iDrum (PC)

iDrum turns your Mac or PC into a powerful, easy-to-use virtual drum machine. Build patterns with iDrum's lightning-fast step sequencer, using included kits or your own samples. iDrum for PC and Mac can also link to iDrum for the iPhone and iPod touch, letting you take your beats anywhere! If you're a professional beat-maker or if you've never touched a drum machine before, iDrum lets you create drum patterns quickly, either with its top-notch included kits or your own samples. Drum machine newcomers will get to experience the same magical instant-gratification that hooked an entire generation of musicians on the hardware drum machines of yesteryear. Pros will find that iDrum is the perfect way to manage large unwieldy drum sample libraries, get a phat beat going, and get it exported into the format you need. There's simply no faster way to make your own beat. What's new in Version 1.7? Easy song editing Build beats and backing tracks faster than ever before Over 50 new kits including live acoustic drums, hip hop, dance track sounds and more! Create patterns in a variety of time signatures 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8 and beyond Get more iDrum kits at the click of a button with iDrum Sound Portal Share sounds with iDrum Editions for iPhone and iPod touch  take your beats on the road! (iDrum Editions for iPhone and iPod touch are sold separately on the Apple App Store). Features iDrum comes bundled with Over 500 drum and percussion samples from classic beatbox kicks and snares to congas and shakers. To top it off, you can load your own AIFF and WAV drum samples (up to 2 MB per sample), which makes the possibilities for beat creation virtually endless! Download Kits quickly and easily with the brand new iDrum Sound Portal. iDrum features an array of sound-shaping tools like filters, pitch control and envelopes, letting you non-destructively transform drum sounds at the click of your mouse. Create and save an unlimited number of Kits (iDrum files). iDrum comes packaged with over 200 exemplary, preprogrammed Kits so that you can start enjoy iDrum's capabilities right away! Each Kit (iDrum file) can have up to 99 Patterns and 1 Song associated with it. Since you can build as many Kits as you want, there's no limit to the number of Songs you can store with iDrum. You can even make copies of Kits to use them to perform more than one song. iDrum also includes dozens of Part presets individual drum parts you can mix and match to create killer grooves, even if you've never touched a drum machine before! Play beats in real-time using your MIDI controller (or even your QWERTY keyboard)! Standalone or Plugin for your Host App Use iDrum by itself or inside GarageBand and other host programs. iDrum runs as both a standalone native OS X and Windows application and as a plug-in for Pro Tools, GarageBand, Logic, Ableton Live, SONAR, Cubase, Digital Performer and other host programs. Supported plug-in formats include: RTAS (Pro Tools 7+), VST, Audio Units and MAS. This means you can use iDrum to create beats from right within your favourite music software environment, perfectly synced with your arrangement and always right where you left it when you return to your project after your next world tour. New Song Editor! Link patterns together easily to create entire songs. The new Song Editor window makes it a snap to assemble your composition. iDrum Skins Several iDrum 'skins' customise iDrum's appearance to your liking.