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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows Vista / XP, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Technical Details
- Turn your Mac or PC into a powerful, easy-to-use virtual drum machine!
- Bundled with over 500 samples – from classic beatbox kicks and snares to congas and shakers
- Plus! Over 200 exemplary, preprogrammed Kits so you can enjoy iDrum's capabilities right away!
- Load your own AIFF and WAV drum samples, making the possibilities for beat creation virtually endless!
- Includes dozens of individual drum parts you can mix and match to create killer grooves!
- Features sound-shaping tools like filters, pitch control and envelopes
- Use iDrum by itself or inside GarageBand and other host programs
- Share sounds with iDrum Editions for iPhone and iPod touch – take your beats on the road!
- Perfect for professionals, hobbyists and beginners!
- New version, new features! Including new kits and easier song editing!
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
iDrum turns your Mac or PC into a powerful, easy-to-use virtual drum machine.
Build patterns with iDrum’s lightning-fast step sequencer, using included kits or your own samples. iDrum for PC and Mac can also link to iDrum for the iPhone and iPod touch, letting you take your beats anywhere!
If you’re a professional beat-maker or if you’ve never touched a drum machine before, iDrum lets you create drum patterns quickly, either with its top-notch included kits or your own samples. Drum machine newcomers will get to experience the same magical instant-gratification that hooked an entire generation of musicians on the hardware drum machines of yesteryear. Pros will find that iDrum is the perfect way to manage large unwieldy drum sample libraries, get a phat beat going, and get it exported into the format you need. There’s simply no faster way to make your own beat.
What’s new in Version 1.7?
Easy song editing – Build beats and backing tracks faster than ever before
Over 50 new kits including live acoustic drums, hip hop, dance track sounds and more!
Create patterns in a variety of time signatures – 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8 and beyond
Get more iDrum kits at the click of a button with iDrum Sound Portal
Share sounds with iDrum Editions for iPhone and iPod touch – take your beats on the road! (iDrum Editions for iPhone and iPod touch are sold separately on the Apple App Store).
Features
iDrum comes bundled with Over 500 drum and percussion samples – from classic beatbox kicks and snares to congas and shakers. To top it off, you can load your own AIFF and WAV drum samples (up to 2 MB per sample), which makes the possibilities for beat creation virtually endless! Download Kits quickly and easily with the brand new iDrum Sound Portal.
iDrum features an array of sound-shaping tools like filters, pitch control and envelopes, letting you non-destructively transform drum sounds at the click of your mouse.
Create and save an unlimited number of Kits (iDrum files). iDrum comes packaged with over 200 exemplary, preprogrammed Kits so that you can start enjoy iDrum’s capabilities right away!
Each Kit (iDrum file) can have up to 99 Patterns and 1 Song associated with it. Since you can build as many Kits as you want, there's no limit to the number of Songs you can store with iDrum. You can even make copies of Kits to use them to perform more than one song.
iDrum also includes dozens of Part presets – individual drum parts you can mix and match to create killer grooves, even if you’ve never touched a drum machine before!
Play beats in real-time using your MIDI controller (or even your QWERTY keyboard)!
Standalone or Plugin for your Host App
Use iDrum by itself or inside GarageBand and other host programs. iDrum runs as both a standalone native OS X and Windows application and as a plug-in for Pro Tools, GarageBand, Logic, Ableton Live, SONAR, Cubase, Digital Performer and other host programs. Supported plug-in formats include: RTAS (Pro Tools 7+), VST, Audio Units and MAS. This means you can use iDrum to create beats from right within your favourite music software environment, perfectly synced with your arrangement and always right where you left it when you return to your project after your next world tour.
New Song Editor!
Link patterns together easily to create entire songs. The new Song Editor window makes it a snap to assemble your composition.
iDrum Skins
Several iDrum ‘skins’ – customise iDrum’s appearance to your liking.
"After working with it a while, I can honestly say that the aptly-named iDrum is the perfect beatbox for any OS X-based musician looking for quick and easy beats."– Keyboard Magazine
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This software is very good at what it does. If you want to experiment with creating drum patterns to use seriously later on, this does exactly what you want it do, and a cheap way of doing it too. However, this would never replace my copy of Propellerheads Reason 4. Those who are generally only into drum-programming and not interested in creating full musical pieces could do worse than choose this software, and it's a good entry level package to get you started. However, if you are serious about music, you're better to save up for a more expensive music package such as Propellerheads Reason 4.
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This is the computer equivalent of one of those drum machines that were popular in the eighties and nineties. You program in your drum patterns, and your computer plays them back for you. It's a whole lot more flexible than an eighties drum machine, though.
The iDrum terminology is a little confusing: you select your kit (kicks, hats, percussion, snares or your own sounds), create the drum patterns and string the patterns together in combination to make a song. You can only have one song for each kit. Thankfully, you can take copies of the kit to make further songs!
The great thing about this program is that it is as close to intuitive as you could reasonably get. All you need to do is click in the appropriate cells to create a rhythm, and you're making music. If you want to do some fine-tuning, you can adjust tempo, swing and groove, by dragging the mouse or by overtyping the value. Each track has stereo pan, mute and solo buttons, and the volume of each note can be adjusted individually. If you want a time signature of 15/8, this program can handle it. However, be aware that if you use time signatures of 5/4 or more, the window won't be wide enough to show the whole pattern, and you'll need to click back and forth to see it all. The same applies if you want to work in anything smaller than semiquavers. The program can work down to hemidemisemiquavers if you really want, in which case there are up to four screens sideways in each pattern. You can see up to eight parts at a time, but the program can handle many more - you can scroll up and down to see them all.
You can import your own wave samples, so you're not restricted to the samples that come with the program. I created a kit using the system sounds that come with Windows. It didn't sound great, but it worked.
The program is not complicated, but it is comprehensive and easy to use once you grasp the concept. Most of what you need is right there in front of you.
Having said that, a few things are not as obvious as they could be. You can export standalone .mid files simply by dragging from the "MIDI Drag" icon (the clue is in the name, but it took me a while to notice). Secondly, the tiny picture of a file just to the left of the Pattern name contains several copy/paste and load/save options. The song editor is nothing like as polished as the pattern editor. To assemble a song, click the "e" in the bottom left corner. This brings up a rather basic-looking but perfectly functional window for scheduling the patterns into a song. To playblack the song (not just the current pattern) the small green "Song Mode" button needs to be clicked.
There is no paper manual, by the way. The sturdy-feeling cardboard box is stuffed full of corrugated cardboard, with the program CD slipped in somewhere inside. There is plenty of support and resources available on-line, though.
iDrum works fine in XP and Vista, and I've also found it works reliably in Windows 7 RC. In my experience, it is absolutely rock-solid stable, and it doesn't need a high-powered PC to run properly either - I'm running it on a 2.66GHz Celeron, and it works just fine.
The iDrum terminology is a little confusing: you select your kit (kicks, hats, percussion, snares or your own sounds), create the drum patterns and string the patterns together in combination to make a song. You can only have one song for each kit. Thankfully, you can take copies of the kit to make further songs!
The great thing about this program is that it is as close to intuitive as you could reasonably get. All you need to do is click in the appropriate cells to create a rhythm, and you're making music. If you want to do some fine-tuning, you can adjust tempo, swing and groove, by dragging the mouse or by overtyping the value. Each track has stereo pan, mute and solo buttons, and the volume of each note can be adjusted individually. If you want a time signature of 15/8, this program can handle it. However, be aware that if you use time signatures of 5/4 or more, the window won't be wide enough to show the whole pattern, and you'll need to click back and forth to see it all. The same applies if you want to work in anything smaller than semiquavers. The program can work down to hemidemisemiquavers if you really want, in which case there are up to four screens sideways in each pattern. You can see up to eight parts at a time, but the program can handle many more - you can scroll up and down to see them all.
You can import your own wave samples, so you're not restricted to the samples that come with the program. I created a kit using the system sounds that come with Windows. It didn't sound great, but it worked.
The program is not complicated, but it is comprehensive and easy to use once you grasp the concept. Most of what you need is right there in front of you.
Having said that, a few things are not as obvious as they could be. You can export standalone .mid files simply by dragging from the "MIDI Drag" icon (the clue is in the name, but it took me a while to notice). Secondly, the tiny picture of a file just to the left of the Pattern name contains several copy/paste and load/save options. The song editor is nothing like as polished as the pattern editor. To assemble a song, click the "e" in the bottom left corner. This brings up a rather basic-looking but perfectly functional window for scheduling the patterns into a song. To playblack the song (not just the current pattern) the small green "Song Mode" button needs to be clicked.
There is no paper manual, by the way. The sturdy-feeling cardboard box is stuffed full of corrugated cardboard, with the program CD slipped in somewhere inside. There is plenty of support and resources available on-line, though.
iDrum works fine in XP and Vista, and I've also found it works reliably in Windows 7 RC. In my experience, it is absolutely rock-solid stable, and it doesn't need a high-powered PC to run properly either - I'm running it on a 2.66GHz Celeron, and it works just fine.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic bit of kit. Very easy to use. Able to replicate any type of drum beat to accompany any genre of music. I use it for practice sessions as backing for guitar or for recording on a home recording studio. Excellent price and very quick delivery. Highly recommended.
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Pretty average drum package
On the plus side it's easy to change volume levels of individual bits of the kits. That's about it.
It takes forever to programme whole songs. Read more
It takes forever to programme whole songs. Read more
Published 9 months ago by G. P. Maloney
Not really workable
This software was a disappointment. I was looking forward creating some drum loops and found this software to be superficial - more of a toy than a useful tool for creating tracks.
Published 20 months ago by Rendition
Good Value, but not a huge leap
Installing the software was easy. Did this used to be a Shareware product many years ago? There's no shame in that but it's not the most polished piece of software. Read more
Published 22 months ago by simonpeggfan
It wouldn't load
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Published on 15 April 2010 by Andy Edwards
Decent entry level virtual drum machine
"After working with it a while, I can honestly say that the aptly-named iDrum is the perfect beatbox for any OS X-based musician looking for quick and easy beats. Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2009 by R. Wallace
Fairly easy to use, and a decent simple drum-kit background beat...
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Published on 24 Oct 2009 by Keith Joseph
Great entry-level beat sequencer
I was looking for a starter package to get back into electronic music, and iDrum was the perfect re-entry - with a very reasonable price tag it didn't cost a fortune to have a... Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2009 by R. WEST-SOLEY
Boom Boom BOOOOOOMM!
Well what can i say, its a drumkit on your pc!
I use Cakewalk and alot of other music software and i gotta admit i was hoping for the same depth in features and... Read more
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Published on 17 Sep 2009 by A R Hartley
C'mon Every Beat Box
I must admit..I'm a bit old school when it comes to musical instruments..I prefer the real thing to computer simulated stuff.
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Published on 15 Sep 2009 by T. Satchwell
...bongo crazy...
First of all, let me say, that I did have a lot of fun with this. Sure, my hearing will probably never be the same again, after a couple of weekends with the headphones strapped... Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2009 by Mr. H
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