This application has been on the market for about a month or so and is made by a electronic music producer / Singer Songwriter called Zack Hagan. Being something that he wanted to see for his own live use I do think that he succeeded in doing a application suited very well for tweaking and having fun with hands on.
It is easy to manipulate the automation of the parameters velocity, pitch, length, reverb, delay and pan as you can see in this picture.
It is easy to manipulate the automation of the parameters velocity, pitch, length, reverb, delay and pan as you can see in this picture.
The time it got tested it was working good and it is clearly laid out (as you can see) for manipulating the automation.
The screen above being the second screen the first one you get to when opening the application looks like this;
The screen above being the second screen the first one you get to when opening the application looks like this;
So as you can tell it is the standard sequencer window where there is eight slots for loading samples. Each slot being available in the automation window where you can do the direct manipulation. One thing that I liked a lot is the possibility to jump from different sequenced parts in the bottom right corner making it easy to change directly the sequenced patterns so you can plan out the patterns for a whole live set.
If you want to have a flexible sample based drum machine that costs as much as a whole cup of coffee that can also function as a sample player with great direct automation being in my experience stable it is pretty much a given.
You can also try it out fully as it is as so many apps nowadays a in-app purchase unlocking the save function but giving it the possibility of full scrutiny.
One last thought is that it will be better to use with a 7 / 10 inch screen as some controls on a smaller screen can be a little to easy to miss but that is only a preoccupation with a small screen if you want to play it live.
Here is the poetic Playstore information:
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-8 Sample Players
-64 Patterns
-Pattern Chain up to 32 patterns long
-BPM automation and Shuffle
-Load any AIFF or WAV into any of the 8 sample players
-Export WAV or Standard MIDI File
-Upgrade to unlock all the features and support dotMatrix!
-NO ADS!
-Made by musicians for musicians
The dotMatrix Drum Machine is fun and easy mobile music maker. The heart of dotMatrix is the 8x16 (8 instruments and 16 steps) drum matrix that is easy and intuitive. You can create intricate and interesting rhythms in a matter of seconds yet the dotMatrix provides the depth to continue tweaking beats for hours. The other revolutionary part of the dotMatrix is the ability to easily automate 7 different parameters for each of the 8 instruments. With up to 64 patterns and the ability to make a sequence that is 32 patterns long, you can make something really complex. Any CD quality .wav or .aif file can be used in any of the 8 instrument sample players. The dotMatrix can save your beats as a proprietary text file or you can export your sequence a a CD quality .wav or a Standard MIDI file for easy integration in a digital audio workstation program like Ableton Live, or Logic.
With the latest update bringing-
-Export as a .wav file
-MIDI export of sequences
-BPM and Shuffle automation switching
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Here is some sound samples made by the developer.
If you want to have a flexible sample based drum machine that costs as much as a whole cup of coffee that can also function as a sample player with great direct automation being in my experience stable it is pretty much a given.
You can also try it out fully as it is as so many apps nowadays a in-app purchase unlocking the save function but giving it the possibility of full scrutiny.
One last thought is that it will be better to use with a 7 / 10 inch screen as some controls on a smaller screen can be a little to easy to miss but that is only a preoccupation with a small screen if you want to play it live.
Here is the poetic Playstore information:
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-8 Sample Players
-64 Patterns
-Pattern Chain up to 32 patterns long
-BPM automation and Shuffle
-Load any AIFF or WAV into any of the 8 sample players
-Export WAV or Standard MIDI File
-Upgrade to unlock all the features and support dotMatrix!
-NO ADS!
-Made by musicians for musicians
The dotMatrix Drum Machine is fun and easy mobile music maker. The heart of dotMatrix is the 8x16 (8 instruments and 16 steps) drum matrix that is easy and intuitive. You can create intricate and interesting rhythms in a matter of seconds yet the dotMatrix provides the depth to continue tweaking beats for hours. The other revolutionary part of the dotMatrix is the ability to easily automate 7 different parameters for each of the 8 instruments. With up to 64 patterns and the ability to make a sequence that is 32 patterns long, you can make something really complex. Any CD quality .wav or .aif file can be used in any of the 8 instrument sample players. The dotMatrix can save your beats as a proprietary text file or you can export your sequence a a CD quality .wav or a Standard MIDI file for easy integration in a digital audio workstation program like Ableton Live, or Logic.
With the latest update bringing-
-Export as a .wav file
-MIDI export of sequences
-BPM and Shuffle automation switching
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Here is some sound samples made by the developer.
and some videos, two being tutorials.
Playstore link:
dotMatrix
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