# VAPORDRUM — Super drum machine

> Super drum machine (iPhone/iPad app by Scott Hsiung.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vapordrum/id6813289988 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Scott Hsiung](https://appshunter.io/developer/6798436329)
- Category: Music, Entertainment
- Price: $2.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 37 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-22
- Data updated: 2026-10-08
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vapordrum/id6813289988/reviews.md

## What is VAPORDRUM?

VAPORDRUM is a super drum machine: sixteen velocity-sensitive pads, a pattern and song sequencer, an eight-bus mixer with tape effects, and a feel engine that makes a programmed beat breathe like a real drummer.

HUMAN FEEL
Every instrument gets its own timing, dynamics and nuance. Push the hats loose, keep the kick locked, let the snare land a little heavier now and then. It's repeatable too, so what you hear is exactly what you export.

PLAY IT
- 16 pads, each with up to three velocity layers
- Strike near the top of a pad for a soft hit, near the bottom for a hard one
- Accent, flams and rolls
- A chance-to-play setting on every pad, for grooves that never repeat quite the same way
- Metronome with a choice of sounds, and tap tempo

PROGRAM IT
- A bank of 16 patterns, with pitch, envelope and micro-timing on every step
- Tracks can run at their own lengths and their own speeds, for polymeter
- Swing and quantize
- A song map, with several songs in each session

SHAPE IT
- Pitch, decay, pan, envelope and EQ on every pad
- Eight output busses, each with its own pan, reverb, tape delay, warble, tape wear, filters and parametric EQ
- LFOs throughout, on filters, delay time, tape speed and bus position
- LED meters on every bus

MAKE IT YOURS
- Import your own samples, or record them with the microphone
- Save kits: the sounds, the mixer and the effects, ready to load under any pattern
- Save sessions, or export them as one file with the samples inside
- Four looks for the faceplate

TAKE IT WITH YOU
- Render a pattern, a song, the full mix, or one stem per bus to WAV
- Send them anywhere from the share sheet. A copy stays in the Files app, along with the tempo and loop points
- Keeps playing in the background and with the ringer switch on silent
- Picks up exactly where you left off, even after you close the app

From the makers of VAPORLOOP.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-09-23

SONG PAGE
- Both numbers on a song row now have their own up and down arrows: the pattern, and how many times it repeats. Tap to step, hold to move the step through the list.
- Mute pads for one step of a song. Tap M on the row and pick the pads to drop out; they stay out of renders and stems too.
- Undo now covers song edits.

FILES
- Sessions and kits save as .vprdrm and .vprkit, with the VAPORDRUM icon. Tap one in Files and it opens in the app. Older exports are renamed and still load.

ALSO
- The keyboard's up and down arrows step the value you are typing.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-23

No release notes.

## More apps by Scott Hsiung

- [Vaporloop](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vaporloop/id6798436327)
- [Devils Turntable](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/devils-turntable/id6798973414)
- [Shruti Bot](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shruti-bot/id6799481987)

All apps by Scott Hsiung: https://appshunter.io/developer/6798436329

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