Beat Scholar

Don’t hesitate. Buy this app. If it is on sale, buy this. It is the best drum machine you can find for iOS and perhaps as a plugin overall. Two things that need some work are the menu saving and presets. Changing from MIDI is also sometimes hit and miss as the keyboard doesn’t correspond to the patterns. The menu save can’t be deleted so you must save to a file which is very tedious. Also the presets could get some updates or some user exchange library because the good presets are for TRAP, and I hoped for more genres considering what this app can do. I also don’t like that sometimes it will crash a DAW if it doesn’t like loading a preset from a file. So I hope this helps the dev constructively, and I will upgrade and update this to 5 stars as it gets more updates/upgrades because it is 5 star worthy. It just came out for iOS so I give this awesome dev time to work on it as they already fixed some crashes. Great work and again BUY THIS APP.

I only think of beats in terms of Pizzas now. The preset patterns extremely varied, amazing, and worth the price alone. I highly recommend this app.

Already a fan of the PC plugin, this allows my iPad to take a bigger role with my hardware and AUv3s. Really fills a niche too in that there’s not much like it that lets you intentionally program feel on the AUv3 MIDI side. Feature suggestion: Custom MIDI CC layers in separate lanes. Would be amazing to control say, amp decay on a drum machine!