iDrum OS X Drum Machine Now Distributed by M-Audio
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November 8, 2004
GlareSoft's iDrum is a fully programmable
drum machine designed exclusively for Mac OS X. iDrum integrates seamlessly
with GarageBand, Logic, Digital Performer and other applications that
support AudioUnit plug-ins--or runs as a stand-alone application. For extra
fun, iDrum is completely skinnable, including the ability to change skins on
the fly.
iDrum is designed to be as simple to use as the hardware drum machines of yesteryear,
but with all the flexibility of a software-based virtual instrument. Users
can create perfectly timed drum patterns in iDrum right alongside existing
tracks, or use iDrum as the backbeat when laying down new tracks. Hundreds
of pre-programmed patterns and rhythms are included, and users can create
their own as well.
Creating drum patterns in iDrum is both easy and flexible. Users can choose
from a library of included patterns, enter steps with the mouse, trigger
sounds with a MIDI controller, drag and drop a pattern to the desktop for
instant MIDI file creation and/or drag and drop a WAV or AIFF file to an
iDrum channel. Users can load any AIFF or WAV sound file up to 2MB in size
as a drum sample, making iDrum's sonic palette limited only by the
imagination. iDrum will also export patterns and songs as AIFF audio, MIDI
and GarageBand-compatible AIFF for further editing.
iDrum features an array of sound-shaping DSP functions such as filters, amp
envelope, and crunchy old-school drum machine bit-reduction. Each drum sound
has individual controls for a wide variety of parameters including volume,
pan, mute, solo, sound audition, sound selection, transpose, decay,
high-pass filter, and low-pass filter. Two "choke" groups also provide for
effects like open/closed hi-hat.
iDrum is currently shipping with an MSRP of $49.95 USD, and distributed by M-Audio. For more information, visit their web site at www.glaresoft.com. |
