Soft Drummer

A Sophisticated jazz drummer app (with brushes!) that needs no tweaking. It can play full 16 measure patterns of excellent sampled drums and improvise softly (pianissimo) and with subtleties better than many drummers I know. Having used recorded bass and drums for years to accompany jazz standards, I could not change tempos easily since they were pre-recorded. Soft Drummer allows nuanced jazz drumming in many varied tempos and moods that works well live. Starting with a measure drumstick count-off, then a creative introduction measure, (and eventually a closing measure); jumping to the touchscreen controls and back to playing your instrument is easy. Those control buttons would be easier if BIGGER, at least as big as the drum trigger buttons. I missed the tiny INTRO button when stopping and starting (crucial musical moments). Making the INTRO button as big as the triangular start button would be my only improvement request. The Reverb, EQ, PAN, etc.; are detailed and easily adjusted. I have not tried MIDI integration yet but if it works as it should it can be an excellent alternative MIDI triggered sound module. Just a tip: If you play the same music at 120=BPM or 60=BPM in cut time (so it’s really the same speed) it will change the character a lot especially if you set the “jamming” and/or “swing” to a high setting. Alpha program! I can’t wait to see what an additional soundest, offered for my review, will do! Thank you. Dale Jeffries

I was looking for a drum app that I could to play live in small intimate settings where sometimes electrical power is not readily available. I was delighted when I found Soft Drummer. I currently use a Beat Buddy and was looking for something similar in an app. This is not it. With that said, this is an excellent app with its own qualities but it is not as intuitive as Beat Buddy. I am not a drummer and need something fairly simple to play along with live. I need to be able to control things using OnSong and Quantiloop. I think this app can do everything I need and more but there is a learning curve and the documentation is scarce. There are a couple of YT tutorials but seem to more focused on recording than live play. I have not found a good tutorial on the MIDI settings. My needs are simple: I need to select a song and set the tempo using CC or PC commands using an Airturn Stomp 6 footswitch. I use OnSong to configure the six switches to trigger MIDI commands like Start/Stop, and send CC and PC commands to Quantiloop and Beat Buddy to select songs, change tracks and set tempos. If I can figure out how to do this with Soft Drummer I will give it 5 Stars because the drum sounds and jamming features are stellar. If I could get some help from you, Louis, by getting some documentation and/or tutorials, that would be very much appreciated.

This can be really great for anyone practicing saxophone. Really enjoying the variety of the sounds and various patterns. And it says i can get a soundset if i write a review. One thing is that i wish i have a more intuitive n reliable UI. When in song mode, when i delete all parts, the app will crash n shut down. (Ipad pro 9.7) and i'd like to save my own variations from the existing patterns or sounds combinations, but the save button won't be activated most of the time. Hope these will be fixed in the future. Currently it's the best n only Soft drummer on the market i believe. ------ Deleted n reinstalled, and i have to rate it again. One another bug that i wish quickly be fixed is in the song mode. First part plays correctly, and the second part and the rest will not play snares at all. Deleted n Reinstalled but didn't change. Hopefully this will be fixed soon~ All other things are great.

Crashes every time I hit the save button, very good sounds but can only use it for jamming, otherwise useless to me. Supposedly audiobus compatible but can't find a copy button. Would like to use the obvious potential but seems broken. Update: Sounds great yes, found conflict causing crash, not compatible with Swift Key. Incredible lack of support for this app, about the only source of info is on audiob and nothing that he I can see from the developer. The glaring fault with SF is lack of IAA triggering or just simple pasteboard. The only way I can find to trigger it from group the loop or other apps is to use midi, which I'm not a fan of. I'm a guitar player looking for a decent drum tool, not a beat boxer looking for a toy. While this app sounds great, it works best in its own fishbowl. Disappointed at the lack of audio share support for this app and zero documentation other than a few fanboy videos. Sadly for me, I'll have waste more money in pursuit of a usable drum tool that doesn't require midi triggers from remote apps and them trimming the result to fit due to delays.

The Swiss Army knife of quality drums. I’ve been using all of Luis’s apps together. Using Link... And with a little forethought you can have one heck of a drummer on your hands. With none of the drug problems ;) Have u ever seen another developer with straight across 5 stars on everything? That’s par for Luis. This is the most useful app you will have. If you don’t need it now. You will hit a wall where you need options. When you do. Thank Luis. And be glad this is here. Anyone who who has criticism of an app this good is doing something wrong or can’t dance. This quality of program used to cost hundreds of dollars on a desktop. And we paid. 20 bucks is nothing for the work that went into giving you an amazing tool from someone who knows what they’re doing. Thank you so much for the tools to make creating easier and more enjoyable. Indispensable.