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Machinedrum: "It's awesome, a lot of fun to work with and very easy to get something going. I love the sound presets too.“
Keyboards: „An extremely flexible beatbox with tons of character."
CDM: "Finally, Your Pocket Gets a Perfect Drum Synth: Elastic Drums for iPhone."
FACT Magazine: „One of the iPad’s best drum machines.“
Unlike most drum apps that rely heavily on samples, Elastic Drums uses drum synthesis models - making the sounds much more elastic and deeply tweakable. This approach allows for radical sound shaping, and when combined with the app’s versatile effects section, Elastic Drums becomes not just a beat-making tool, but a powerful instrument for sound design.
Features:
- 6 synth channels with 20 different percussion synth engines (kick, snare, hihat, clap, tom, wobble, fm, fm4, square, grain, synth, drone, sampler, 808 kit)
- 12 parameters for each synth engine
- Automation for each parameter via knob recording or velocity
- 4 send effect channels with 2x13 mono effects and 2x11 stereo effects
- Automation for all of the 8 possible effect parameters via xy pad
- Master effects (stutter, delay, compressor ...)
- 16 step sequencer for the 6 channels, each with it's own tempo multiplier & length
- Record audio and export to via Airdrop or Audioshare
- Email audio recordings and presets
- Ableton Link synchronization and Ableton Live Set Export
- Audiobus, Audiobus Remote, Inter-App Audio
- Midi learn/Midi implementation of the most important parameters
Factory presets by:
App Sound, Ben Jeffrey, Bill Jobs, Dead Fader, Hecq, Kero, Leonard de Leonard, Machine Drum, Mouse on Mars, Ochre, Pan, Phlex, Pilocka Krach, Red Sky Lullaby, Servando, Shadow Dancer, Swarm Intelligence, zNo
Well, what a surprise - having bought several other drums apps, tried this one and it nails it! Full of features and the ability to craft sounds, Elastic Drums is presented in a straightforward way and doesn’t take long to learn, and once you do it really opens up the sonic palette. I was able to dial in a fantastic kick easily and am having a great time sculpting + modulating + saving sounds (no difficult effort, unlike some other apps!) Add to this the mixer, effects and jam sections as well as the further option to import samples and this is hands-down the best drum app on iOS. Brilliant!
Amazing
Saif Azarziz
There are a lot of apps dealing with rhythm. Usually these are dealing with sounds that we are familiar with in western drumming. Sometimes these extend to ,maybe, unusual unfamiliar percussion. This app can contain any sound, which you can edit prior to using in your “kit”. It just seems to be able to create a groove with very little effort. The midi capabilities are comprehensive I understood how to apply midi controllers twiddly bits to experience a full on performance. I’m an mididiot and I get it. You should give it a try just for the fun of it.
Developer Response
Thanks a lot for the nice review 😊
Makes my commutes fun
Tibbonds
Absolutely blazing app. Really fast to get to grips with and incredibly powerful too. Can be a great way of making loops which you could even use in other apps such as Launchpad should you wish. Really fun to live jam straight on this app, and I’ve had no issues syncing to external hardware either. Sound quality is what you make it - pristine if you want it but there are plenty of options to obliterate a sound and get some absolutely raucous filth flowing.
Brilliant app. Great support.
ZZXCV
Fantastic app for ease of use and pure inspiration as well as professional features when you need to export / mixdown. The Dev is also extremely responsive. One of my favourite Groovebox apps by one of my favourite developers.
Bugfix: Button / Link to Inter-App Audio host did not work anymore
Version 2.5.3
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Provider
Oliver Greschke
Size
50.1 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
