# Ruismaker FM — user reviews > 36 indexed App Store user reviews of Ruismaker FM by Bram Bos, rated 5.00/5 from 54 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ruismaker-fm/id1143644577/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ruismaker-fm/id1143644577.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 53 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (15 of 36) ### 5/5 — Love this AUv3 & Standalone FM Drum Synth *2019-05-11* This is such a great app for making all kinds of drum, percussion , and bassy sounds. Comes with some good presets but the real fun is to create or randomize your own kits. This app is a great way to get into synth sound creation. Basically all BramBos apps are awesome, and at $5 for this app you will not be disappointed. ### 5/5 — Way tweakable sounds *2018-11-23* It’s hard to get bored of the sounds you can coax out of this one. Better than the original ruismaker, but it takes more time to get the sounds you want and it only has 6 ch instead of 8. Beats the hell out of axon 2 anytime too ### 5/5 — Really useful and simple *2018-09-05* A simple to use and powerful FM drum app, great presets and tweaking is easy. The Euclidean sequencer makes for some really interesting rhythms. ### 5/5 — RUISMAKER FM AWESOME. *2018-05-03* Bought Rozeta suite and thought I would get this as well It’s worth every penny. Save to files folder from stand alone mode. AUv3 so can use in Cubasis without any problems. Create some great drum sounds, Kraftwerk type stuff, or more mellow beats. Very impressed........5***** ### 5/5 — Großartig … *2017-11-15* … wie alles von Bram Bos. ### 5/5 — Inspiring and easy to use *2017-10-23* Step outside of your normal grooves with the funky sequencer. Loving the fm percussion sounds as well, both for crazy zips and also regular sounds. You can also control parameters externally, so goooood 😍 ### 5/5 — Active and Responsive Developer, Great Sounds, AUv3 what more could you want! *2017-10-13* I own every product from this developer. I am in support of developers embracing the AUv3 standard, especially when it sounds this good. Lots of consistency and simple, but powerful control options. Lots of constant updates with new features. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Great app, great developer! *2017-10-04* Some developers make excuses or can’t be bothered. Brambos always delivers interesting, fun and highly useable apps at reasonable prices. The new addition of Midi out is a joy, and brings a whole new dimension. Nic ### 5/5 — Brilliant sounds, great sequencer... *2017-09-22* ... highly recommended. Euclidean sequencer is great to play around with patterns, discovering rhythms and expanding your understanding of groove. Sounds lovely and just invites you to sound design beyond the presets for unique and tailored loops. Simple to pick up and then easily pro enough to create track worthy material that fits with your own style. ### 5/5 — Great! An instant favorite! *2017-08-26* Ruismaker FM's twin, Ruismaker is hands-down my favorite drum app. Now Ruismaker FM extends that same clean and simple concept into new but related territory. Ruismaker does a great job at providing an endless palette of electronic drum sounds. Ruismaker FM rounds that out with the ability to create an amazing range of percussive sounds. Between these two apps, I hardly ever use any of my "electronic" drum apps any more. I have a lot, and they do a good job, but this is just so much more fun! Great job Bram Bos! [update 25-Aug-2017] Wow! The newly added sequence generator is brilliant. So fun and easy to use. I didn't think this app could get better, but it has in a beg way!! Thanks! ### 5/5 — Big, booming, brilliant beats!! *2017-08-22* The update makes this an essential for iOS music people. The sequencer is so solid that it's nearly anti-matter. Being able to use this outside of a DAW is so keen! I GROK IT!! ### 5/5 — Way to make it even cooler!! *2017-08-22* I liked this app before, but it's even better now! Presets can now be saved and accessed in Beatmaker 3, plus the standalone app got a neat sequencer thing added! Nice 👍 ### 5/5 — Recommended. *2017-08-22* Ruismaker FM is a killer little machine! Euclidean nirvana. And those kicks are solid. I am just looking for a pattern/song mode... 8-) ### 5/5 — Oh hell yeah even more! *2017-08-21* Already a great app from one of the best iOS develops working The sequencer update kicks this into another world. Get it now! ### 5/5 — Another gem for iOS musicians *2017-07-29* Love it, like your other apps you just nail it. AUv3 works like charm and honestly all synths and drum machines and all fx should be made AUv3 otherwise useless(not really useless but not integrated enough:) Great stuff and definitely looking forward to all new stuff from this developer. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — lame *2017-08-11* didnt even work ### 2/5 — Largely disappointed *2018-02-14* Very limited synthesis possibilities. Just one oscillator and carrier per drum channel - no oscillator feedback, no lfos, and the reverb, the only effect, is on the master bus. Surely they could have at least implemented reverb send for each channel. What there is sounds pretty decent, but there isn’t much at all. ### 2/5 — Ne fonctionne pas *2016-11-21* Je ne comprend pas sa ne marche pas sur mon iPad3 9.3 pourtant jais quille faut comme aum garage bang mais sa ne marche pas dommage alors donc faut que je me fasse rembourse . ### 3/5 — Mediocre at best. *2022-08-18, version 2.5.1* What is the hype? I don’t get it. ### 3/5 — Knobs value and size *2021-07-10, version 2.5* While the machine itself sounds great, there are very bad issues with usability. Like all your apps, when you place finger first time on a contron knob, the current value is not shown, which is very bad as one cannot just check the value but has to move the knob ! Also, this movement is picked only after a while so the result is - you are moving the knob and changing the value AND you don’t know its original position. it’s very annoying. The size if controls also has to be adjusted they are just too small. I am telling all of this hoping you can fix it, because its sounds brilliant. ### 3/5 — Not Euclidean *2020-07-05* Although it’s fun to tinker round with, this isn’t a Euclidean sequencer. The patterns just loop back to the beginning of the bar and introduce variation. A true Euclidean sequencer would be where you get a varying number of beats that are evenly spaced across the same bar length. Difficult to explain, but Patterning 2 is a good example of this. Still, the synthesis engine is good 👍 ### 4/5 — Standalone? *2017-06-24* As with your other great drum app, please give this its own sequencer and make this great drum app a standalone mode. It's the only thing stopping it being a five star app. ### 4/5 — Dynamic *2017-05-02* As rich in its sound as Patterning. The only negative is that it can't be used as stand alone. ### 5/5 — Richtig gut! *2024-08-26* Eine richtig gut klingende FM Drum Machine mit vielen Einstellungsmöglichkeiten. Standalone und als AUV3 verwendbar. Ich nutze sie natürlich besonders gern mit unserem Drum Sequenzer OCTACHRON. Der hat auch gleich ausführliche MIDI Mapping Presets inklusive der CC Werte für Ruismaker und Ruismaker FM mit an Bord ✌️🎶😊 ### 5/5 — Creative Drums *2023-06-05* Drum sounds here are created from synthesis, not samples, great way to create your own custom kits. foF those not used to creating drum sounds from scratch, there are a large number of useful presets to start from. What really stands out though is the sequencer, which allows you to put a different number of steps on each of 8 tracks worth of drum sounds, so you can have different loop points and get very interesting polyrhythms, which you can make more interesting by adding some mutation variation to the sequences. you can multi out the separate parts in something like AUM, but it still works on good old IAA, and you also have the option of saving any loops as WAV files and exporting to the DAW or sampler of your choice. Very good for people making techno, minimal, IDM, acid, but not limited to that ## Most praised reviews (8 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Bram’s Forgotten Stepchild *2023-04-21* Dear Bram Bos, I hope this message finds you well. Your creativity and dedication to your work are truly commendable. Among your remarkable creations, Ruismaker FM holds a special place in the hearts of many users. As we progress into 2023, it would be a shame to see this gem of an app left out in the cold, like the proverbial red-headed stepchild. If we could personify Ruismaker FM, it might be standing there with puppy-dog eyes, longing for the warmth and attention it truly deserves. We all know that every app, just like every child, has its own unique potential. By giving Ruismaker FM a little love and attention, you'll not only bring joy to its loyal users but also let the app shine bright and realize its full potential. We eagerly look forward to the wonders you'll bring to this already amazing app, and I'm confident that with your touch of innovation, Ruismaker FM will continue to be a go-to app for many years to come. Thank you for your continuous efforts and for making a difference in the world of software development!" ### 5/5 — Versatile drum synth w/ Euclidean seq *2022-09-03* Great bread and butter sounds that can be tweaked into electro percs, zaps, blips, etc... Euclidean seq is fun, took me a second to get used to it. Shift is your friend when trying to program basic breaks. ### 5/5 — Intuitive, fun sequencer and great 80s sound *2021-07-06* FM synthesis is not intuitive or straightforward, but Bram has written a great manual ( available on the website) that explains how to use the controls to get interesting sounds out of this app. The Euclidean sequencer is great- I’ve been using it to make odd-time loops and Radiohead-style polyrhythms, and it is very straightforward to understand and fun to play with ### 5/5 — I’m charmed. FM modulation. Sequencer. *2021-04-10, version 2.5* So, very interesting synth and the main thing is that Ruismaker FM is simple. Why I chose this one? FM modulation is cool and fun. You will create drums, rhythmic bass and nice fxs. The sequencer is amazing inside Ruismaker FM. ### 5/5 — Lean and mean and hungry like the wolf. *2020-06-02* This is the most immediately dope feel I’ve received from an app in awhile. 6 identical channels of audio mangling, ripping, flipping, smoking hot modded multiOSC FM ops. The perfect blend of rapid fire easily dialed creativity, on top of depths of sonic versatility, top notch audio fidelity, and breezy CPU simplicity. This bad mother will be your new first choice, all situation crushing app, when you need a modern EDM, industrial, glitch, etc percussion and FX, or when you just want to add a bit of signature secret sauce, causing a song to finally fulfill its epic destiny. Must have, drumming tool, no question. For my money, this is the clutch Bos creation-even more so than Noir,p-which seems to be the BB app of note in most refined social circles. I’ve had the original Ruismaker for months now, as it was the first paid plug I bought after scoring my new iPad before the quarantine began. I’d been trapped in OG IAA iPhone mode for years: Gadget, Caustic, TriqTraq, etc. So I figured a drum synth would be a straightforward, useful tool for my first foray into AUv3 on iOS. Unfortunately, “drum synth” had me picturing Elastic or Seekbeats: vast depths of rhythmic tweakability...whereas the original RM is more in the vein of an 909. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice sounding little app at a great price! But it’s not gonna trash multiple romantic partnerships by turning you into a distant, knob twisting, pseudo-autistic. But RMFM? Yeah, it’ll wreck some homes if you’re not cautious. ### 5/5 — Ignore The 1 Star Reviews *2020-04-01* This app, like all the devs work, is a must have if your creating music in an iOS environment. Stable and worth it. ### 5/5 — Solid and Useful. *2020-03-28* Bram is clearly a musician himself. Every single instrument, effect, or anything this developer touches is iOS gold. This Ruismaker is no exception. Functional, USEFUL, AND more importantly in my opinion, loads of fun because of the ease of use and stability. Thank you Sir Bram for your over the top contributions to our hobbies, crafts, and for some like myself, a working part of my daily life. 10 Stars. ### 5/5 — Nicely done! UPDATE *2020-03-26* Multi-outs! Yes! UPDATE: See Below! Very nice app. Sounds great and easy to use. --- *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 2026-08-21.*