Appmuse

One of the best music making apps out there. Only issue I’m having is I need the ability to use multiple midi controllers at once. Please implement this.

What a great tool for fleshing out ideas on the go. On the surface it may not seem sonically deep but once you understand all the options you can achieve some very usable sounds. While there is quite a bit of menu diving involved for all the various parts of the sequencer and menu it all makes sense to allow you to have a mostly 1 screen app. You could go spend 10x or more on a hardware groovebox and not really have as much freedom to arrange and tweak sounds the way you do on GR-16. Show more

This app is so close to being the perfect groove box but needs a few things! First 6 note polyphony! Next we need templates! I don’t like having to change the drums every single time I load up a new track it really slows down the workflow and creativity sometimes! Last thing would be truly unquantized notes! Sometimes when I play it cuts off some notes which made me realize they aren’t truly unquantized! Other than that it’s great. Show more

Awesome regular updates. Synth patch randomizer like in Poison would be nice, or maybe I missed the setting. No brainer purchase, like having an electribe at 1/20th the price.

GR-16 is so ahead of its time, It’ s gonna take me a minute to get through all the goodies inside of this groove box app. It’s definitely a must have. my whole new approach to writing all around music, evolves around the GR-16. In all honesty there are a few things I would love to have had, but those would put it in a higher price bracket. I won’t get into each feature, you have YouTube for that. all I can say! this is an app you need! And yes, I am a real user and I’m not endorsed! Great job! Jim Audio..... Show more

I was a bit lost by this app at first, but once I understood how to use it I was in love. Seems a bit bewildering at first, but is actually very easy and fun once you understand how to use it. The app could use a built in tutorial, but I found that the walkthrough by Electronisounds on YT really helped me understand this great app. Show more

I love this app. The dev is legendary. I just purchased a Launchpad Pro mk3 thanks to you Dimitri. Can we link up somehow? I’d love for you to hear what I’m making with your amazing app. Show more

Best GrooveBox For your Drum n Bass And House Tracks

Love all of the features and simplicity of your app seriously useful & great interface! =============================================== Small suggestions or requests An ability to change octaves by swiping up, down or to sides above below or on side of pads would be amazing to allow for changing octaves in key or chord mode fast without a midi controller or without having to move finger to octave change area and keep it with the pads. Another feature I think you could benefit from is a user sample folder section that automatically loads pads. A shuffle or random button could apply samples in this folder to all pads. Lastly a cloud partnership with sample library apps or music apps that allow people to chop & place samples on pads directly in app would be cool & possibly a way to extend your reach or partnerships. Regardless it’s amazing and these are not essential, just suggestions that might take it somewhere else! Thanks for all of your hard work and creativity! Show more

Don’t quite grasp it yet and find it actually harder than Drambo and a few of the other sort of hard to learn but worth it synths/grooveboxes, There’s an Elektronish kind o feel, that I don’t know why this little box is so cool, but ima find out. Show more

A five star app just got better somehow! So much fun! So useful!

I would love to see and option to edit and highlight different parts of wav samples regardless of length. Also when using a midi keyboard I can only play 4 note chords. Show more

There is a lot under the hood on this one. GR-16 mimics a well known KORG groovebox, but adds a lot more which makes this one of the best grooveboxes on iOS and pretty comparable to many hardware grooveboxes. Now with AUv3 and multi-out audio, it really is stellar. My new main groovebox and drum machine for AUM. Every time I make music with it, I am very happy with the result. With the Poison-202 synth (a standout synth on its own), to wavetables, sample import (does not sample in app), FX, automation, the XY pad controllable ARP or FX (great for live play or record your ARP play from the XY pad to quickly make a unique groove), there is a lot to play with to get unique sound design from it. Listen to the sample songs on the jimpavloff YouTube channel to see the wide variety of possibilities there are. Like any hardware style groovebox, you need to take the time to learn how to use it. It isn’t difficult and once you do, you will see why everyone loves this thing. Show more

What is the most important thing for a drum machine to have? For me, it's the ability to quickly browse and preview drum samples when building a kit. The latest update of GrooveRider offers a great workflow for this task. It offers AUv3 support, and it's also great as a standalone groovebox. Show more

Ok. I’m starting to like this app after playing with it for a while. Based on the reviews, I see that it’s a common thing to first hate it and then like it better. It’s definitely a competent app, however it really isn’t intuitive to use and quite clunky. It has many cool features which feel like inspired by some hardware instruments (such as timing shift per step reminding me the Digitakt). However, the interface needs A LOT of work. Please please make it better! For example. Buttons don’t follow one uniform idea of operation that makes the user interact with them easily and intuitively. Some functions have dedicated buttons, sometimes buttons require double pressing to access their second function (for example “slice” button), sometimes they have sub selection menu (for example “copy” button), sometimes buttons behave as if they had a bug. A good example of it are the “touchpad mode” buttons. Once ARP and scale is selected it takes multiple presses of other keys to be able to have just the ARP selected again. After doing so the pad still plays pitch shifted notes unless you press it in a new area. *** The main jog wheel is simply bad. Unresponsive and not easy to operate. It should allow both fast and precise scrolling but is really neither. The graphic design of it is also rather ugly and not immediately suggesting that it needs to be turned. ***Some great features such as parameter locks of individual steps are very VERY tedious to adjust. The window to perform them is small and it becomes tricky even with a small number of steps displayed there. ***Menus are labeled in an awkward way, for example, a confusing IFX list selection method: even if you select an effect other than the one marked with a check mark, the check mark stays unchanged. I’m guessing this indicates the default effect for the given selected sound but some other symbol should be used for it (this is on top of the fact that the way the actual selection is marked looks like just highlighting the parameter before making selection). All these things together are very important and heavily affect the user experience. ***The developer brags about the app having all the controls on one page, MEANWHILE the navigation requires constant menu dives, even for the most basic settings. For example, deleting all steps in all parts requires navigations into the menu, selecting the function, executing selection , then confirming the choice on the yes/no prompt screen! This is such a commonly used function and requires 4 button presses and a menu dive! ***Same with many other settings including BPM/tempo. By the way, the “Tap Tempo” button is well hidden. You have to first change the assignment of the “4th button” in the menu... Why so complicated? ***Menu has a messy structure with weirdly assigned categories and questionable logic used for the items in subcategories. ***cryptic basic operations: for example when you want to copy something you press “copy” button. But then to paste it you have to press “copy” button again and choose “paste” from a pop up list! ***The IFX (effects) have a laughable control - all you get is one knob which controls unknown parameter or set of them. That’s it.! ***You can’t use multiple IFX on one sound (other than combining it with MFX effects controlled by the x/y pad and as a master in the mixer). ***When in “slice” mode individual slices can’t have individual IFX or even just different settings for the same effect. IFX (effects) adjustment affects all of the slices. Same with the filter settings. ***No reverb as one of the IFX effects, only as MFX??? These are just some of the things that make the usability of the app not ideal. This app has some undeniable potential but the interface needs improvement. The functionality leans towards the gimmick side of things sometimes rather than being an intuitive tool for music creations. However, it does offer many many various functions, it definitely is features-rich. Show more

This is one of the best groovebox apps on earth...

It’s one of the best tools I’ve ever used for track and idea creation (and I use a lot). The multi-effect section and pattern linking really let you expand a quick idea into a useable professional sounding track. This app has been the main tool in track and instrumental sales totaling over $3400 in less than two months! I only wish you could acquire additional sound and effect presets for the app. It’s already proven it’s worth and is Gold Medal in my opinion. George (Jonre Fuzion) Roussaw The ATL Ghost Producer Show more

This app is fun, intuitive, versatile and full of features. It has “Electron type” conditional trigs, an awesome analog sounding synth engine, lots of modulation options and effects. I would love to have a hardware version of this groove box. Direct sampling would be a nice addition for a future update. Show more

I was initially upset when I bought this because I forgot to purchase this yesterday for Black Friday (my own fault, you snooze you lose). I really wanted to try it however, caved, and bought it for double the discount price. And you know what... it was worth every, single, cent and then some. I can already tell that this is the greatest purchase Ive made in terms of music production software on iOS and I’ve bought a LOT. Nothing has been able to take the number one spot, Fugue, until now. I love electronic music and this is one of those tools that just “resonates” with me as I use it and you get into the zone with near instant gratification of your musical ideas. Wow. This is special. Just buy it. The developer deserves more than the regular price and I’m glad I actually paid full. My only regret now is that I didn’t discover it sooner. Show more

This app rules. I absolutely love it. Really looking forward to the release of your next sweet app! ???