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DrumKick for iPhone

DrumKick for iPhone is the ultimate live performance drum app on-the-go! It gives you the freedom to play a great-sounding, intuitively laid-out drum kit anywhere—without the hassle of lugging your entire acoustic set to the show. Simply plug into a P.A. system, headphones, a boombox, or an amplifier, and you're ready to rock!
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Music Free Mark Jeschke iPhone, iPad, iPod

– Connect to your Bluetooth-enabled laptop or device with MIDI over Bluetooth.
– Core and Virtual MIDI support.
– Audiobus & Inter-App Audio support.
– Featured in Apple's Music-Making Apps for "The Song."
– Featured in Apple's Band In Your Hand showcase.

Reviews:
http://www.musicappblog.com/drumkick-music-app-review/

DrumKick is the only stereo drum app that allows you to play the kick drum with your foot!

With DrumKick installed on two iOS devices, such as an iPad and an iPhone, you can use the iPhone as a Bluetooth remote to play the kick drum with your foot! It also works with two iPhones or iPod touches. Or, you can mix and match.

How does it work?

Playing the virtual kick drum pedal is achieved by inserting the iPhone (upside down) into a snug fitness band that's wrapped around your ankle, or the front tube of your relatively clean crew sock. Tap your toes with your heel down, and the iPhone's accelerometer will trigger the kick drum sound on another iPhone or iPod touch via Bluetooth.

Feature Highlights:

• Play the kick drum sound with your foot, using a second iOS device via standard Bluetooth connection.

• High-quality drum stereo sounds with independent control of their volume, pitch and pan levels.

• Low-latency with drum taps and sounds.

• Retina-enhanced, interactive, 3-D animated drums and cymbals.

• Multiple tap regions for triggering different drum and cymbal sounds.

• Ability to switch the drum kit's audio output from stereo to mono when connected to stereo speakers, such as a P.A. system.

• Touch-hold on the crash cymbal for a choked cymbal* muting effect.

• Audiobus & Inter-App Audio support (iOS7+) for adding effects apps to DrumKick's output and recording into to GarageBand, Loopy, or AudioShare.

• Audiobus Remote triggers that you allow you to play DrumKick's sounds via a secondary iDevice with the Audiobus Remote app installed. Requires the Audiobus app, iOS 8.3 +, iPad 3+, and iPhone 4S+. https://audiob.us/remote.

• Core MIDI IN & OUT support, thanks to Nic Grant of Audeonic Apps for his robust MidiBus Library. http://midib.us.

• MIDI over Bluetooth support.

• Play any of DrumKick's available sounds, using the iRig BlueBoard MIDI Bluetooth or KMI SoftStep foot controller. Requires Bluetooth LE-enabled iOS device such as the iPhone 4S, iPad 3, or higher.

• Jam along with music apps that run in the background, such as GarageBand, Pandora, or your iPod music library.

• Minimum requirements: iPad 2, iPhone 4S and newer devices are recommended.

* No cymbals were harmed during the making of this app.

If you have an issue or find a bug within DrumKick, please do not inform me about it in an App Review, since that method doesn't provide your contact information. For help and support, please send an email to:

[email protected]

Known issues:

• Missing UI panel for controlling the playback and recording from an Inter-App Audio connected app.

Reviews

Solid App
Mikekosby

Great look and smart UI. Perfect for beginners or seasoned vets. And not to mention fun!!!


Fun & easy to use
rumbelly

I love this app! The graphics are very sharp & realistic, the sound quality is excellent, and it's fun! My kids love it, too. Highly recommended.


Fantastic. For a drummer by a drummer.
jwnose

super intuitive, perfectly suitable for live jams, much better layout than garageband drum kit.


Classy, Musician-Friendly
goldmyne

I didn't know a drum app could sound so much like real drums…The user settings allow for a truly customized kit that sounds great through headphones or through a sound system. The 'Hip Hop Kit' setting took me back to late 80s hip hop beats (early Beastie Boys, etc). It can be used over other recorded music and I would definitely plug it in for an impromptu jam with other musicians, without having to lug a real drum kit. There is great sound variation on the different pieces of the kit too, depending on where you hit it.


Great, fun app to play with
Carrier has arrived

I'm not that musically inclined but this app is great for playing around with on my daily commute. There's definitely a lot of polish put into this app compared to other drum apps. Definitely worth the dollar.


One of the best drum apps out there!
Chris samders

Incredibly addictive, I can't stop playing with it. Very well thought out and designed from start to finish and the addition of being able to use my phone in my sock as the drum peddle, genesis.


Perfect drum app
Nxmx123

From the look of the kit, the ghost note to rimshot range of the snare, to individual adjustments of each drum and cymbal, this app is complete. Easy to get started but with and features I didn't even know I needed until I starts digging.


Rock on
jett_way

The best drumkit app out there. Period. Exclamation point! (((Cymbal crash)))


Talk about wow factor.
Leewanda

As an app developer, I'm blown away at the thought that went into this app: graphics, animations, performance, multiple devices... Just wow! Well done.


This app kicks butt!
riffking

Easiest to use and the touch and sound are incredible. Now I can practice some beats on the road.


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