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DrumPerfect Pro update
Hi, all iOS music producers,
After many months of silence ( and hard work... ), we are, Marinus and I, quite thrilled to announce a much anticipated update of DrumPerfect Pro which is going to bring drums and music production to a new level of realism and creative possibilities.
This is just an appetizer; a more in depth video and list of new features will follow soon, before release.
Meanwhile, here is a 30s clip.
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Sweeeeet !!
I'm still learning the subtleties of DrumPerfect Pro. Glad to see it is still being developed
Exciting stuff! Lots of rhythm apps on the horizon again.
Hi,
Great stuff! Will this be a free update , IAP or fully a new app?
All the best
Looks promising. I have the original DrumPerfect, but never went Pro.
Hi, @Gilbert!
This time the samba with brushes will be there?
fricken sweet! how soon will we get this update? excited about envelopes and time stretching
I don't know if this is of any help but I post it anyway...
Can you guess? (#1...)
But packs remain IAP.
There has been many requests for packs. As there are already 2 Brazilian packs, I had to focus this time on an amazing Latin ( Afro Cuban ) percussion pack as well as authentic Reggae and Afrobeat, and few others too...
But there is a second batch of packs planned before ( Xmas/New year's Eve? ) that will include Jazz brushes as well as... Brazilian brushes ( Samba, Bossa Nova etc...)
Until then... ;-)
Love this app! Was just thinking about this yesterday!
ETA???
Honestly, @gilbert, I already find DPP excellent, sonic-wise: I sometimes have some customers getting more impressed with its results than with drums made with EZDrummer. What really needs to improve, IMO, is file management - it's a huge pain to import MIDI files to it and organize them for usage with DPP, so I ended up leaving my huge MIDI library inside Auria, which works but it's far from optimal - and MIDI mapping: it would be nice to be able to switch between, say, GM and Toontrack mapping with one tap.
Oh, other thing: positional velocity for the live pads, please? Not everyone have access to an adequate iPad support, and accelerometer velocity is not really reliable in itself anyway.
Other than that, the kits are amazing, and I'm looking forward to buy new ones.
All the best,
Dimitri.
super excited now! has it been submitted to the app store for reviews yet? I can't wait
I think this one will be super. Didnt go yet for any packs, do you guys could advise me on a good option to start out of the standard package? Brazilian tones seem appealing to me but open also more jazzy drums. Any preferred pack?
I purchased the jazz drum pack. it's sounds really good. very exspressive too
DPP is still my favorite app for traditional drum parts. I look forward to trying the new features.
I love driving it with pre made midi clips from Cubasis but wish I could figure out the midi stuff better so the sounds are matched in general midi mode.
What you want to do is customize a kit that has the note mappings you need. Start with a kit that you like as the base. Then on the Kits tab touch each instrument, then assign the midi note in the bottom-right section. Then Save-As a new kit. I use the base name with something following it to indicate the variation.
Thanks will try it out!
Very much looking forward to this. Most curious about how loop layering may work, and how many layers. I have been building up a library of loops I'd love to combine in various ways, but not just with the merge function.
Will be that this update is near?
Wow!!!
We are talking about audio loops of course, not just midi, or patterns.
Just think that any one shot sample in a kit can instead be a 20s max loop ( made in DPP itself or imported ), drums or any instrument/sound one can imagine.
Each with very advanced editing functions ( selections, time stretching auto and manual, pitch shifting, extensive graphic EQ and dynamic range compression, convolutions reverbs, etc...)
There are 16x16 ( so a total of 256!!... ) slots available per kit ( 16 kits which can be switched on the fly... ) ( iPad 4 and later highly recommended )
New loops, sounds made from layered loops could then be exported again in DPP, loaded and combined again ( mixed, sequenced, reversed, looped (yes! ), all saved in new kits.
Limitless?
So vast that we are still trying to figure out the range of possibilities...
Seriously.
We are getting close to the release.
However concerning musical content, many new and original packs are been completed at the moment. So we need a bit of patience.
Anyway the iOS music world is not in lack of novelty these days, right?
Best,
A drummer with a sense of the ironic. Excellent
Right, but to brazilian music DPP is still the only one. There are some others, but they don't even come close to our sound.
Thanks
This does sound astounding, @Gilbert! Thank you for the further teasing and details!
I was wondering if a little simpler task might be possible. As an experiment (and this may be an unusual thing to do), I've built up folders with patterns such that each pattern uses only a single instrument. So I have kick drum folders, snare folders, etc. each with solo instrument patterns. Combining these with copy/merge is laborious (not a criticism, what I'd like to do here is unusual).
What I'd like to do is be able to experiment with combinations and permutations of all these, in a quick, easy way. I hope I'm not just missing something already possible. But for example, if it was possible to lock the data for individual instruments so those tracks/channels/instrument lines would stay as they are when you load in a new pattern... that would be amazing and super useful.
So one could select a kick drum beat one likes, lock that, and then try loading different patterns that would leave the kick drum part of the pattern as it is but only load in the other, non-locked instrument patterns/data. Then lock more instruments, then try out more patterns with those locked in. Hope my explanation made sense, and that this is not too strange a suggestion/request.
Unusual until every one does it.. ;-) What you want to do is simply a creative approach to building patterns by combining various instruments parts and listening to the result. Quite similar to what an actual drummer would do ( consciously or not ). Layering, orchestrating from its drums vocabulary, repertoire.
In some of the IAP packs, I have made some folders with patterns and variations for only one instrument to be merged to other instruments parts.
Indeed the copy/merge is still very basic and not ( yet ) the most convenient way to explore in depth all these combinations.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this point.
Yes, that could be one way to do it. Locking the instrument part.
We have already been considering this feature, so your suggestion is right in sync with our thoughts. Nothing strange in it. Now, adding these powerful features without making DPP too "complicated" ( intimidating? ) is a real challenge. It seems.
With the new update it is possible to do what you suggest, at the audio level ( loops ).
Put simply, you build a library of instrument loops/parts ( kick and snares, hi hats, rides, perc, etc... ) by exporting patterns of one instrument at a time, or all stems.
User made patterns, as well as patterns from packs, soloing the instrument part to export.
To start simple, load up to 8 of them per instrument ( 16 would be possible too ), then with the help of the sample on/off on the mini pad ( see picture ) you can mix/combine them in all permutations possible. Each loop volume, length, etc... can be adjusted with its envelope. Export the loop(s) that sounds good with just a tap on DPP icon, or to Audioshare, etc... This is just one way to do it.
Of course that goes beyond the drums territory. Initial loops could be anything.
Well, that was almost a tutorial... :-)
...on a feature not yet released...
Gulp. This looks like an awesome update to an already great app.
Obrigado @Santosgera !
We love Brazilian music and drumming.
There will be more!
Any chance of Reggae and/or Jamaican Ska rhythms ?
Reggae, yes. ( Could include some Ska too. )
@Gilbert and @Marinus: any chance of you guys adding, for a future update (not this one, to make myself clear) a Mixer Page (like we have the pattern page, settings page etc), where we could edit volumes (not velocity, which is a different thing) with faders, as well as adjust panning to our taste, mute and solo drums with a simple mute/solo switch etc.? Sound-wise you guys already got there: many customers and friends often prefer DPP tracks over Toontrack ones, so just this kind of workflow goodness, and I'm prepared to switch fully to DPP and buy every new kit you release.
P.S.: kits with independent overheads and ambience mics (it could be done even before the mixers, just add an intrument called overheads and so on, the same way we have crash 1, tom 2 etc.) with independent faders too (when the mixer page arrives) would be perfect, like in "Drum Perfect"!!!