Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
finger drumming on iphone. best app
I’m tired of drum machines. i just want to drum out the rhythms i have in my head and not program them when on the go. ipads have some really nice drum apps for finger drumming. but
what are some your favorite iphone apps that let you just finger drum out your drum parts?
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Impaktor
i have that one, and love it, but it’s kind of hard to do in a place that is either to noisey, or need to be quiet. but excellent suggestion. thanks
I use Samplebot for finger drumming on iPhone.
samplebot... cool....ill check that one out. > @lukesleepwalker said:
DrumJam is pretty great
is impc2 for iphone anygood?
Meh. Check out FingerBeat. It is
Free and very flexible.
fingerbeat? that’s still a thing, that is the very first ios music app i ever bought. i did t think it was still available.. cool thanks
i like the mutitibral pads feature. is it audiobus compatible? > @eross said:
I just recently used it with AB. It has nice AB support including separate transport buttons for its sequencer and tape recorder in the AB palette.
FB is great.
awesome!> @espiegel123 said:
This is being updated
Drums by Asrodot by Arno VAN GOCH
I’m sorry, I’ve just realized that I don’t know how to share links from the AppStore on my iPad
it looks updated and way cooler than i remembered. what does the in app purchases open up? > @espiegel123 said:
now worries i’ll find it on the app store. thanks
not exactly a drum app, but I found that GeoShred is quite good for finger drumming. Using its MIDI output. Slight pitch bending is nice for drum sounds.
Edit: ups, for iPad only. Well I guess one can do the same with Drumjam anyway.
It is completely free. At this point, the IAP is just a way to give money to the developer. All features are unlocked now. I think when it went free, he didn't rip out the existing IAP code.
agh yeah, that sounds interesting > @Phil999 said:
What about Koala?
koala is pretty sweet. i’ve been jamming on that a lot lately.
Remixlive is probably worth a look too.
i’ll check it out. thanks > @BiancaNeve said:
can you load your > @BiancaNeve said:
own samples into it?
Could you do the same with GeoSynth? Which does work on the phone.
how do you set it up. is there a GM drum layout, or did you have to setup a custom layout
actually I meant GeoSynth, that's the app I once used in a great session with a bass player and a sax player. And I was the one who defined the tempo. And indeed, there's a version for iPhone, although - as it seems - as a separate purchase.
But again, I guess one can do finger drumming with many apps, including pitch bend. I was just remembering this session many years ago where GeoSynth was used, and that it sounded absolutely great. At that time it was rather unusual to play the main rhythmic part with a tablet, rigidly attached to a window frame with a K&M iPad holder, hammering on the glass surface like crazy, and producing such an interesting rhythm.
Good news...
GeoShred is compatible with the iPhone.
DM2?
There are a lot of great apps above. But, if you're talking about classic 16-pad finger drumming (a la Mad Zach), none of them will do. For example, I use my MidiFighter or QuNeo to drum with a 4x4 grid on Groove Rider.
I have some recommendations for apps that will get you what you want, with different pros and cons:
iMaschine 2
https://itunes.apple.com/app/imaschine-2/id989330818
16 pads right in the center of the phone. Easy to load samples. Decent starter kit plus IAPs. Plus, import your own sounds.
iMPC Pro 2 for iPhone (or the old cheap version of iMPC)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/impc-pro-2-for-iphone/id1413887036
May be overkill for what you want, but the most authentic MPC experience on iPhone.
BeatHawk
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id839563064
Love the sounds in this app, but many of them go beyond classic finger drumming samples.
MidiStudio (there's also a pro version)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/midi-studio/id519720275
Had a DrumPad you can configure.
ChordPolyPad
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chordpolypad/id694599930
If you don't have this for triggering chords, you should. It's fun to finger drum chords. But, you can also create 1-note "chords" on each pad to correspond to a drum note to trigger a kit in another drum app, sample app or soundfont player. Also, it has a full screen mode, but the pads become rectangular.
Good luck.
Velocity Keyboard
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/velocity-keyboard/id1462605052
This midi controller app - with a configurable X x Y drumpad layout is simply fantastic. The velocity sensing algorithm works very well, at least for my playing style. And you can fine tune the velocity curve etc. to your liking. I am using it mainly on the iPad with BM3 (pads mapped to focus actions), but I would imagine it works just as well on the iphone to send midi to other apps.