DrumStudio App Reviews

When I buy a drum app I would expect it to at least to be able to sequence it. Not in this case, when i sequence it from Genome sequencer, this crap is playing back only monotone, it can not play more than ONE NOTE at a time. Dont waste your money The drums sound good though, thats why Im giving 2 stars

I dont think theres an equivalent to this app in the apple store. It is a great app, but whenever I export a pattern as a midi file to a notation program like Sibelius or Notion 5, the notes are not placed where theyre supposed to be on the score. Theyre all on ledger lines way under the score...So I think a sheet music save option or a score view would be great. We could then copy or export the score to a notation program. Also the drum sounds are not very pleasant. Its been a long time since the app was updated so I hope the dev will take all the usersremarks into consideration.

If I want to change the drum set type in the settings, theres only a white window without any options to chose and I have to close the app, because nothing else works to shut this window. Please fix this!

Hi folks, thats a really great app, thanx to the programmer! I use it for my personal studies because I am a lousy student on the Djembe

Is it pushing it to ask for a "swing" setting?

I wish the 16 year old me could have used this app (Im 38 now :) It would have blown my mind. Hands down this is the way to construct and share grooves properly. Amazing. 5 stars now that midi file gets exported in email function along with the tab. I can email to myself and open the midi file in Music Studio to add some melodic tracks to and experiment. With vMidi I can then control drumjams awesome kits with music studio. I have a set of v-drums at home and I have enjoyed plugging them in to use with this app. (With yamahas core midi interface imx-1) I love the way the app is simple but so powerful. Congrats Andy,you are among my app dev heroes!

Its a great way for drum students to learn how to read tab, because the app can play the tab and you can play along. You can write your own tab if you want to remember a specific beat. Ive only scratched the surface of what DrumStudio can do. Kudos to Rollerchimp for a super app !!!!!

First of all really thx! This program makes for drummers. Now I found my way to fast record my own drums solo and wont leave it in head. Interface, recording, editing everything is perfect! Thank you guys!)

Without Hit hat closed/open its impossible to create a reasonable rhytm. Sounds are poor too!

What about an open high hat? More note accents would really be nice. Customizable kit parts and stuff like that. And when I hit record, I have no clue where its going. I checked the voice memos. Not there. I think its to record with an outside source. Id like if the drums were more organic sounding too, with a selection of drum tones and kit tones that you could mix and match into your preferred kits. Cant wait for the update! This is pretty good stuff. Definitely a step in the right direction.

I downloaded this as a teaching aid to show my student the beat I asked them to play instead of writing it out. In addition they could hear the beat and see it at the same time. It worked well. There is some room for improvement but I think this is definitely a cool tool. Suggestions: - Love the email tab feature however the hihat line didnt line up with the other notes in the email. - I couldnt get the screen to rotate - The volume wouldnt turn up very loud - It would be nice to be able to reorder the drums on the tab page or add/remove the ones you dont need. For exampl as a teaching tool it wouldve been helpful to only show hh snare and bd next to each other. Overall very robust and full of features for the price! Good job!

Brilliant! exACTly what Ive been looking for! 2 suggestions ... 1. screen flipping would be nice. Drum Tab orients on the opposite side Im most comfortable with. 2. Any chance in the future youll include actual drum notation? I know Id pay for such an upgrade(!)

I love this app, it both helps with my playing and allows me an easy way to right and rehearse new beats. One thing I would really like to see in a new update is a tap tempo button, as it would be nice to be able to change to what I hear in my head without needing to search for it.

This app is amazing- exactly what Ive been looking for to write, store, and edit drum beats/arrangements on the fly. The drum sounds are total crap (what can you expect for $1.99), but that hardly matters. The meat of the app is the tab editor/creator, which allows you to save and/or export your drum parts in a variety of formats to several different places (i.e. Email, iTunes, ect.). The editor is easy to use, not to mention it has a metronome and quanitizing capability. The drum set used to record is clumsy, but I doubt anyone is planning on laying down 32nd note death metal with their fingers. You can easily record a rough draft with your set then edit or add to what you recorded using the editor. My one and only complaint is that there is no 6/8 time signature. You can write in 6/8 by using 6/4 and subdividing to 32nd notes, but this is a pain. **Note to developers: Pleases put out an update with 6/8 time!! This is a very common time signature and would be wry useful. THANKS!**

The interface is ridiculously small, the ever-present "bongos" are about 2 mm wide! And no way to resize, they should have spent less time on the sweet graphics and actually used up the iPhone real estate properly.

This is a useful and easy to use app that anyone can get into! The only minor complaints I have is you dont have the option to go back to the last written or new bar when youre in the first bar. Instead, you have to click the "choose bar" button, go through a list and scroll to the bottom to get to it. A -new bar- option on the top of that list as well as the bottom can possibly make it smoother to navigate through the entire song. You might sometimes experience the bug where nothing will happen and youre still in the same bar, making you have to go through the process again, maybe a third time. Finally, theres no option to copy/paste multiple bars like in guitar pro, which isnt that big of a deal if youre copying/pasting sounding bars next to each other. Still, Im sure something like this can be fixed in an update and everything else it does makes it worth the $2!

Ive been hunting WAY too long for a simple drum beat app that exports MIDI and allows you to create odd time signatures. Just downloaded the app and it was immediately intuitive with hardly any learning curve. Simple interface on the iPad and easy to set up and use right away. The purpose of the app, to me, is not to have a million options and sounds at your disposal to complicate the writing process, but instead to give you the bare bones tools to create a simple groove and then export the midi into your DAW for structuring the song. Being a fan of fusion, metal, funk, jazz, R&B and modern prog/mathy/djent metal ala Periphery and Animals as Leaders, its daunting to program beats in normal DAWs that are other wise easy to use like LogicPro. You get lost in the MIDI interface for odd time signatures and I find myself frustrated wrestling with the software instead of making music. This simple app seems to have really caught the solution for making semi-complex beats for Djent type metal or fusion. Once again, there are only a few drum sounds. The point is not to have a HUGE selection, although I would dig some nice "Toontrack SD" type sounds, but to make it easy to program beats. Ill post more as I dive into more song writing. It would be a huge hit with the Djent crowd if it included some pro sounding beats resembling Matt Halperns kit or Bulbs SD sounds. Just sayin. Thanks to the developers for this app!!!

The only thing thatd make it better is the ability to name certan sections (verse chorus ect.) and the ability to select multiple sections at a time for copying and pasting. Other than that its great!

I second many of the positive comments from other reviewers, and would add that the ability to import songs from iTunes and slow them down is really helpful when trying to figure out or learn beats. One thing Id love, however, is for the BPM to be adjustable down to tenths. The sync feature isnt perfect, and this would help tremendously. Update: iPod TruSync no longer works on OS5 :(

Its all the app needed to be perfect for learning songs.