I am presciently embarrassed by the almost certain ease of the solution to my problem. First, this app is nothing short of spectacular. A clever operator could work an entire live (PA) performance with DM-1 alone and it is ENDLESS fun in creation-mode in your environment of choice. If you are as obsessed with drum machines as I am or just like an effective sketch pad, pick this immediately. My problem is that I MOSTLY USE the iPhone version of DM-1. I never noticed before today, I CANNOT LOCATE TEMPO CONTROL. The experience is akin to thinking you might have seen something supernatural; I can’t get my head around it. So again, I am preemptively embarrassed by how stupidly easy this answer will be.

I’ve used this app for 4-5 years now. You don’t use something that long if it’s not good. Like other drum machines you do have to play with in certain boundaries, but this app is limitless compared to all other apps. Is straight forward and easy to use. No cartoon colors or in app purchases every time you open up the app. First off you have every type drum kit imaginable. From dub bass to Led Zeppelin type kits. I believe it’s a 100+ kits. Then you can pick your favorite pieces from any kit to create a custom kit. All perimeters are tweekable. Level, pitch, length, pan and you can even reverse any piece of the kit. Once you have your kit, I usually play in the boundaries of the 32 step model. Placing kick drums, snare and high hats in place to help start the beat I’m going for. By placing the snare in different spaces of your beat,allows you to change tempos during your song. Granted these tempo changes between beats are stricked to a 1/2 time up or 1/2 time down of your selected song tempo. After I have your intro, verse, chorus, bridge and alternates of those beats completed, you can build your song up in the apps SUPER EASY to use sequencer. This sequencer is honestly the best out of all the other drum machine apps out there. Once you have your song, you can adjust the tempo, and swig, plus add delay, reverb,compression and other effects to your song that you can adjust in real time with easy sliders. I could go on for hours on how much you can do with this app. Just know that if your a guitarist/bass/keyboard player and have no drumming skills, this app allows you to easily create drum tracks that you can call your own. It gives you an authenticity of creation that pre programmed drum loops will never have. Even better, the sound quality is studio worthy in comparison. If your like me and can’t afford the over priced drum software out there, this is next best thing(in my opinion).

This app is a great mid level drum machine for song writers! One can go as crazy with time signature changes in a single song as one wishes to (7/4 to 17/8 to 23/16 etc), however I have experienced problems repeatedly with the “song loop” switch not responding. Many times it reads “off” when it is on which could be a disaster live. A five star product (for an iPhone drum machine) aside from this major bug. I am deleting this app and calling it a five dollar loss like sooo many other poorly designed half assed iPhone “would be”useful musical apps.

This app is amazing and fun. You can export as .wav or .aac for use in many DAW’s on iPhone or on computer of transferred. There are so many settings to play around with. I am surprised how well the app is designed. Very easy to use and I am still finding out new things I can do with the app. It’s fun to play around with while you explore and navigate through all the menus. VERY WELL DONE developers. Hope to see more apps like this in the future. Thanks!