Best Elastic Drums alternatives: apps like Elastic Drums

4.8😐(58 ratings)

$4.99

This app is an analog drumsynth that creates sounds using authentic synthesis algorithms, not samples. It features a creative Euclidean sequencer for pattern programming and integrates seamlessly with AUv3 hosts like Garageband. It offers customizable sound models and MIDI control for flexible music production.

What We Love

🎵 Great analog drum sounds
🔌 AUv3 support
💻 Standalone and AUv3 use
✨ Flexible sound design
📱 User-friendly interface
🚀 Efficient performance
💡 Innovative sequencer features
👍 Well-crafted and maintained
🎶 Good for 808/909 sounds
🕹️ Easy to use
🛠️ Active and responsive developer
🔊 Powerful drum synthesis
🎛️ Simple yet powerful controls
🌟 High-quality sounds
⚙️ Good for classic Roland sounds
🎚️ Flexible analog modeling
🎶 Great drum hits
🚀 Immediate and elegant design
🥁 Best snare sound
💯 Top-tier developer
✨ Inspiring and fun sequencer
🔊 Thick, punchy kicks
🎶 Live snares
🥁 Musical toms
🚀 Professional, innovative, fun
💡 Euclidean sequencer is stellar
🎶 Makes excellent sounds
🎵 Good, warm, natural analog sounds
🚀 Solid drum synth
🎶 Great drum source
🎵 Mega sound quality
🎶 Good drum machine
🎶 Great drum sounds
🎶 Great drum module
🎶 Awesome, fluid sequencer
🎶 Cool sounding drum machine
🎶 Genial drum audio unit
🎶 Great sound
🎶 Creative, fun, and useful
🎶 Stunning drum modeller
🎶 Genial, groovy sounds
🎶 Great drum synth app
🎶 Analog and authentic sounds
🎶 Great sounding analog drum machine
🎶 Incredible sound
🎶 Efficient drum machine
🎶 Cool part
🎶 Excellent drum machine
🎶 Great drum synth

Room to Improve

❌ No sound and crashes
🐛 Crashes on drum pad press
🐛 Empty screen on iPhone
🐛 Interface portions cut off
🐛 Delay and reverb missing in plugin mode
🐛 Plugin mode doesn't use built-in sequencer
🔊 Sounds too weak
🎛️ Limited editing possibilities
🤷‍♂️ Not super tweakable
❓ No MIDI control for randomize button
🐛 Not possible to switch active pad without triggering
🏷️ Pad labels not visible in AU mode
🤔 Misleading description (not a drum synth)
💸 No refunds
🐛 Frequently causes GarageBand to quit
🐛 Crashes on load as AU
🐛 GB crashes on startup until uninstalled
🐛 Doesn't open
🐛 Keeps crashing GarageBand
🐛 Ne fonctionne pas
🐛 Only loads instructions

BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker by Imaginando Lda

Music Production Studio

Strong Contender

4.8😐(103 ratings)

$12.99In-App Purchases

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This app is a professional music production tool that allows users to create beats, loops, and full tracks. It offers a versatile interface with built-in instruments, effects, and extensive sequencing capabilities. Users can also host AUv3 plugins and arrange music for live performance or export.

What We Love

👍 Intuitive workflow
🎶 Great sound quality
💡 Innovative groovebox concept
🚀 Fast to get started
🎧 Excellent for live jamming
🎹 Good built-in synthesis
📱 Cross-platform compatibility (iPad/Mac)
💰 Good value for price
📚 Helpful tutorials
✨ Inspires creativity
🎛️ Powerful modulation features
🧩 Easy to handle features
🌟 Unique original stuff creation

Room to Improve

🐛 Frequent crashing/hanging
📉 High CPU usage
🤏 Small and hard-to-see controls
🤔 Counterintuitive for some users
🔊 Low resolution sound quality for price
💸 High price for features
🎛️ Limited FX per track
🎛️ Limited number of tracks (16 mentioned)
🎛️ Inability to change instrument once set

BLEASS Arpeggiator by BLEASS

Hands-on Creative Arpeggiation

Worth Considering

Analog modeling synthesizer

4.8(54 ratings)

$9.99

This app offers advanced arpeggiation capabilities for musicians, going beyond traditional patterns with polyrhythms and polyphony. Its intuitive interface encourages on-the-fly experimentation, enhanced by performance controllers, LFOs, and a motion sequencer. It also includes a built-in FM synth for sound generation or can be used with other instruments.

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