VADrum2 4+

Virtual Analog Drum Machine

Ryo Togawa

    • £5.99

Description

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VADrum2 is a virtual analog drum machine for iPhone, iPad and Mac. VADrum2 consists of drum synthesizer, effects and a sequencer. The drum synthesizer includes 27 drum voices, which are 23 virtual analog modules and 4 sample playback modules and they are inspired by the iconic analog drum machines of the 1980’s. The Effects includes delay, chorus, flanger, reverb, eq, and compressor. The sequencer offers ability to program 16 bar pattern per clip and parameter automation. Project files can be saved in iCloud Drive. VADrum2 works as a stand alone or as an Audio Unit Extension (AUv3). Stand Alone supports Ableton Link, Bluetooth MIDI and MIDI IN/OUT.

Main Features

Drum Synthesizer
- 27 drum synthesizer modules (24 virtual analog and 4 sample playback)

Sequencer
- 16 bar patterns per clip. Total 16 clips.
- Parameter automation.

Audio Export
- Linear PCM format (AIFF, WAV and CAF) and compressed format (AAC)

- Support iCloud Drive.
- Support Universal Purchase (Works on iOS devices and macOS devices)
- Support Ableton Link, Bluetooth MIDI, MIDI In / Out.
- Support Audio Unit Extension (AUv3)

System Requirements
- AudioUnit Extension (AUv3) requires host application which support AudioUnit Extension.
- AudioUnit Extension (AUv3) is supported by Apple Garage Band on iOS and macOS, and Apple Logic on Mac. For any other DAW, it depends on the application and some of them don’t support AudioUnit Extension (AUv3).

What’s New

Version 1.0.5

Version 1.0.5 contains improvements and bug fixes.
- Support macOS Sonoma 14.

Ratings and Reviews

sleekitwan ,

A tidy, modern drumkit system for my iPad.

A really excellent and refreshingly reliable AUv3 drum ‘machine’, I have had a spate of other devs’ Audio Units crashing/locking my beloved GarageBand on my iPad Pro M1, and am glad this one is up to Ryo Togawa’s usual high standard. Looking at the built-in User Guide - it exists! - in either standalone OR Audio Unit instance, I can see there’s the ability to program drums if you want to set up sequences. I don’t, I mainly want to tap the drums in real-time and use the GarageBand iPadOS feature of ‘adding-on’ a layer at a time, to the MIDI blocks.

IE I run GB, hit ‘record’ and do the bass drum, then repeat and as long as the track setting in GB is NOT set to do fresh takes, the next layer of MIDI ‘notes’ will be maybe the Snare Drum, or whatever. This is totally standard as many iOS/iPadOS music enthusiasts know. Don’t need to do this, if you are fast-fingered, you can skip along the twin rows of drum pad rectangles and drop the whole lot in ! (two kits can be shown at a time, one has a few more pads than the other I think).

This avoids a lot of issues with some drum apps that are AUv3, where ‘recording’ either puts very little MIDI down, hiding everything, OR the drum machine app itself, insists on running while you also press ‘play’ in the DAW. I thought Audio Units, would understand/be connected enough with the host DAW, to realise that a recorded track, means you don’t also want the drum machine playing over it. I cannot usually find a tidy way to stop this happening, and so I have taken to manually dropping the drum hits in - hence I purchased this app, because it permits both modes. NOTE - I have not yet explored the ‘programmed mode’ on this as an audio unit instance, I will get to that sometime, but this dev is generally creating solid Audio Units that work, so I do not anticipate anything negative there, that wouldn’t be sorted.

Obviously then my use case, is presently a straightforward one. It is really good that Ryo Togawa so clearly enables ‘manual’ drum hits as an easy way to get a drum track laid down. I selected a kit, then I tap the pad/rectangles, and stuff sounds off! Then I hit ‘record’ on GarageBand in a song, and it does what I expect. It’s surprising how hard some drum apps make this mode to do. When I press play after recording, there’s no doubling issues this way, nice and easy. So I did not have to learn how to program the drums, in order to hear them play in Apple’s baby DAW and easily lay down a drum track or tracks.

This is an easy recommended choice, in my view this Audio Unit and standalone. I also got a mini channel-strip by the same developer, and that is similarly solid and reliable and doesn’t glitch my GB. It’s good to feel relaxed about the quality behind the scenes, that enables me to focus on the enjoyable bit, creating music, not act as a test pilot. Lastly, A long time ago, I had a Roland/Boss TR606. I mean, I loved it, but it was tedious to program, and that was a necessary thing to do. And making anything but a repeated loop of the same few bars (using ‘song mode’) was really convoluted, and you couldn’t ‘see’ a darned thing.

That’s perhaps why I don’t take to being made to program drums now, because a DAW means you don’t need to. If you do need to, it’s there. So this drum app, gives modern sounds and I guess if I wanted a more cool-looking arrangement of playing pads (eg images of actual drums), I could grab my Yamaha electric drumkit as a triggering method, because the app does do MIDI too. I’d love to do that when I get the time. For now, it’s fine to finger-tap. Definitely 5-stars because it works so well and doesn’t trip me up!

App Privacy

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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