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FunkBox Drum Machine app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 2688 ratings )
Music
Developer: Synthetic Bits, LLC
4.99 USD
Current version: 4.0.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 18 Jan 2010
App size: 56.38 Mb

Funkbox contains all your favorite vintage drum machine sounds in one funky quirky little app! FunkBox is a full featured drum machine that you can use to compose, record and play your songs live. It has been used in the studio by electronic artists such as Gorillaz (on their album “The Fall”) Tom Middleton (Global Communications, Jedi Knights) and Steve Cobby (Fila Brazillia), and also by alternative/indie musicians such as tUnE-yArDs, Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, QOTSA), Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre), and Reggie Pace (Bon Iver, No BS Brass). Its also been used on stage by rock/pop musicians such as Joan Osborne and Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) live in concert. Its quirky vintage sounds, ease of use and advanced features have made it popular with many musicians worldwide who use it to make all sorts of different styles of music.

FunkBox was featured in Computer Music Magazines "Amazing Music Apps" special issue and Electronic Musician magazines "Attack of the Killer Apps" best music tools for the iPad.



FunkBox 4.0 features:
The look, feel, sound and quirks of a classic vintage drum machine.
iOS 10 compatible, iPhone 5 retina graphics compatible, iPad retina graphics compatible.

Universal app that works great on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Buy it once and you can use it on all your iOS devices.
Fourteen classic boxes to choose from, including favorites like the 808, 909, CR-78, LM-2, MRK-2, DX, TOM, and more.

Create your own custom boxes by mix and matching preset samples, or even import and use your own custom samples.
Includes 36 preset rhythm patterns, plus several more bonus banks. Easily edit the included patterns to create your own beats.

Export your drum loops as audio or midi via email, audio pasteboard, or the iTunes folder.
Easily share your custom boxes and patterns via email with your friends, or between your devices.
Use Audiobus 3 and Inter-App Audio to exchange live audio with other apps.

Use Ableton Link or CoreMIDI to sync up with “real” music equipment or other music apps, multi-tasking in the background or on other nearby iOS devices.

Use the bonus MIDI bass sequencer to play a bassline along with your beat using another iOS app or a “real” hardware synth!


…and lots more. Need some old school beats? Grab yourself some funk in a box.

Pros and cons of FunkBox Drum Machine app for iPhone and iPad

FunkBox Drum Machine app good for

This small App is the easiest way to get the sound of vintage grooveboxes. It has the cheesy Vintage-Look and feeI we all like so much. It offer 36 User-Presets and each preset can use different groovebox sounds which makes the grooves very variable. My wishlist : Song-Mode , FXs (synch Delay, Filter) and of course more Drumbox-Sound-Sets or Sample-Import.
This is really great and fun to play with. And its really not expensive... everybody should have this :-) would be really cool if you could record rhythms via the pads.
this thing definately rocks! best little beatbox on my ipad so far. try it! its easy to set up and the interface is userfriendly and logical. a little wish as always is to have triplets and 3/4 measures, so hey there, do that in anupdate.
Hello Very well laid out app with a rich feature set. The developers have been very creative and clear in their GUI design, making the app an intuitive experience. Though there are many drum apps available with the same feature set (or a larger feature sets), the attention to GUI design and layout places FunkBox with a clear advantage, namely: Playability. Regards Krzysztof Szychowski
This is the best beat making app Ive tried and ive tried quite a few. Just wish there was a synth too
Its like stepping back in time and having many of old drum machines at your finger tips.

Some bad moments

Loved the previous version. The simplicity, the drum machines, all were perfectly fine for my needs. Now all my patterns are gone (disappeared) and the new savable user machines run very slow and just make a bad experience. I dont need a hundred versions of a CR78. Plus the bass drum sounds on the new version arent as fat as the old version. Please revert back to the old version. Wish I didnt buy this app now.
I cant see any good reason for this limitation - for example I have to decide if I have a handclap or a high tom in my 808 pattern, because I cant have both! If I have a handclap, I cant program a groove made from high and low toms. If I choose to have a handclap and a cowbell, there are no toms available at all! This makes no sense! Why cant I freely choose what sound I use for all 8 parts in my pattern?
I use my this iPad only for midi purposes in my studio. Funk box is a useless pile of lag. I would have forgiven it if I could have just triggered some sounds by note but ran into much scarier failures. The samples are great, this could have been awesome but its just some schmuck charging people $4 to find out he cant make a drum machine.
The new version is a mess - crashes constantly and runs a lot slower than the earlier version. Worst part is when I updated, it wrote over all my old banks/patterns I had custom built. When I try to load them, the app crashes every time. Ive written their customer support and havent gotten a reply. Real lame.
Looks cool and is a good start, but needs more features if it is going to compete. Its kind of a waste of time, when other apps do this but also much more. I get that it looks "old school" and is trying to emulate old drum machines, but that doesnt mean ignore its full potential. How about being able to adjust the speed of the roll button? How about being able to manipulate the pitch of the samples? How about effects and making it more fun to use?
Not big on not being able to adjust pitch and decay of soun or have patterns of varying lengths Dm1 is the Win on this

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