Soft Drummer User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience91.4% of reviews
Neutral4.4% of reviews
Negative experience4.2% of reviews

~ Based on 592 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Soft Drummer Safe?

Soft Drummer – Brush Sessions appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Soft Drummer is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 501 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 482 App Store ratings for Soft Drummer.

Is Soft Drummer Legit?

Soft Drummer – Brush Sessions appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Soft Drummer is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Love it

Excellent app , will definitely check out the other ones after hearing this one. Thank you

May Favorite of all the Lumbeat Drummers

Why do I love this app? Well it seems to be the only Lumbeat drummer I can control without using either MIDI or a mouse! Keyboard control via the space bar to toggle on and off, as well as the carriage return to toggle with fills and the arrow keys for setting tempo up and down. This makes it so much easier to start and end along with my playing, which is kind of necessary to sound reasonable whether live or recording bands that do not end at the sea time are immediately dismissed as not good enough. The opposite of tightness.

This app really rocks and I just discovered that it also works a plugin which is awesome and one more thing - the brushes and hands are much less in your face than sticks so for jazz and ambient this is perfect.

It also has some jazz, some latin and some funk - this is a huge range of rhythms, sounds, and styles. And I recently tired it with a MIDI keyboard controlling various parameters as well. This is a thoughtful, deep and great sounding non repeating non looping rhythmic scaffolding!
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Problems unlocking drummers

As with the Pop Drummer plug-in, this one seems to be working fine on iPad and works fine in standalone mode, but it doesn’t recognize the IAP purchase for the extra drummers in the plug-in. Please fix this!

Years of Good Use, some things broken in new update

I've been using SD daily for years and will for years to come. Ive also acquired most of the others, this last update though, not entirely sure. when changing grooves there is now a progress bar that take ages to change to the groove youve just chosen and doesnt always land on the new groove and can end up with just a snare, so no, that one is not progress. maybe a bitton to switch it off. Also been asking for years a way to save to a new groove with zero swing. Everytime I bring up a new version of a groove it is stamped with some king of swing. Not a dealbreaker but frustrating.
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Excellent

as good as it gets for iOS drummers.

Seit AUV3 richtig gut nutzbar

Ich muss meine alte Bewertung revidieren (s.u.). Gute App, jetzt mit AUV3 auch endlich in Cubasis oder AUM vernünftig nutzbar.

Alte Bewertung:
Zum Fenster herausgeworfenes Geld und mehrere Tage nerviges Herumprobieren um an Ende herauszufinden, das die App einfach nicht das kann, was ich brauche! Anwendung bei mir wären Livegigs mit akustischer Gitarre und viel Publikumsinteraktion und Bluetooth Fußschalter zum Umschalten auf die Songteile (Refrain, Strophe, Bridge…). Der Song Mode kann nur die vorgegebenen Teile nacheinander abspielen, es ist kein flexibles Ansteuern von einzelnen Pattern per Fußschalter möglich, also für mich ungeeignet. Auch die Live Pads lassen sich nicht per Midi ansteuern, fallen also auch aus. Hinzu kommt, dass die Steuerung über eine Bluetooth Fußschalter extrem kompliziert einzurichten ist. Aus welchen Gründen auch immer lässt Softdrummer keine Werte für den Programm Change zu, es ist nur generell PC möglich ohne Nummer. D.h. Alle 4 Tasten meines Bluetoothschalters haben bei Softdrummer die selbe Funktionalität, es lässt sich nur eine einzige Sache schalten (z.B. Play). Um das zu umgehen habe ich mir eine MIDI-Mapper App (Streambyte) installiert und dort wirklich Stunden gebraucht, bis ich ein funktionierendes Skript zum Mapping der PC Nummern auf CC Nummern hatte. Alles nur weil Softdrummer keine PC Nummern kann. Das sollte man bei dem hohen Preis eigentlich erwarten können. Auch das Geschäftsmodell, also die praktisch gleiche App unter unterschiedlichen Namen nur mit anderen Sounds und Rhythmen zu verkaufen finde ich sehr besch…eiden. Die Sounds an sich sind gut, und sicher sind die KI-Drummer eine nette Sache, deswegen zumindest 2 „Gnadensterne“. Bei mir fliegt die App wieder runter vom iPad, schade um die viele vergeudete Zeit die ich hineingesteckt habe.
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Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback, we are sorry to hear you are having so many difficulties. Soft Drummer is actually designed to be the opposite, very straightforward and easy to use and configure. In the MIDI Setup screen you can configure each control individually, as MIDI Note, CC, or Program Change, so every footswitch can trigger a different action (Play, Fill, Stop, move around Live Pads, etc.). Live Pads can also be fully controlled via MIDI. You do not need any external MIDI mapper for this, setting it directly in the app is much simpler and will work reliably once each switch sends a numbered MIDI Note, CC or PC message. Once set up, Soft Drummer works great for live gigs, letting you trigger parts and fills freely. Although they might look similar, some of the most important parts of the code are different, including the jam algorithms, sounds, grooves, and other specific behaviors, which is why we release them as separate apps. If you need help setting it up, contact us at support@lumbeat.com

It doesn’t work properly in Logic Pro

Good app but unfortunately it’s useless to me as it doesn’t work properly in Logic Pro on the M4 iPad Pro , it doesn’t recognise any controller dater, plus when I bounce the finished track there is a lot of noise interference. I’ve also tried to export just soft drummer on its own from Logic Pro and it is definitely soft drummer that’s the problem
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great

app

AUv3 transforms this one

Sounds wonderful, and the AUv3 upgrade makes it far more practical for live use.

Years of Good Use

I've been using SD daily for years and will for years to come. Ive also acquired most of the others, I think ive got Reggae and Future Drummer left. One thing that would make my daily use a little better is if I could save a default swing setting so that when it loads it remembers. I usually have it a 0 swing for straight time critical practise. Aside from that, all the improvements are welcome including the new AU lite version
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aum update is legit

thank you. please add to jazz drummer. bless

Free sound set

It’s good, but I’m here for a free soundset

So good!

Loving this drummer and all the lumbeat drummers! Just has that human feel to it and is so easy to use with other apps like loopy pro. A great update to an already awesome app.

Soft drummer

Great update! Thanks!

Incredible update!

Please keep adding AUv3 support. Your apps are gonna be amazing when they support it! They already are btw — but you get me ;)

About time.

Finally!... Can you do Jazz Drummer and Future Drummer now as well please? Restoring midi in would help the products A LOT, too.

AUV 3

AUV 3 thank you so much

AUV3

Been waiting for this for a while, now Soft Drummer runs in AUM, Koala cna Cubasis without the fuss of IAA, happy user!

Incredibly Versatile

Soft Drummer has always been a favourite of mine.. it has the ability to blend easily within many different styles.. whatever you’re grooving on, you’ll find something to match..

Now as an AUv3, I’ll be using it even more.. Thanks so much Luis for this amazing update.. 🙏

Quite good

It’s not bad at all