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- Keyboards: „An extremely flexible beatbox with tons of character.“
- FACT Magazine: „One of the iPad’s best drum machines.“
- ASK.AUDIO: „Sounds awesome. Really flexible.“
- CDM: „Finally, Your Pocket Gets a Perfect Drum Synth: Elastic Drums for iPhone.“
- Audionewsroom: „A Mature Groovebox“ — Sonic Joy Award 2015
- Musik Radar: 12 of the best iOS groovebox and drum-machine apps
- iOS Mars: „This app could very easily be considered as THE best synth drum app available.“
- Beat.de: „Anwender, die eine flexible Drum-App suchen, werden mit Elastic Drums viel Spaß haben.“
- Tanith Blog: „Eine meiner, wenn nicht gar DIE Lieblings-App zum Musizieren auf dem iPad.“
- Amazona.de: Platz 1 bei den iOS Drum-Sequencer Apps
- C’T Magazin: „Die Klangsynthese klingt richtig fett und lädt dank der Automation zur verspielten Pattern-Programmierung ein.“
- Sound & Recording: „Ein Drum-Synthesizer für iOS, der Maßstäbe setzt in Sachen Sound, Funktionalität und Handling.“
- Machinedrum, Music Producer: „It’s awesome, a lot of fun to work with and very easy to get something going. I love the sound presets too.“
- Funkstörung, Music Producer: „Fantastic sounding, great fun to play with, a must have for live performances!“
- Alex Cortex, Music Producer: „Das ist nicht nur eine Drum-App, das ist ein Technomonster!“
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Description
The core idea behind Elastic Drums was to create a drum app that’s both fun and intuitive to use, while offering a distinctive and characterful sound.
Unlike most drum apps that rely heavily on samples, Elastic Drums uses drum synthesis models – making the sounds much more elastic and deeply tweakable. This approach allows for radical sound shaping, and when combined with the app’s versatile effects section, Elastic Drums becomes not just a beat-making tool, but a powerful instrument for sound design.
Elastic Drums is designed and developed by Oliver Greschke, with contributions to Pure Data patching by Matt Davey. Graphic design by Carsten Schneider. Elastic Drums is one of the most known iOS drum apps in the Apple Store!
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Features
Elastic Drums is an iOS app with 6 channels of synthesized sounds, a step sequencer and 4 effect channels, all tweak-able in an elastic way.
– 6 synth channels with over 20 different percussion synth engines
(kick, snare, hihat, clap, tom, wobble, fm, fm4, square, grain, bass, drone, sampler, 808 kit)
– 12 parameters for each synth engine
– automation for each parameter via knob recording or velocity
– 4 send effect channels with 2×11 mono effects and 2 x 9 stereo effects
– automation for all of the 8 possible effect parameters via xy pad
– master effects (stutter, delay, compressor …)
– 16 step sequencer for the 6 channels, each with own tempo multiplier & length
– record audio and export to Soundcloud or Audioshare
– email audio recordings and presets
– iOS 8 supported
– Audiobus supported
– Inter-App audio (IAA) supported with transport control
– Midi start/stop/sync, Midi learn/Midi implementation of important parameters
– Ableton Link supported
– Factory presets by: App Sound, Ben Jeffrey, Bill Jobs, Dead Fader, Hecq, Kero, Leonard de Leonard, Machine Drum, Mouse on Mars, Ochre, Pan, Phlex, Pilocka Krach, Red Sky Lullaby, Servando, Shadow Dancer, Swarm Intelligence, zNo
Hi,
I want to use ElasticDrums with an external sequencer. Thus I mapped the MIDI notes to the tracks, which works fine. My problem now is that while the sequencer is playing the beat, the track selection changes continuously which makes it impossible to make changes to the sound (select different synth, turning the knobs, setup the velocity, …) while the beat is playing. How could I achieve this?
Thanks,
Roland
I am aware of this. There is the option „Same controller for all inst“. With this option disabled the instrument selection will not change all the time with incoming notes. This will be fixed in update 2.2.2 coming hopefully soon
Thanks for your answer.
I tried it several times but it didn’t fix it. 🙁
Do you already have an estimate when „hopefully soon“ could be?
With the next update, but this might take 4,5 weeks to be realistic.
If you want the testflight version, which has incorporated it already now send me an email
oliver,
hey, it’s greg here, longtime user of the app. love it! what do you think are some good midi controllers to use with the app? any recommendations greatly appreciated. keep up the good work!
Any controller of your choice is possible. But to give some examples – a cheap one would be Korg NanoKontrol and Novation Launch Control XL has a great haptic feeling
Hello! I love the app and am trying to control it with the Korg Nankontrol 2, but when I plug it in with the USB to lightning adapter I get an error saying the device is not supported. I’m running IOS 12 on an iPad mini 4. Do you think it’s the cable? It will connect, but only for a minute at a time, then disconnects. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Arthur
This has nothing much to do with Elastic Drums, but rather with your external gear. Maybe try another (Apple original) cable. Good luck!
Hi, I’ve been enjoying the App.
There’s only one problem I’ve been having, which is that on Midi Encoders, the Elastic Drums doesn’t take in the relative setting properly. When I set my encoders that way, the knobs in Elastic Drums only alternate between two values, and not a subtraction on the current value. Is this how it is supposed to work?
I have an Arturia MiniLAB MKII, and my plan was originally to use it to control all of the knobs on each instrument while I messed with other things in other apps. So, I have the “Same controller for all instr” turned on.
I just tried with a controller and I can not confirm, works great with mine. I guess the controller data you are sending is mal formatted, maybe you send Midi Notes instead of controller data? The knobs should get controller values between 0-127. Best, Oliver
Hello i have this app for quite a long Time on my iPad.i don’t count the number of loops & samples i made for my hardware sampler & arrived on a Finished track with it.but please i dream on using it on my Android phone on the go. I don’t wanna buy an iPhone anymore. Please consider an Android version because since version 7 or 8 realtime performance were really improved. Thanks for your hard work.
Hi Moinstruments Team,
it would ne really nice if you make the pattern buttons from the arrange view also midi mappable 🙂
Best regardsf
Marxon
This should be fixed now
In Elastic Drums, can you set the frequency of a kick (sine wave) by the note value like G2 or by hertz like 52 hertz so that the kicks can be „tuned“ to the key of the song?
There are many video’s I made, showing how you have to set up Midi for Elastic Drums
Elastic drums is just a superb piece! Fantastic job! forgot about NI Maschine for almost a week now) ! But we have troubles on recording the result, is it possible to make this process a bit more user friendly, when you press a button and it records either one bar (a pattern) or a complete song and exports it? Now I get silence at the beggining of a file, or i send it to audioshare but its an empty file and so on…
Thanks and congratilations on this app!
Kind regards
Eric Val