Groove Rider 2

This is what the sequencer part of Korg Gadget could have been. I’ve been using IOS apps for music nearly ten years now. I don’t usually feel compelled to write a review because I’m not usually that impressed. But this app is really really great. The groove box mentality is too much fun and easy to get building tracks on the fly. The features have been really well thought out and everything I would want is there - probability triggers, conditional triggers, step sequencing, automation, AU integration, resampling. Honestly it’s incredibly fun and I will be using it for years to come. I hope this app has a long life and I would be happy with it as is especially for the price - even if the dev doesn’t add any more features. Audio tracks would be nice but not a deal breaker for me. This is a groovebox afterall.

So I’m giving it 5 because of all the updates and the pure ambition of this monster. But I really hope Jim is going to provide more performance options for individual clip activation. Please give us quantization from 0-1/64th. Another feature that would really set this apart in this regard would be playhead integrity— also known as “jump mode” in other sequencers. Patterning sequencers will stay on step maintaining progress even when switching to new “clips”. So we can switch from clip to clip, and when we switch the change can be quantized to whatever, but the newly selected clip will pick up on where the previous sequence left off, in terms of steps. We have not had anything like that since Modstep.

The tutorials on this really great idea for this daw are horrendous! Sound test room all of them concentrate on the drum view and using pads ! How does the Daw view work ? I see no relation between instruments and that time line at all and like many lame daws on iOS “widgets sprinkles” for navigation and editing. The piano roll is very good but it’s so disconnected from the timeline and instruments that aren’t even visible in the left column ! Pure garbage that basically do nothing in the TIMELINE were most editing should be done . But no this is another fidgety cripple box like Logic . If the creators are serious they with make very detailed step by step tutorials on how to use the daw like a daw himself ! I’ve been told one guy does everything in this company which explains why there are no tutorials made by the company itself which is sorely needed here . The idea this is also a host for third parties apps which all the others drop the ball on and makes this one the one I want to really learn drives me insane. You tube dudes do the worst tutorials ever! They always start with minimum info on how to get a SONG going first but instead waste chapter after chapter with the stuff that should always come AFTER awe learn how to make a tune FIRST! Something that ms to escape these idiot instructors on utube.😖