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VADrum2 factory rhythm presets demo
I have VADrum2 for about an hour or so, and it has been impossible to find any demo on this fabulous sounding drum machine, so that’s always a bit of a gamble if it’s any good. Well, for the short period I played with it, it is!
I decided to make a short video where I run through the factory rhythm presets from its onboard sequencer. I think, listening to the quality of the sounds, the only reason this app has been flying so low under the rader is, that there has been 0 reviews covering VADrum2. Hopefully you get a good idea how it sounds. Very 808/909 and it’s synthesis.. not just sample based!
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Glad you like it! Definitely a sleeper. Good share 👍
Yes, and I am setting it up with Octachron. It’s not difficult to map (but how do I store it?) I immediately wanted to have more rows as you can’t map all the sounds at once from VADrum. Let’s say I can’t make a complete 808, you have to think about the sounds you want in it or not. But I have been wanting a sequencer that can mutate the sounds and Octachron does it nicely.
Yes, you need a couple of Octachron’s currently for the full 16 kit. I think read in the Octachron thread that expanding to 16 is on the roadmap which would be great.
I had the same question about saving a mapping. I think the developer can only do that at the moment? The user preset saves the mapping as well so you can still get to it another way.
Right, that is how I did it as well, save as an user preset, thought there would be another way than that
Anyway, good to hear there is a possible 16 row in the pipeline for Octachron!
Sounds quite good indeed. May I ask if it can generate fills automatically, a'la Lumbeat and Drumcomputer etc?
Maybe others can answer this, but I think it’s more manual dotting in the patterns and all. I bought it to use it with Octachron. Because of the lack of a proper review there is a lot of myst and mystery around this drummachine. The developer did some sort of a quick demo video that I find very hard to understand as it’s been recorded too small and going to fast without knowing exactly how to do things. Programming great stuff is one thing, but letting people know what it can do and how it sounds is an essential part of this business imho. Or else no one talks about it.
Thanks in any case.
And FWIW I completely agree with you - lack of meaningful product communication (manuals, tutorials etc.) is a problem with many iOS devs. I understand and appreciate why it happens, but that doesn't make it less unfortunate. With some exceptions I stopped buying such apps because I noticed that I was abandoning them much more frequently than the ones with proper documentation etc., so then why waste money on them in the first place.
An interesting alternative solution would be to make @Gavinski or @sfm Leo mandatory for any devs launching a new app without a manual... 🤓
Glad you’re enjoying it. I bought it a few weeks ago and have really been liking it as well. The UI isn’t the most intuitive but the it is in active development (just had a pretty big update) which is nice. His synths are some of the best on iOS as well.
The UI is far from intuitive, one of the reasons I wanted to pair it with Octachron.
Definitely took me a while to parse through some of it.
Is this what you mean, I think so
This is a roll, but thank you, it's still useful info. 👍
What I meant was a fill, when at the end of every 4th, 8th etc. the app generates a variation (a different one each time) using the sounds that are in the current kit. This emulates a human drummer, sometimes quite believably.
This video has some examples from a Lumbeat app. Here the fill is set for every 8th, you can see when the button with 8 on it becomes grey around 0:17 for instance, and a variation is played before it gets back to the programmed beat:
Reminds me very much of the mutation settings in Octachron in some way.
Ok, not sure about that, but if I see it somewhere hidden in the menus I’ll let you know
Thanks again. I also have Octachron, so that mutation thing sounds interesting too, will check it out. 👍
@ervin is doesn’t generate fills but I set it up to be run by lumbeat pretty easily, vADrum is mapped to general midi pretty well from what I remember
Nice. So you're using it as a drum sound generator. Thanks for the tip! 👍
I found the midi note numbers in the manual, which is a very comprehensive work btw. (I added the colors and TR808/909 for convenience).
Manual on bottom page: http://www.rtmusicsoftware.com/products/vadrum2/
Really impressed by the emulation of the TR’s. The GUI doesn’t give it away at first glance but you get a complete split up 808/909. Every sound can be adjusted with various controls. Fx can be added to each individual sound. It’s not that you can make a completely different drummachine, you are working with synthesized 808/909 sounds* which you can alter in that spectrum. So if you’re looking for an 808/909 and don’t want to work with ‘just samples’, this is it.
*Has that slight variety in the sounds like in the real analog units, no kick sounds exactly 100% the same, something that’s missing if you work with samples (unless you use round robin).
Can you hear it? Little Kick drum demo.
Didn't even know this was out. I have VADrum 1 and quite like it, this looks like a big upgrade.
And because I just cannot resist a drum machine, I've already bought it. @ervin the fills you hear in the video at the top are programmed into the patterns, not found any kind of auto-fill feature. This thing seems really impressive so far, though I did notice some timing issues when running standalone. Seemed fine when hosted though.