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Elastic Drums Screenshots

iPad

iPhone

About Elastic Drums

Ableton Link synchronization and Ableton Live Set Export.

Machinedrum: "It's awesome, a lot of fun to work with and very easy to get something going. I love the sound presets too.“

Funkstörung:"Fantastic sounding, great fun to play with, a must have for live performances!"

Palm Sounds: "I have to say that I've been completely impressed by this iPhone drum machine. In terms of sound, in terms of design, and in terms of functionality. It is amazing."

Keyboards: „An extremely flexible beatbox with tons of character."

CDM: "Finally, Your Pocket Gets a Perfect Drum Synth: Elastic Drums for iPhone."

iOS Music&You: "Highly, highly recommended."

Elastic Drums is a music app showcasing an interactive drum kit, that enables to create a huge range of rhythmic grids, ranging from classical analog drumkits up to experimental soundscapes.
It contains six channels of high quality synthesized drum sounds, a step sequencer and 4 effect channels. All important control parameters are automatable. The result: Elastic drum composition with a unique character!

Features:
- 6 synth channels with 13 different percussion synth engines (kick, snare, hihat, clap, tom, wobble, fm, fm4, square, grain, synth, drone, sampler)
- 12 parameters for each synth engine
- automation for each parameter via knob recording or velocity
- 4 send effect channels with 2x13 mono effects and 2x11 stereo effects
- automation for all of the 8 possible effect parameters via xy pad
- master effects (stutter, delay, compressor ...)
- 16 step sequencer for the 6 channels, each with it's own tempo multiplier & length
- record audio and export to Soundcloud or Audioshare
- email audio recordings and presets
- Audiobus, Audiobus Remote, Inter-App Audio and Ableton Link support
- Midi learn/Midi implementation of the most important parameters

Because all sounds get generated in realtime, the app is cpu heavy! iPhones 5 and greater can handle it with no problem, on iPhone 4s effects 3 and 4 get switched off by the engine automatically to save some cpu power. iPhone 4 and iPad1 are NOT recommended!

Elastic Drums is published by MoMinstruments, the instruments app label of Mouse on Mars and friends.

What's New in the Latest Version 2.4.8

Last updated on Apr 2, 2024

Old Versions

- Updated Audiobus
- Improved Audio buffer switching
- Store section (purchase, restore) should work much better now

Version History

2.4.8

Apr 2, 2024

- Updated Audiobus
- Improved Audio buffer switching
- Store section (purchase, restore) should work much better now

2.4.7

Jun 29, 2022

New In-App Purchase Sample Kit 'LoFi' by App Sound

2.4.6

Dec 27, 2021

Bugfix: Jam Screen did not show up on iPhone

2.4.5

Dec 20, 2021

- External Midi Sync Stop did not work on some apps
- Bugfix: Saving a preset with an already existing name could cause a crash

2.4.4

Aug 13, 2021

- Bugfix: Some iPhone Layouts were scratched

2.4.3

Jul 11, 2021

- Bugfix: Midi Sync did not work anymore
- Bugfix: Fx 3/4 of Channels 1 & 3 were swapped in Mixer screen on iPad
- iPhone 12 mini layout improvement

2.4.2

Apr 8, 2021

- Bugfix: Ableton Export did not work anymore

2.4.1

Mar 9, 2021

- IAA: Count in blink
- Layout fixes for iPhone Max devices
- Bugfix: ED in AUM made no sound on some devices
- Bugfix: Crash on iPhones after closing Bluetooth Midi Overlay

HINT: You have to restore old In-App Purchase sample kits to get the samples downloaded into your app !!!

2.4

Mar 3, 2021

- iOS 14 Ableton Link support and Ableton Link SDK Update
- Ability to set Sync delay for Ableton Link, IAA and Midi Sync to reduce latency to host
- InApp Purchases are outside the app now and get downloaded from the Store ... resulting in much smaller app size
- Design improvements for newer iPhone and iPad (10,9“) devices
- Factory Presets and IAP Samples have their own folder in the documents section
- 'Open in' now also works with files from Files app
- Bugfix: Bluetooth crash due to missing certificate
- Bugfix for iPad 8 buzzed sound
- Updated/cleaned factory presets, added new Presets from Servando
- Updated Bill Jobs IAP kit (more presets, more samples)
- New Sample kit from Sound Provider aka Leonard de Leonard
- Enabled desktop iPad version for Mac machines with Silicon / M1 processor

2.3

Jul 18, 2019

- Multiple outputs for Inter-App Audio sessions: In Inter-App Audio sessions you can now route the 6 instrument channels of Elastic Drums to external outputs, to add additional effects to them. When routed to an external output the signal is removed from the master output.
- Update to Audiobus 3.0.7 SDK

2.2.3

Mar 30, 2019

- Bugfix: Midi Sync in is working again
- Bugfix: Crashed when moving an empty pattern to an empty pattern

2.2.2

Mar 20, 2019

- Debugged Master Compressor (extreme Settings could make audio go silent)
- Sampler got a quicker Attack response! Some samples/presets might sound more crisp & punchy, maybe even clicky with an attack on 0
- Open and Edit a sample in AudioShare via longtap on sample waveform view
- With Midi -> „Same controller for all instruments“ deselected, incoming Midi Notes will not change the displayed channel, to give the opportunity to alter values, while receiving Midi trigger notes
- Added Midi Bluetooth search

2.2.1

Dec 6, 2018

- Layout improvements for iPhone X
- Delete all automations of a channel via long tap on an instrument button
- Last saved preset gets loaded again, when opening the app
- Newest Audiobus 3.0.6 SDK
- IAA Sync is supported for Audiobus 3
- Now it’s possible to use Midi Sync in InterApp-Audio or Audiobus sessions
- Tempo option for starting presets, allows/disables tempo changes when a preset is loaded

2.2

Aug 11, 2018

- Improvement: Micro Recording for Sample Player got improved, showing input level, etc.
- New (Midi): Mic record button can now be triggered via Midi and will show sample view
- New (Midi): Autom & velocity buttons can now be triggered via Midi
- New (Midi): Program Change via IAA should work now also
- Improvement: „Record audio“ will not overwrite existing audio files anymore, but create new ones with a date ending
- Improvement (Jam screen): Midi notes will always trigger an instrument, even with „trig“ > 0 and stopped sequencer

2.1.9

May 29, 2018

- Improvement: Sync Mode gets shown next/below the bpm value
- Improvement: Audiobus host icon gets shown to quickly switch in Audiobus sessions
- Improvement: Audiobus state saving is better reflecting loaded presets
- Improvement: Step on/off switching in velocity mode worked bad on iPhone version
- Bugfix: Mute button did not unmute step 1 in time in song mode
- Bugfix: Jam - trig - buttons did not work correctly when using Midi Controllers for value changes
- Bugfix: Sometimes wrong tempo values got showed in Ableton Link sessions
- Bugfix: Added Interruption handler for an iOS 11 incidence, that could cause ED to quit after some minutes in InterApp-Audio sessions (noisy buzz sound error)

2.1.8

May 7, 2018

- Midi Programe Change now switches through the Pattern of a Preset (and not through Presets)
- Minor fixes in Jam Screen

2.1.7

May 6, 2018

- Midi Programe Change now switches through the Pattern of a Preset (and not through Presets)
- Bugfixed Midi Trigger Issues in Jam Screen
- Midi settings get stored now immediately (not only when closing the app)
- Slightly rearranged Factory Presets List
- No automatic preset savings anymore, when you close the app. Undo any done changes when you open the app by selecting the current preset again
- User presets are now showed case insensitive (was case sensitive before)

2.1.6

Apr 27, 2018

- Improved Midi Sync In & Out with Latency Compensation via Midi sync delay stepper
- Bugfix: In Jam screen you could under certain circumstances activate 2 effects at the same time and then one might continue without end
- Small bugfixes and improvements

Follow the youtube playlist to learn about new features: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXLh6yzlaRO15SweRJFzvWJxyWHnrxLEl

2.1.5

Nov 20, 2017

- Fixed crash in pattern screen, when moving a pattern into an empty cell
- Several small bugfixes and improvements

2.1.4

Oct 23, 2017

- new share preset button for user presets
- improvement: instruments randomization will not pick non-purchased instruments
- bugfix: did not start with lastest stored user preset
- bugfix: fx automate on/off-switch was not working correctly anymore on iPhones
- bugfix: sample would not change when chosen pattern is outside the song length range

2.1.3

Sep 14, 2017

- bugfix: if you purchased all sample kits you were not able to scroll down to the kits at the very bottom

2.1.2

Sep 10, 2017

- New In-App Purchase sample kit by Bill Jobs, the creator of synthQ
- improvement: master EQ has more possibilities now
- improvement: parts of the audio-engine got vectorized, which should save up to 10% cpu
- several small bugfixes and improvements

2.1.1

Aug 3, 2017

- small bugfixes and improvements
- fixed: some people could not see the sound-presets of the 4 new synths (old user presets get stored as Soundpresets_backup)

2.1

Jul 25, 2017

- 4 new IAP „Futuristic synths“ - that enhance the sonic possibilities
- Simplified Midi assignment
- Possibility to Restore In-App Purchases
- New equalizer in Master Section
- Newest Audiobus SDK
- User-samples get zipped now when sending a user preset via email
- Automation is recordable via Midi CC now (only one CC at a time)
- Midi Send is now also sending triggers of jam page
- New Samples and Presets by Servando
- New Presets by Deadfader

2.0.3

Apr 19, 2017

Updated Audiobus SDK, that should fix some crashes when using with Audiobus

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