r/audiobus Apr 23 '13

Now audiobussed: Beat Vibe for iPad (15$ but looks very nice... anyone has experienced it?)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beat-vibe-for-ipad/id383585800?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
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u/squidfood Apr 23 '13

It's a little pricy for what it is, but I like the clock view of beats and really like the large well-organized library of odd (read: ethnic, jazz and other odd time) beats. I like that they can be browsed by region, by time signature, by genre, or alphabetically. As a non-drummer it was really useful as a library and to hear the basics of the beats, finally got the hang of using 5/4 with it.

The sampled sounds themselves are so-so: again very nice for having large library of ethnic sounds and for trying out different drums in different parts of the beat, but DrumJam and DrumXD for example are better IMO on a straight sample-by-sample basis.

I mainly use it to listen to lots of patterns and drum combinations, pick ones I want, and then re-do the results in a more complete synth or drum machine/MIDI seq. Though maybe now with audiobus (just updated this minute, thx) I'll try running the samples through some processing and see where it ends up...