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Your fave NON-drum-machine / NON-drum-synth iOS app for drum sounds?

u0421793u0421793
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Which iOS apps do you use to make drum sounds that AREN’T drum machines or drum synths?

Comments

  • auxmuxauxmux

    Any synth?

  • wahnfriedenwahnfrieden

    Can only speak to hardware but in terms of what to look for, tight / snappy envelopes is a big differentiator. As is more control than simple ADSR for things like kicks, if you want to meet modern standards.

  • Stuntman_mikeStuntman_mike

    Synthmaster One

  • telechargetelecharge

    DrumJam

  • israeliteisraelite

    Fractalbits

  • IdentorIdentor

    A sampler.

  • LittlewoodgLittlewoodg
    edited May 2021

    Love me some drumsynth and samplers but

    KQ Dixie, Mersenne, Laplace, Frum

  • u0421793u0421793

    @Littlewoodg said:
    Love me some drumsynth and samplers but

    KQ Dixie, Mersenne, Laplace, Frum

    Yes, Laplace is a good one for this.

  • wimwim
    edited May 2021

    Shit. I'm gonna be that guy.

    Drambo. Seriously, it is my favorite for cobbling together synth drums. I did an attempt at a full TR-909 drum kit with it.

    I guess you could disqualify Drambo as a "Drum Machine" on a technicality, but I only used it as a synth except for the hats and cymbals.

  • u0421793u0421793

    @wim said:
    Shit. I'm gonna be that guy.

    Drambo. Seriously, it is my favorite for cobbling together synth drums. I did an attempt at a full TR-909 drum kit with it.

    I guess you could disqualify Drambo as a "Drum Machine" on a technicality, but I only used it as a synth except for the hats and cymbals.

    I get that.

  • u0421793u0421793

    I’m going to include iMS-20, which I know has a rudimentary drum machine but if you uninclude that. And also, the drum side of iMS-20 is comprised of frozen instances of chosen iMS-20 synth patches, which is basically the sort of thing we’re talking about here anyway. So, iMS-20’s synth.

  • lukesleepwalkerlukesleepwalker

    Bebot

  • wimwim

    @u0421793 said:
    I’m going to include iMS-20, which I know has a rudimentary drum machine but if you uninclude that. And also, the drum side of iMS-20 is comprised of frozen instances of chosen iMS-20 synth patches, which is basically the sort of thing we’re talking about here anyway. So, iMS-20’s synth.

    iPolySix is like this too.

  • JanKunJanKun

    Koala with the samurai IAP, and a few farts.

  • SamuSamu

    Poison-202, Lagrange, SunVox for starters :)

  • aleyasaleyas
    edited May 2021

    Burns Audio Granular. You can do some really cool percussion by turning the feedback way up and feeding it note sequence. Sounds like noise on its own, but when you gate it with an amp envelope it’s instant IDM.

    Example (hosted in drambo, and gated with an AD envelope)

  • LittlewoodgLittlewoodg

    @Samu said:
    Poison-202, Lagrange, SunVox for starters :)

    I’m glad someone said it: SunVox. Truth be told having SunVox means I could put all my other toys away.

  • SamuSamu

    @Littlewoodg said:

    I’m glad someone said it: SunVox. Truth be told having SunVox means I could put all my other toys away.

    It's all about being able to 'focus'. I have way, way, way too many apps that distract me all the time...

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]

    Definitely Drambo. The level of depth you can get is epic. Here's one of my drum patches. I've built more but I'm still tweaking them as I create.

    The only thing I don't like about Drambo for drums is that the AD envelope doesn't have smoothing on restart, so it can be kinda clickly. In some of my Drambo patches I actually use sunvox under the hood as an AD envelope because it has smoothing.

  • SamuSamu

    @quartzite said:
    Definitely Drambo. The level of depth you can get is epic. Here's one of my drum patches. I've built more but I'm still tweaking them as I create.

    The only thing I don't like about Drambo for drums is that the AD envelope doesn't have smoothing on restart, so it can be kinda clickly. In some of my Drambo patches I actually use sunvox under the hood as an AD envelope because it has smoothing.

    SunVox inside Drambo is a really nice combo!

    I love to 'draw' waveforms and hosting SunVox inside Drambo let's me do that :)
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/va7mk7byi6f4x9t/draw.mp4?dl=0

  • u0421793u0421793

    Also with something like Drambo or SunVox you have the opportunity to layer freely. I would suggest layering is a key technique for synthesising percussive sounds, as the evolution of percussive sounds involves lots of quite different phases of progression, as the sound goes from start to finish (even though the whole sound is quite short).

  • LittlewoodgLittlewoodg
    edited May 2021

    @Samu said:

    @quartzite said:
    Definitely Drambo. The level of depth you can get is epic. Here's one of my drum patches. I've built more but I'm still tweaking them as I create.

    The only thing I don't like about Drambo for drums is that the AD envelope doesn't have smoothing on restart, so it can be kinda clickly. In some of my Drambo patches I actually use sunvox under the hood as an AD envelope because it has smoothing.

    SunVox inside Drambo is a really nice combo!

    I love to 'draw' waveforms and hosting SunVox inside Drambo let's me do that :)
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/va7mk7byi6f4x9t/draw.mp4?dl=0

    I will try that Drambo combination with SV. It might help me go a bit deeper into Drambo. I wish the Drambo genius would take pity on this old dog and fix the export in his (under the hood) tracker: iSequence… I know I’m barking up the wrong tree…

    Drawing is very cool! I do like to draw into existing stuff, single cycle and other wise

    As a separate thing I use your Yamaha SY85 pack a lot! Thanks for that if I didn’t already thank you

  • SamuSamu

    Or apply some chip-sound techniques and do things like this in SunVox...
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/i4vadwdhxlm450n/ChipDrum.wav?dl=0
    (Loop)
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/j17i24m0pkmc6yp/ChipDrum.sunvox?dl=0
    (SunVox project).

  • SamuSamu

    @Littlewoodg said:

    As a separate thing I use your Yamaha SY85 pack a lot! Thanks for that if I didn’t already thank you

    Glad you like it :smiley:
    The 'new one' from 2021 includes loop-meta data and it's also heavily trimmed down to save even more space :)
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/667hobel8q69rfa/SY85_2021.zip?dl=0
    (Works perfectly with the SunVox sampler too that reads the loop-data).

  • LittlewoodgLittlewoodg

    @Samu said:

    @Littlewoodg said:

    As a separate thing I use your Yamaha SY85 pack a lot! Thanks for that if I didn’t already thank you

    Glad you like it :smiley:
    The 'new one' from 2021 includes loop-meta data and it's also heavily trimmed down to save even more space :)
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/667hobel8q69rfa/SY85_2021.zip?dl=0
    (Works perfectly with the SunVox sampler too that reads the loop-data).

    Sweet update...from your Renoise to my SunVox. In fact I'll probably drop them into my Renoise.
    Big thanks.

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