Your personal virtual drummer with real acoustic sounds, dynamic jam factor like a real drummer.
Practice, create, and perform with a groovy drummer always with you.
Pop Drummer is your new virtual drummer for practicing, creating, and performing pop rhythms like never before. Designed for musicians, producers, and creators who want real acoustic drum sounds, loops, and total control, now with long-awaited AUv3 support.
Discover authentic acoustic drum kits and fully editable grooves that play with the nuance and feel of a real drummer. Whether you’re rehearsing, jamming at home, or performing live, Pop Drummer becomes your personal drummer, tight, dynamic, and always ready to jam.
Key Features:
Standalone & AUv3 Compatible – Use Pop Drummer inside your favorite DAW or as a standalone app.
Pop Drum Grooves – Hundreds of preloaded grooves organized by feel, making it easy to find and customize the perfect rhythm.
Three drummers in one: Gover (Smooth Pop Precision), Cindy (Creative Flow), and Beaton (Raw British Energy). Each drummer brings a unique feel to improvisations, jams, and fills, no matter which rhythm you choose. Enjoy more variety and flexibility in your grooves. Switch styles to match your music or spark new ideas.
Live Pads – Trigger fills, switch grooves, and jam in real time with on-screen pads or MIDI controls.
Customizable Midi Controls - Assign any function to your MIDI controller for a personalized workflow. Easily adapt Pop Drummer to your studio setup or live rig.
Jam – Add human feel and spontaneity to your grooves with dynamic variations and perfectly timed fills that match the groove’s feel.
Jam Effects – Reverb and delay that jam with you, adding color and movement as they evolve with your chosen intensity.
Drum Kit Customizable – A visual drum layout lets you select and mix acoustic sounds to create your perfect kit.
AUv3 Sound Module – Use Pop Drummer as a professional drum sound source inside any AUv3-compatible host. Trigger its acoustic kits from your own MIDI tracks or electronic drum pads for ultimate flexibility.
Send Reverb – Apply individual reverb to each drum element for precise space and depth control.
Song Mode – Easily arrange full song structures using custom parts, combining grooves, jam levels, and jam effects for dynamic, expressive compositions.
Humanize Velocity – Add natural dynamics and realistic human feel to every groove.
Rhythm Editor – Create and tweak your own beats quickly.
Export MIDI & Audio – Instantly export your grooves as full mix or multi-track audio, and get MIDI files to use your own sounds in any setup.
Native iOS Instrument – Fully optimized for iPhone and iPad.
Ableton Link – Sync effortlessly with other lumbeat drummers, apps and devices over Wi-Fi for tight, tempo-locked jamming and recording.
This is by far the most realistic sounding electronic drummer I’ve ever used. I dig the “jam” slider, it really gives a lot of realistic feel with the fills and variations on the beat. Being able to quickly set the number of bars for the fills is also very nice. The sound of the drums are fabulous as well. Overall, it is super impressive. I play guitar & bass along with a guitar synth and am having a blast using this along with Loopy Pro! Thanks for a great product.
swing feature seems broken
nvfhitsdhiokhgde
overall I really like this app and it seems pretty simple and intuitive. However it's almost a dealbreaker for me the way they handle swing feel. Often times with the beats when I turn the swing up it doesn't seem to do anything, and when it does it just creates some weird timing problems. It also seems to default to 16th note swing rather than the traditional eighth note swing and I can't figure out how to change that. Also not sure what I was doing but sometimes the rhythm tap button would just stop working randomly and I would have to start a whole new song track before it would work again. This could be an amazing app if they get the swing feature more functional as well as eliminating some of the other minor issues.
Developer Response
Hi nvfhitsdhiokhgde,Thank you for your kind words and detailed feedback! In Pop Drummer, the swing knob applies to 16th-note subdivisions by default. To get that classic 8th-note shuffle feel, set your desired swing amount, then tap New Groove → Adapt Current Groove, this will restructure the pattern into a traditional swung feel while keeping your core groove intact.Regarding the Tap Tempo button becoming unresponsive, we're looking into this and will address it in a future update. In the meantime, fully closing the app from the app switcher and reopening it should restore functionality right away, no need to start a new song track.We appreciate you sticking with us and sharing such constructive feedback. Your input helps us make Pop Drummer even better!Thank you for your review.
Awesome
Fhshefjfb
This app was exactly what I was looking for a bassist writing and working out song ideas that I then take to my band. The UI is a little awkward at first but once you know how it works it’s got everything you need from creating your own patterns and arranging songs to swapping out the drums sounds on existing grooves and editing those patterns. I would love to see additional beats and kits!
Has potential!
Ronzlo
The list of pros includes: a responsive developer who actually listened to the anti-SaaS critique (aka poor musicians lol) and made it a one-time buy instead; AUv3 and has MIDI; iPhone layout instead of 1.5 pt. narrow serif font like some others…Things that could improve: most notably the midi implementation, as I can only get it to work as a midi source for a couple of apps (Hammerhead, Audiokit 909 Drums) while apps like FAC Drumkit and 4pockets’ Digistix don’t appear to receive MIDI for some odd reason. I was a longtime fan of Rollerchimp’s DrumStudio app because of the the selection of groove styles and midi out. This app could easily replace it - and then some - if the items mentioned were addressed as well as midi stability/jitter as well. Don’t care about the built in kits as much tbh. I just need a funky robot drummer.Thanks for reading!
Developer Response
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback. We’re glad you enjoy the feel and features of Pop Drummer, and we’ll take note of your comments on MIDI implementation and stability, it’s definitely an area we’re working to improve. Your support and insights are very valuable to us.
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Information
Seller
Lumbeat Ltd.
Size
689.3 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
