Impaktor

Doesn’t work as inter-app audio. This is something of a shame

Classic app that will be superseded by another app from house beepstreet: Drambo. Hold onto your socks!

I thought this was just going to be a gimmick app, but it is a phenomenal, creative and *fun* live beat maker/overdubbed/wav maker for anyone who wants to make their own loops, simply by tapping with their fingers on the iPad or the surface it is resting on. It's one screen interface and built FX, click track, and instrument presets offers enormous sonic variety from straight acoustic and electronic kit and hand drum sounds to the outer reaches of glitch and industrial noises, and you can capture and layer multiple loops, bounce down, add delay or reverb, build patterns across multiple slots, and generate new patches/instruments either just by mucking around with the knobs and buttons live, or just by hitting the 'rand' button and seeing what happens, and all in a very instinctive and creative way, which can't be said of more conventional drum machines. As a former live drummer and future customer of something like the Roland HPD 20 this will do until I can save up. A steal at its price, but I agree a modern MIDI and audio sync update would be a good thing. Oh and a recordable XY pad and... I could go on. :) Just buy it already!

Bought this to use with a stomp box via iTrack dock but is not compatible - AUM cannot open it as Interapp audio and it crashes it forcing restart.

One of my top 10 iOS music apps. I plug a contact mic into my iPad and stick it to my Cajon giving me expressive control,over some amazing sounds! Wish it had some MIDI functionality for controlling the loops, patches etc.

Apple ask us to contact the developers. How sad it would be to lose this app!

Great fun, very addictive. Any chance of Ableton Link? Please!! :)

This is one of the most unique apps for IOS and I have used it on many recordings. It has so much packed into its single screen interface, yet it is easy and great fun to use. It sounds great and it allows the musician to play freely on other physical objects in contact with the device. It captures the depth and feel of every beat, playing back up to six loops of any of the onboard sounds which are all fully programmable. As an instrument it is complete, although it really needs an IAA link and transport panel, as well as synchronisation with other apps using Midi Clock/start/stop and Ableton Link. On the issue of updates, the developer has confirmed that it will be updated before IOS11 and that it is well optimized and does not slow down devices. I look forward to the updates and really hope that an IAA panel & synchronisation can be included.

My favourite app!

...needed urgently.