Apps most similar to HW grooveboxes?

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I love Drambo but no. Please don’t suggest Drambo as Drambo could be whatever it customized to be.

I am asking for a great Groovebox app with excellent stock layout and not much customization, much like using a hardware that I cannot change the button layout.

I want to experience that as I seem spoiled by Apps like Drambo and Loopy Pro

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Suger Bytes Drum Computer.

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Grooverider 16.

Its an electribe. But more advanced. Same layout. Same workflow.

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+1 for GR16 , also Pure Acid if you want a 909 & 303 in a dedicated Groove box with FX

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+1 for Pure Acid. It sound really good, has a great interface, and the best bass-line generator on IOS.

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Sugar Bytes Egoist
Groove Rider
Pure Acid
GrooveBox
Blocs Wave
Electribe Wave

I’d say Gadget 3 is a mishmash of groovebox + daw.

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If you’re looking for “most similar to hardware” there’s the Korg ELECTRIBE-R, which runs either as a standalone app or plugin.

I prefer it over the original Korg ER-1 hardware. And I really liked the original.

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Elastic drums is one of my favorite grooveboxes I’ve ever used, and it’s an iPad app.

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Bam feels like Drambo in a contained groovebox form.

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Bam is pretty spot on!

Cong Burn Strokes is good fun and sounds great:

Korg’s Electribe Wave is another good option, as well as Gadget, although that does have a lot of customisation.

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I personally found BAM to be like a hamstrung version of Drambo.

There is nothing about it I found easier or quicker than Drambo, but it had a load of annoying limitations. It is also still somewhat DAW like.

If I wanted more of a walled garden then Gadget is much nicer and integrates really well with the two Korg Nano controllers for a hardware like experience.

While I’m disparaging other products :rofl: I also found Egoist disappointing as a Groovebox. The sample mashing is brilliant, but the bass synth and drum machine are so limited as to be useless for anything other than sketching and then pulling into another tool like Drambo to do anything useful.

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My goodness, this app looks and sounds cool. The standalone version is free to try

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I had a quick look. Gadget and GR-16 look most like hardware boxes.

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Yeah, it’s very fun and the demo is completely usable, you just can’t save anything or IIRC use it as a plugin.

If you just want to jam you could just use the free version.

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I roll my own in AUM

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Hammerhead

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Koala

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Koala is great, but my expectations of a Groovebox are based somewhat on the elektron workflow, and koala falls way short of that. I do use it as a track starter though.

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Nanoloop maybe… Probably best looking app

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Hey all, does any of this work on Windows PC? :stuck_out_tongue:

Edit: LOL I mean as VST arrghhhh

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