polybeat 4+
polyrhythmic drum sequencer
Corne Driesprong
Designed for iPad
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- £7.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
polybeat is an advanced and extremely flexible drum and percussion sequencer able to generate complex polyrhythmic and polymetric rhythmic patterns.
nb: polybeat does not make sound by itself, you will need to load it in an AUv3-compatible host (such as AUM, Audiobus, ApeMatrix, Nanostudio 2, etc.) or connect it to an external drum machine, synthesizer, computer or any other sound generating device.
features:
- independently configurable sequence length per drum voice (ranging from 1 to 32 steps)
- independently configurable step length per drum voice (ranging from double whole notes to 64th notes, including tuplets and dotted notes)
- every sequencer step can be modulated by the following attributes:
- accent on/off
- ratchet (note repeats)
- skip (note every *n* loops)
- chance
- timing offset
- sample-accurate sequencing engine
- slick and responsive native UI
- undo/redo
- individual drum voices can be muted or solo'ed
- sequences can be instantly transformed by the following actions:
- shift left/right
- rotate
- randomize
- mirror
- reverse
- double
- bisect
- full AUv3 preset- and state-saving
- ability to copy and paste patterns between instances of the plugin
- mapping presets for popular AUv3 drum apps and hardware drum machines
- includes musical scale presets for polybeat to be used as a melodic sequencer
- responds to MIDI input for switching and selecting patterns, as well as performing pattern transformations
- works offline
- no push notifications
- no ads or in-app purchases
- no third-party behavioural tracking tools
ongoing development and support, many new features on the roadmap
What’s New
Version 1.2.1
- fixes selection bug in iOS 14
- collapsible modulation panel
- undo/redo
- audition sound on selecting track
- tap & hold slider to set exact value
- adds correct sample offset for MIDI note-offs
- tip jar
- various bugfixes and small improvements
Ratings and Reviews
A pleasure to use
This is a great tool for quickly making patterns, I have loads of tools that can do the same job and some are much more advanced and expensive but still I find myself going to this app. Is easy to use and clear to see whats going on. It would be nice if multiple custom midi maps could be saved as user midi maps so you could have multiple user custom midi maps, it’s not uncommon to want use/try the same patterns with different apps/kit. Being able to toggle or resize the lower controller field so you can see all the pattens/channels at once would also be very handy. Also an option to enable tapping the channel on the left to trigger it would be great for freestyling before adding to the pattern. This is already a very capable app thats really nice to use and before you know it you’ll be making loads of fun and interesting patterns so do yourself a favour and download it, it’s great fun and pleasurable to use 😀
Intuitive, useful and fun!
Where Polybeat stands out from other AU3 controller apps is that everything is easily accessible and intuitive. It’s both fun to use and usefully functional. Polybeat comes with midi mapping for a number of popular drum apps, and so it’s possible to easily get some unique combinations going. AUM of Loopy Pro are both a good fit for Polybeat. Alas, as the time of writing, there is no mapping for DrumPerfect Pro. That app is suppose to work with General Midi input, but doesn’t.
The Best Drum Sequencer
Updated review: The developer added velocity modulation and a Beathawk MIDI preset in an update. I’ve now given this app 5 stars, which it absolutely deserves. If it gets pitch modulation in the future it’ll just be a bonus and the icing on a very tasty cake.
Developer Response ,
the latest version (1.1) adds velocity modulation as well as a mapping for UVI Beathawk.
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Information
- Provider
- Corne Driesprong
- Size
- 18.9 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- 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.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Corné Driesprong
- Price
- £7.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Small tip £1.99
- Big tip £5.99