Vibrant Digital Engineering has introduced Diode-108 – a new drum machine app for iPad.
Diode-108 comes with a variety of built-in vintage, classic, and acoustic kits, but you can also mix and match the samples provided or import wav files to create your own kits.
Features:
- Drag and drop effects let you put effects on individual beats!
- Drum kits licensed from respected partners. Dubsounds, Samples From Mars, Orange Tree Samples, and 99Sounds.
- 16 drum voices with unlimited patterns that you can arrange into your own songs
- Each pattern can have its own swing and tempo multiplier
- Every voice has PER BEAT control of pan, volume, tone, pitch, decay, compression, and distortion, delay, and reverb.
- Turn NOTE MODE on for any voice and control the musical note (up or down an octave from the original pitch). Great for basslines or pitched percussion
- Wav sample import
- Mix and Match kits (easily substitute any sample in any kit). Want an 808 kick in a 909 kit? No problem.
Here are the official demos songs for Diode-108:
https://soundcloud.com/vibrantdigitalengineering/sets/diode-108-sample-songs
Diode-108 lets you export your songs as wav files to SoundCloud, DropBox, or iTunes, or send them through Audiobus to other apps on your iPad.
Diode-108 is available now for US $5.99 in the App Store.
If you’ve used Diode-108, leave a comment and share what you think of it!
Downloaded it. Tried it. Did not like it.
so are you going to get refund?
to rectify the mistake?
punny?
I already own Beathawk, boom 808, boom 909, DM1, D-Pad, Drum Jam, Elasticdrums, Impactor, iMPC, MoDrum, Molten and S4-RComposer…
Do I really need another one..?
Bought it anyway 😉
Thanks for trying it for us, comments welcome!
I wanna know if I need it before buying it anyway…
You don’t have funkbox? Duuuuude you are missin out
Does it have MIDI I/O?
MIDI will come soon.
No MIDI no point
Does it take stereo samples? Does it have a Decay envelope setting?
Samples must be 44.1k (for now) wav files. Each of the 16 drum voices is mono. Stereo samples can come in, but just one of the channels is kept (I believe the left).
Decay is called Gate. You can set it per voice, and also override that value per step (so your cymbal can be 3 seconds on one hit and a fraction of a second on the next hit, if you like). You can also force the volume down to zero on any step. It’s fun to play a long sample and play with the volume and pan per step.
It’s a little rough around the edges but it has some interesting features. The dev is active on the audiobus forum and open to input.
everything i need to start making beats now?
don’t i need a ipad?
No Background-Audio, no Midi but nice Sounds
Implement a no-latency to make it syncable with elektron gear please!
Finally! A video!
http://thesoundtestroom.com/diode-108-by-vibrant-digital-engineering-demo-for-ipad/
Version 1.1.0
Now has MIDI in and MIDI sync.
There are lots of tutorial videos.
You can share kits (zip file format).
3 New Special Effects
Support for AudioShare and AudioCopy
Version 1.2.0 (in review)
Choke groups (full 16×16 choke grid)
Song In/Out markers that let you work on any group of patterns
Microphone sampler input
Plus an active user base making songs and sharing them:
https://soundcloud.com/vibrantdigitalengineering/sets/diode-108-sample-songs
And even some interesting use of the pattern view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PdaaqOF41A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhgHAQy0bnY