FunkBox Drum Machine Reviews

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I have a lot of drum apps but this is almost always the one I use. I use virtual MIDI a lot and FunkBox is great. Furthermore, its "Bonus Bass Line Sequencer" is fantastic. It seems natural to me to compose my bass and drums together. The only thing I would like is the ability to tie steps together in the baseline for longer note values. However, your bass synth can do that if you turn off retrigger when in monophonic and/or set some long sustain and release times. Some have complained about FunkBox' MIDI but that is not an issue. FunkBox just doesn't go on stand-by very gracefully. If you let your iPad fall asleep, or leave FunkBox in the background too long with no MIDI input, it needs to be kick-started. Activate it, start and stop it, and start sending it MIDI again. If the bass line app stops responding you may have to tickle its MIDI settings. A little cumbersome but no issue when you know what's happening.

Great Classic Sounds

Mullet Saison

Nice easy interface and lots of really good sounds. The CR-78 in its variations is my fave.

Love it

EtherBit

Super cool app. Thanks. Money well spent. I have a lot of fun playing with it.

Outstanding

Aka monkey dope

This is another example of perfection!Too bad it doesn't have a better song mode like the dm1 drag and drop method which I think should become a part of ALL drum apps .but I still use this thing almost every day cause it sounds SO much like my old cha cha boxes ! I love it !Peace christo????

Nice but unnecessarily limited?

bengarland

This is an outstanding drum machine. Very well thought out with lots of essential features to allow it to interface with other audio apps and gear. However, I don't understand the needless limitation to allow only 8 drum parts when 12 are available -- or at the very least, let us select which 8 we want to use instead of forcing to choose between RS or CL, LT and CP, etc. What if I want a pattern with High Tom and Cow Bell? Can't do it -- have to choose one or the other.

Not like the real thing

Jtg52381746

I'm pretty disappointed that the preset beats are not the original. Where's the Latin beats in the MRK-2?? Not a very realistic emulation.

I Like the App Limited For No Reason

moorelo

I really love the look, feel, and sound of the applications. I am unhappy that there is no Mid Tom. Also, you are also limited to: -Low Tom or the Clap -High Tom or the Cow Bell -Rim Shot or the Clav

My favorite drum machine

Chinchilla Wafers

There are others that do more, but none that get you classic drum machine patterns instantly. One of my favorite things is what other people have complained about, that it isn't complex enough to get deeply experimental with. They knew when to stop, and not make a full DAW. Funkbox is an exercise in simplicity, which for the medium, a mobile device app, is important. It gets used a lot here for that reason, especially playing music with other musicians, when we want to drop in a funny drum machine beat, without losing momentum by stopping for 15 minutes of headscratching to figure out how program a beat. With the tap tempo, you can get the tempo set in the background and drop it in on the downbeat, without the other people having to stop what they're playing. Great fun to play through external effects, like guitar pedals, with an 1/8" to 1/4" cable, or iOS effects, through audiobus. Sounds great through an amp sim, or Turnado or FluxFx. I love this company's unusually complete MIDI patchbay, for deciding just how it can play with or hide from other programs or hardware. I wish their table layout was the standard for other app's midi communication. If you're curious about what else, beyond the basics, the app is capable of it's worth looking at the manual. It isn't long, and gets into programming and saving your own beats, and making your own drum machines, either by mixing and matching their sounds or importing your own samples. This doesn't do realistic drums. I don't think it is the tool for that. Just canned beats!

Simple great sounding drum machine

Dr. JPayne

I know it's not a fully featured drum machine but it has all the sample packs you'd really want and enough controls to make some decent beats. It's been really helpful for songwriting, and merged with a few other apps you can basically make hip hop backing tracks all on your phone. This is the best drum machine app I've found!

Simple and complex

EytanNN12

Great simplistic drumbox app that can grow with you as you become more comfortable with the potential for customization. Many of the presets sound great. The reason for the four stars is that I wish it had Chromecast and soon Chromecast Audio support. That would be awesome! Thanks again for a great app.

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