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Is That a Drummer on Your iPhone, Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 4:28 PM - by Bryan Chaffin
Sonoma Wire Works announced Friday the release of InstantDrummer: Heartbreaker. This iPhone app is a drum machine that allows you to arrange and customize drum loops for you to play along to. The drum loops on InstantDrummer: Heartbreaker were recorded by Jason McGerr, the drummer for Death Cab for Cutie.
Features (as provided by Sonoma Wire Works):
- Adjustable Tempo - Heartbreaker was originally recorded at 72 BPM, and still sounds great above 150 BPM
- Part Sequencer for building and arranging drum tracks for InstantDrummer songs
- Adjustable Gain, Ambience, Intensity and Variation for each InstantDrummer Song Part
- Master FX: Freakenzy (EQ) and The Slammer (Compressor) Effects include a 4 band parametric EQ and a stereo linked compressor with Threshold, Attack, & Release
- 130 MB of pop-rock drum recordings by Jason McGerr
- 11 Song Parts (including Basic Rock, Bigger Rock, Ride, Ride-on, Sparse to Meaty, Kick and Hat, Crashes, Lead-ins and Endings)
- 43 Loops with fills on the last bar of a section
- WiFi Sync InstantDrummer songs to a computer with or without a router
This is the first in the series of InstantDrummer apps, and it is priced at US$.99 at the App Store. You can also find more information at the Sonoma Wire Works Web site.
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