Drummer Friend Drum Machine
Drummer Friend Drum Machine
Rating (3.4)
Reviews: 4
Category: Music

Description

over 140 rhythms covering almost all styles, everyone user customizable and with intro fill-in variation and ending, 22 stereo quality cd samples, plus 16 vintage mono, realtime wavetable synthesis, multilayer/multivelocity for key sounds, audio effects expander/limiter, reverb, bass boost, 3D, equalization presets, humanized playback.

Preset drum machine (also programmable) for live playing with your preferred musical instrument.

Features:

  • 112 presets rhythms everyone with intro, ending, fill-in and variation parts
  • 48 stereo sounds for a comprehensive acoustic drums kit and percussions using 222 samples at CD quality, plus 16 mono vintage samples of tr808.
  • multilayer sampling of key sounds (kick, snares, high hat, stick, toms, ride cymbals, rimshot)
  • effects engine with reverb, bass boost,3d virtualizer, equalization curves
  • humanized drums playback based on evaluation of real human errors: every beat sounds slightly different for timing, volume and timbre
  • editor that allows to modify existing rhythms and create new ones
  • possibility of send and share your rhythms
  • limiter effect that simulate compressor used on drums recording; the sound is first expanded and then limited with a limiter; the main stream volume control can be used to compensate this effect on sound level.

styles:
12/8, 16 beat, 8 beat, afro, arabian, ballad, 6/8, beguine, boogie, bop, bossanova, blues, cajun, cha cha, cumbia, dance, disco, dubstep, hip hop, foxtrot, funk, fusion, jazz, joget, groove, 6/4, lambada, latin, merengue, pop, slow, rock, rumba, reggae, samba, salsa, shuffle, march, songo, swing, tango, techno, twist, waltz, world

To modify an existing rhythm select it from main app and touch the edit checkbox,
then the rhythm editor will be started and show four tracks of events view with some controls in the upper part of screen.
Every quarter note is divided by 24 ticks, at 12th ticks we have an 1/8 note, at 6Th ticks a 1/16 note, at 3 ticks 1/32 note, at 2 1/32 triplet, at 1 tick 1/64 triplet.

You simply touch a + symbols or an existing sound and the app show you a dialog for add, modify or clear an event.

With the play button in the up-left you can play your sequence while edit it.
(on single core devices the scroll is disabled when play to avoid audio glitches)
The combo in the up-middle selects the part of sequence that will be edited.
When you press back, if rhythm with same name exists,
the editor ask you if you wish overwrite existing one or you could change the name creating a new one.
The rhythm name on the right is also a button for actions menu.
You can:

  • Create new empty rhythm (with 2 empty measures for every part)
  • Add one measure to the end of current part
  • Remove the measure at the end of current part
  • Copy current part to another part
  • Change or clear sounds on current part
  • Delete this rhythm
  • Rename this rhythm

On the selection list in the main screen the user sequences are written in blue bold style.
User sequences are stored in /drummerfriend/usersequences.xml that is a xml format file.
You can share your sequences with another user (that must have drummer friend ver 1.2 or above) sending this file as attachment with Gmail.
When the user receive and views this attachment from Gmail using drummer friend, sequences will be imported.

  • Features:
  • over 140 presets rhythms everyone with intro, ending, fill-in and variation parts
  • 48 stereo sounds for a comprehensive acoustic drums kit and percussions using 222 samples at CD quality, plus 16 mono vintage samples of tr808.
  • multilayer sampling of key sounds (kick, snares, high hat, stick, toms, ride cymbals, rimshot)
  • - effects engine with reverb, bass boost,3d virtualizer, equalization curves
  • - humanized drums playback based on evaluation of real human errors: every beat sounds slightly different for timing, volume and timbre
  • editor that allows to modify existing rhythms and create new ones
  • possibility of send and share your rhythms
  • limiter effect that simulate compressor used on drums recording; the sound is first expanded and then limited with a limiter; the main stream volume control can be used to compensate this effect on sound level.
Product ID: XPDP013RRC2GQX
Release date: 0001-01-01
Last update: 0001-01-01