Customer Reviews

iDrum US27000 Virtual Drum Machine for Mac OS X Garage Band, Live, Logic and Stand Alone Use

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4 star:		(0)
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2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

The drum sounds are good, but this is just a toy. It dosen't work with garage band without crashing and it can only be programed to simple meters.

This piece of software doesn't function properly at all.
It doesn't work with Apple Logic, contrary to what is advertised.
It was written by an amateur programmer, and crashes very often - about 1 out of 2 kits that you open will quit unexpectedly.
For a software drum machine to contain mostly live and acoustic drum samples doesn't make much sense since software is mostly used for electronic music. No trance, or electronic samples at all.
All that for over 50 dollars makes idrum way overpriced.
Also the graphics were stolen from Garageband.
A program like that should be freeware, or at the very most shareware.

First, this thing can only be programmed in 4/4. And you can't quantize; you're stuck with 16, 32, or 64 beats per measure. Forget about a genuine swing beat. Also, I'm sure there are tom-tom drums somewhere among the drum menus but I can't find them. There are about a million snare samples and countless squeaks, blips, honks, etc. If you're doing club stuff this is probably a useful bit of software but if you're looking for something that resembles a drum machine you'd use for rock/pop/roots demos, forget about it. My ancient Yamaha RX17 is much more useful.

If you're serious about programming drums, do yourself a favor and buy Reason. Redrum, reason's drum machine, is soo much more programmable, not to mention it lets you edit waaay more parameters than iDrum does and it comes with a BUNCH of samples. As an added bonus, reason has soo much more stuff for you to play with if you ever get the urge to add anything else to your songs.

Folks criticize this software because it doesn't do what they want. Seems to me it make more sense to see what it does and then decide whether it's a good buy. You can download a demo with documentation and use it for ten days and decide for yourself. I've decided it's a very usable tool for a great price.


You can make a beat very quickly and intuitively, import your own sounds including non-drum sounds, do stutter effects, do very cool variable amount swingish beats, 999 bar songs, save patterns, kits etc.

As for a four four only time signature - do some math! Five bars of four can be converted to 5/4. 12 4/4/ bars wil get you 3/4 besides if you are doing hip hop or downtempo electronica, most likely you'll be in 4/4!

You can't beat it for 50 bucks.

This is a great product! Those looking for an all in one drum solution won't find it here, but for $50 you get well more than should be expected. Anyone serious about beat production will have a good sample library, pro sequencer, and truly get the most out of idrum as a plugin.

CM

I recently bought an iMAC and was excited to use garageband. I needed a drum machine so I bought this program this program in the apple store. Within minutes of use I realized this is complete garbage. If you are looking to make rock beats with this just turn the other way and start walking. This program is meant for soldier boy or some other artist who utilizes fake sounds into repetitious beats.

I bought this in a store so I can't return it... oops. Very basic and does not integrate well with logic, but even if it did I wouldn't use it because Logic's built in drum machine is better anyways. Just get the demo if you don't believe me.