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Best realistic drum app
Hey all, just wondering what the most realistic drum app for iOS is? I want something that suits heavy rock but isn't already extremely pre-processed as i'd like to handle that myself in Auria Pro.
Thanks in advance.
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You'll probably get a lot of votes for Drum Session, DrumPerfect Pro and Rock Drum Machine 4.
All those three are at the very top! My number one is Drum Session, RDM and DPP. All three but right now Drum Session is rocking my songs big time! Easy to use, to understand, and to get things done in no time! Great update is coming as well, and LINK is on the cooking pot, so, it's just getting better and better. Top notch developer too! Did i mention it is going Universal soon?
As said above.
Drum Session is just so easy to get stuff done and sounds pretty realistic.
DrumPerfect Pro is a drum tweekers dream and sounds great too.
Then you have all the Luis Martinez apps.
All great apps above. Watch some videos and read reviews and then choose the style that best suits you.
Or like many here....just buy any great drum apps going, cos drum apps are super cool fun
Just to add. DrumPerfect Pro has individual audio outs to process everything in either AUM or Auria Pro
Thanks for the tips guys, I hadn't come across Drum Session in my searches - does it have individual audio outs?
Drum Perfect Pro if you want to do the drums yourself. One of the others if you're looking for loops.
DrumPerfect Pro. Drum Session is great but the kits are processed. The developer, a great person by the way, is promising a dry kit, which I'm sure will come, but the focus of the app is providing realistic acoustic drums with minimum tinkering. DrumPerfect Pro don't have one of the friendliest interfaces, but it's the closest to the likes of Superior Drummer and BFD we have in iOS (while Drum Session is more like EZDrummer).
Some tracks I made with DPP (and Auria!) for you to judge by yourself:
There is a wonderful video online where they take you through setting up DrumPerfect Pro with Auria Pro. I will post it if I can find it again.
Also don't forget that Auria Pro has some wonderful drum kit downloads. I have also used DrumJam to record midi into Auria for playing back the Auria Kits (you may have to download the kits free from the Auria store.
Drum Session offers 3000+ loops in several genres....or you can create your own patterns as well. https://soundcloud.com/buddemeyer72/sneak-peak-overloud-thm-at
https://soundcloud.com/buddemeyer72/the-lost-unmastered-at
^^^^ By the way, @DerekBuddemeyer is the developer of Drum Session!
If you dont like programming a piano roll and looking for a drum (midi) controller i should go for DrumJam. You can create drum patterns in minutes which takes you hours programming a piano roll. Its Thumbjam for drum apps and also supports great in-build drum sounds. Supports midi in and out and you can control other drum apps and record the midi into your daw and edit afterwards.
Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I just recently got Get Good Drums for Kontakt they have me ruined.
Do these apps have any room/ambient mics?
Truly an awesome humble guy! So happy he's here making music and rocking with us! I love it when the devs are also musicians and know what we need and want....
So happy to be alive in this generation!
You also have live pads in DrumPerfect Pro as well, @Proto: both a full live set with acellerometer velocity, as well as a single/dual one with positional velocity for programming individual instruments. Of course it doesn't function as a MIDI control for third party apps like DrumJam, but you can easily program really complex drum parts in DrumPerfect Pro without resorting to grids (which I despise) or piano rolls (but I really wish DrumPerfect Pro had a piano roll like Drum Session).
No. I've been long pestering the DrumPerfect Pro developers (@Gilbert and @Marinus) for ambient/overheads. You just gave me a good excuse to do it again!
I made several videos about Auria drum kits and DrumPerfect Pro. If I ever get Drum Session I will make a video about this app to
The DrumPerfect Pro Heavt metal kit sounds terrible tbh.
Agreed, although some EQ and randomized/humanized velocity and timing would've gone a long way to fixing it.
This just a demo @Kranick kindly offered us, using the kit as is. Listen to my song Mach5 to check out how the kit sounds in a mix after some FX and so on.
DrumPerfect Pro new update will offer a palette of 16 instantly switchable rooms ( that you can chose from more than 100 presets ), with a dry/wet level send per instrument.
Add to this an already existing option for bleeding instruments ( snare, etc... ) with a 3 levels intensity selection.
I don't know if it is somewhat realistic to expect, at this time, the same level of control/performance from an app ( iPad environment ) versus a much bigger software ( often with massive sound libraries ) on advanced computer/laptop OS .
Besides let's keep in mind that processing power and RAM can vary considerably from one iPad model to another.
Please check the packs demos at:
https://soundcloud.com/user-45973677
Rock and Jazz examples:
Achilles Last Stand!!!
This is great news, @Gilbert. in a technical level, the current kits use disk streaming or are loaded in the RAM? because if you use Disk Streaming with the very fast SSDs of current iPads, at least in theory would be possible to load very large libraries... Or not? If you release a 1 GB or bigger library IAP, I'd surely buy it: the iPad is my main workhorse now.
That's right!
The full track performed by DPP will be posted on YouTube, and all the patterns/song be part of a signature JB IAP pack. ( Still studying this possibility )
Thanks @Gilbert - of course I understand the limitations of the platform. I'd be happy with a single snare & kick (but preferably) remotely close to some of my Kontakt options such as below, even if they were sold as individual IAPs:
All the best.
Perhaps more so on the cymbals (they sound very fake), but I'd certainly replace/enhance the kick & snare with some existing samples and process them further with my DAW...Would be nice to then get them back into DrumPerfect Pro to eliminate the external processing required for future songs/sessions.
You can use your own samples and even create your own kits in DrumPerfect Pro. So what you describe is perfectly doable.
Kits samples are loaded in the RAM. ( That way it is possible to switch in real time to another kit. )
We try to make each pack as compact ( in size ) as possible for quick download, as well as saving precious space on iPad ( for other kits too... )
This without compromising quality and quantity ( multisamples )
So I am afraid 1gb library doesn't fit this approach.
Large libraries like pianos, symphonic orchestras are probably so space consuming because of long, sustained samples. Do we need such long samples for percussive sounds, drums?
In fact, some costumers I make arrangements for prefer the drums I make.with DPP versus the ones I create with EZDrummer, so the result is good, regardless of technical specs. But then again, if huge size for drum libraries don't matter that much, why does Superior Drummer use it? Just to annoy its users with huge downloads?
I've been considering Drum Sessions myself but at $25 it has to be a pretty educated purchase if you know what I mean. Drum Apps (like Patterning, DM2, Elastic Drums, etc..) are some of the funnest to play apps out there but creating sophisticated song-length drum tracks, with lots of cool fills and whatnot, can be a lot of work in apps like that. Sometimes I just want to put together a drum track quickly so I can get into adding other instruments right away. Plus I actually prefer acoustic drums, which Drum Sessions specializes in.
One thing I don't understand is why so many drum apps use a piano roll instead of a grid like DM2 and Elastic Drum? Isn't that kind of counterintuitive? I'm still relatively new to this so be gentle heh.
They include lots of microphone options and have multiple kits. Surely it should be quite possible to get such a lib below 1GB in an EZDrummer manner (reducing options)?