Wow I had no idea! Options!
The DM touch seems a bit clunky to me. The Velocity Sensitivity and Threshold did not seem to do very much.
I tried to use garage band but the DM Dock freaked out and the triggers were just clipping and not triggering at times. I had to shut everything down and restart.
I do not know if my iPad is 32 bit or 64? I think it was the first model with a lightning port
I would love to use DM Dock with Cubasis2 or NanoStudio2 as well if possible?
I an going to get DrumXD right now, thank you for the suggestions.
iPad 4 was the 1st with the lightning..Any iPad Air or later or iPad mini 2 or later has 64 bit processors. Here is a link for everything about iPads.
EveryiPadUsually when you purchase in the app store now if the current version is for a newer version of iOS and you have an older iPad/iOS you'll get a message/notification/pop up asking if you want to download a previous/older version that supports it.
Use the Dm Touch to dial in the triggers as best as you can...I found it best to make a note of the default midi notes instead of changing them in DM Touch that way later on it was easier to reset the master settings in the DM Touch if you had any problems..You don't even need the iPad in the dock after that if you were to use it as just a TMI.
The Drums XD app has a number additional settings and you can remap the triggers and zones to match the DM Dock/Touch midi note list.Between the 2 apps you can get the triggers dialed in pretty well.
There is a lot of expansions for Drums XD, including a large amount of percussion. Once you get it dialed in and figure out how to make custom kits and configurations you'll have fun.It has a built in tutorial/manual.
The developer abandoned it as time consumption and cost to keep up with Apple's constant changes to where it wasn't profitable.
A number of developers started off when the iPad came out and dumped time/expense into product development only to have Apple go with the lightning connector and most I know said they would never do it again.
Drum Perfect Pro is more complicated and more expensive but you can have up to 16 samples per instrument and it also runs directly into the iPad's memory so kit/sample size depends on the iPad.A kit size in iPad 1 can only be 256mb ram..iPad 2-512mb..AIR 1GB etc.I haven't tried an iPad Pro 10.5 with 4GB ram.They are too expensive.
I did put a friends in the dock and it fit length wise but narrow width.These days you could probably have someone 3D print another tray/adapter.I have built a number of expansions for it,but he needs to work on the Hi Hat support.
An app to watch is Positive Grids X Drummer..If/when midi is incorporated/implemented (currently it's not,they say they are still working on it) for me it's kind of worthless without the midi...the DM Dock will make a great host...
Postitive Grid X-DrummerThere has also been major changes in regards to linking apps using midi in iOS..check out
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