Vatanator 4+

There are an abundance of iOS drum apps and most of them don’t sound great and are not musically intuitive to play. Vatanator does both very very well in a unique and functional way.

In my live set up I am running both hardware and iOS so the sounds have to match it with the external gear (using Elektron Rytm MKII as primary drum machine). Within 15 minutes of downloading Vatanator I was able to program great sounding patterns and loops, synced via midi clock to my Ableton live set project. I will eventually import my own samples to use, only after I have gone through all the great kits in the library that come with it.

The user interface is exactly what an iOS drum app should be. Simple. This is not easy to achieve and for me is the difference between an app that gets used and an app that doesn’t. You could put a 0 onto the end of the USD8 price tag and I still would have no hesitation buying it and paying for updates. Well done and keep up the excellent work.

I put off buying Vatanator for years to get Machines with more publicity and cooler interfaces but that was a mistake. Vatanator is geared toward quick rhythm creation and it does that better than no other. It may not have as many features and parameters to tweak but if you want to make a track and keep a steady workflow without distraction then Vatanator is perfect. Included kits are nice but sample import is quick and easy. A no brainer purchase.

Would be make it easier to use if had some type of graphic to see what pad is being played when triggered from other source like Rosetta bundle, hard to know what pad is being used,

Really like this app but possibly a few updates for ease of use in au3 mode could make it even better.. but still recommend!