Any Drum sequencer with built in drumming “technique” ?

jklovemusic

@McD said:
We are still laboring under the assumptions implemented by many drum machines… is there a drum machine that has implemented time signature changes per bar and a nice collection of grace note decorated samples?

It appears splitting the sequencing of midi and the rendering of samples would provide the closest workflow.

I think ignoring the DAW’s limited time signature support and sequencing to the pulse and deciding which pulse is a “one” and mapping all drum events to unique midi notes.

Hopefully a developer sees opportunity to sell a dozen copies to the true drum fanatics out here.

I think mKer can do it. Here is the related description:

• 8 MIDI outputs
• 64 Patterns
• 16 Lanes (aka tracks) per Pattern
• Independent number of Steps (1-32) and Step Size (1/64-256 beats) per Lane per Pattern
• 32 Clips with 1-8 Steps per Clip, 1-128 repeats per step (every clip step has one pattern)
• 3 Play Modes: Pattern, Clip, Sequence (all Clips)

I'm buying this app tonight. @Gravitas, @pedro @rs2000

Edit: it is not just a drum machine, you get 1 to 4 notes per step. It just take 2 tracks/lanes for a 2 hand piano chord.

jklovemusic

To be honest, musicians, including myself, usually don't get the beauty of step sequencers as we are so used to linear/time-line/piano-roll/whatever musical notation scores.

None of these approach give a full picture of the piece of music bening played. But a proper step sequencer can. I can even use it as chord progression/Rhythm hints(if the actual step is not clear, I can use a muted track just for notation)

How great that is.

wim

@jklovemusic said:
I think mKer can do it. Here is the related description:

That does look good. I think I'm gonna give it a spin too.

jklovemusic

I got mKer and Dream Theater is a piece of cake now. No joke it is very flexible @wim

wim

@jklovemusic said:
I got mKer and Dream Theater is a piece of cake now. No joke it is very flexible @wim

Not particularly digging it myself, at least for drums. Maybe it'll like it better for other types of sequencing.

jklovemusic

@jklovemusic said:

@thesoundtestroom said:
@jklovemusic You may also want to check out Beat Scholar

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/beat-scholar/id1632755445https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/beat-scholar/id1632755445

I studied this app as their pizza slices are great and I want it. But they have to edit velocity manually for every note which I cannot cope with.

I can export the midi for further editing but I rather pick a drum sequencer that handle the core drumming better and also do polyrhythm ,just not that easy as BS

Edit: but seriously when I need extreme polyrhythm I will get this app

@thesoundtestroom thanks again for your recommendation. After trying inside out of a few so called polyrhythm apps. Nothing beats Beat Scholar.

jklovemusic

@jklovemusic said:

@jklovemusic said:

@thesoundtestroom said:
@jklovemusic You may also want to check out Beat Scholar

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/beat-scholar/id1632755445https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/beat-scholar/id1632755445

I studied this app as their pizza slices are great and I want it. But they have to edit velocity manually for every note which I cannot cope with.

I can export the midi for further editing but I rather pick a drum sequencer that handle the core drumming better and also do polyrhythm ,just not that easy as BS

Edit: but seriously when I need extreme polyrhythm I will get this app

@thesoundtestroom thanks again for your recommendation. After trying inside out of a few so called polyrhythm apps. Nothing beats Beat Scholar.

EDIT: Velocity can be adjusted per beat on the app!