Soft Drummer – Brush Sessions
Ballad & Jazz AUv3 Drum Plugin
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Use Soft Drummer as a plugin inside GarageBand, AUM, and your DAW. Real brush, hot rods & jazz grooves. It doesn't loop. It improvises. Share grooves across your apps.
Soft Drummer is your subtle session drummer, and now it works as an AUv3 plugin inside GarageBand, AUM, Loopy Pro or your favourite DAW.
It doesn't loop. It improvises.
With brushes, hot rods and hands, Soft Drummer generates warm, musical grooves for ballads, soft pop, jazz and latin, adapting in real time like a real session player. No patterns. No repetition.
AUv3
Use Soft Drummer as a plugin in any AUv3 host. Send and receive grooves between Soft Drummer, Pop Drummer and iBassist. Sync everything in real time.
SOUND
More than 50 multilayer sounds with 3 hit types (ghost, accented, drag/open)
× 3 Round Robin alternating samples for natural, authentic feel.
4 playing styles: Brushes, Hot Rods, Hands and Mallets.
4 Effects: Compressor/Gate, EQ, Delay and Reverb with individual track control.
LIVE PERFORMANCE
8 assignable Live Pads for fills, intros and endings, playable live or with any MIDI controller (iRig Blueboard and 4-button compatible).
Ableton Link sync for tight integration with your setup.
SONG MODE
Build your song structure in seconds. Arrange rhythmic sections and let Soft Drummer follow your song from intro to outro.
MIDI
MIDI Out, MIDI Sync (Legacy, recommended Ableton Link), Sound Module (Play individual sounds by MIDI In).
⏺ Assignable MIDI controls (default mapping):
- Transport: Play: G2 · Fill: C2 · Fill + Play/Stop: A2 · Tap Tempo: Bb2
- LivePads: Pads 1–8: C1–G1 · Load LivePad: C3 · Previous LivePad: Db3 · Next LivePad: D3 · Select LivePad Set: Eb3 · Fill on LivePad Change: E2
- Performance: Toggle Hats/Ride: Db2 · Fill + Toggle Hats/Ride: D2 · Toggle Snare: Eb2 · Crash Cymbal: B2 · Random: B1
- Songs: Previous: Gb2 · Next: Ab2
- Continuous controls: Jam: CC1 · Intensity: CC2 · Master Volume: CC7 · Swing: CC11 · Progression: CC12 · Tempo Fader: CC20 · Reverb: CC91
- Sound selection: Bank: CC32 · Rhythm: CC0 · Soundset: Program Change
All assignments are user-remappable.
Note octave naming follows the Logic / Cubase / Ableton / Pro Tools convention (middle C = C3) and is adjustable in MIDI Setup → OCTAVE REFERENCE.
Tempo Fader is standalone-only (host-driven in AUv3).
EXPORT
Multi-Track or Full Mix export in seconds. Audio, MIDI or with Effects , your choice.
TRY FOR FREE
Soft Drummer is free to explore for 7 days with access to all features. Some actions are limited during the trial
(exports, random grooves, sound changes and bars per session).
After the trial, keep playing with more limitations.
Unlock everything with a one-time purchase, no subscription.
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- Send entire Live Pad Sets and Songs to other Lumbeat apps, not just the current groove (standalone & AUv3)
- Afro Latin joins Send / Receive with the rest of the suite (standalone & AUv3)
- When you receive a shared Live Pad Set or Song, choose which bank to save its grooves in, or create a new one named after it
- Share a groove or song as a file (AirDrop, Mail, Files), it opens in the same app on the receiving device, no Apple ID required
- Song mode: loop setting is now remembered per song (adjustable in Settings)
- Live Pads: the next pad queued to play now shows a countdown bar before it triggers
- Fixed: switching to a triplet groove no longer doubles the first note
- Fixed: songs starting on a later part with Fill In enabled now play through to the end
- Bugs Fixed & Optimized CPU usage for smoother, more efficient performance
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- Lumbeat Ltd.
- Size
- 1.4 GB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 16 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Soft Drummer Full Access USD 29.99
- Tight Control USD 4.99
- Raw Brush USD 4.99
- Presence USD 4.99
- Big & Low USD 4.99
- Joe USD 5.99
- Clayton USD 5.99
- Copyright
- © 2020 Lumbeat