BeepStreet have updated Drambo, their highly popular ‘groovebox’, Drambo, currently available for $19.99 with optional in-app purchases.
What’s new in version 2.40:
- MIDI Mapping
- Step Sequencer and Navigator are now mappable.
- Added support for bidirectional communication: controllers receive updates from Drambo to reflect the current parameter and UI state.
- Added 4 virtual Shift buttons and mapping conditions.
- Support for MIDI mapping profiles (persistent across sessions).
- Several ready-to-use mappings for popular controllers are included.
- Sequencer
- Added support for time signatures, polyrhythms, and polymeter.
- Steps can now be muted (activate the MUTE button).
- Fixed: Piano roll background line colors.
- Fixed: Rec Quantize button is now MIDI mappable.
- Modules
- New: Limiter module (brickwall, true-peak detection).
- New: Transient Detector module – added advanced mode (handles complex inputs such as RadioUnit AUv3 streaming).
- New: Spectral Freeze module (Waves Extension IAP).
- New: Grain Shifter module.
- New: Speech Synthesis module (Formant Extension IAP).
- Oscillator (Mini): Added Impulse mode.
- MIDI Chance: Extended with Chord or One / One of Chord modes. (turn chords into random mellodies)
- Fixes
- Flexi Sampler: distorted sound when using long samples.
- MIDI Sequencer module: cycle condition not working.
- Main Sequencer: rare MIDI glitch.
- Shift Register module: state is now saved.
- Euclidean Sequencer: layout issues.
- Layer Switch module: crash when editing layers.
- MIDI Mixer: reconnecting ports caused them to disappear.
- Bernoulli Gate module: occasionally passed B value when Rnd = 0.
- Undo: fixed possible crashes when editing sequencer, recording automation, or editing piano roll.
- Stochastic Gate Generator: modulation not working.
- Crash after changing AU instrument presets in INS Pads mode.
- MIDI Channel Filter: did not filter Channel Pressure messages.
- Flexi Sampler: sample browser now correctly highlights the last selected sample.
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- SELECT + Source element → Target element: Copy → Paste.
- SELECT + Source element x2: Set length/last element (last step in sequence, sequence page, or pattern).
Drambo is an innovative modular groovebox and audio processing environment. Modular components are used to build synthesized and sample based instruments or audio effects using high-quality DSP and audio-rate modulation. Tied to a powerful sequencer, it’s an optimal music creation tool for sound design, composition, performance and experimentation.
At the heart of Drambo lies an entirely new concept that makes modular creations easy, fun and affordable. Modules are connected automatically, with no cables as you add or rearrange them. A dynamic interface creates modulation knobs when you need them. Modules may house other modules, so you can keep your patch well organized. Of course, automatic connections can be overridden. In Drambo you can focus on playing with sound and signal structure without getting lost in wires.
Use a deep and innovative sequencer to compose patterns and whole tracks, for production or live performance. Go beyond simple looping sequences with parameter locking, conditional step components, parameters automation and powerful scene morphing. Drambo works equally well as a self-contained standalone app or audio unit plugin with audio and MIDI connectivity as an AUV3 instrument, audio effect and MIDI effect. No modular experience necessary to get started playing with preset sounds and effects.
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