What's New

- Changing SWING with Live Pad sets with BPM
- Send & Receive grooves to/from other Drummers
- Sample Rate Fixes
- More little improvements and bugs fixed

App Description

Soft Drummer is a subtle session drummer in your pocket. Easy to use, it's far more than a drum machine cause it can improvise musically with pure acoustic drum sounds played with brushes, hot rods and hands, giving the warmest grooves for soft pop, ballads, jazz, latin ...

New Audio - Midi Export feature. Get Multi-Track or Full Mix in seconds.

Live Pads lets to play live sessions on the way with 8 assignable pads and buttons for fills, intro, end with midi controls.
New 4 Board Mode to control Live Pads with any Midi Controller with just 4 buttons, like iRig Blueboard.
Synchronize any app easily with Ableton Link.

And now you can send generated drums by midi to any sound source, drum machine or synthesizers.

- 50 multilayer sounds with 3 different hit types (ghost note, accented note and drag / open ) x 3 RoundRobin alternating samples.
- Improved Jam algorithm. (iPad)
- Round Robin alternating samples, combining 3 layer samples of each individual stroke to get authentic natural sound.
- Random generators to get creative ideas instantly.
- 4 Effects including Compressor/Gate, Equalizer, Delay and Reverb.
- Song Mode. Extra fast tool to create rhythmic structures for your song in seconds.
- Ableton Link Sync
- Midi Sync
- Control several parameters with midi Control Change and Program Change.
- Midi Out
- Sound Module ( Midi In )

--- MIDI CONTROLS ---

Assignable Midi Controls.

Default Controls :

Play : G2
LivePads : C1 - G2
Fill + Play/Stop : A2

Fill : C2
Fill + Toggle Hats/Ride D2
Toggle Hats/Ride Db2

Fill with LivePad Change E2
Load Live Pad C3
Preview LivePad Db3

Next Live Pad D3
Select Live Pad Set Eb3
Tap Tempo Bb2

Crash Cymbal B2
Next Song Ab2
Previous Song Gb2

Jam CC 1
Intensity CC 2
Master Volume CC 7

Swing CC 11
Reverb Level CC 91
Bank CC 32

Rhythm CC 0
Soundset PC

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • July 28, 2016 Initial release
  • June 13, 2019 New version 2.31
  • June 13, 2019 Price increase: $14.99 -> $17.99
  • June 13, 2019 Price increase: $14.99 -> $17.99
  • June 14, 2019 Price increase: $14.99 -> $17.99
  • June 14, 2019 Price increase: $14.99 -> $17.99
  • June 15, 2019 Price increase: $14.99 -> $17.99
  • June 15, 2019 Price increase: $14.99 -> $17.99
  • June 16, 2019 Price increase: $14.99 -> $17.99
  • September 30, 2019 New version 2.32
  • October 02, 2019 New version 2.33
  • October 22, 2020 New version 3.01
  • December 09, 2020 New version 3.02
  • January 26, 2021 New version 3.13
  • May 06, 2021 New version 3.15
  • August 05, 2021 New version 3.18
  • September 16, 2023 New version 3.25

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