Description
Programmable drum machine.● WAV file import - Load YOUR OWN SAMPLES from SDCARD. Long press a sound button to bring up the sample loading dialog.
Use my Sonic Chop app (sold separate) to chop samples from Music on your device and load them right into Electrum!
● Use samples and loops to make beats and songs.
● Load up to 16 samples. Swipe Left/Right to access the next eight sample pads
● Load MIDI drum files for quicker programming. Electrum comes with an assortment of pre-made MIDI files.
● Preview (audition) samples LIVE while the machine is playing, they will mix right into the beat.
● Set samples or loops to retrigger on programmed slots or to play completely through before triggering the sample again - useful for using loops!
● Look at the MENU for more options such as ability to save and load your own custom drumkits - once you've loaded the sounds you like unto the pads and adjusted them you can save the settings as a drumkit, separate from the patch itself!
● RECORD samples with the microphone.
● Stretch loops to fit the current project BPM.
● Edit a sample's start and end point, pitch and pan Left/Right.
● Use other time signatures such as 3/4, 6/8, etc.
● Add some swing to your beats with the SHUFFLE setting.
● Add FX to your samples - Reverse, Delay, Distortion, and Reverb
● Play Electrum with an external USB MIDI controller
USB MIDI Control has been tested on:
Galaxy Nexus phone
Galaxy Tablet 10.1
Motorola XOOM
● Sample accurate playback engine.
● WAV/MIDI/Pad Export-load your song into any MIDI capable sequencer on your computer.
● Sharing - install the Soundcloud app from the market and you can share beats right to soundcloud (see Electrum's Menu->More->Share)
Electrum has 16 sounds and you can program up to 32 patterns. A full sequencer allows you to string the patterns together into songs or longer beats. You can also play patterns "live", switching them as the machine is playing.
For multitouch devices, Electrum has a multitouch pad dialog as well (See Menu->Play Multitouch pads) where you can play just like an MPC by hitting the pads.
LATENCY OF THE MULTITOUCH PADS DEPENDS ON YOUR DEVICE. SOME DEVICES HAVE VERY BAD LAG RESPONSE. TESTED AS FAST: GALAXY TABLET, DROID X, DROID 1. KNOWN BAD: HTC DESIRE.
HTC WILDFIRE IS TOO SLOW OF A DEVICE TO run Electrum effectively. Sorry, upgrade your device, it's just too slow (523Mhz only).
Please NOTE: The pads on the main screen are not designed to play real time because they are not multitouch. Use the multitouch pads for that.
Also check out my ReLoop music sequencer, which allows you to sequence loops just like Garageband or Sony's ACID.
PERMISSIONS:
PHONE STATE/IDENTITY - used to stop playing if a phone call comes in. IDENTITY is NOT used for anything and it not read at all.
SDCARD WRITE/READ - used to read sound files, and to save settings, patches, and drummkits
Harry
Apr 18, 2012 11:19:47 AM
Brill Nothing wrong with it, great for ideas & jamming
Nik
Apr 16, 2012 6:46:37 PM
Great, just needs better exporting Really the best drum machine for Android. Unfortunately exporting is kind of a pain, and making your own drum kits results in lots of crashes. Still the best beat sketchpad out there.
Steven
Apr 7, 2012 4:44:25 AM
Meh Used to work great. But on ICS works horrible. Loves this on my droid2 and tbolt, but gnex is horrible.
Gavish
Apr 2, 2012 11:52:54 PM
Doesn't Work On HTC Wildfire Use to work on my device but now the software dont work on my device. i paid for the app!!! I will change my rating once it will allow to update the App. Thanks.
Verruckt
Apr 2, 2012 11:15:06 AM
giving second review still love it!. re reviewing to talk about how much i love this app. would be great w/ a tap tempo and /or ability to change tempo from main interface. i use this as a metronome as well as sometimes trying to beatmatch to other sources and that would be clutch to squeeze in somewhere. keep up the good work, i tell all my friends that this is the only drum machine to bother with, seems they agree too.
Chris
Mar 21, 2012 3:01:40 AM
HTC EVO I'm going to give it 5 stars just because you can't beat this for 4$along with the chop app to sample a 1$more turns it a mpc 2000 almost and convert the wav file onto the pc or drum machine
Ross
Mar 16, 2012 3:06:00 PM
Yess yess Please can u make sum dubstep sounds nd notify me aswell much needed
Robert
Mar 16, 2012 11:19:22 AM
Amazing Drum Machine!!! I love this drum machine :) sounds amazing and you can even use it when recording :)
-RobW-
Mar 13, 2012 11:03:24 AM
Superb practice aid I play acoustic guitar and was originally looking for just a metronome app; I decided some proper beats would be a lot more useful though. I had a look at some of the more advanced synth / sampler / drum machine apps, but not having the faintest idea how to use rack stuff frankly I might as well have tried to get a beat out of the Space Shuttle. This, however, I got up and running with useful backing in all the time signatures I wanted within 10 minutes. Getting it to swing the way you want it takes some experimenting, but got there in the end! Gets a 4/5 - it would get a five with just two changes: [1] Put the BPM control on the main screen and make it a swipe wheel; it's a bit of a pain to try and match speed with how I want to play at the moment - hit menu -> choose BPM -> Click + repeatedly (or type numbers) -> It is not live feedback, so then click Ok -> See if it's the speed I want -> repeat until correct. [2] Put the shuffle control on the main screen - same reason - the shuffle control at least has instant feed back but navigating through the menus is a bit fiddly. Even with those two points it's easily worth the money.
Juan Carlos
Mar 12, 2012 4:21:20 AM
@ Rahsaan @ Rahsaan, you can do that you know, save your seq. As song & it will be saved