Playbeat 3

This is a useful tool, especially the ‘smart’ function. It’s easy to use, easy to get something out of with minimal effort, and versatile enough to allow those blessed with creativity to indulge themselves. What it lacks, are any acoustic / analog real world drum sounds. A few packs front he good old days of Ringo and Keith bashing away at skins would add a whole new dimension to Playbeat 3. What say you, developers, any chance?

This instrument sounds superb ,is simple to use and it is very very creative . If I could I would give 10 stars with clusters and all for the price of a cinema ticket and some wine gums 🙏🏿🙏👏👍🎩

8 lanes instead of 4 and much better midi implementation. 2 things I would like 1. the ability to drag and drop samples from say Samplecrate 2. More sample packs

Complete game changer from versions 1 and 2. There are so many new features that it’s almost unrecognisable, but still conceptually familiar. I love it!

I have a list of things that make this app a chore to use, but I guess the top one would be that sometimes it just won’t open. (Air 5)

I could be just how I get down.

I have been having lots of fun with this app making drum beats with my own sounds. It just needs a few things to be over the top for me and usable for real on IOS: 1) Ability to name each sound - the numbers are cool, but it gets confusing trying to remember which sound was where and read the tiny text on the sample name (and this is on a 12" ipad). Little icons for each sound type would be cool too. 2) Export all 8 audio files at once, or at least a zip file. Exporting a single sound is tedious and the app names every sound the same thing, so you have to stop and rename each sound if you want to export all the drums to the same folder. 3) Multi-instrument out for recording midi/audio into Logic. If I can't export all my sounds at once, I have to be able to record them in separately so I can adjust levels, eq, etc. This requires either a multi-midi or multi-audio (preferably both) instance to be available. I love the UI and found the app pretty responsive, though it did freeze up on me a couple times. It feels like this was meant to be a teaser for the desktop apps. I have to admit it was it working for me as I considered buying the desktop suite after using chordjam, but then the limitations on this app kind of killed the momentum for me. Ipad music-making is obviously a thing now, so there is no good reason to water-down an app because its on ipad.

Playbeat 3 has excellent sample backs and punches up in the mix. Additionally, the AI generation is really fun to tweak, just like other AudioModern apps. My 2 biggest complaints: 1. No audio multi-out. Feels like a must with any drum app, to be able to properly mix and master the output. Having multiple instances for each drum is CPU heavy and ruins the point of the generative app. 2. UI is buggy. Menus flicker over each other, scrolling through presets is very difficult since the app prioritizes dragging samples, and the app crashes often in AUM.

I have tried everything from Jamstix to BFD to Tooontrack and nothing comes close to what kind of AI rhythm generating this app does. I got it as a birthday gift to expand my horizons, especially in Drambo, and it works perfectly. It is a fresh and easy to use UI, a great and powerful randomizer that really sounds amazing every change, it has AI that follows you to see what you prefer in patterns, and then generates that. All I can say is musicians who need good drum patterns because they either have no access to drummers or knowledge of good drum generating or rhythm writing, this is the app for you. I can’t tell you how amazed I am at the customer service. Max is especially awesome for his help and super fast response. I highly recommend this app as well as supporting AudioModern’s other apps - their suite is very sweet!

So far so good, I just bought the iOS version and am putting it through the paces. Will update, soon )