Dragon Drum Machine - Synth drums for Android
Features:
Four pattern sequencer with local and global pattern control
BPM control with nudging
Save/load presets
Record audio as wav
Three drum synths:
-Bass
-Snare
-Hi-hat
Effects rig:
-Asymmetry and tanh(x) for tape like distortion
-Pitched feedback delay
-Retrigger (aka stutter/buffer) with variable speed and reversing
-Bit reduction
-Down-sample
-Reverb
-Resonant bandpass filter
Preset management and wav export requires permission for file storage read/write
Unpaid version disables preset saving and audio recording
Possible future ports to desktop and ios. Made with Pure Data and libGDX
Full parameter and effect reference:
SYNTH PARAMETERS
Bass drum-
Freq: Frequency. Locks into semitones so you an harmonize easily
Decay: Amplitude decay
Freq Env Dec: Frequency envelope decay. Changes how fast the pitch drops
Freq Env Amt: Frequency envelope amount. Changes how much the pitch drops
Noise: Noise burst for click
Amp: Bass drum amp
Snare drum-
Tone Low Dec: Tone low decay
Tone High Dec: Tone high decay
Noise Dec: Noise decay
FM: Frequency modulate the low tone by the high tone
Freq: Frequency. Locks into semitones so you an harmonize easily, though overtones from fm and the high tone bring inharmonic tones
Freq Env: Frequency envelope. Changes how much the pitch drops
Delay: Feedback delay
Delay ms: Milliseconds of delay
Tone Distance: Distance between low and high tones
Amp: Volume of snare
Hi-Hat-
Freq: Frequency
FM: Frequency modulate the tone
Tone Dec: Tone decay
Tone Amp: Tone amplitude
Noise Dec: Noise decay
Noise Amp: Tone amplitude
EFFECTS
Retrig: Loop audio by the specified time interval (1/2, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 notes)
Rev: reverse retrigger’s playback
Speed: control the speed of the retrigger’s playback
Bit Red: Bit reducer. Mixes in a low bit signal
BP Filt: Band-pass filter. All the way left is off
Tanh: Amplifies and the waveshapes the signal through a hyperbolic tangent curve. Creates a tape-like distortion
Asym: Adds to the signal, creating a DC offset. Doesn’t do much unless you have Tanh turned a bit
Down Samp: Down-sample the signal
Reverb: Mixes in reverb signal
Delay: Pitched feedback delay dry/wet
Delay ms: Milliseconds of delay
Freq: Adjust the pitch that the delayed signal is adjusted by. Also locks into semitones
Category : Music & Audio
Reviews (30)
This is lots of fun to jam with. There's definitely potential to use this as a live instrument but would like to see some tweaks. Main thing would be an option to save effects a few different patches within a sequence. Just like you can save 4 different drum patterns. That way you could edit effects on the fly but one click back to a saved patch. I like to change effects in real time but I want to be able to click back to the original sound I had in one click.
Galaxy Note 8; tried to open this app for the first time and I only see a blank grey screen with no commands or options. Prompt appears when exiting, no option to use the app. edit; Reinstalled and restarted device and the app worked fine, not sure which had the effect. Unique take on a drum machine app, simple and uncluttered, its essentially just individual loops for kick, snare, and hats, but all the options for timing, wave shaping, and effects add infinite variety in a rather small package.
Fantastic sound. Currently can't make it work!! Display won't scroll. Have uninstalled and reinstalled and still not working. Frustrating because it's simple enough to use but can make powerful and unusual beats. Please help!
Very cool overall, biggest complaint is preset patterns can't be deleted (they can be deleted but just come back on relaunch of the app) meaning my drum patterns are hard to find amongst the presets. Being able to construct multi bar beats would be nice too.
Love it! A tab with a concise control surface for performances would be amazing. Or perhaps linking the app on your phone to another device via Bluetooth or WiFi with a dedicated performance panel on the second device?
Very powerful drum seq with fantastic effects . Feature requests - 1.sync recording ( for accurate looping) 2. Automation record. 3. Clear instructions on where the files are stored ..whether they are sandboxed in the Android data folder tree or outside.
Best value in upgrading to a simple beats app approximating 808 / 909 sounds. Filters, envelopes, FM, noise, freq settings. Nice layout, wonderful!
Wonderful! I adore this little thing so very much. Also appreciate the fact that you can record to a wav file so it's exportable without compression (so you get the best quality lofi glitchy drums?!)
Whatever you did in the latest update has now not let me move or down on the interface at all. I'm just stuck in. on part of the screen. Was great when it was working.
Edit I guess I had to restart my phone to get the app operating on my phone. There should be a midi export save. That's holding this app back in my opinion.
Absolute filthy noise lofi bliss. Give this Hum0n your money if you're at all into any kind of aggressive, intense, or bizarre electronic audio production. You will not be disappointed, I promise.
finally an android music making app that is actually good. switching from iphone i was surprised at the lack of interesting music maker apps on the android platform. this and nanoloop is about it for android.
Unfortunately not usable on my Galaxy S9+ as it draws outside the screen, making the scroll bar inaccessible.
This is Ferkin Awesome, i luvs it - update makes it more ferkin awesome, 3/4 possible now :) Thanks muchly and Rock On with your Badass self. Good update, 'tap tempo' and 'screen always on' are very useful
Love it. Played around for minute and got some dirty beats. Excuse me while I go brush the sludge outta my earholes. Thumbs up 100 percent
Excellent. Perfect for my next project. Nice 808 bass tones i was getting out of it. Well worth two bucks.
Brutal crazy drum beats. Simple to use but goes way out there, i feel as though i could make a whole track just jamming on this, maybe i even will
Edit: All is good now! This remains one of the best in it's class on android. Everything from Akunull is quality!
Pretty freakin cool experience is awsome with electric guitar and amp perfecto thanks.
That was the bugs! Thanks for resolving, appreciated
Cool little drum machine. The link at the bottom take me to a a weird domain hosting site though
A small pattern sequencer would make this app perfect.
This is a fun little machine and absolutely worth the 2$
Love all the diverse drums that emerge from this machind
WTH got just a grey screen nothing works uninstalling
Doesn't work on my P20 Pro, just a blank grey screen and a scrollbar
I'd like a refund but can't contact the developer
How things should be.
Grind on ravers grind on
So dirty I had to take a bath afterwards. Pretty sweet little machine, very simple and intuitive to use. Would definitely not call it lo-fi, sounds pretty industrial, but it was what I expected from the demos. Would LOVE a clap...I love the simplicity but I think it could do with a clap to complete the set...maybe a Tom as well, but thats might be too much. Also it would be great to have individual FX, and not just master. But overall fun app, sounds very nice, pretty good individual controls. Simple to use. You'll probably want to sample it out to be able to create a more complete kit, but it's producing some gritty deep bass. Hats off dev, would love to hear more from you.