My favorite drum machine – FunkBox Drum Machine Review

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!
Review by Chinchilla Wafers on FunkBox Drum Machine.