When you open Drummer, you’re presented with two colored circles representing your first two drum tracks. Tap one, and you’re zoomed into a conventional “four bars” view of when different drum beats ...

With Keezy, making music doesn’t require a lot of work, know-how, or talent. This dead-simple drum machine app lets you hold down one of its eight buttons to record a sound with your device’s ...

Pure Acid is a bass synthesizer and drum machine app for the iPad, and it might just be the best drum machine app ever. It is, for me, the first app that actually feels like you’re using physical drum ...

If you’re a musician looking to add drum beats or loops via a pedal, a Finnish company called Kovaluu has unveiled a cheap solution. Its app for iOS and Android, called Beats and Loops, transforms ...

The day the iPad was unveiled, the whole Apple community screamed that the device would change the way we look at arts and be the center of any kind of creation process in mankind’s mobile future.

The Yamaha Arp & Drum Pad app for iPad is a music creation app that's not only capable of transmitting notes to external MIDI instruments, but includes a built-in virtual keyboard, allowing the user ...

New app Beats+ wants to put a portable drum machine in your pocket. Available December 15th for $0.99 from Ninebuzz Software, the download offers over 50 preprogrammed rhythms, if not a proper ...

This week we go hitchhiking with Supertrampr, lay down some beats with Patterning 2, and, uh, create some invoices from our iPhones. Check it out. Spect is a super lightweight, super-fast image ...

Last week we were making acid house in our browsers, now we have the HTML 5 Drum Machine Emulator. Created by developer Jamie Thomson, the emulator lets you select from five different kits, including ...

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