DrumStudio 4+

This app is an unbelievable tool when it comes to writing and exporting MIDI drum tab. From blast beats to off-time funky beats this app does it all. As good as Tabit IMO. Works well with Reaper. A must have tool for those recording their own music.

I've been hunting WAY too long for a simple drum beat app that exports MIDI and allows you to create odd time signatures. Just downloaded the app and it was immediately intuitive with hardly any learning curve. Simple interface on the iPad and easy to set up and use right away. The purpose of the app, to me, is not to have a million options and sounds at your disposal to complicate the writing process, but instead to give you the bare bones tools to create a simple groove and then export the midi into your DAW for structuring the song.

Being a fan of fusion, metal, funk, jazz, R&B and modern prog/mathy/djent metal ala Periphery and Animals as Leaders, it's daunting to program beats in normal DAWs that are other wise easy to use like LogicPro. You get lost in the MIDI interface for odd time signatures and I find myself frustrated wrestling with the software instead of making music. This simple app seems to have really caught the solution for making semi-complex beats for Djent type metal or fusion. Once again, there are only a few drum sounds. The point is not to have a HUGE selection, although I would dig some nice "Toontrack SD" type sounds, but to make it easy to program beats. I'll post more as I dive into more song writing. It would be a huge hit with the Djent crowd if it included some pro sounding beats resembling Matt Halpern's kit or Bulb's SD sounds. Just sayin.

Thanks to the developers for this app!!!

I hardly ever review apps, but I had to with this one. This is one of only a very few drum apps that can handle odd time signatures, and it is the ONLY one that makes it soooooo easy to put complex syncopated patterns together, including time signature and tempo changes within a song. The UI is very intuitive, lots of save options (as sections like verse1, chorus1, bridge, etc and as whole songs), and the patterns can be as simple or complex as you want, I put together some cool stuff in 7/8 within five minutes of downloading.

Can import and export MIDI files for touching up in the DAW of your choice, has MIDI out to drive other drum synths/samplers, and plays nicely with Audiobus. Dropbox support would be great, the dev is really responsive and hopefully will add this in a future update. I can do similar drum track creation in LogicPro, but not nearly as easily nor as fast - on the go with a phone or tablet, this is far and away the easiest drum app to get creative with.

As a progressive metal guitarist, i have tried out many drum apps to jam along with that looked promising but when you got to know them, ended up stuck in 4-time. Not this one. Very easy to get creative with this app. GET IT NOW!