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Favorite apps for drum sounds?
I am using Cubasis as my primary DAW. I would like to hear about favorites for drum and percussion sounds. Both electronic and acoustic. Thanks
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Ruismaker and Ruismaker FM for synthesized drums. Funkbox is fairly nice for your drumboxes. Garageband has some nice live drum options.
Electronic....Elastic Drums, Patterning, SeekBeats, FutureDrummer
Acoustic.....Soft/Funk/Rock Drummer, DrumPerfectPro, SampleTank, GarageBand live drummers
Percussion.... DrumJam(a must have) SampleTank, GarageBand live drummers
Are the two Ruismakers very different?
Even though the Cubasis IAP 'Classic Machines' is quite limited it's go enough source material for creating new samples & sounds (Add Effects->Freeze->Save to Media Bay) that can be loaded & mapped into a Mini Sampler instrument.
Sure the Mini Sampler is pretty limited but very easy on the CPU so loading multiple instances is no problem and once one has mapped most of the favourite sounds into a kit it's a breeze to use
On iOS i prefer......no joke.....Garage Band. I just wish it had the Logic drum machine designer which is amazing.
For pure synth drums i like Zeeon, Model 15 and Model D.
For the weird and cinematic stuff Alchemy had some awesome and unique stuff....but i mean the old version.
Ive always used RuisMaker and just started with FM. Ruismaker FM is more versatile but takes longer to get your sound. Both are Brambos of coarse and so excellent examples of apps.
A recent requirement to be able to control all drum/percussion pitches and decay from an external controller has made me look elsewhere and Im loving Patterning (using IAA) for the first time. It's just a rompler (great icloud community kits for free!) and the ruismakers are synthesis, but Im getting closer to the sounds/rhythms I want. (Midi IN would make it perfect for my setup)
Wait a month for Drambo!?
I love all the Luis Martinez apps; the Afro Latin and Brazil apps are really, really great, in addition to the Rock/Funk/Soft mentioned above. I can’t get into FutureDrummer
I also still like Funkbox for classic drum machines, even if it’s rather limited in tweakability.
DrumJam can be very useful, too, sometimes, and Patterning is a cool, unique beast.
Groovebox has some great sounding drums also patterning
KQ Dixie
Audulus 3
BM3 + my vintage drum machine sample archive or rework samples in Reaktor Form and make banks for BM3. I am mentioning BM3 because I also use Cubasis but the sampler in BM3 is really nice to work with. I flip between the two.
Axon 2 for hats and for building algorithmic accents. I would like to try learning to use Axon 2 send midi to another app but haven't tried yet.
I like bm3’s sounds but can’t stand the daw aspect of it. KQ Dixie looks very cool!
In the moog apps can you assign an entire kit to a bank. It just seems to be one voice per bank by default
It has its quirks but I like the idea of using a scene mode. Coming from Ableton, I like to make patterns and then use the traditional song view in the last stages for adding automation over long periods of time and getting into working with a track as a longer presentation. When I want to do any midi routing I gravitate toward Cubasis though. I also really like the freeze function in Cubasis and it feels a bit snappier to work with. BM3 has that nice sidechainable onboard compressor though.
I think the trouble with KQ Dixie is that it requires knowing how to program FM Synthesis. But you also have access
to, what, 30 years of presets?
Drums...
Look what someone just made in Audulus:
Oh wait.....i forgot about an (old) gem.....DrumJam. Nothing better for acoustic percussion for me on iOS.
I love the bedlam as midi out as well.
Also forgot to mention....Inside Korg Gadget...the Gladstone module using Gadgets MIDI import/export is also a good tool for acoustic drums and exporting to DAWs
I like running Ruismaker and Ruismaker FM together, get some really great rhythms that way.
Yeah, for the CPU, speed of workflow, amazing results, rich sound, ease of automation -- Korg Gadget is phenomenal. How come I never use it?
Agree! And Soft/Rock/Punk Drummer they’re all rthe ally amazing when you tweak the kits and snares!
Great many choices!
Beathawk acoustic drum kit is nice
I> @ruggedsmooth said:
Yeah it looked like beat hawk had some nice stuff
Does Beathawk work well if it's hosted in another DAW like Cubasis? I have issues with some apps that have their own sequencers. The hosted app's sequencer wants to play each time the DAW is played.
You have plenty to buy (
), but I will add DM1 to the list. Seems like everything else has been accounted for already.
From the little I know about it, it seems like a closed system correct?
yes, i didn't experience any issues so far. i use beathawk as drum sample player within cubasis.
@Antkn33 DrumKick is another one worth trying out. Free right now. It has a straight forward virtual drum kit layout with 3 kits, no sequencer, no sample import. It’s IAA and paired easily with Rozeta XOX after mapping the correct cc’s (listed in the midi settings). Just picked it up today and haven’t tested in Cubasis yet.
Thanks
Exactly -- probably why it is so efficient. Unfortunately I have always been the kind of person that wants to go buy the wheels, trucks and deck separately so I have a custom setup.
I would say though, if you are using an iphone only, it is still probably the best setup.