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Sale: Molten Drum Machine ($4.99 > $0.99)
Seems to be a pretty well-liked drum synth that can import samples if I understand correctly. Haven't used it myself, on the fence about whether to get it personally since I don't like fussing with importing individual samples, but could be powerful...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id398933969
A previous thread about this app that talks about it in more detail: http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/228/molten/p1
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I grabbed it on the sale but never would have paid full price for it, if only because it's older and there are so many alternatives out there. Turns out it still fits into to the modern landscape pretty nicely. It loads up a little slow but runs great once loaded.
There's a fair number of samples already on board and you can set them to the 8 instruments. At first I wasn't a fan because the default samples are kind of thin and 80's sounding. But there's actually a TON of customization including a 3-band EQ for each one, and a wide array of effects. It actually feels more like the effects panel on a synth than a drum machine, which makes sense since One Red Dog is known for synths.
Apart from the effects suite, two features I noticed quickly were the sample import and the number of hits per beat. You can load your own .wav files, which means any acoustic or drum kit sample you have is accessible from DropBox via AudioShare. I assume these can then be saved as part of a preset, so the possibilities are pretty limitless.
The grid allows you to increase up to 9 hits per beat, so you can get almost a glitch/dubstep effect. What's cool about the implementation of this is that you can adjust it one beat at a time, and you can change it on the fly. So, as people noted, there is no song mode, but it is AudioBus compatible, so you could kind of "DJ" it to add fills by changing a single snare into 8 snares as you record through AB.
I certainly didn't need another drum app, but if you give it a chance, it's actually a pretty interesting app. I guess they were going to pull it from the App Store some time back and a lot of people revolted. An oldie but a goodie.
also has MIDI control for all those "synthy" controls and effects
Wow, nice writeup Storm. You've made a compelling use-case, thank you.
So the lack of a song mode... can it ACP "loops" so I can paste it right into my DAW and loop it easily, without having to mess with AB, trimming the clip to the right loop length, etc?
Really not bad at all...like mentioned above, it sounds kind of thin and 80s but it's really intuitive and easy to use. Within 2 minutes of opening it I had a workable beat and I'm nowhere near close to a drummer.
@Steinmetzify said:
Yeah, the interface grid is actually really easy to use! Did somebody above say you can control velocity by STEP? I didn't see where that was, but then again, I only had a few minutes to mess with it before I had to leave.
If I remember correctly you can double tap a step to create a louder hit but that's the extent of the velocity control.
The drum sound controls and the step splitting are great. Also very good at midi sync. The presets system is a little weird and the lack of song mode always make me ignore it.
@syrupcore - Thanks, that's not bad. As different as the graphics look, Molten is kind of a precursor to DM-1 in a lot of ways. DM-1 (IIRC) only really has the double-tap for accent control also.
I don't have enough of a background in percussion to get picky about the whole step-variable velocity thing. Having an accent option is enough for me.
That's just generally how beat machines worked until the 90s. You could accent steps and it usually accented all hits on that step.
Wow, this thing is deceptively cool. Amending what @syrupcore said before, there is a full velocity control PER STEP from 0 to 127. You hold the step and drag up and down - the velocity is displayed numerically on the LCD and the little light on that step changes colors to reflect if its in a low, medium, or high velocity range.
You also can adjust sample pitch by instrument, which is huge, though you can't change pitch by step. (Few drum apps allow for that - EasyBeats 3 is one - but it doesn't really make sense to me anyway because it's not like you can retune a snare drum during a passage!).
The AudioCopy is Sonoma - it worked this morning, but was a little glitchy later (wouldn't recognize items on the pasteboard). But this is one of the few tasks iTunes File Sharing is actually better with - I already have drum samples named on my PC, so it was easy enough to drag 8-10 of them over for each kit and drop them into the Molten folder.
You can arrange kits into patterns with empty grids, and "write" it as a pattern for that kit. You could save a ton of custom kits this way, if you were so inclined.
Really pretty freakin' cool! Love it more for 99 cents, but it's arguably still worth $5 (or more), even in a more modern landscape.