# EG Pulse — AU3 Drum Machine & Sampler

> iOS drum machine and sampler with extensive editing and integration features. (iPhone/iPad app by Elliott Garage.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eg-pulse/id1478285477 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Elliott Garage](https://appshunter.io/developer/454709866)
- Category: Music, Entertainment
- Price: $14.99
- Rating: 4.40/5 from 147 App Store ratings · 88 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 268 MB
- Languages: American English, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Greek, Hebrew and 16 more
- Released: 2019-09-20
- Data updated: 2026-08-29
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eg-pulse/id1478285477/reviews.md

## What is EG Pulse?

EG Pulse is the ultimate Drum Machine / Sampler for iOS.
It can be used both in standalone or hosted as AudioUnit AU3 inside apps like GarageBand, AUM, BeatMaker3, NanoStudio2, n-Track9 and others.

The solid ElliottGarage sequencing engine has been updated and expanded, and you can now create ultra precise trap rhythms, hip hop grooves, electronic beats, rock and acoustic drum tracks and more.

EG Pulse comes with more than 40 drumkits and more than 180 grooves already included to cover many different genres from EDM, House, Trap, Hip Hop and Electronic Music to Rock, Metal, Reggae or Jazz; moreover, you can create your custom drumkit importing samples with simple drag & drop or combining the builtin kits, and you can modify them inside the app with the sample editor (sample start, attack time, release time and sample length).

Each of the 16 pads can be also pitched and panned in the mixer section of the app and also reverb, delay, bitcrusher and eq can be set individually.
Each pattern can be automated to obtain dynamic changes and with the probability mode you can create always new grooves adding randomization and human feel to them.

EG Pulse contains drumkits and presets created by some of the best iOS Beat Makers and Producers like SoundOfIzrael, Soundtrack Loops, the Beat Community and more. 

Full feature list:
- Standalone & AU3 Audio Unit
- Pads View, Grid View, Mixer, Automation View, FX View & Song View
- Chromatic Pads - Play melodic line like on a keyboard
- 64 step audio engine
- 1/8, 1/12, 1/16, 1/32 & 1/64 quantization
- Samples Drag & drop from File App (supports multiple files import)
- Import of Wave, AIFF, M4a, MP3 audio files or MOV and MP4 video screen recording (audio will be extracted)
- Kit sharing (left swipe on a kit to access additional menu)
- Fill & Autofill (every 2, 4, 8, 16 bars)
- Custom drumkit & user banks save
- Song view
- Pad Roll (with 1/8, 1/12, 1/16, 1/32 & 1/64 quantization)
- Ableton Link
- Step recording into grid view
- Polyrhythms
- Choke groups
- Mixer with Solo, Mute, Volume, Gain, Pan, Pitch
- Automation of Pitch, Volume and Pan for each pad and pattern dependant
- Probability to create unpredictable and random patterns
- Samples editor (Start offset, attack time, release time, length)
- AU Fx - put EG Pulse in the FX slot of your daw and record any incoming audio
- Time stretching 
- Loop bpm detection and automatic sync to tempo (works with 4 bar loops)
- Transient detection and audio slice
- Pitch detection and pitch shifting
- Bank import/export
- Midi In with MIDI learn to control pads
- MIDI out to host (AU3 version)
- Midi Program Change to switch patterns
- FX (Reverb, Delay, Bitcrusher and EQ) for each pad
- Tap tempo & Swing
- More than 40 drumkits and 180 grooves created by iOS Producers and Beat Makers
- Bank presets covering several genres
- Ableton Live Set Export support for patterns
- Multi stems export of patterns
- AU3 Multi output - Route up to 16 separate stems to any daw supporting multi-output AU


EG Pulse will give you a free Ableton Live Lite license - follow the instructions inside the app to get it

## Key features

- Standalone and AU3 AudioUnit support
- Import and edit custom drum samples
- Individual pad effects (reverb, delay, EQ)
- Pattern automation and probability mode
- Over 40 included drumkits and 180 grooves
- Ableton Link and MIDI support

## Recent user reviews (10 of 88)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eg-pulse/id1478285477/reviews.md

### 2/5 — All the aggro of a 90”s sampler, none of the charm.

*2025-11-10*

This really is a frustrating app, I’ve grown to hate it more every time I try to use it. 
No auto-saving of patterns? Programme changes to select patterns in the 21st century?
What’s frustrating is that this would be a very capable plugin with a great feature set if it wasn’t so cumbersome in use.  Nearly every function is hindered by very unintuitive and just plain awkward interface. 
At first I thought I would eventually get to learn its quirks and grow to love it. I didn’t.

### 3/5 — Essential features missing

*2025-11-03*

Overall very solid app, but there are essential functions missing. Or at least I have to been able to find it. Would it be possible to have the option to de activate the grid to record without quantization? Also a way to stop the midi triggering function when receiving midi from another device. Thank you.

### 1/5 — Does not work

*2025-09-21, version 1.39*

Sample function does not work holding pad does nothing I want a refund

### 1/5 — Что-то, как будто-то бы

*2025-08-14*

Каловые массы

### 3/5 — Great concept

*2025-06-23*

I want to like this… but almost immediately I started finding bugs while using iPhone. I tried to contact the developer to let them know… but there is no way to do it. I even went to their Facebook page to send a message and messenger notified me that it couldn’t send the message…

I want to use this in a professional context but I can’t load my own sounds without it crashing.

### 5/5 — No MIDI

*2024-11-30*

Well, it's official I found the best drum sequencer I've ever used. There are a few things wrong with it, but it's been fixed with this update. I just reached out to the developer, and there it was, the fix. I just wish every other app had support like this, five stars!

### 5/5 — Beatmaker3 Lite!

*2024-01-23*

Supplements the drums in Cubasis for me. I can drag multiple samples from Files into this app! I got this following Segments which is also a wonderful app from this developer.

### 5/5 — One of the best Drum Machines, specially for smaller screens

*2023-07-14*

This is a great drum machine and -sequencer. Sounds great and the app has a very clear user interface that makes it ideal as a plugin.

### 2/5 — Nice kits, shame about the hi hats

*2023-02-19*

I had such high hopes for this, but whenever I use it in auv3 the hi-hats NEVER record. 
Just kick and snare.
So this will be gathering dust, and I may as well have thrown my cash up the road.

**Developer response:** Hi, did you set the right MIDI mapping? Please write me at info@elliottgarage.com and I'll give you more support about it! Thanks, Andrea

### 5/5 — Update: Better every time I use it.  ‘PianoForte’ drum pads!

*2022-12-01*

The pads do a pianoforte trick - soft to forceful, depending on how high on the individual drum pad you tap/strike it. This is a revelation, I don’t know why I didn’t notice it. It’s kind of obvious as a technique, and is genius for that reason. As someone much better at music than myself told me, louder and softer is the most basic and fundamental variation you can introduce to a performance. So a more recent usage of EG Pulse, shows lovely touches I thought best to mention: the pads. You can enlarge these so there’s fewer of them, but in either size, you can use ‘settings’ to make the gain/volume of each drum hit vary the higher up the particular drum pad you strike it (it’s called ‘vary volume by y-axis’ or similar, in ‘settings’). In ‘settings’ you can also set the view to be some other type of fascia, but I tend to leave it on ‘MPC’, I presume it is fashioned after the iconic sampler box. Samples: I bought the lot I think. There’s EG 808, and a lot of ‘EG’ versions of similar drumbox type units. I think I will be using this a bit more now, it just takes me a while to get oriented with an app and to get into it. But you can use your own samples. 

TIP: You’ll set ‘host sync’ inside GarageBand using EG Pulse as an AUv3, and it’s BPM will not budge…just hit the GB ‘play’ arrow briefly and off again, and the EG Pulse bpm will latch on reflecting the host rate.

 Older stuff I said: So I tried the other 3 or 4 drum apps on my ipad pro 2 and either IAA or AUv3 made no odds, it was sometimes they would work, others not. I am not a power user of drums, I want to input a decent drum track and it needs to sync to the host eg Cubasis 3 at the moment. EG Pulse does, the AUv3 operates solidly and reliably. I have other drum apps that have lovely percussion from exotic faraway places etc, but they don’t work inside of eg Cubasis 3. The early days of iOS are gone, when people marvelled that an app sounded like the real thing - now we may well use iOS as the major DAW platform - I do - and as always in tech, interconnectivity becomes a prerequisite as the market matures. EG Pulse therefore, has been created to be what is needed now, not like the older drum apps I see lauded, which are little stranded islands. If you want to incorporate drums into a song, you at least need to connect with a recording app, if not be fully AU compatible. Cannot comment on super-detailed aspects, but it works with the DAW I need it to sync to at the moment, and the drums sound clear and it has built-in patterns, which is my preference. There’s a little row of the Cubasis icons for flipping into Cubasis, as well as the ‘go’ arrow and a ‘record’ dot. These basic transport controls, you need accessible, and so my use case may be simple, but this drums app delivers.

## Frequently asked questions about EG Pulse

### What is EG Pulse?

EG Pulse is a comprehensive drum machine and sampler application for iOS. It allows users to create complex rhythms and beats using a variety of included sounds or by importing their own samples. The app can be used as a standalone application or integrated into other music production software as an AudioUnit (AU3).

### What are the key features of EG Pulse?

Key features include standalone and AU3 AudioUnit compatibility, a powerful 64-step sequencing engine, the ability to import and edit custom samples with a dedicated editor, individual pad effects like reverb, delay, and EQ, pattern automation, and a probability mode for randomized grooves. It also supports Ableton Link and MIDI input/output.

### How much does EG Pulse cost?

Based on the provided information, EG Pulse is a paid application. There are no mentions of free versions, subscriptions, or in-app purchases, indicating a one-time purchase model.

### What devices is EG Pulse compatible with?

EG Pulse is designed for iOS devices. It can be hosted within other iOS music production applications that support AudioUnit AU3, such as GarageBand, AUM, BeatMaker3, NanoStudio2, and n-Track9.

### Who would benefit from using EG Pulse?

EG Pulse is ideal for musicians, producers, and beatmakers on iOS who want to create intricate drum patterns and beats. Its extensive features, including sample editing, effects, and integration capabilities, make it suitable for various genres from EDM and Hip Hop to Rock and Jazz.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.39 — 2024-11-24

1.38
- Fixed a crash loading some builtin drumkits
- Fixed a crash opening MIDI CC settings


For feedback or request please write at info@elliottgarage.com

### 1.38 — 2024-08-13

1.38
- Fixed host sync with Loopy Pro


For feedback or request please write at info@elliottgarage.com

### 1.37 — 2023-06-29

1.37
- Added MIDI Out supporto for Logic Pro for iPad


For feedback or request please write at info@elliottgarage.com

### 1.36 — 2022-08-02

1.36
- Fixed mixer volume changing when FX are applied (AU3 version)
- Minor bug fixed

1.35
- Improved pad color management - grid view & mixer view
- Fixed sample ADSR not saved into a bank or a kit

1.34
- Improved sampling engine to decrease sample attack (removed the short fade-in applied by default)
1.33
- Fixed wrong sample imported from the picker in the drumkit edit view
 
For feedback or request please write at info@elliottgarage.com

### 1.35 — 2022-01-04

1.35
- Improved pad color management - grid view & mixer view
- Fixed sample ADSR not saved into a bank or a kit

1.34
- Improved sampling engine to decrease sample attack (removed the short fade-in applied by default)
1.33
- Fixed wrong sample imported from the picker in the drumkit edit view
 
For feedback or request please write at info@elliottgarage.com

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