This is a great drum machine and -sequencer. Sounds great and the app has a very clear user interface that makes it ideal as a plugin.

I had such high hopes for this, but whenever I use it in auv3 the hi-hats NEVER record. Just kick and snare. So this will be gathering dust, and I may as well have thrown my cash up the road.

The pads do a pianoforte trick - soft to forceful, depending on how high on the individual drum pad you tap/strike it. This is a revelation, I don’t know why I didn’t notice it. It’s kind of obvious as a technique, and is genius for that reason. As someone much better at music than myself told me, louder and softer is the most basic and fundamental variation you can introduce to a performance. So a more recent usage of EG Pulse, shows lovely touches I thought best to mention: the pads. You can enlarge these so there’s fewer of them, but in either size, you can use ‘settings’ to make the gain/volume of each drum hit vary the higher up the particular drum pad you strike it (it’s called ‘vary volume by y-axis’ or similar, in ‘settings’). In ‘settings’ you can also set the view to be some other type of fascia, but I tend to leave it on ‘MPC’, I presume it is fashioned after the iconic sampler box. Samples: I bought the lot I think. There’s EG 808, and a lot of ‘EG’ versions of similar drumbox type units. I think I will be using this a bit more now, it just takes me a while to get oriented with an app and to get into it. But you can use your own samples. TIP: You’ll set ‘host sync’ inside GarageBand using EG Pulse as an AUv3, and it’s BPM will not budge…just hit the GB ‘play’ arrow briefly and off again, and the EG Pulse bpm will latch on reflecting the host rate. Older stuff I said: So I tried the other 3 or 4 drum apps on my ipad pro 2 and either IAA or AUv3 made no odds, it was sometimes they would work, others not. I am not a power user of drums, I want to input a decent drum track and it needs to sync to the host eg Cubasis 3 at the moment. EG Pulse does, the AUv3 operates solidly and reliably. I have other drum apps that have lovely percussion from exotic faraway places etc, but they don’t work inside of eg Cubasis 3. The early days of iOS are gone, when people marvelled that an app sounded like the real thing - now we may well use iOS as the major DAW platform - I do - and as always in tech, interconnectivity becomes a prerequisite as the market matures. EG Pulse therefore, has been created to be what is needed now, not like the older drum apps I see lauded, which are little stranded islands. If you want to incorporate drums into a song, you at least need to connect with a recording app, if not be fully AU compatible. Cannot comment on super-detailed aspects, but it works with the DAW I need it to sync to at the moment, and the drums sound clear and

So the most recent update included improved colour management for pads, but I STILL can’t export an entire groove as one .wav file. Only the individual stems. The other functionality is really food, so its a shame that full export looks like its too much trouble to add.

EG Pulse is the best drum machine app on the App Store. I bought it after watching some comparison videos and it's just awesome. As well as built in sounds, you can drag/import your own and mix and apply each sound within EG Pulse as an AuV3 instrument, separate from the DAW e.g. GarageBand. This is so useful because you can have one DAW track for many custom sounds+samples without wasting other tracks. You can even record other GarageBand instruments and AUv3s into it within GarageBand. You can edit, normalise, mix, change pitch, change speed and apply FX to each sound individually. The developer was even kind enough to fix a bug I contacted him about and I'm very happy with this version which works perfectly. This app is essential for making music of any genre.

EG Pulse is the best drum machine app on the App Store. I bought it after watching some comparison videos and it's just awesome. As well as built in sounds, you can drag/import your own and mix and apply each sound within EG Pulse as an AuV3 instrument, separate from the DAW e.g. GarageBand. This is so useful because you can have one DAW track for many custom sounds+samples without wasting other tracks. You can even record other GarageBand instruments and AUv3s into it within GarageBand. You can edit, normalise, mix, change pitch, change speed and apply FX to each sound individually. The developer was even kind enough to fix a bug I contacted him about and I'm very happy with this version which works perfectly. This app is essential for making music of any genre.

This app would be the best drum machine app If would increase the loop/steps to 4 or 8 bar loop recording. The 16steps/ 1 bar completely disrupt the work flow and creativity by limiting record to 1 bar per pattern, creating multiple 1bar patterns it’s just counter productive. Please fix as there is a whole community facing this same issue.

This app seems good, tho I can’t use it in any projects due to the constant crashes within Cubasis. I know Cubasis isn’t the best for stability, but as soon as I add an instance of eg pulse and start using it, the project constantly crashes when using eg pulse ‘ adding samples to the pads etc. Then I load the project up again and anything I have done is lost in eg pulse. If bugs can be ironed out I’m sure I will use more but for now cannot recommend.

Very impressed with this drum app especially with multiple outputs , it took a bit of time to get my head round it but worth the work. Still figuring out a few things but so far I’m happy.

So far really it’s a lovely experience few things I’d like to see added to improve the workflow. I would like to be able to preview a sample before dedicating it to a sample slot. And would also like to be able to preview a slice when slicing up a sample by for instance on hold preview current selected slice .