Programmable drum machine/metronome
January 14, 2016 8:42 AM Subscribe
I am looking for a good programmable metronome or drum machine or a sampler/sequencer for Android OS.
The aim is to be able to play various percussion patterns to play along with, such as the 6/8 bell pattern. Currently I have the Clave, which is great (and free!) but it only has four patterns and one percussive sound. I would like to be able to choose the sound and add more patterns.
I know there are latency issues with Android devices so I may have to use something to playback loops that I record if there is no programmable metronome or usable drum machine.
Looking through the Google Play store I am none the wiser and searching Google throws up out of date information and nonsense app aggregator sites.
The aim is to be able to play various percussion patterns to play along with, such as the 6/8 bell pattern. Currently I have the Clave, which is great (and free!) but it only has four patterns and one percussive sound. I would like to be able to choose the sound and add more patterns.
I know there are latency issues with Android devices so I may have to use something to playback loops that I record if there is no programmable metronome or usable drum machine.
Looking through the Google Play store I am none the wiser and searching Google throws up out of date information and nonsense app aggregator sites.
I play with a handlful of free sequencer type apps that all unfortunately have a bias towards 4/4 time signatures but are fun to knock together. Dmach because its stupid-simple. You can get a bit more complex with Sequenz and GStomper which wants some cash to do nice things IIRC.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:37 AM on January 14, 2016
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:37 AM on January 14, 2016
I like pro metronome, the free version is pretty customizable, a bunch of different samples, ability to mute or accent a beat, make bars from 2 to 16 beats, and from half notes to 32nds. If you know your subdivisions it's trivial to get it to do a two bar clave, with a clave sound as the sample. It's very much a port in progress tho (from iOS), needs a bunch of polish.
posted by disso at 9:38 AM on January 15, 2016
posted by disso at 9:38 AM on January 15, 2016
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posted by AppleTurnover at 11:33 AM on January 14, 2016