Wherever you are, in the lunch break, in the park, in bed, wherever the inspiration comes to, having the right drum app on your iPad or iPhone, your idea can turn into your next musical masterpiece. We bring you a round-up of some of the best drum machines for iOS devices, especially for the iPad owners. Starting with 1. IMaschine By Native Instruments iMaschine app from Native Instruments features 16 virtual pads, which can be loaded with 25 different kits (100 MB of content, over 400 samples) also included with the app. With iMaschine you can record and create your own drum samples through the integrated microphone from your iOS device. Discover more features of this app at Apple Store where it’s available for £3.99/$4.99.
More Details: 2. IELECTRIBE By KORG iELECTRIBE app recreates the historic Korg’s ELECTRIBER drum machine, being very fun to use and very intuitive – just like his vintage analog synthesizer predecessor. It features a 16-step sequencer, 8 Effects, Audio export function and much more. IELECTRIBE is a dedicated iPad app and cannot be used with iPhone and iPod touch. You can get iELECTRIBE from Apple Store for $19.99.
More Details: 3. IMPC By Akai Professional Who make beats and not ever heard about Akai’s MPC? IMPC app transforms your iPad into a veritable MPC machine including everything you need to create beats fast and easy. IMPC includes over 1200 samples, 50 editable programs, and 80 editable sequences. You can record and make your own samples, create beats and share them on Soundcloud, Facebook, Twitter or just export them on your computer. IMPC is compatible only with the iPad and requires iOS 6.1 or later.
Jun 1, 2012 - The DM1 was the very first drum machine software I ever bought for iOS. The list of saved songs is designed way to small for the iPad's large screen. More;; Access to occasional giveaways, discounts, and free downloads. DM1 is an advanced vintage Drum Machine. It turns your iPad into a fun and creative beat making machine. Easy and fast to use, loaded with 108 superb electronic.
You can download this app directly from App Store for $6.99. More Details: 4.
ISpark by Arturia If you’re already familiar with the desktop version of Arturia’s, then you know that you’re dealing with a very powerful beat-making tool. ISpark is one of the best virtual drum machines that you can have on your iPad, featuring a large variety of drum kits and individual instruments based on the most renowned drum machines and top-notch sound design. ISpark includes the multi-rewarded TAE® analog synthesis technology, physical modeling, and multi-layered professional samples. Find more about iSpark and get it from App Store where is available for $19.99. More Details: 5. DM1 By Fingerlab DM1 is an advanced iPad vintage Drum Machine application capable of transforming your iPad into a creative and fun beat machine. Right from the beginning, you will get 108 superb electronic drum kits edited and mastered at Fingerlab professional studio.
DM1 bring 5 main sections: The Step Sequencer, The Drum pads, The Mixer, The FX Trackpads and The Song Composer. Discover all its features at Apple Store where DM1 is available priced at $4.99. More Details: 6. Egoist by Sugar Bytes Egoist for iPad is the mobile version of Sugar Bytes’ plugin of the same name. The iOS version comes with three main modules: Bass/Beat, Slicer and Effects.
You can use Egoist in the studio or on the road to create new tracks using even your mp3 library as the sound source. Is still one of the greatest drum machines for iPad devices on the App Store.
This drum app is available priced at £22.99 and requires iOS 8.0 or later. More Details: 7. Diode-108 By Vibrant Digital Engineering Diode-108 Drum Machine is another great free music making app for music producers that allow you to control each effect “HIT BY HIT”.
Diode-108 includes a variety of built-in drum kits, from classic, vintage to acoustic drum sounds, but you can use your own drum kits in Wav format. Another great feature of this app is that you can simply drag-and-drop effects to your groove.
It’s really fun to use the app and can be yours for FREE at Apple Store. Update: Not Available Anymore 8. EGDR909 By ElliotGarage EGDR909 is a drum machine app that emulates the 909 hardware drum machine from the 80’s. If you are a vintage fanatic this drum app brings a realistic interface and high-quality drum sounds. Also, it features a 16 step sequencer, 48 programmable rhythm patterns, audiobus support and export possibility directly to iTunes or Audio Copy. Best thing is that EGDR909 works on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You can have this app on your device for $3.99 via App Store.
More Details: 9. BOOM 808 By Pulse Code TR-808 is a drum machine that changed music forever since 80’s.
In recent years it returned in force, and that has caused more companies to launch various products on the market such as samples libraries, plug-ins and applications that offer these wonderful drums. Boom 808 iOS drum machine app puts at your fingers all the classic 808 drum sounds plus some extra features like step sequencer, core MIDI, audiobus, compressor, swing and overdrive.
You can record an export live drum sessions to your Soundcloud or even to iTunes. Boom 808 is available for iPad and needs iOS 7.0 or later. You can download this drum machine application from Apple Store where is priced at just $1.99. More Details: 10. Vatanator By Backpullver Vatanator is a unique drum machine app for iPad featuring advanced MIDI functionality, 140 built-in presets emulating every classic vintage hardware plus a 16/32 steps sequencer with advanced MIDI options and more. Priced at $5.99, Vatanator app is available for iPad and requires iOS 7.1 or later.
More Details. Patterning By Olympia Noise Patterning is a modern iPad drum machine app with a great design based around a circular interface. It is a deep and flexible drum machine that allow you to create dynamic drum patterns with the swipe of a finger. Besides the classic vintage drum machine samples, Patterning also includes some exclusive modern drum kits. This app is available via Apple Store priced at $9.99, compatible with iPad (Requires iOS 8.1 or later).
More Details: I hope that this list to help you find the perfect drum machine application for your iOS mobile device. Feel free to share this article with your friends. If you want to recommend other applications please use the comments section.
Easy and fast to use, loaded with 154 superb electronic drum kits and beautiful hyper-realistic graphics, DM1 has been designed for a lot of instant fun. With Midi In & out, DM1 is ready to fit your digital audio workstation. As electronic musicians ourselves, we, at Fingerlab, have developed DM1 with the intention of delivering the perfect mix between fun playability and powerful sonic capacities. We always keep in mind the importance of a beautiful design with the right balance of powerful abilities while avoiding clumsy, overbusy interfaces. Check our 154 electronic drum kits.
42 classic vintage drum kits plus 112 in-house produced electronic kits, edited and mastered at Fingerlab professional studio. Add easily bass and melody to your beats with the instrument mode. DM1 offers 5 main sections: 1 - THE STEP SEQUENCER Just turn on and off steps in your sequence to create cool beats, or unexpected rhythms! 2 - THE DRUM PADS simply lets you play and record the beat that tickles your fingers on the keyboard. No need to be a first-class drummer, automatic quantize does the work for you. 3 - THE MIXER for quick and subtle sound mixing of your drum kits. Featuring settings for volume, pitch, pan, sample length, custom drum kit element for each channel, mute and solo mode.
4 - THE FX TRACKPADS a creative duo of FX trackpads to distort, modulate and transform your beats. The effects include: Overdrive, Delay, Reverb, Envelope filter, Phaser, Dub Delay, Formant, Texturizer, Robotizer, Dalek, Resonant Filter, Compressor & Noise Gate. 5 - THE SONG COMPOSER allows you to quickly make a song with the beat patterns you have created. Just drag and drop the patterns onto the timeline. Fast and easy. DM1 for OSX is fully compatible with DM1 for iPad, you can share files between them.
If you’re a hardcore beatmaker DM1 is a hidden gem for (mostly) obvious reasons: tons of kits - many of them iconic - and a sweetspot of control that’s simple yet so effective. If you’re new to making beats I can’t think of a better place to start than with DM1: easy to get going and plenty of room to explore and expand. Given the FX automation basic beats can reach new heights and export of each drum voice works amazingly when taking DM1 material into other DAWS etc. Really smart and truly great sounding: DM1 is essential. Very Cool and Fun, with two limiting features 4/5. Very impressive choice of drum sounds, and I love the way it displays it out on the screen. IT shows each main beat with its subdivision that you just write ontoawesome!
I just need to beg you, Please make it so that we can switch between drum sets in the middle of a song!! That would make it so much more awesome. And please add two functions: Allow us delete songs, we are made to clear out the screen and can never completely delete a project?
2) Let us scroll through the timeline. THANKS You’re the Best! My kids love to play with it. Terrible 2/5.
There is no way should this app be an Editors Choice. It’s clunky, unresponsive, and clearly unoptimized. I wanted to use this app to trigger a physical drum machive via midi, but the midi setup panel does not work at all. It’s confusingly setup as if it’s a midi router. Why is it a midi router? This midi setup panel does not remember any settings and it doesn’t let you change any of the setting either.
I have around 20 midi inputs and outputs, and when I press the “Refresh” button it goes through your various midi inputs and outputs and assigns one of them (Randomly?) to all 5 of the routing fields. In my case, this is a midi port in the middle of a midi interface that has 8 inputs and outputs. The app does not display the correct port name, and there is no way to change these fields to other midi inputs or outputs.
This app should only have one midi input port that it accepts input from, and one midi ouput port that it sends output to, and those should be selectable, and the app should remember the chosen settings. NEED TO UPDATE/FIX THIS THING 2/5. On my iMac it has a few bugs. When I’m in “full screen” viewing mode, the top inch of the screen disappears. If I click out of full screen mode, then click back in it fixes the problem for about 15 min. It stops playing audio, and when it stops it never comes back unless I reselect all the samples for each track.
It does not always keep my saved my work. I can save a song and reload it a few times, then suddenly it’s not there anymore. I emailed the company via their website a week ago, still no answer. I’m using a 2012 iMAC 2.7 GHz quad core i5 with 10.12.2 DM1 came so highly recommended, so I’m feeling like I just blew $10. Aside from that I like it (when it works) the sampled drum sounds are really good and the effects/sequencer/mixer/ are too. So it gets 2 stars.
The other three come when they respond to my email and help me get this thing working.:). Great within its limitations revised review 4/5. If you are new to drum pattern programming, this is really hard to beat (pu-pu-pun not intended). If a rhythm pops into my head in the middle of work, this is that app I launch rather than Ableton Live or GarageBand. If I am in my living room, I launch the iPad version, out and about, the iPhone version. It’s intuitive with enough advanced features to tweak away for hours. I highly recommend it, but it really needs to have an AU version (on Mac and iOS) for it to play well with other apps and be integrated into my music making process.
(I originally also wrote, 'Project files should be transferable between the Mac and iOS versions.” However, I finally found that this feature also exists in the iPhone version where it is located hidden behind the Song Load button rather than with the other export options.). So intuitive 5/5. DM1 has an impressive collection of sounds. It is easy to make fun grooves in standard time-signatures. Though the app shows 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 as options, it does not treat the dotted quarter-note as a beat (which is standard). So it is basically just truncating the pattern length with no actual triplets. This is a considerable oversite since you might like to have a groove with actual triplets in it.
It’s not a deal breaker, it is just a “fake” feature that requires you to do some work-arounds. All they would need to do is scale the step to beat/tempo ratio from 4:1 to 3:1. I’ve mentioned this to the developer but gotten no response about it.
Would love to see this app evolve into a more rhythmically versatile machine. For example, would love to see beats be able to be divided (per track, per beat) a la iOS’s Molten. Could see this growing into the next FL Studio 5/5. I really hope this developer continues to update this and grow it like FL Studio (Fruity Loops) did.
Fruity loops started out as a much more simple product and emerged into a powerhouse that unfortunately only runs on Windows. This looks like a great start for a replacement. I do have an issue when midi syncing to my analog synth (MicroBrute) in that the syncing seems half a note off. I don't think it's a latency thing because if I have it serve as a master and drive notes on the synth, it syncs perfectly. it’s good not great 3/5.
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DM1 for the Mac is a great, old school style drum machine that gives you a fantastic array of classic machines (most of the big names and some obscurities) as well as a surprising amount of contemporary sets covering pretty much every genre it could (I mean, they went as far as commissioning the psychedelic post-punk / Portishead connected band Beak to make a kit). Will you make a record with it? No - while DM1 offers a some meldodic elements, it’s a drum machine and isn’t really pretending to be anything beyond that - it’s not a DAW.
With that in mind, there’s no reason you couldn’t record some banging drum sequences, export a sound file and use it in a project in your DAW of choice. Well, beyond laziness. In my opinion, DM1 is fantastic as a sketchpad and an easy, no hassle app to just pull up and make some beats with that are absolutely usable in bigger production.
That anyone could complain too much for something this user friendly, with this big a library and this cheap is just telling that we’ve become spoiled by the 99¢ price point (I’m sorry - ten bucks for what DM1 does is more than fair). Perspective: if this, in the same form, were a VSTi / AU / RTAS, you’d be paying anywhere from 60 to 200 bucks US. I mean, c’mon.
why I can’t see “Swing” on mac 2/5. I have this on my iPad and it’s a ton of fun.
Why on earth is this not available as an Audio Unit plug in???? I really really want to know why Current version, FX DO NOT work on individual sounds. Only in MASTER mode. Otherwise, fun app. Just seems buggy in the desktop version and it’s again, ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS that this isn’t available as a plug in for use in Logic. Will change my rating if the FX bug is fixed to a 4. I will change it to a 5 when I can use this as a plug in.
A couple of minor screen issues. When switching to full-screen mode, the graphics are displayed a bit too far to the right, with a blank, black area on the left and the right side rolling off the monitor.
After switching back to window, the window displays much larger than the graphic interface, leaving several cm of black space around the right and top. I have screen shots, but obviously I can’t post them here. I realize this may not be the best place to post this, but I clicked the support link and after navigating around the Fingerlabs site I can’t seem to find a link for tech support. There are “envelope” icons, but they simply open an email window with no addressmore for sharing the page with a friend, not so good for contacting the developers unless I already have their address. So hopefully someone will see this. Otherwise, everything works well so far.
I’ve used the iPad version for years. I purchased both the desktop and iPad v’s of DM1 awhile ago. And its been awhile since i’ve even bothered to open either app. Both have been plagued by crashes from day one, but the desktop v seems to be a guaranteed bomb every time I open the thing - getting back to its “possibilities”.
Just as I’ve loaded in my own acoustic drum kit, one piece - one sound/sample at a time - before I can save the new kit, it crashes. I don’t ever use the word “crash” in re to apps and OSX/iOS, but I don’t know what else you call a perfect flight to a great destination that suddenly has you plummeting into the open ocean with all of your luggage and medication (files, samples, sequences, etc) lost to the depths of the Hadreatic Abyss.However I have not tried to use DM1 since this latest update. If its changed, which it seems that the issues have been ironed out - I will be re-vamping to 5 stars. Its potentially a GREAT sequencer that can control (or be controlled by) all your midi apps and the kicker is that you have only your own limits as far as what sounds you throw into the “drum kits”. It comes with enough to have hours of production with simple parameter changes – after my acoustic kit is in, next step is experimenting with words and phrases to see what will happen sound fun?. Just a buggy toy 1/5. I really wanted this to be a great drum machine, but the desktop version is buggy.
I could accept graphical bugs, but what I can’t accept are sound bugs. Each instrument should be independent, but I am getting weird interactions. Specifically, I find that adding a clap on a beat changes the level of output that comes from a high hat for the next few beats after the clap. These interactions are not musical. In addition, I ran into three visual bugs within 5 minutes of using the program, so quality control is just no happening.
I wish I could get my $10 back. Pretty good!
I’ve been looking for an app software Drum Machine I can just launch and put ideas down and this is very effective in doing that, just like vintage drum machines. Barely any mousing, menu-ing, just instant ideas. DM-1 won’t replace that kind of instantaneous inspirational drum pattern making (I hate the term “beatmaking”) you have in vintage machines but this is pretty darn good! You don’t even need to read the manual, it's that easy to use! The only issues I have with it is in the FX and STEPS pattern sections, I’d love to see individual FX AUX SENDS for each drum sound, and some gated reverb and other interesting FX. When using vintage drum machines and even new modern drum machine synths one doesn’t LOOK at a pattern, that was the great thing about drum machines.
The “Fruity Loops” (careful not to go too kiddie fun with it.) steps sequencer is a common standard UI thing now, but it bothers me to no end LOOKING at beats, I’m listening. So The default screen that shows up should be a user choice and I’d like to see the pattern step part dissapear when creating drum patterns (I can’t stand it when certain people say “beats”) and only bring it up as a tool to REMOVE or ADD or FIX small issues, NOT as a compositional starting point. I recommend this from actually using a few special vintage drum machines. And this step sequencer could be replaced by an expanded 2x8 PAD section as an option, to also mimic some of the other great vintage drum machines. And even a UI look for each drum machine would rock! Only three stars to encourage more development and once it has a few of these suggestsions, in my view, this is a 5 star app!. its ok 1/5.
This app works fine for me in OS7, but unfortunately, does not behave with Maverics. Multiple hangs, stops responding, won’t export, frozen controls, etc.
It is what it is for a $10 step-imput drum machine. This is a standalone app, not an Audio Unit or VST, so it will not open in Logic or other DAWs.
What I would like to see that as an improvment, as well as the addition of swing, as exported patterns (if you could export them) would have some groove, and be more real world useful. (Mav’s 10.9.4, late 2012 iMac 2.9 ghz, 8 GB ram). I expected more from this app 1/5. Drum machine for the Mac done very well. Super clean and easy to understand interface, really simple to learn.
You can create your custom kits so you can mix and match sounds however you want. Working with the buttons and nobs are alot of fun because it feels like a real drum machine, even the Efx pad is really cool and I find it be very responsive. The app itself feels stable, I’m skeptical about another review I found where they said it didn’t work — the app feels solid and doing things like saving your songs and making any custom changes doesn’t seem to do anything to the performance of the app — I’m sure the other user is running an old unsupported version of OS X. In any case, this app is really awesome and if you want to have fun building songs and beat patters, have a crack at it, definitely recommended.
Pretty Solid!