Patterning 3 : Drum Machine

I absolutely love using this app. While I’ve become a much better finger drummer at live playing into hardware grooveboxes or pad controllers, the downside of that is that I can easily fall into the same patterns. With an app like this, it allows me to tweak things to get something I never would have come up with manually, or even on a traditional piano roll grid. Favorite features are the ability to have different step lengths for poly rhythms, ability to rotate loops, and how easy it is to modulate various things. Especially for hi-hats, these allow to really get some variety and human feel. The only thing I’d love to be added is to show the number of steps on the modulation of course tuning, so that it would be easier to see when setting notes for a synth or something. P.S. please find a UI for it to get to iPhone. The version 2 is missing some stuff I love in 3.

Of course, there’s sometimes a but right? Excellent device, 5 stars for sure. Especially, because it has the cloud drum kits which are all amazing. The implementation of being able to quickly load different or same patterns with different kits is exceptional. The but... the only thing I would ask is that they add randomization features. Patterning has been out for a fairly long time now since version 1, still today though with no randomization features. Please? ty so much for this device. It really is awesome and well worth more than its current price. ty

[update] Thank you! That’s amazing and it only took a couple of days??? I wish that I could give this app 10 stars! My favorite drum sequencer (Patterning 2) has opened up a new world of possibilities with AUv3 support in version 3. I love all of the other new features as well, but being able to run as an AUv3 has made Patterning an indispensable part of my workflow now. One feature that would make this workflow far more flexible would be adding a feature to allow MIDI notes to trigger specific patterns. Song mode is fun, but doesn’t work well when improvising in a live set. I have mapped MIDI triggers for prev/next pattern but, again, this is pretty limiting when playing through a live set since you can only step through the patterns forward or back by one at a time rather than jumping to any specific pattern than I want. One limited “workaround” is mapping a trigger to the new Fill feature, but again, you are still limited to just one additional pattern option. Adding the ability to assign specific MIDI keys to each pattern in the list would be incredible. One potentially easier way to add this feature would be to just add one key mapping to “trigger a pattern” and then auto-map subsequent patterns to all subsequent keys. Thanks for making such an amazing tool!