Afrolatin Drum Machine - Free Beats 4+

This app is Awesome. It is fun and easy to use. It has many AfroLatin traditional rhythms built in and classified by style and time signatures, with most all parameters adjustable for your tweaking, but most of all adjustable TEMPO, so you can learn them and play along with any accompaniment you have. This app sounds great in headphones, if that fits your need. But, is also loud enough with only my built-in iPad speakers to acoustically jam along with. Which is how I prefer to use this app. The sample sounds are high quality, and sound better than most “live” jamming drums, since the drum samples are all tuned so well to play together. Adhoc drum circles and jam sessions seldom sound “right,” for this reason. The second reason, would be their tendency to get “sweet,” with no leader and no “locked in” tempo. This app alone will allow you to enjoy your drumming, and your “friends with drums,” regardless of either’s proficiency. You will not regret downloading this app!!!

The sound is king. All the functionality will improve, but the sounds on all these apps are great. I’ve had funk drummer and future drummer for 2 days and I’m gigging with them. The SOUND! Looking for documentation on Bluetooth start/stop, fill, etc. occasionally tap tempo doesn’t work. Also it would be nice to have each pattern save different eq, reverb settings. My wish list is big, But the main thing is the SOUND. Playing the Chapman Stick, I can use either hand to goof off with the live mode and mess with the rhythms. Assignable Bluetooth will be the bomb for those of us that have our hands busy. Ciao and Aloha!

The app have a considerably good sound quality to be an app. However the “savor” is not really there yet. Some of the patterns sounds might sound a little bit strange in terms of construction elements and rhythm, if you compare them to the real thing. It might be a little simple and amateurish for a real pro Latin rhythm musician appetite. But hey.., it’s a machine and you can program it in most of the ways you might need. I can give easy a 4 stars just because of the usefulness of the percussion instrument sounds that it contains. I don’t know if I can use a MIDI control device with it yet, nor if I can make use of it as a MIDI module, which is the main purpose I bought it for. I really haven’t had the time yet to check those features. But as soon as I found about these important technical aspects I will let you know for sure.