iBassist

… least use to be. Now freezes a lot with AUM, no sound. Needs a serious update for iPadOS 16.

Please update this app. For the prices you charge, you shouldn’t need to be asked.

I bought iBassist to work with the jazz drummer app, and although it sounds great, it doesn’t do sharps or flats so really doesn’t do jazz or walking bass lines. I should have done more research before purchasing it.

Crashes constantly on iPad with iOS 13. Using random pattern button causes crashes. Crashes in aum. AUM confirmed it was not a problem with AUM. Worst of all, no manual? How can you release a complicated app without a manual? Most of the bass sounds are terrible. The only usable preset was double bass. The played progressions don’t make sense and sound awful. Soft drummer app has the same problem with constant crashes. If this was $3 not a big deal, but $30 for this level of bugs? Will not buy anything from this dev again. Sent in at least 5 but reports and got no response to any of them.

I love the idea of this app but the most basic editing functions are so onerous that all my creative energy goes into trying to make the damn thing work.

Looking for this for sometime.... Need more tutorials. Still loving it.

Another great app from Luis Martinez. Incredibly useful for getting a solid foundation to a song going. The developer is already working on useful updates. Highly recommended!

Great app and use it with most of the drum apps by LumBeat. BUT, the drum apps have Bluetooth ability but not iBassist!?!? Even when iBissist is linked with the other drum apps……no Bluetooth output! The sound comes out of the iPad’s built in speaker even if my Bluetooth connection is active to the amplifier! Not sure if it’s an app deficiency or lack of information by Lumbeat? Have written to the producer but no reply at this point! Maybe this will get a response? It would be great to have the Bluetooth feature as the drum apps!

I have iBass and a bunch of Lumbeat’s drum apps. these Lumbeat apps are the BEST!

Lumbeat is just fantastically clever and really thinking of the user in the way they conceptualize and execute feature sets. 5 stars for whatever Lumbeat touches, they are fantastic apps and ought to be converted to desktop and even into a full suite like a mini DAW or something, I think the dev really thinks deeply about how to make something that gives users all the control they could want. That makes any complaint a moot point IMO, but here’s what I wish was better: No MIDI export option! Maybe because some lines are absolute copies of copyrights tunes? Would just like to be able to use this as a production tool sometimes. MIDI out on drummers = absolute bliss. Tones are cheesy. MIDI out is possible so solves that problem but it would be nice to get higher quality tones in house across all Lumbeat apps. Most of the bass tones in here sound like they were sampled from children’s keyboards. No offense to Luis, but with the high quality across the feature list, tones seems a weird spot to make sacrifices. Maybe big samples are heavier on live performance processing? Design. Lot of information jumbled into intense menu sets. They are useable. But not elegant. Overwhelming to navigate and I think that’s because the info is presented trying to provide as much as possible all at once. I’d rather get decisions fed to me in a less spaceship console kind of manner, esp when using live I don’t need so much at hand. All that aside I LOVE the updates lately and hope more are coming, and really am dying for the classic country Americana singer songwriter drummer! That’s such an obvious missing piece in my book and could be built out of the apps you already have with more focus on patterns and tones for that world.