for the better because of it. Bravo Sugar Bytes. ### 5/5 — Love It, Please make it available for VisionOS! *2024-03-19, version 1.3.1* I love this drum machine, if I could use it on the Vision Pro that would be amazing! ### 4/5 — So close *2024-02-18, version 1.3.0* Auv3, great sounds, everything randomizable, super plastic… but no record button??? Why having the pads to play sounds then…? And not being able to work on a pattern while another is playing, this two things make the app fun for production but useless for live gigs, no elasticity for impro/jam situations. PLEASE this app could be the final piece to my setup, if only this two things were set to work. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — なぜ？ *2025-06-11, version 1.4.1* 1小節でストップしないのか。使い勝手が悪い。 ### 1/5 — Bien pero *2025-01-05, version 1.3.9* App brutal pero funciona en segundo plano drenando la batería, espero que lo arreglen porque la app es la mejor que he encontrado. ### 1/5 — Price gouging if you want the same app for desktop *2024-08-16, version 1.3.7* I’ll never understand this greedy business model. I enjoy the app for iPad, but had no idea that if I wanted to make beats remotely in my iPad and then tweak them in my daw on my desktop it would cost $130 for the same app. Just dumb, arbitrary and greedy. ### 1/5 — Misleading list of features *2024-01-20, version 1.2.9* Just know the list of features in description is for FULL version that costs $29.99. I installed thinking free version includes AUv3 support, but it’s an in-app purchase. I’d rather just know what the features costs than get disappointed wasting my time installing and trying it before seeing the real price tag. ### 1/5 — Stopped putting out sound. *2022-03-26, version 1.2.0* Deleted ### 1/5 — MIDI out, only one Channel. *2021-03-26, version 1.0.4* The problem is if you are buying for the midi out capabilities, only one channel is able to play. Setting do have channel on and off for the each track but all of the tracks are transmitted through only one channel! ### 1/5 — Not working on 2018 pro with IOS 14.2 *2020-11-06, version 1.0.0* Love the developer and have synths that are epic by SugarBytes. Cannot currently get the app to work. Crashes immediately after launching, stayed open on one launch but immediately crashed when I touched the screen. My IPad is a 2018 pro, IOS 14.2, storage is half used. Will update once the crashes are sorted. ### 1/5 — Will not even open on my iPad Pro on iOS 14.2 *2020-11-06, version 1.0.0* Useless so far on my iPad Pro 12.9” 2018 model running 14.2 ### 2/5 — Benutzeroberfläche läßt stark zu wünschen *2024-04-05, version 1.3.1* Wäre cool, wenn ich mich mit dem Interface zurechtfinden würde. Warum kann ich z.b. keine leeren Presets laden und werde stattdessen mit schrägen Sounds zugedröhnt? Die Benutzeroberfläche wirkt verwirrend und überfüllt. Für alles mögliche gibt es Einstellungen, nur die einfachsten Optionen werden übersehen. Das absolut nicht userfreundlich und dafür geb ich auch kein Geld aus. ### 2/5 — BUG 📛📛📛 *2023-04-30, version 1.2.5* What have you done? The application was 300 MB, now 1.7 GB. Everything is the same, nothing has changed. Correct the BUG. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — なぜ？とても困る😅 *2026-03-07, version 1.4.2* 2026.3.2 ガレージバンドで急に使えなくなった。 怖いのは過去のデータまで読み込まないこと、、 音とかはかなり強い💪 追記 ガレージバンドをクリアインストールしたら、 正常に動作した！！最高👲👍 使用環境 iPad 9th iOS 18.7 ### 5/5 — Bravissimi *2025-12-02, version 1.4.1* Basta solo questa Drum Station per far ballare tutto il mondo. ### 5/5 — Best IOS Drum Machine *2025-11-08* DrumComputer is the best iOS drum machine hands down still in ‘25. It has a wicked easy to use interface. Other drum machines are overly cumbersome, clunky and thus hard to use for me. My only wish is that a version could be ported to an iPhone. ### 5/5 — best Drumcomputer *2025-09-22, version 1.4.1* this is the best Drumcomputer I have ever played. From soft until industrial ### 5/5 — Sample Morph *2025-08-10, version 1.4.1* Great way to change your regular samples to add more harmonics! ### 5/5 — Cool *2025-05-12, version 1.4.0* Very Good Drum Machine App. ### 5/5 — Nice‼️ *2025-05-11* I love Sugar Bytes apps. Ran into this app looking for drum machines and immediately downloaded it. Took me a little time to figure out how to work the different sections, but after putting in some effort…started working with the rhythms 😊 Definitely a nice, thorough, drum computer. The randomization options in the various sections are great to work with and I enjoyed mixing things up all over the synth engines and the sequencer. Definitely a cool machine 😎 If the full version builds on this foundation…this app will be AMAZING✨✨✨‼️ - 😌 ### 5/5 — Drum machine *2025-04-29, version 1.4.0* I Love playing with all the different filters to make something crazzzzzzzy brilliant with Eum ### 5/5 — button to delete all samples that are not used and if necessary to the place where the samples were *2025-04-09, version 1.4.0* Hi, After finding all the interesting samples suitable for the project, I write down the midi patterns of those samples, at the end I click on the button to delete all samples that are not used and if necessary to the place where the samples were, you can download others from another folder, each sample should have a volume control, panorama, the possibility if necessary to turn on filters and compressor,Thanks! ### 5/5 — A+ *2025-03-25* this was the first app i bought when i bought my ipad pro in 2021 and hundreds of apps later its still one of my most used --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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