Bass Line Composer vs PASIC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bass Line Composer
Compose and play along with custom bass drum lines. Practice splits, create new beats, and refine your exercises with realistic drum sounds. This app allows you to experiment with speed and timing for your musical ideas.
- Compose bass drum lines
- Play along with compositions
- Practice splits and interspersions
- Create and edit exercises
- Adjust tempo (speed up/slow down)
- Realistic bass drum sounds
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Yo, Bass drummers! Got a split in your head that you've just got to hear right now? Got a line or a lick or an exercise to put down? Compose it and play along with the new Bass Line Composer App! Now you’ve got a whole bass drum line to play along with. Practice splits and interp. Write out your exercises or make up new ones. Put down that new street beat that’s been bouncing around your brain. Speed it up, slow it down, try it out, edit it, and max it out! Compose and play along with the actual bass drum sounds of the Paul Rennick 2012 Santa Clara Vanguard, as recorded by bass tech Brian Lowe - tuned the way they’ll sound on finals night. Best used with Headphones About Telephonic Amusements: Nicholas Wheeler, software engineer, marched Sky Ryders, VK, and UNT - taught at Pioneer and UNT; David Croy, designer, marched Sky Ryders and tech’ed under Paul Rennick at Sky, VK, and has provided visual consulting for UNT and Dynasty Drums.
PASIC
Navigate the Percussive Arts Society International Convention with this app. Browse the full schedule, save your preferred sessions, and get directions within the Indiana Convention Center. It's your essential guide to the world's largest event dedicated to drums and percussion.
- Browse full event schedule
- Save favorite sessions
- Navigate convention center
- Information on drums and percussion
- Details on all genres and forms
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Browse the full PASIC 2026 schedule, save the sessions you want, and find your way around the Indiana Convention Center. The Percussive Arts Society International Convention, or PASIC®, is the largest event of its kind – exclusively focused on drums and percussion in all its forms and from all genres – in the world.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bass Line Composer at 63% against PASIC's 0%. Bass Line Composer also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 61 months) and ratings volume (181 vs 13). PASIC's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
PASIC is free to download; Bass Line Composer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PASIC holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bass Line Composer has 181 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Bass Line Composer's written reviews are positive against 0% of PASIC's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bass Line Composer ships an update every 2 months, PASIC every 61 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Bass Line Composer | PASIC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (181 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 181 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 61 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #192 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | N. Wheeler | PAS (Percussive Arts Society) |
Customer experience
Bass Line Composer
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In-app purchases
Bass Line Composer
No in-app purchases
PASIC
No in-app purchases
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