Funk Drummer is your virtual funk drummer, playing tight pocket grooves with the swing and feel of a real session player. Free to download and keep, with every feature unlocked for the first 7 days. Designed for musicians, producers, and anyone who loves funk, soul and groove-based music, now with AUv3 support.
Play authentic funk grooves, fusion, disco funk, breakbeat and odd-time rhythms, with the natural feel of a human drummer. Set the improvisation level with a simple slider and let Funk Drummer surprise you, from rock-steady pocket to full creative chaos.
Key Features:
- Standalone & AUv3 Compatible: use Funk Drummer inside your favorite DAW or as a standalone app.
- MIDI-only Plugin: load Funk Drummer (MIDI) as a lightweight MIDI generator for driving your own sound sources.
- 150+ Funk Grooves: organized into banks — Fusion, Odd Times, Disco Funk, Ternary rhythms and more.
- Jamming Tool & Randomizers: add human feel and spontaneity to every groove, from totally stable rhythms to a creative drummer who's had too much coffee.
- Live Pads: trigger fills, switch grooves and jam in real time with 8 assignable pads, intro and end buttons, and full MIDI control.
- Sound Module: use the full kit as a MIDI sampler, standalone or as an AUv3 plugin, triggered from your own MIDI tracks or pads.
- Song Mode: turn your grooves into complete song structures in seconds.
- Redesigned Views: a reworked Drum Kit View and Song Mode View make navigating your kit and arrangement faster and clearer.
- Share by AirDrop, Mail or Messages: send any groove or song to another device or a friend, no account or cloud service needed.
- Groove Sharing Across Lumbeat Apps: share grooves, songs and Live Pad Sets with the other Lumbeat Drummer apps and iBassist.
- Natural Sound: 35(+6) multilayer sounds with 3 hit types (ghost note, accented note and special) x 3 Round Robin alternating samples, for an extremely natural feel.
- 4 Effects: Compressor/Gate, Equalizer, Delay and Reverb, to combine as you like.
- Ableton Link: sync tempo and transport with other apps and devices over Wi-Fi, and stay in time with the rest of your setup.
- Export: get Multi-Track or Full Mix audio in seconds.
Try for Free
Every feature is unlocked for the first 7 days, no restrictions. After the trial, unlock full access forever with a single one-time purchase (Full Version) no subscription, ever.
Already own Funk Drummer? Your purchase carries over automatically the next time you open the updated app, no restore step needed, at no extra cost.
• Studio Mix: Console (with REEL, a studio tape machine), Room, Punch, 11 more chains and DAW automation. Listen before you buy; one purchase unlocks it in every Lumbeat app
• Effects redesigned: new compressor, visual EQ, tempo-synced delay, limiter and 4 one-tap mix chains, with ‹ › to step through them, Bypass and Revert
• Mixer: one SEND knob per track, level meters on the faders, and a button to maximize the mixer or the effects
• MIDI controls: MODE # switches between Live Pads, Song and Sound Module; FILL ON CHANGE ON / OFF, ignored when already in that state; new END and END NO CRASH, one last hit on the next downbeat, then stop (no fill)
• iPhone: the mixer's corner button turns it sideways, and the sideways mixer and drum kit have their own Play button
• Live Pads remember Cross / Snare and Ride / Hats, also when you change them while the pad plays
• SAVE lights up after toggling Cross or Ride on a saved rhythm, and saves that version as a new rhythm
• Song Parts: new CROSS button next to RIDE, to play a part with cross-stick
• Plug-in: Play and FILL ► after a stop come back in on the rhythm's own bar when its time signature differs from the host's (a 3/4 waltz in AUM)
• Plug-in: steadier playback when you move the playhead, bounce from mid-song or rewind in the DAW
• Live Pads: long press a pad to CLEAR it, or drag it to move or swap it. New sets go to the end of the list, so set numbers never shift
• Songs can now be sent to Rock Drum Machine
• Received grooves: with Jam up, Funk Drummer re-plays them in its own style
• Performance and bug fixes
