Pulse16 vs Glyph Cube

Pulse16 is a beat maker and groovebox for your phone: a drum machine with 16 pads, a sampler, an 808 and an acid synth in one app. Sample a sound or pick a built-in one, tap a beat into the step sequencer, add a bass line with slides and switch patterns while the beat keeps running. No ads, no subscription, no account. Everything works offline. One small purchase unlocks saving projects and your own presets. START WITH A GROOVE • Six complete loops to start from: Acid Drive, Peak Time, Neon Nights, Midnight Run, Kit Jam and French Filter. One tap loads drums, bass line and tempo. • Ten built-in drum sounds for techno, house, trap and synthwave DRUM MACHINE AND STEP SEQUENCER • Four tracks, 16 steps, eight patterns • Tap the drum pads to set steps; the playing step lights up • Velocity per step: long-press a step • Every track can have its own length from 1 to 16 steps • Eight patterns A to H; while playing, the next one starts on the next bar • Copy, paste, clear, shift and duplicate patterns and tracks • 20 to 300 BPM, tap tempo SAMPLER • Load WAV, AIFF, MP3 or FLAC files into the sampler, or record with the microphone • Trim on the waveform, tune up or down by two octaves with fine tuning • Low-pass or high-pass filter and distortion on every sample KITS AND FINGER DRUMMING • 16 sounds on the drum pads of one track, each with its own sample • Finger drumming with Rec records into the pattern in time, with erase and undo • Volume, pan, tune, filter, distortion and choke groups per pad 808 • Synthesized kick and bass with a note per step • Decay, punch, click and drive • Slide steps glide into the next note without a new attack SYNTH • Sine, square, saw and triangle, sub oscillator, unison, filter with envelope, four LFOs, distortion and reverb • Arpeggiator with seven chord types • Draw automation curves over the pads: cutoff, resonance, drive, distortion and reverb per step • The same synth plays mono acid lines on tracks A to C, with slides • Nine factory sounds, from Berlin Minimal and Acid 303 to Outrun Bass MIXER • Volume and pan per track • Pump per track: ducks on every beat, like sidechain compression • Reverb send on tracks A to C • Boost: multiband compression on the master • Output and CPU meters, with a warning light when the mix gets too loud MIDI • USB MIDI controllers: map knobs, faders and pads with MIDI learn • MIDI clock over USB: follow a drum machine or DAW, or send clock to your gear On tablets the groovebox gets a side panel: sound, mixer and presets stay open next to the pads. Pulse16 (Pulse 16) is a beat maker made by one developer in Germany. Feedback and bug reports go straight to me: pulse16@anzalichi.de

Glyph Cube is a pocket beat machine shaped like a metallic cube. Each face is an instrument: a drum sequencer, a melody roll, and a sample slicer. Spin it to switch, tap glyphs to build a pattern, and flick it hard to watch your beat spiral across the faces. - Eight glowing drum glyphs: kick, snare, clap, hat, open hat, rim, tom, bell - Melody roll with scales and octave controls - Slice any sample into playable pads - Record your jams with the mic - No account, no ads, no tracking Spin the cube. Find the groove.