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Nothing to add on the sound/playability side. I love drumjam. I find a few minutes of playing with it always inspires me. It has so much flexibility but I don't get bogged down in programming. It helps me make music,never hinders me.
just bought it. so far I think I made the right choice. the "move finger on a pad for note-repeats" ability is brilliant and makes playing percussive instruments much more expressive than in thumbjam.
Ed the drummer approves. ;-)
You didn't make a choice. You just did what you were told to do. Now go and make some other poor schmuck do the same... MWAHAHAHA!...
Isn't that how Sophie's Choice started?
Lol, your sick. I would think you are joking but I know better.
I was joking. If you think you know me well enough from an anonymous message board that you would assume otherwise, then you really need to reevaluate your life...
It wasn't to you. Your comment snuck in. But if the shoe fits...
Ahh ok, my apologies then, thought you were replying to me, hehe.
@syrupcore said:
This.
And to the hilarious exchange at the end of this thread...
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I love the samples, but count me in for wishing there was more to the sample pad playing aspect. I often use it for really quick percussion loops, but then I have to slice them up in Auria. The drum pads are an awesome way to play, I just wish more of the app focused on that instead of prerecorded loops. Or give us more ways to mangle the loops it comes with.
Chaos Designer in Stylus = Drool.
@syrupcore said:
Brilliant and true.
seems like a difficult app to just play grooves in, all of the clips i've seen are just all over the place, does anybody have any links to some video clips of grooves or beats?
it does look like a quality app though.
It needs a swing function for the loops.....
I just wanted to bump this discussion because I finally picked this app up after a 6-month flirtation, and it's actually much better than I thought it'd be.
Sonosaurus apps work differently than other apps. This is true of ThumbJam, too. If you approach DrumJam with the mindset of getting to work the way you would in DM-1 or any other grid or MPC-style beatbox, you may struggle with it. But all the core functionality you need to either live record (AB or IAA) or export loops (ACP and AudioShare) is there, and is actually better than I've seen in other rhythm apps (and I have a bunch).
PROS:
The sample quality of the instruments is OUTSTANDING. This will surprise no one who has used ThumbJam. But not only do they sound great and there's an awesome variety of them, but they have a human quality to them, particularly when you get the pads involved and tap different areas, which results in different velocities and types of hits.
Exporting loops is super easy, especially if you are an AudioShare user - they are recorded in perfect lenghts for the BPM, and you can set it up to start on the first hit, or after a preview measure - works great.
It IS possible to get some good rock and pop sounds out of this app! (But see first "Con" below about what is holding this back). You can customize your own automated kits, and among these are a rock kick drum, snares, and high hats. Even if you have no understanding of rhythm or drumming, you can get some pretty good loops going, tweak them, or even fully randomize things. For example, you can pick pick a loop that just does high hat patterns, and then tap pads for a bass drum, etc. underneath that.
CONS/SUGGESTIONS:
What kills me the most is that there are all these great instruments, but on the "Parts" screen, which is the one for the automated loop generator that plays in rhythm, most of them are not available. There actually are several full acoustic drumkits (plus some great electrokits as IAP's) that sound great for rock on the pads, but there is no way to take a tom or a bass kick from those pad instruments and tell the app to play it in an automated loop. Which is unfortunate, because the loop control is one of the key unique features of DrumJam.
Related to the earlier point, you could work around my first complaint if the app allowed you to "add to" loops (preferably while quantizing) using the pads, and then have those new hits become part of the loop that plays back. DJ can't do that (yet). It can live record your hits on top of a loop and export that out of the app, but you can't "layer" instruments on top of each other. If you could, it would be pretty easy to put together an entire rock drum beat. I believe Sonosaurus has mentioned this is on their "to-do" list.
Importing your own samples into the app. This is another "to-do" item that Sonosaurus has mentioned, and it would obviously add to the versatility of the app. However, having now bought and played the app, I realize that what is needed in general isn't necessarily "more sounds", but the ability to use those sounds as part of the loop sequencer.
Overall, this is an absolutely terrific app. I just also want to say that while a lot of the instruments seem "exotic", "ethnic", or whatever awkward adjective you prefer, they sound great and could absolutely be used as a small part of a more traditional rock or pop beat.
You can sequence the drums in DrumJam externally and not the loop function within DrumJam at all.
Thanks for nudging me back to take another pass....
@CalCutta said:
Yep, true. I just wanted to point out that there's like 6 rock kits in the app because everybody told me it can't do rock. It can, though it's kind of like two apps in one, and it would be nice to see the acoustic drum kits more incorporated into the "smart drums" side of things.
@dubwavedub said:
Good move fella, it's ace!
@StormJH1 said:
Actually, thinking about it, my suggestion was a little off. Maybe a combination of using the built-in loops, and then use an external sequencer to add whatever other drum hits on top as an accompany? (this is definitely possible)
@CalCutta said:
If it had just one (or maybe two) additional things, it would work absolutely fine for rock or any blend of styles you could want. First, it could use a "quantize" option so your pad hits can be placed in rhythm with the nearest 1/8th note or 1/16th note beat. Second, (and perhaps as a precondition to #1) it needs the ability to use those pad hits to layer over the loop in the background. I was actually surprised that the app didn't do these things, since a lot of basic rhythm apps do. But the developer has explained that there is some time-stretch stuff going on that makes it more complicated than it seems.
Knowing Sonosaurus and reading some of their "to-do" list comments on this forum, I'm fairly confident we'll get some or all of that whenever DJ is next updated.