Drambo

"Drambo changes the face of iOS music apps." Cult of Mac

Drambo is your all-in-one sound laboratory that adapts to your workflow: build beats as a groovebox, design synths, or transform audio with effects, standalone or inside your favorite DAW.

At the core of Drambo is a fresh approach to modular design that makes creating with modules easy, fun, and accessible. Connections happen automatically as you add or move modules, so there are no messy cables to slow you down. The interface adapts to your workflow, generating modulation controls when you need them, and even lets modules contain other modules for perfect organization. You’re always free to override the automatic connections, but most of the time, you can just dive in, experiment, and shape sounds without getting tangled 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.

You can use Drambo as

• A Complete Studio: Produce entire tracks and perform live in a self-contained, multitrack environment.

• An Endless modular playground, that allows you to build, modify and store custom instruments and effects. For instance: build a custom synth, sample and resample, build a Theremin using a gyroscope module, or turn your table into a playable surface, by processing microphone input with physical modelling modules.

• An Advanced MIDI Sequencer: Control hardware or AUv3 instruments. Generate custom MIDI CC messages or send modulation signals to physical modular synths via DC-coupled interfaces.

• The Ultimate AUv3 Plugin: Load Drambo inside other DAWs as an instrument, audio effect, or MIDI processor. Replace dozens of standard plugins by building your own complex modular delays, reverbs, decimators, or modulators in seconds.

• A Unified Audio-Visual Studio (Drambo Visual IAP): Arts united. Step into another realm of modular visual synthesis to build complex generative video art, or seamlessly patch your audio and visual engines together for deeply integrated performances.

Features:

• Polyphonic, stereo processing and audio-rate modulation. All signals are equal. Up to 16 voices per modular instrument rack.

• Unique modular concept: cable-less, drag'n'drop, color coding dynamic interface, automatic connections, and customizable compact, rack views.

• Directional flow makes Drambo routing and patching straightforward. Signal flows only left to right, so there are no instant feedback routings in Drambo. Delayed feedback is possible using certain modules.

• Simple and clean interface, that scales to every size and device orientation

• Over 140 modules available, such as: oscillators, samplers, physical modelling modules, LFOs, envelope generators, filters, audio effects, mixers, MIDI processors, sequencers and math functions.  (Includes a macro oscillator based on the famous Eurorack Plaits module, with 24 synth engines)

• Custom modular racks that can be nested, with presets at the track, rack, and module level.

• Clip launcher / song arrager.

• 16-tracks, polyphonic sequencer with parameter locks, automation and step components. 8 dedicated step sequence editor types, piano-roll, powerful automation designer with drawing modes and cubic Bezier curves.

• Audio Units hosting ( standalone app only )

• Morph groups: you can morph many parameters using a single slider.

• Available as a standalone app, AUv3 instrument, effect and MIDI effect.

• MIDI and Ableton Link support

Drambo is all about control. Control things that other apps don’t even give you access to.

Visit the BeepStreet page for help and tutorials, and Patchstorage for community content.

Version 2.56 release notes

- New MIDI Generative Sequencer module - Generates melodies and voice-led chords within a selected scale. Includes separate trigger and pitch loops, controlled variation, velocity, legato and polyphony. Generated sequences can be copied to the current clip. - Pattern time signature: numerator range extended to 16. - Improved knob interaction reliability on iPad and Mac: reduced accidental tap/double-tap actions while keeping parameter editing and automation recording immediate. Important; needs testing. - Fixed sample-rate-related pitch inaccuracies in Flexi Sampler stretching, Wave Scanner playback, and Looper audio restored from automatically loaded projects. - Fixed misaligned MIDI Learn overlays in the Scene Morph panel. - Fixed a rare crash in the Spectral Filter module. - Fixed a rare crash in the curve editor while recording automation. - Improved incoming MIDI clock transport synchronization. Drambo Visual extension (IAP): - Added MIDI Texture Scanner – turns visual textures into MIDI notes by scanning a line, ellipse, or circle. Map path segments to a custom scale, use the bipolar brightness threshold to trigger notes from light or dark regions, and monitor activity directly on the texture. - Added Visual Mute, a utility that can disable visual processing manually, via modulation, or by following its track’s mute state. - New presets in Shader/patterns, XY Transform/Projection and Processor Shader/Feedback and FX - Fixed: Scene, beatTime() variable was not updated properly. DSP Extensions 1 (IAP): - New Spectral Delay module - Shape delay time across the frequency spectrum to create rhythmic echoes, stereo movement and evolving textures. Includes tempo sync, quantization, feedback, diffusion and Hold.