DM1 - The Drum Machine

DM1 - The Drum Machine

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price
$4.99
Reviews
4.5 (108)
United States United States
Description
As electronic musicians ourselves, we, at Fingerlab, have developed DM1 with the intention of delivering the perfect mix between fun playability and powerful sonic capacities. We always keep in mind the importance of a beautiful design with the right balance of powerful abilities while avoiding clumsy, overbusy interfaces.
Check our 154 electronic drum kits. 42 classic vintage drum kits plus 112 in-house produced electronic kits, edited and mastered at Fingerlab professional studio. 

DM1 offers 5 main sections:
1 - THE STEP SEQUENCER frees your imagination with a smart use of the multi-touch screen. Just turn on and off steps in your sequence with the tip of your fingers to create cool beats, or unexpected rhythms!
2 - THE DRUM PADS simply lets you play and record the beat that tickles your fingers. No need to be a first-class drummer, automatic quantize does the work for you.
3 - THE MIXER for quick and subtle sound mixing of your drum kits. Featuring settings for volume, pitch, sample length, custom drum kit element for each channel, mute and solo mode.
4 - THE FX TRACKPADS a creative duo of FX trackpads to distort, modulate and transform your beats. The effects include: Overdrive, Delay, Reverb, Envelope follower, Phaser, Dub Delay, Formant, Texturizer, Robotizer, Filter, Dalek filter, Compressor and Noise Gate.
5 - THE SONG COMPOSER allows you to quickly make a song with the beat patterns you have created. Just drag and drop the patterns onto the timeline. Fast and easy.

Specifications:
•  Retina Display
•  Graphic design by Jonas Eriksson
•  Smart ergonomy for fast creativity and fun
•  108 vintage and produced drum kits, mastered at in-house Fingerlab Sound Studios
•  48 additional drum kits available with In-App Purchases
•  Instrument mode allowing to add bassline, chord and melody 
•  3 instruments: Piano, Korg MicroPreset and Cello Strings 
•  3 other instrument (Clavinet, Marimba, MiniLogue) are available with In-App Purchases
•  Samples Import from AudioShare, iPod Library, microphone, DropBox, AudioCopy and iTunes shared folder
•  Step Sequencer with multi-touch matrix 
•  Time signature
•  16 or 32 Steps per patterns
•  Mixer page with pitch, length and level rotary controls, pan controls, choke and custom drum kit per channel
•  Automation Panel for a precise and intuitive control of any Mixer parameter over time
•  Duo FX Trackpads for real-time sonic destruction and multi-FX
•  Live Waveform display for FX pads
•  FX per track
•  FX automation (FX parameters and FX per pattern)
•  9 Big Drum pads, quantized recording and pitch-bend ribbon
•  Pitch-bend ribbon automation
•  Mode song with intuitive editing
•  High-quality export to SoundCloud, DropBox, AudioShare, Facebook, email, iTunes shared folder or AudioCopy
•  Separated tracks and AAC encoding export options
•  The Randomizer tool
•  Extra fast drum kit loading
•  Playable pattern selection for extra creativity
•  Audio background mode
•  Audiobus support
•  Import & Export your song project (DropBox, Mail, iTunes folder)
•  Full Midi implementation
•  Midi export
•  Inter-App Audio support

Watch DM1 video trailer on YouTube Fingerlab's channel:
http://www.youtube.com/fingerlab

Feel free to let us know what you think and what you'd like to see in the next DM1 update.

Enjoy!

Watch us : vimeo.com/​fingerlab
Visit us : fingerlab.net
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Contact us : [email protected]

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Reviews

Really love this just hope you make it auv3 and work with midi

It has amazing sounds so not being auv I got it to think of it like hardware, but no midi sequencer has worked that I tried that has midi mapping for dm1. Even though it works for all the other midi mapping. Please update the app so it works with midi . Also If you made this auv it would truly become the most popular drum machine on iOS for many many people. Will update to. 5 stars once midi is fixed

hyperfocusmusicSun, Nov 19, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Why did you change it?

I use this app for teaching… Guitar and bass. It used to default to the last pattern I wrote, which was useful… now it always goes to this “song,” and I have to go through a few more steps and rewrite my pattern. By default distortion is turned on… I don’t know if it just doesn’t make sense.

Jonnie AxtellTue, Jul 18, 2023
United StatesUnited States

What a waste of time and money

The acoustic sounds are totally useless. Only 9 sounds at a time? And no even two samples per sound. This is literally a toy and it's advertised as a professional tool. MIDI control doesn't work every time you open the app. You have to go to Song>MIDI and then it works, every single time. Labels on the pads are nonsense and useless.

Maria BethaniaWed, Feb 9, 2022
United StatesUnited States

Bpm issues

Tap tempo is hard to use. But more importantly, I’m not sure the bpm metronome is accurate. I’ve tried to beat match it to other apps and I can’t get it to line up at all. Love the app tho, but That’s a big issue for me. Good luck. I’ll still keep using if I can find a work around. Thanks

SYLVESTERjrWed, Jan 5, 2022
United StatesUnited States

Great drum machine

Excellent collection of kits and sound. Plus you can build your own kits. Lots of options for sequencing and patterns. Built in fox and mixer make it great for composing on the sly. It’s not perfect. Can’t get the midi to work, but could be user /developers error. Who knows. Exporting midi and audio has been no problem. Not sure if it would be a live tool, but it also supports ableton sync so my thoughts could change. Even with shortcomings, use it more than any of my instruments because it’s so handy for working out ideas and just jamming along with the grooves. For the price, definitely worth every cent.

Guy frownyThu, Oct 21, 2021
United StatesUnited States

MIDI does not work reliably. Still relevant but needs an update badly.

No FILES support when managing samples! Really? It’s 2021! AudioShare support is broken. The entire user samples functionality is not working properly, it crashes upon using it 9/10 times. No copying/pasting of samples recorded with a mic between individual kit instruments (if this was possible one could easily create slices from just one recording to build entire kit easily). MIDI is broken. For whatever reason it will NOT send or receive MIDI signals from DM2. It will NOT send MIDI to BeatMaker 3. I tried multiple methods and settings on both ends, tried directly, via AUM, Audiobus , it simply does not NOT work no matter what I do. Most other apps other apps are ok, for example, it receivesMIDI from Ruismaker FM just fine. It was one of my first apps on my iPad in 2012. I’m happy to say that it is still relevant even though it hasn’t changed much since its first version. Something about the ease of use of this app that makes me revisit it often. There are couple of thing that could make it significantly better though: *** Variable length / step count for individual tracks. This would allow polyrhythmic rhythms. DM2 has this feature. *** Step division. The preview of the upcoming new app from Fingerlab shows that steps are subdivided, I hope that this feature makes it into DM1 too! I also hope that, unlike in the DM2, step subdivisions create unique MIDI notes. *** Custom kit creation could be made much more powerful by allowing mixing instruments from different kits. Currently this is not possible easily. *** I wish it was possible to change instrument assignments per tracks. This way you could quickly audition different instruments for an already created pattern. This would also simplify things when using DM1 with and external MIDI source. And if a given instrument could be doubled, that combined with the adjustable individual track length would allow amazing rhythms. *** AUv3 is the future. I hope DM1 becomes an AUv3 instrument!

MatreveSun, Apr 11, 2021
United StatesUnited States

Improper time signature

Currently using iPad 5th Gen latest software. I've used this app for a few years, and it's always been fairly reliable. However recently, I try to setup a 5/4, or 3/4 time signature. And it continually sets up in 4/4. Which makes mapping out the beat quickly, a rather pain and headache.

jbomboyMon, Nov 16, 2020
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 19.5KFeb 2024Worldwide
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About
Bundle Id
net.fingerlab.beat
Min Os. Version
12.2
Release Date
Wed, Jul 6, 2011
Update Date
Wed, Mar 10, 2021
Content Rating
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
No
Support Siri
No
File Size
312.51MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
No
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English
What's New
version
6.2
updated
3 years ago
This update fix issues with Ableton Link.

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