DigiStix Drummer AUv3 Plugin

Lovely app with loads of hidden features. Really wish Developers could fix the song mode as buttons for repeat patterns don’t work at the mo unless I am doing something wrong.. I wrote this review but no response and still the song mode does not function properly so can’t really use it be great to have this fixed thanks !

This is great value, and has a ton of great features to bring your drum patterns to life. After using it for a while, I can’t help but wish there were a few simple improvements and new features that would make this easily the best drum app on the market... 1. Double click on any parameter to reset to default, whether it’s the mixer, effects controllers, anything. This is becoming standard in apps now, and it really stands out that you can’t do this here. Especially as a lot of the controls are small and it’s fiddly to get them back to their original setting. 2. Add an endlessly randomising function, so that with every loop of the pattern, the selected drums randomise again. This is a game changer for me, and would create endlessly humanising and moving elements to a pattern. Just one little button could change this app into something extremely powerful (Patterning and Playbeat have this function) 3. Add chorus send for individual instruments (like you’ve done with reverb and delay send) 4. EQ per instrument would be amazing! 5. Sample splicing and assign, so that you can take a drum loop sample, break it up and assign to pads without having to do each sample individually from scratch each time. 6. Add a fill button, and assign a pattern. So you hit that button, it plays the fill and immediately returns to the last pattern again. 7. Pattern switch sync mode. So that when you change patterns, it waits until the end of the pattern before switching. At the moment, it interrupts the current pattern causing messy changes. This is more of a performance mode, but still - fantastic to have. 8. Song record mode. Allows you to record manual pattern changes and build up a song that way... much more of a performance based way of creating a song, rather than programming. A lot of these I can do with the help of other apps, leaving Digistix to handle the guts of a drum pattern. But with these features, I think Digistix could do it all. Lots of new ideas there from a fan of this app! Thanks

This is most definately the best drum machine app on iOS and so easy to use. The only thing that would make it better is if I could switch to controlling different drums on different midi channels, just linked to an incoming note or chord as a trigger. That way I can play rhythm patterns live from the bass side of my accordion assigning different drums to single bass notes on one channel and chords on another. Ie if I hit a single bass note on say channel 2 it sounds one drum and if I hit a bass chord on channel 3 it sounds another drum or drums. There is hardware that will do this but it costs hundreds of pounds and I’m sure a man of your genius could put a switch in to do this Paul. Who knows it might even open up a complete new untapped customer base for this most excellent app.

I've updated the rating as a result of you at least responding here - I'll trade half a star for each of my complaints from here on out... I sent detailed emails with screenshots showing how there clearly is space on the screen for the control systems and the control knobs, we'll have to agree to disagree on, I've heard those instructions a few times from various sources but they don't stop the cutoff knob from snapping to values of it's own making as I'm trying to make fine adjustments... Great that you're thinking of export options and the other one is probably not as important... I'd rather have these discussions in private over email but needs must I suppose. Thanks for getting in touch :) I don't normally leave reviews unless I'm praising a product but with this one I feel I must. I want to love this wee drum machine as it can sound massive and had some of the best programming features I've seen but I've removed a star from the five star review it deserves for each of the following flaws. 1. On the iPhone version, the buttons that affect the notes aren't visible while you edit the notes, you must latch a setting for triplets, reverse etc on a separate screen - there's room but for some reason they're with the drum pads... 2. Export loops from standalone - unless I'm missing something this seems like an obvious one... 3. Automation graph doesn't line up with the note grid so when you're editing stuff there's a real disconnect in the process. 4. Basic envelopes - that can be automated, even just attack/decay, really simple and for me necessary to drum pattern editing. There's actually one more thing, the parameter knobs on this and all of this devs apps just seem 'sticky' to me and I end up simply not using them. If and when any of these things get looked at by the dev, I'll up my rating by a star for each and lavish as much praise as I can. I have reached out to the dev via social media and email to no avail so far.

It has the workflow reminiscent of getting drums out of old workstation keyboards of 25 years ago before desktop DAWs became king, but armed with a tonne of cool new features. If that isn’t enough, check out the creators videos showing how to integrate them with his other apps and you’ll be a happy owner of DigiStix soon enough. Keep an eye out on certain app price trackers and grab the devs well designed effect suites and replace your stock DAW effects, you’ll thank yourself in no time.

At last a great ‘real’ drum machine to run inside AUM! It comes with a great set of acoustic, electronic and FX kits out of the gate, step time or real-time input from grid or onscreen pads onboard bit crusher , overdrive, delay, reverb and chorus, is samples/beats are individually accessible to midi manipulation for pitch and velocity, (e.g. hook up a Rozetta LFO to the ‘semitone’ parameters to automatically multi pitch a bass or snare line) and has an easy to use ability to import your own samples and create custom kits - or other instruments - from them. It’s internal song construction mode is fairly basic at the moment, but this new addition of probability should shake things up, and I outsource most of my drum sequencing to Brambos Rozetta anyway. The dev is rushing out new updates almost daily at the moment, and each is adding significant functionality. And he is very responsive to the community on the Audiobus Forum! Great stuff all round. Strongly recommended. :)

Great work Guys. If I may ask for a request please add the ability for me to import my Midi drum loops into a pattern .... that would be fantastic.

An inexpensive multi sampler for my phone? Wow! Really enjoying making layered instruments from found sound recordings and when paired with Velocity Pad i can have dynamics that rival an acoustic instrument in my pocket. Just one little weird problem maybe you can help me understand. When loaded as an audio unit and connected to a roli lightpad the samples trigger in reverse. I have tried 3 auv3 hosts and used every midi filter in AUM to no avail. I tried another Bluetooth midi controller and it was normal Also if i run the app in stand-alone mode the problem is gone. Thx for reading

I’ve watched this blossom from its infancy into a superb and extremely useful ios drum app. The dev works quickly at squashing any bugs and has added a ton of useful additions, darn impressive actually. All the apps have a solid and similar design ethos. You know when you are using a quality app because you can dive in and you have some familiarity with certain features and the overall look. I really do like the app design templates, for lack of a better word, with all the 4pockets audio & effects apps. Ok time to play with the newly added auv3 multi out feature! ☮️ edit- please fix the upgrade price it’s more than just buying it outright to digistix 2

I’m about 30 minute into this app. I always felt Garage Band drums just sucked. Maybe I don’t understand how to use them properly. This app makes it easy to get good samples and adjust their volume with its mixer. Finally I can work on some good sounding drums within GB. Hardest thing to figure out was. Slide up to get to the good stuff.