Patterning vs Tako Kick

Circular beats, off the grid. Most drum machines hand you the same 16-step grid. Patterning starts you on a circle, so new ideas come quickly and you discover rhythms you wouldn't have reached on your own. Sketch a simple beat in seconds, or go deep. Every track is a loop on the circle: • Give each loop its own length and hear polymeters drift in and out of phase. • Rotate a loop to move its downbeat and find a new groove. • Add trigger conditions, probability and automation to build variation into the loop. Patterning has been in development since 2015, and the original was a runner-up for Apple’s iPad App of the Year. It’s designed by a composer who has taught experimental electronic music for twenty years. FREE TO START • The circular sequencer: loop lengths, rotation, auto-rotate, trigger conditions, probability, ratchets, automation and playback modes • Undo • Mixer with levels, pan and sends • Built-in drum kits • Save your patterns and projects PATTERNING STUDIO A one-time in-app purchase that unlocks: • Song Mode: chain patterns into full songs • Sampler: import and shape your own samples • Effects: delay, reverb, EQ, distortion and compression • Parametric swing, per pattern or per loop • Cloud Kits: 800+ user-made and factory drum kits • AUv3: use Patterning as a plugin, or send its MIDI to other plugins • Audio export as stereo or multitrack stems (WAV or AIFF) • Ableton Live Set export, with a free Ableton Live 12 Lite license • MIDI file export and MIDI output to hardware and your DAW • Ableton Link, Link Audio and MIDI clock Owners of Patterning for iPhone get Patterning Studio at a discount. GO FURTHER WITH PATTERNING 3 Patterning 3 runs on iPad and Mac, on its own or as a plugin in your DAW, with loops up to 512 steps, modulation, randomization, fill patterns and more. Open your iPhone projects and keep going.

What if an octopus could play drums? Tako Kick is an eight-voice generative drum machine excelling in musical polyrhythms. Shape each voice independently, tuning its rhythm and sound across a range of synthesized kits. Build evolving grooves with pattern, density, pitch, accents, and feel controls. Explore each kit’s timbre, and add movement with built-in modulation sources. Keep rhythm and sound independent in each voice's left and right columns - change the timbre without affecting the beat, or change both at once. Performance controls allow interactive mixing/soloing/muting, and global control over drum assignments and pitch. Save and share complete presets to recall your rhythm, tuning, modulation, kit, and mix settings. Presets can be dynamically loaded for another element of in-time performance. Play Tako Kick standalone on iPhone and iPad, or load it as an AUv3 instrument in AUM and other compatible hosts. Sync to the host and use it with MIDI. Tako Kick is a tactile rhythm instrument for finding grooves. Use it to practice drums, get ideas, make beats, or just to have fun.