Poor File Control
Has potential but useless file control. The iPad has file access now. Need to move with the times.
Incredible app
This app is an unbelievable tool when it comes to writing and exporting MIDI drum tab. From blast beats to off-time funky beats this app does it all. As good as Tabit IMO. Works well with Reaper. A must have tool for those recording their own music.
This is one of the top drum iOS apps
I tried most of top drum apps for iOS over last several years. After working with them, I came back and used DRUMSTUDIO for my drum lines because you can program them easily & precisely and the drum sounds are so real compared to the others. Thanks DRUMSTUDIO for this app.
Time Signatures!
I tried many other apps, and this is the only one I tried that can change the time signature of the pattern, the step view, and the metronome. Other apps want to just give you a different number of steps, but it still looks like 4 beats, or it will not change the accents in the metronome, or it is just 4/4 all the way. Drum studio does it all.
Also it may be hard to tell, but you can build songs apart from just the 4 patterns that you can see.
Also it may be hard to tell, but you can build songs apart from just the 4 patterns that you can see.
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Poor update
So, an easier export means iTunes only. You've got to be joking.
Nic
Nic
Way Better Than a Drum Machine
There are now some great apps for realistic drums on iOS. This is still one of the very best!
You want flams, ghosts, cymbal chokes, drags, open/closed/foot hats, and rolls? You've got them here, each in three flavors for each kit, in addition to velocity simulation, plus lots of different kit pieces (somewhat hidden) and time signatures.
Complete set of audio/MIDI/tab import and export options.
You want flams, ghosts, cymbal chokes, drags, open/closed/foot hats, and rolls? You've got them here, each in three flavors for each kit, in addition to velocity simulation, plus lots of different kit pieces (somewhat hidden) and time signatures.
Complete set of audio/MIDI/tab import and export options.
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Useful for basics, lacks a few features.
PROs:
flexible tempo & meters per pattern
logical
decent implementation of special drum strokes
drum tabs
easy to use practice tool
CONs:
quality & quantity of samples is not great
can't import samples (?)
no velocity switched samples (?)
no pinch zoom for complex meters or divisions
I don't like it as much as Drum Perfect, but might find the drum tab functions useful.
flexible tempo & meters per pattern
logical
decent implementation of special drum strokes
drum tabs
easy to use practice tool
CONs:
quality & quantity of samples is not great
can't import samples (?)
no velocity switched samples (?)
no pinch zoom for complex meters or divisions
I don't like it as much as Drum Perfect, but might find the drum tab functions useful.
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Best App For Actual Drummers
This app is amazing. Worth every penny. You can create beats with lifelike kits and save them. I've used it to quickly transcribe beats from songs, create fills, write down practice patterns, transcribe patterns that I'm having a hard time playing, etc. if you're a drummer, you NEED this app.
GREAT App for Drummers
EXACTLY what I was looking for. Very easy to use to create and modify beats and fills. Also east to import and export to various formats.
You can use as a practice tool as well. I loaded some exercises from a workbook I'm studying, and played them on a loop through my headphones as I'm playing on my kit. Can slow down the BPM to work on a lick, then gradually increase the speed as you get it figured out.
Things I would like to see in future releases:
-ability to vary the pitch and sustain for the individual drums and cymbals, not just the mix volume.
-ability to add multiple crashes, splashes, rides, China's, etc
-ability to write and/or convert to standard music notation (not just drum tabs)
You can use as a practice tool as well. I loaded some exercises from a workbook I'm studying, and played them on a loop through my headphones as I'm playing on my kit. Can slow down the BPM to work on a lick, then gradually increase the speed as you get it figured out.
Things I would like to see in future releases:
-ability to vary the pitch and sustain for the individual drums and cymbals, not just the mix volume.
-ability to add multiple crashes, splashes, rides, China's, etc
-ability to write and/or convert to standard music notation (not just drum tabs)
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Great app!
This is a great drum app. The developer is always updating it. Simple, intuitive UI. It's becoming my fav drum app.
Simple and very useful
If you are slow-witted like myself, you will find this app a breeze to use. It does all I want it to. You can really make some articulated beats of varying velocities, and swing the crap out of them to give it a more "human" feel. Build a song, section by section, then export the entire thing into an audio copy clip to paste into your daw for the drum part of your song. If I could ask for one thing (two actually), it would be the ability to load my own drum samples and to be able to load velocity matched samples for each level of velocity (soft sample for drags, medium for a normal hit, hard sample for accents), since drums don't just simply get louder the harder you hit them, but the sound alters significantly. They sort of "blossom" in tone.
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Ace
5/5. Great for tabs and recording.
Great depth and easy to use
Not many great drum apps on ios: this one is superb. Build subtle touches into your usual beats to create spectacular grooves. Highly recommend.
Horrible
45 seconds into app all drums start firing like machine guns. Crapp app
Love it
Ok, first off, I am no drummer. I mainly play guitar. Just wanted a drum machine, that was easy to set up and sounded good.
I play mostly christian praise and worship, some old classic rock, a wee bit of blues and jazz. And I have a ton of drum apps, guitar apps, synths, midi stuff, DAWs....A ton. I like to use them at home to play along with.
I love this app, it sounds great and is so easy to port drum tabs to. If there is no tab to find I can easily make my own. This, I can see is going to be a great "go to" app. I have many drum machine apps from DM1 to Drumjam, drumperfect, which I love too. Drumstudio was an instant winner for me, as one of the ones to get. It sounds great too. I hate paying for apps only to never use them. This one will be used.
I play mostly christian praise and worship, some old classic rock, a wee bit of blues and jazz. And I have a ton of drum apps, guitar apps, synths, midi stuff, DAWs....A ton. I like to use them at home to play along with.
I love this app, it sounds great and is so easy to port drum tabs to. If there is no tab to find I can easily make my own. This, I can see is going to be a great "go to" app. I have many drum machine apps from DM1 to Drumjam, drumperfect, which I love too. Drumstudio was an instant winner for me, as one of the ones to get. It sounds great too. I hate paying for apps only to never use them. This one will be used.
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Excellent Update!
This is really one of the top apps in the store for creating a drum track. Fast, intuitive workflow, and a well thought out, clean interface. Good included samples, and MIDI capabilities to leverage other samples too. Odd time signatures, flexible grid for tuplets, articulations such as flams, drags, ghost hits. It's all in there! The new features like export MIDI directly to another app are very welcome too.
Just an all around great app.
Just an all around great app.
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Amazing Stability but needs Inter-App
Amazing Functionality, please add more kits.
Nice!
This app is very useful for song writing. Five stars!
Swiss-Army Knife for Drum Tracks
I overlooked this app at first. There are some good drum machine apps in the App Store (DM1 is quite popular). But most of them are focused on non-acoustic drums and really require prior knowledge of drumming to program them usefully.
DrumStudio is great. So many options for creating and exporting drum tracks. You can record a pattern manually, or program on a grid. I love the variation in hit strength, flams, rolls, etc. Copies easily with AudioCopy/Paste or AudioBus.
The secret weapon of this thing is the ability to import a tab part for a song and generate a track from that. Works FAR better than you might expect, and is actually a cool learning tool to see how familiar drum parts are represented graphically.
Also love the small file size and it seems to be less of a resource hog than other drum apps. Nice work!
DrumStudio is great. So many options for creating and exporting drum tracks. You can record a pattern manually, or program on a grid. I love the variation in hit strength, flams, rolls, etc. Copies easily with AudioCopy/Paste or AudioBus.
The secret weapon of this thing is the ability to import a tab part for a song and generate a track from that. Works FAR better than you might expect, and is actually a cool learning tool to see how familiar drum parts are represented graphically.
Also love the small file size and it seems to be less of a resource hog than other drum apps. Nice work!
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Helping songwriting tool. Powerful features. A+ support.
I use this app to program drums to export into Auria via Audiobus or pasteboard. The interface is snappy enough for live recording, but I usually draw parts into the grid measure by measure. The sounds are passable--good enough for demos, sure, but I'm hoping to see other kits become available as the app grows.
Where DrumStudio really shines is the compositional flexibility. All my songs tend to have a least a few odd-meter phrases, if not complete sections. DS lets me insert these wherever I need them: a measure of 7|8 here, 5|4 there, etc. The layout takes some getting used to, but as someone who has put in the time to learn DS, I'm glad I did.
To top it all off, dev support has been bar none. I e-mailed the developer about an issue I was having with a file I had saved, and within the hour I got a personal response telling me how to work around it. Soon after that I got another personal e-mail telling me an update had been released to resolve the issue. I'm very pleased with this purchase.
Where DrumStudio really shines is the compositional flexibility. All my songs tend to have a least a few odd-meter phrases, if not complete sections. DS lets me insert these wherever I need them: a measure of 7|8 here, 5|4 there, etc. The layout takes some getting used to, but as someone who has put in the time to learn DS, I'm glad I did.
To top it all off, dev support has been bar none. I e-mailed the developer about an issue I was having with a file I had saved, and within the hour I got a personal response telling me how to work around it. Soon after that I got another personal e-mail telling me an update had been released to resolve the issue. I'm very pleased with this purchase.
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