UI flaws.
- The sequencer is so tiny in landscape mode, even in the section view.
- No sync settings?
Overall it’s a great drum app, just needs some work.
- No sync settings?
Overall it’s a great drum app, just needs some work.
My favorite drum machine app
Excellent app. You could make professional quality stuff just with this and the dev’s mono and poly synth apps. The sequencer is excellent both for live recording or very detailed programming with a piano roll. The factory sounds are solid and don’t even require much tweaking , but tons of sound design options available for those who want to go deep. If you like Elektron style gear I am sure you will get on well with this app. Great work!
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Great dev great drum app
Love the sounds, features, and the graphic design. Hard working dev that delivers the goods adds features and squashes any bugs that arise. Can’t wait to see what’s next ;)
One of my top drum machines
It’s really versatile. Love that both the drum kit and the drum pattern can be adjusted on their own. Favorite patterns are the trap one and two house ones and the half time one. Lots of great drum sounds
UI is terrible for drum synth
I’m not a synth drums (nor sampled) kind of guy but this is really poor. I got it to thump a couple of times and nothing but silence. Nothing actually plays except the keyboard. Nothing like the video on their website. Glad it was on sale. Unlike their synth apps, that I love, I can’t stand their drum app’s UI. Deleted app. I just won’t use it. Playing with VA Mono/Poly though.❤️🔥
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Great Plugin
One of the most useable and well designed Auv3 plugins I’ve found. Please add loops shorter than 4 bars!!! Pattern sequencer is great and shorter loops like 1 bar / 1/2 note / 1/4 note would make it amazing
A tidy, modern drumkit system for my iPad.
A really excellent and refreshingly reliable AUv3 drum ‘machine’, I have had a spate of other devs’ Audio Units crashing/locking my beloved GarageBand on my iPad Pro M1, and am glad this one is up to Ryo Togawa’s usual high standard. Looking at the built-in User Guide - it exists! - in either standalone OR Audio Unit instance, I can see there’s the ability to program drums if you want to set up sequences. I don’t, I mainly want to tap the drums in real-time and use the GarageBand iPadOS feature of ‘adding-on’ a layer at a time, to the MIDI blocks.
IE I run GB, hit ‘record’ and do the bass drum, then repeat and as long as the track setting in GB is NOT set to do fresh takes, the next layer of MIDI ‘notes’ will be maybe the Snare Drum, or whatever. This is totally standard as many iOS/iPadOS music enthusiasts know. Don’t need to do this, if you are fast-fingered, you can skip along the twin rows of drum pad rectangles and drop the whole lot in ! (two kits can be shown at a time, one has a few more pads than the other I think).
This avoids a lot of issues with some drum apps that are AUv3, where ‘recording’ either puts very little MIDI down, hiding everything, OR the drum machine app itself, insists on running while you also press ‘play’ in the DAW. I thought Audio Units, would understand/be connected enough with the host DAW, to realise that a recorded track, means you don’t also want the drum machine playing over it. I cannot usually find a tidy way to stop this happening, and so I have taken to manually dropping the drum hits in - hence I purchased this app, because it permits both modes. NOTE - I have not yet explored the ‘programmed mode’ on this as an audio unit instance, I will get to that sometime, but this dev is generally creating solid Audio Units that work, so I do not anticipate anything negative there, that wouldn’t be sorted.
Obviously then my use case, is presently a straightforward one. It is really good that Ryo Togawa so clearly enables ‘manual’ drum hits as an easy way to get a drum track laid down. I selected a kit, then I tap the pad/rectangles, and stuff sounds off! Then I hit ‘record’ on GarageBand in a song, and it does what I expect. It’s surprising how hard some drum apps make this mode to do. When I press play after recording, there’s no doubling issues this way, nice and easy. So I did not have to learn how to program the drums, in order to hear them play in Apple’s baby DAW and easily lay down a drum track or tracks.
This is an easy recommended choice, in my view this Audio Unit and standalone. I also got a mini channel-strip by the same developer, and that is similarly solid and reliable and doesn’t glitch my GB. It’s good to feel relaxed about the quality behind the scenes, that enables me to focus on the enjoyable bit, creating music, not act as a test pilot. Lastly, A long time ago, I had a Roland/Boss TR606. I mean, I loved it, but it was tedious to program, and that was a necessary thing to do. And making anything but a repeated loop of the same few bars (using ‘song mode’) was really convoluted, and you couldn’t ‘see’ a darned thing.
That’s perhaps why I don’t take to being made to program drums now, because a DAW means you don’t need to. If you do need to, it’s there. So this drum app, gives modern sounds and I guess if I wanted a more cool-looking arrangement of playing pads (eg images of actual drums), I could grab my Yamaha electric drumkit as a triggering method, because the app does do MIDI too. I’d love to do that when I get the time. For now, it’s fine to finger-tap. Definitely 5-stars because it works so well and doesn’t trip me up!
IE I run GB, hit ‘record’ and do the bass drum, then repeat and as long as the track setting in GB is NOT set to do fresh takes, the next layer of MIDI ‘notes’ will be maybe the Snare Drum, or whatever. This is totally standard as many iOS/iPadOS music enthusiasts know. Don’t need to do this, if you are fast-fingered, you can skip along the twin rows of drum pad rectangles and drop the whole lot in ! (two kits can be shown at a time, one has a few more pads than the other I think).
This avoids a lot of issues with some drum apps that are AUv3, where ‘recording’ either puts very little MIDI down, hiding everything, OR the drum machine app itself, insists on running while you also press ‘play’ in the DAW. I thought Audio Units, would understand/be connected enough with the host DAW, to realise that a recorded track, means you don’t also want the drum machine playing over it. I cannot usually find a tidy way to stop this happening, and so I have taken to manually dropping the drum hits in - hence I purchased this app, because it permits both modes. NOTE - I have not yet explored the ‘programmed mode’ on this as an audio unit instance, I will get to that sometime, but this dev is generally creating solid Audio Units that work, so I do not anticipate anything negative there, that wouldn’t be sorted.
Obviously then my use case, is presently a straightforward one. It is really good that Ryo Togawa so clearly enables ‘manual’ drum hits as an easy way to get a drum track laid down. I selected a kit, then I tap the pad/rectangles, and stuff sounds off! Then I hit ‘record’ on GarageBand in a song, and it does what I expect. It’s surprising how hard some drum apps make this mode to do. When I press play after recording, there’s no doubling issues this way, nice and easy. So I did not have to learn how to program the drums, in order to hear them play in Apple’s baby DAW and easily lay down a drum track or tracks.
This is an easy recommended choice, in my view this Audio Unit and standalone. I also got a mini channel-strip by the same developer, and that is similarly solid and reliable and doesn’t glitch my GB. It’s good to feel relaxed about the quality behind the scenes, that enables me to focus on the enjoyable bit, creating music, not act as a test pilot. Lastly, A long time ago, I had a Roland/Boss TR606. I mean, I loved it, but it was tedious to program, and that was a necessary thing to do. And making anything but a repeated loop of the same few bars (using ‘song mode’) was really convoluted, and you couldn’t ‘see’ a darned thing.
That’s perhaps why I don’t take to being made to program drums now, because a DAW means you don’t need to. If you do need to, it’s there. So this drum app, gives modern sounds and I guess if I wanted a more cool-looking arrangement of playing pads (eg images of actual drums), I could grab my Yamaha electric drumkit as a triggering method, because the app does do MIDI too. I’d love to do that when I get the time. For now, it’s fine to finger-tap. Definitely 5-stars because it works so well and doesn’t trip me up!
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