# Mid East Drummer - Percussion — user reviews > 134 indexed App Store user reviews of Mid East Drummer by Lumbeat, rated 4.60/5 from 104 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mid-east-drummer-percussion/id1326542395/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mid-east-drummer-percussion/id1326542395.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 86 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Mid East Drummer? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎵 Authentic and high-quality Middle Eastern percussion sounds - 🎯 Extensive variety of rhythms and time signatures - 🎚️ Intuitive and user-friendly interface - 🔗 Excellent integration with other Lumbeat apps - 🎨 Customizable patterns and groove variations - 🎓 Educational value for learning percussion - 🎭 Humanized variations and realistic drum sounds - 🎪 Inspiring and creative for music production - ⚡ Stable and reliable performance - 🎵 Works well with various music genres beyond Middle Eastern **Cons** - 🔌 Outdated Inter-App Audio (IAA) instead of modern AUv3 support - 🐛 Crashes and freezing issues reported - 💾 Difficult and unreliable save/preset functionality - 🎛️ Overcrowded interface with too many controls - 📱 Limited customer support and developer responsiveness - 🎼 Missing some important regional rhythm patterns - ⚙️ Tuning function causes audio artifacts and attack loss - 🔊 MIDI clock synchronization issues at startup - 🎹 No MIDI input capability for custom patterns - 🖼️ Instrument settings change unexpectedly when recalling rhythms **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on iOS 26 with Inter-App Audio - Freezing when loading custom MIDI presets - IAA apps not visible in Cubasis after one year - Tuning function creates audio artifacts and removes attack - MIDI clock synchronization fails at startup - Saved rhythm instruments change on next recall - Sequencer ignores user inputs despite no jam settings active - Timing precision issues (e.g., 74 bpm recorded as 73.97 bpm) - App becomes unresponsive mid-performance **Most requested features** - AUv3 audio unit support for DAW integration - Turkish rhythm patterns (Usüller) and variations - Persian 6/8 grooves for Persian dance music - Israeli rhythms and Middle Eastern variations - Export functionality for audio/WAV files - Ability to mute individual tracks - Batch delete function for patterns - Visual pitch representation in cents for tuning - Pattern modification and extension tools - Song mode with automatic BPM transitions between sections - macOS version - More frame drum rhythms and samples - Random function in pattern editor - State saving for AUv3 compatibility ## Newest reviews (19 of 134) ### 4/5 — lumbeat amazing app *2026-06-10* BEAST 👌🎶🎼 ### 5/5 — Good app *2025-06-27, version 1.41* Loving it ### 4/5 — Mid East Miracle *2025-06-24* We want peace in the Middle East, and this app can bring it! Well, maybe not but, it brings peace of mind, knowing that I can use this at least once every night at my gig and get a completely different sound and groove compared to the other Lumbeats machines. I would give it five stars if it had any kind of support. I’ve asked questions for years about these apps, and receive no help. I bought every machine and I figured I could at least get a few questions answered, but Mr. Martinez is silent so far. Maybe he’ll read this?? It’s actually five stars 😀 ### 5/5 — Outstanding! *2025-06-22* Great app, very well executed very intuitive great sounds great time signatures. Well done Dev ### 5/5 — Inspirational *2025-06-16* Beats I never would have imagined on my own! **Developer response:** ThThank you! We're thrilled you’re loving Mid East Drummer. 🎶 Keep the rhythms flowing! 🥁 ### 5/5 — sehr gut *2025-05-13* ..kann ich gut gebrauchen ### 5/5 — Great drummer app *2025-05-08* Perfekte App sowohl vom Sound als auch von der Bedienung. Alle Apps laufen grandios zusammen. ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2025-04-11, version 1.41* Another great one from Lumbeat ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-04-09, version 1.41* I ilke this App. great App for produce Arabic Music ### 5/5 — Lumbeat rocks! *2025-02-18, version 1.41* Love the Lumbeat apps. Great on their own, fantastic together! ### 4/5 — Nice selection of west asian rhythms *2025-01-21* Having a hard time figuring out how to modify provided patterns to match my practice needs. For example, a standard east european rhythm called Sedi Donka, a fast 25-beat pattern with accents forming 7-7-4-7. Not found in the MidEast catalog. It would be nice if we could easily select a basic 7 and extend/modify to fit the dance. ### 5/5 — The best middle east sounds *2024-12-30* Love it with Hiphop drummer ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2024-12-29* Beats I never would have imagined on my own! **Developer response:** ThThank you! We're thrilled you’re loving Mid East Drummer. 🎶 Keep the rhythms flowing! 🥁 ### 5/5 — One more Time a pure jewel *2024-12-28* Another marvel from Luis! As with all his apps, lots of possibilities and great sound quality. Above all, a realism! I never get tired of it. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Türk ritimleri *2024-12-05, version 1.41* Öncelikle bu harika uygulama için teşekkür etmek isterim. Ancak bazı düzeltmeler ve ilaveler uygulamayı çok daha güzel hale getirebilir: Türk ritimlerinin (usüller) olmaması büyük eksiklik. Ayrıca her ritim kalıbı tek tuşla 4, 8, 16 zamanlarına çevrilerek yazılabilmeli. Son olarak “song modunda” sıralı ritim bölümlerinin BPM değerleriyle birlikte kayıt altına alınması çok güzel olur. Örneğin 80 BPM 10/8 hemen ardından 140 BPM 6/8 otomatik geçebilmeli. ### 5/5 — Solid app *2024-12-01, version 1.41* Great fun one of a kind ### 4/5 — Good app *2024-11-29, version 1.41* I would like to have more frame drum rhythm and samples. Overall this app is good. ### 5/5 — Great inspiring drum app *2024-11-29, version 1.41* Although I'm fan of different genres this drummer is great! I'm using it along with FunkDrummer to get even more syncopated grooves and it serves me really well. I hope for AUv3 version soon, no state saving is annoying. ### 5/5 — Great, *2024-11-27* Great as usual, :) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — iOS 26 *2025-09-30, version 1.41* iOS 26 whiped all drummer apps from Inter-App Audio waawaa ### 1/5 — SON GÜNCELLEME VE GÜMM AÇILMIYOR *2023-12-28, version 1.38* Para verip aldığına üzülüyor insan. Tam işin ortasında cevap vermeyen uygulama… ### 1/5 — Amazing standalone drummer that needs Auv3 update *2023-02-11, version 1.35* Gotta be honest, this is a 5/5 standalone app, especially in the old Audiobus environment, but in today’s iOS environment inter app audio is so outdated I have to knock it down to 1/5 until this gets an Auv3 audio unit update. Why? I bought it for Cubasis/DAW integration and I hear this is old tech that’s obsolete and it’s true. It doesn’t run in Drambo! Drumperfect Pro is a terrible app and it’s similar in price, but they implemented Auv3. There is no reason why Lumbeat, who are superior programmers to WaveMachine Labs and Drumperfect Pro, haven’t upgraded their software engine to audio units by now. I did ask before posting this but I still haven’t gotten a reply. Drum Session threw in the towel publicly and said they would be obsolete in due time. Lumbeat hasn’t done this (as of January 31,2023), but it looks like Luis Martinez sold his company during the pandemic too because I spoke with him extensively before and after, and things aren’t adding up - a program coder on his level should’ve updated this years ago, and Lumbeat admitted they are more than one person now, so Lumbeat also changed hands like Auria Pro and DPP. I bought this at full price because I didn’t know what Auv3 was compared to IAA but after speaking to another developer he laughed at my naïveté and told me IAA would be obsolete very soon. Since it’s $11.99 today it’s worth buying, I guess, but looking back on 2022 and knowing what I know now about Cubasis 3 (do NOT buy Auria Pro, it is abandonware), I can’t give this 5 stars. I’m presuming the price drop is related to my question, unfortunately, so unless this gets a major Auv3 audio unit update, it’s definitely 3 stars. It’s like Beats Studio 3: they are definitely 5/5 star headphones still today, but paying $349.99 today sounds crazy (but for $199 or less, they are worth buying)... If Lumbeat updates to Auv3, I’d gladly update my review to 5/5, as I said, stand alone that’s what it is. But it isn’t meant for standalone use for a musician, it’s meant to be used in a DAW. so I would have held out for a sale or skipped it had I known Auv3 isn’t in the future...still fun for Arabic rhythms! But this company needs a code infusion. Notice Lumbeat used to be just “Lumbeat” in dev info, now they are Lumbeat Ltd or LLC (if it smells like a scam, it is) ### 1/5 — Strange *2019-10-16* Interesting app, but for an app called Mid East Drummer, i find it quite disappointing that it has a really weird and unusual version of Maksum... If it even can be called Maksum... **Developer response:** Lot of middle eastern rhythms are similar or mixed names between countries and areas. Anyway, rate 1 star for one rhythm is not very fair 😏👍 ### 2/5 — No AUv3 *2023-11-25* I had downloaded iBassist from this developer so I naturally assumed that this app was also AUv3 compatible. I hope they update the app soon so I can use it in my DAWs. As it stands, it’s useless to me. Otherwise, it has a lot of potential. I was also hoping to find a bunch of Persian 6/8 grooves which are the bread and butter of Persian dance music. So far I haven’t found any! ### 2/5 — MIDI problem *2022-11-04, version 1.34* I can’t load my own preset ( hang ) ### 2/5 — Geht so *2022-03-05* Paar gute Sound Sets dabei, aber die Bedienung ist echt schlecht. Allein das abspeichern eines Groove/Sound ist sehr sehr Umständlich und meistens geht alles verloren, schade . ### 2/5 — Confusing *2020-10-04* The app has a lot going but it is confusing me quiet honestly. Also I was disappointed since the description mentioned Morocco, and that’s the reason I purchased because I needed Moroccan beats and instruments, but there was none, or no beats I could relate to being from Morocco. Sounds do not sound very authentic in general. Lacks authentic flair. Price therefore is too high for the value. ### 3/5 — Good *2023-05-30* Different rhythms than the usual ### 3/5 — つかえました *2022-02-05* まあまあでした。 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Mid Eastern Drum Beats *2026-08-06* It has a good selection of oriental drum patterns and sounds, very versatile. The layout of the app could be a little more modern. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-07-09* Very nice drummer....thank you....all the best....ever....all the best thank you…… ### 5/5 — Sooo much fresh variety,,, *2026-02-14, version 1.41* Have FUN with all these rhythms quite unfamiliar to someone raised on 4/4. Challenging and inspiring. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2025-11-30* Nice sounds ### 5/5 — Earl *2025-10-10, version 1.41* A great set of sounding drums ### 5/5 — Very usable app *2025-09-29* I love this percussion app. I practically use it in most of my songs, mostly Indian music. Ever since I got this library, quality of percussion in my music has gone up. ### 5/5 — 1A *2025-08-21* 1A ### 5/5 — Oriental Grooves Top! *2025-08-18* Sehr feine und vielfältige Sammlung orientalischer Grooves, klasse Sounds- mit zahlreichen Möglichkeiten der Gestaltung ### 5/5 — Mid East Drummer *2025-07-17* Beautiful! All of the Lumbeat modules are excellent, and they all work well together. Thank you for creating them. 🙏🏻 ### 5/5 — Awesome drums *2025-07-08, version 1.41* Very good quality --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*