DigiStix 2 AUv3 Plugin ٤+

The white border is driving me nuts. Especially in dark settings. Also on an iPad mini, that white space takes up usable real estate. Is it possible to have a mode that goes full screen so it’s easier to access items on a small screen? (Especially in portrait mode… it’s doesn’t seem to use the entire vertical space) I think it could also look more integrated as an app rather than decorating it to look like a physical module.

Also thinking about using this for live gigs. Possible to have a low graphic usage mode where the decorative elements and some VFX are removed to improve reliability and reduce chances of a crash? (Haven’t experienced one yet but just a thought)

Thanks!

There are some promising qualities here. I would highly recommend merging the round robin and velocity laters, so the user can have 3 or 4 round robin samples for each layer. This is key to getting realistic drums. So each drum would have about 15 or 20 samples. My other observation is the sample editor screen is squashed so arbitrarily small, the user can’t even get enough of a vertical visual on the waveform to see where low velocity samples start when editing. That’s a confusing choice to me. Why not make the sample edit screen full screen with a close button? I created a custom kit with velocity layers, but It took forever and was extremely tedious in the gui because the start of the waveforms for the soft samples were so hard to see. The ‘scrolling interface’ and small sampler editor also becomes cumbersome, quickly. I’d make each gui page full screen with buttons to quickly tab to each. Lots of great stuff here, nonetheless. Please, though, most importantly, add 3-4 round robin samples for each velocity layer and then you’ve really got something here. Some updates and Digistix could be the cat’s meow!

This app is amazing in so many ways. Excellent assortment of drum kits to get started with, amazingly easy to modify or create your own drum kits including from scratch using your own samples. The control over every aspect of the samples can be tweaked to a mind-boggling degree. Integration with external midi devices is superb. Beautiful user interface.

But this isn’t for drummers. Many common time signatures - 12/8, 7/8, 9/8 are just ignored. You can’t enter individual triplet notes. You can only enter a sequence of three notes within a specified time unit. You can work around this to achieve a swing feel by entering 8th notes and specifying a 100% swing value, but if you’re trying to enter broken triplets, e.g. on a combination of only the “&” or the “uh” of the triplet, you’re out of luck.

For this app to include so much beautifully executed functionality and fall down on such a basic drum machine capability is a shame. It should accommodate *any* time signature, and all triplet variations (e.g. the not uncommon jazz practice of quarter-note triplets spanning the interval of a half-note). This is an astonishing oversight.

I bought this to replace a more rhythmically robust app in which it was more laborious to create new drum kits and doesn’t implement the AUV3 interface. Sadly DigiStix finds its own way to miss the mark. Here’s hoping a future update addresses this issue.