Pretty good!

I’ve been looking for an app software Drum Machine I can just launch and put ideas down and this is very effective in doing that, just like vintage drum machines. Barely any mousing, menu-ing, just instant ideas. DM-1 won’t replace that kind of instantaneous inspirational drum pattern making (I hate the term “beatmaking”) you have in vintage machines but this is pretty darn good! You don’t even need to read the manual, its that easy to use!

The only issues I have with it is in the FX and STEPS pattern sections, I’d love to see individual FX AUX SENDS for each drum sound, and some gated reverb and other interesting FX. When using vintage drum machines and even new modern drum machine synths one doesn’t LOOK at a pattern, that was the great thing about drum machines. The “Fruity Loops” (careful not to go too kiddie fun with it.) steps sequencer is a common standard UI thing now, but it bothers me to no end LOOKING at beats, I’m listening. So The default screen that shows up should be a user choice and I’d like to see the pattern step part dissapear when creating drum patterns (I can’t stand it when certain people say “beats”…) and only bring it up as a tool to REMOVE or ADD or FIX small issues, NOT as a compositional starting point. I recommend this from actually using a few special vintage drum machines.

And this step sequencer could be replaced by an expanded 2x8 PAD section as an option, to also mimic some of the other great vintage drum machines. And even a UI look for each drum machine would rock!

Only three stars to encourage more development and once it has a few of these suggestsions, in my view, this is a 5 star app!

Modernaire about DM1 - The Drum Machine