Drambo

i have been using apps on ios since first gen. went through all of the growing issues back then, tried pretty much every app under the sun. had fun. there are many cool apps out there and even among these superb creative tools drambo stands head and shoulders above. this app is absolutely incredible. yknow people recommend stuff and you think, yeah ok, but this is different. drambo is special. for the first couple of hours i kept laughing out loud at the possibilities and the sounds i was making. then i went to the classifieds and put on my hardware synths and samplers for sale. i kept the vintage stuff, everything else is going. super happy. the man who made this is a bonafide genius. buy this app.

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I’ve tried many iPad music apps over the years, and it’s always been enjoyable, but I’ve always felt quite constrained, and iPad has for the most part been a toy, for me. Drambo changes all of that. It’s hard to explain exactly what this app does to a newbie, and in fact it’s almost easier to list what it doesn’t do, which is audio tracks. Apart from that it does basically everything else you could want and can fit into the workflow of basically anyone. You can use this app as a standalone modular grove box, that can host auv3s. It’s similar to Bitwig or Reaktor stapled to a Digitact, but it really doesn’t stop there. You can also use Drambo itself as an AUV3 inside of other hosts such as AUM, or Logic Pro and that’s where it gets crazy. It can be a modular synth complete with wavetables and tons of other toys. It can be a a robust full featured sampler. It can be a midi sequencer with clip launching and song mode, which is a game changer for aum. It can be a midi CC modulator, with LFOs and MSEGs, which is also a game changer for aum. It can be a multi effect processor with reverbs, delays, compressor, ect. Even if you only want it for one of those use cases, it’s worth the money, and if your at all like me it will soon work its way into every project, and become your go to for just about everything. If you can only get one app for electronic music making this is the one. I would gladly pay triple what this costs.

This app is amazing. It's like ableton, a modular and an elektron device in one. I'd give it 6 stars if I could. I own some pretty expensive hardware and haven't used it since I started using drambo ( except for the times I sampled my synth with drambo). Considering selling a couple elektron boxes or a mpc live 2 now to fund an iPad pro.

An iPad would be a worthwhile purchase just for Drambo, with its deep ability to design sounds and build complete tracks. Easily the best bang for your buck music software on the market on any platform.

The level of robustness and polish here is rarely seen in the mobile music world.

This is a great groove box with very cool modulation features, but UNDO function is so limited which makes this app so frustrating to use, you can basically screw up the whole project with a single swipe. I really hope it will be improved soon.

Spent all day learning Drambo and working on my first project. There’s a lot to like here, however my experience took a very unfortunate turn. Here’s some advice: Don’t save your project with a “/“ in the name. I made the mistake of calling mine “Funk A/D” since those were the main chords in the project. (You can probably guess where this is going.) Drambo will not warn you about the invalid name, but will pretend to save your data while actually trashing the whole thing. I made multiple edits to my project, saving after each. Not only does Drambo not sanitize the user inputs, it doesn’t verify the save or implement any error handling afaict. Lost all my work.

I’m deducting one star because it feels (to me) like the UI can get in its own way some times, especially when I need to do a bit of menu diving. But this is such and endlessly powerful and versatile app that you kind of have to expect to spend some time learning the interface.

Has everything you need to make complete tracks, experimentations, jams..it does basically everything you could ask for and does it efficiently. I would have paid double and still felt like I was getting a steal.