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I love funk box. Great drum machine app. Used it on 3+ albums. And update and ableton link support would be incredible!! Please do that.

This app should have a thousand 5 star reviews by now. I love it and the sounds are dead on. I practice guitar to it and poorly rap to it in the car. The interface is easy to use and it saved me from buying a $400 808 machine. Thanks a million guys. Show more

This is what I've been looking for; that I couldn't find in other apps such as the joke of an app NI iMaschine v.1 and 2 and the MPC app. I can chain more than one sequence together etc. I was almost convinced that I was going to have to buy actual hardware but I can now do everything I wanted right on my phone. This is simple enough to not get discouraged. It makes sense from the first few minutes after you open it. Laid out well and there is a 40 page manual you can download to iBooks. I do industrial metal and this has a load of classic drum machines no extra downloads required. Show more

It has all the vintage and kitschy drum machines I watch on eBay but haven't bought. Such a useful and powerful tool with a super rad interface. Top notch!

Tap mode feels more responsive than most apps I've tried on my iPhone 5s. Performance on iPad Air 2 seems slightly worse. FunkBox is possibly my favorite iOS drum machine. Simplicity, solid UI, great sounds, MIDI, and very low latency from tap to sound. Show more

Top notch sounds and great two tracks sequencer (bass+drum). However, I don't really like the way the presets are recalled: by using individual buttons and a lever. A nice drop down list would be much more effective. I feel that that poor choice defeated all the other great features of the application. I do not use this app anymore because of that. Show more

I use it for my band and Iove it cuz it's simple

It's either Funkbox or shell out $3,800 for a used Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer. If you pair Funkbox with your iPad inside of the Alesis io Dock II, you'll have a very formidable virtual 808 clone with midi via din or usb, internally pannable and has roughly 20 other vintage drum sets to choose from as well...Awesome job done by these developers...I finally can recreate that 80's 808 funk sound with a very precise and stable gadget..I'd like to see pattern to song chaining and the option to record my beat with no pre-quantization and higher ppq resolution. You can even sync Funkbox to start/stop your other music apps and run arpegiators and baseline synths in-sync to it. 10-stars. ? Show more

Great simplistic drumbox app that can grow with you as you become more comfortable with the potential for customization. Many of the presets sound great. The reason for the four stars is that I wish it had Chromecast and soon Chromecast Audio support. That would be awesome! Thanks again for a great app. Show more

I know it's not a fully featured drum machine but it has all the sample packs you'd really want and enough controls to make some decent beats. It's been really helpful for songwriting, and merged with a few other apps you can basically make hip hop backing tracks all on your phone. This is the best drum machine app I've found! Show more

There are others that do more, but none that get you classic drum machine patterns instantly. One of my favorite things is what other people have complained about, that it isn't complex enough to get deeply experimental with. They knew when to stop, and not make a full DAW. Funkbox is an exercise in simplicity, which for the medium, a mobile device app, is important. It gets used a lot here for that reason, especially playing music with other musicians, when we want to drop in a funny drum machine beat, without losing momentum by stopping for 15 minutes of headscratching to figure out how program a beat. With the tap tempo, you can get the tempo set in the background and drop it in on the downbeat, without the other people having to stop what they're playing. Great fun to play through external effects, like guitar pedals, with an 1/8" to 1/4" cable, or iOS effects, through audiobus. Sounds great through an amp sim, or Turnado or FluxFx. I love this company's unusually complete MIDI patchbay, for deciding just how it can play with or hide from other programs or hardware. I wish their table layout was the standard for other app's midi communication. If you're curious about what else, beyond the basics, the app is capable of it's worth looking at the manual. It isn't long, and gets into programming and saving your own beats, and making your own drum machines, either by mixing and matching their sounds or importing your own samples. This doesn't do realistic drums. I don't think it is the tool for that. Just canned beats! Show more

I really love the look, feel, and sound of the applications. I am unhappy that there is no Mid Tom. Also, you are also limited to: -Low Tom or the Clap -High Tom or the Cow Bell -Rim Shot or the Clav Show more

I'm pretty disappointed that the preset beats are not the original. Where's the Latin beats in the MRK-2?? Not a very realistic emulation.

This is an outstanding drum machine. Very well thought out with lots of essential features to allow it to interface with other audio apps and gear. However, I don't understand the needless limitation to allow only 8 drum parts when 12 are available -- or at the very least, let us select which 8 we want to use instead of forcing to choose between RS or CL, LT and CP, etc. What if I want a pattern with High Tom and Cow Bell? Can't do it -- have to choose one or the other. Show more

This is another example of perfection!Too bad it doesn't have a better song mode like the dm1 drag and drop method which I think should become a part of ALL drum apps .but I still use this thing almost every day cause it sounds SO much like my old cha cha boxes ! I love it !Peace christo???? Show more

Super cool app. Thanks. Money well spent. I have a lot of fun playing with it.

Nice easy interface and lots of really good sounds. The CR-78 in its variations is my fave.

I have a lot of drum apps but this is almost always the one I use. I use virtual MIDI a lot and FunkBox is great. Furthermore, its "Bonus Bass Line Sequencer" is fantastic. It seems natural to me to compose my bass and drums together. The only thing I would like is the ability to tie steps together in the baseline for longer note values. However, your bass synth can do that if you turn off retrigger when in monophonic and/or set some long sustain and release times. Some have complained about FunkBox' MIDI but that is not an issue. FunkBox just doesn't go on stand-by very gracefully. If you let your iPad fall asleep, or leave FunkBox in the background too long with no MIDI input, it needs to be kick-started. Activate it, start and stop it, and start sending it MIDI again. If the bass line app stops responding you may have to tickle its MIDI settings. A little cumbersome but no issue when you know what's happening. Show more

Awesome drum machine!

Sounds great, takes 15 seconds to understand, the best MIDI sync on iOS. Plus, you know, sweet beats. Funkbox is not a 909 or DM1. Think of it as 1) a great sample collection of vintage beat boxes and 2) a home organ style rhythm machine that's.... Awesome! The rhythms that come out of it immediately are just great. Of course, you can edit and store your own rhythms (and samples!) as it is a full featured drum machine (plus a MIDI out track for basslines) but I don't think it's the developers intent to compete with DM1 or DrumPerfect, for instance. AB2 state saving and louder samples just pushed it over the edge. So great! Thank you for Funkbox. Buy it immediately, turn it on and play some music. Show more