Dawnbeat - Sampler

The best part of a mobile sample DAW is the ease of browsing your samples and easily adding them to the pads (simply tap to hear and drag to a pad). Ableton One is pretty nice. DP24 is pretty good too. The bank load feature of MPC is real dope and has one up on Dawnbeats in that way. But when its comparison of everything you need in a mobile DAW (FLS mobile notwithstanding)with easy browsing and an intuitive setup (plus the HIGHLY adaptive and flexible bluetooth MIDI control), for me Dawnbeats is the future of mobile app sample DAWs. I’ve been using this app for about a month now and it’s simply is the best I’ve ever seen for sample drumming. The BRIIK feature is what sets it apart from any other sample mobile sample DAW application. Well, there are no instructions for this feature and the help menu., I quickly figured out how to use it and where it’s strengths lie. It quite simply is the hallmark of the whole app if you ask me.

This app is genuinely amazing. I’m just a teenager who likes chopping up cool sounds and I’m inspired by artists like DOOM and Kanye but I’m not using this for anything commercial. I’m simply wasting my time and I’ve spent HOURS on this app and it is nearly perfect. It’s got great filters and stuff. My only issue is that it crashes sometimes when I try to zoom in on a chop. I would also like to see some more features like allowing a soundpad to stop when another one is played or something like that to stop overlap but other than that this app is great. It has nearly everything that a paid one would have

Apple won’t let me update my original review but I had to write a new review to talk about how great Dawnbeat is. It started off with promise and consistent updates make this app a sampler you can’t ignore. Bit by bit it’s been enticing me to step away from the Marsupial king and do more in DB. The only thing that’s bothering me right now (and maybe I’m just missing something) is there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to copy a sequence from one page to the next. The only way I can see to do it is go in to a sequence, select all, edit copy, go to a new sequence, edit past. It would be helpful if there was a sequence manager like the pad manager. Otherwise this app is so much fun and I get interesting grooves going instantly with it. To developer: I know we can copy a sequence by dragging it. This seems to only work when copying a sequence to the same page. If I want to copy one for 16 to 32 and try to drag the sequence, it just freezes on the screen and often crashes the program.