Depeche Mode uses iDrum on "Sounds of the Universe"

iDrum turns your Mac or PC into a powerful, easy-to-use virtual drum machine. Build patterns with iDrum’s lightning-fast step sequencer, using included kits or your own samples. iDrum for PC and Mac can also link to iDrum for the iPhone® and iPod® touch, letting you take your beats anywhere!

Depeche Mode was one of the first bands to artfully weave together the mechanical sounds of drum machines and synthesizers with intense, emotive songwriting. On their latest album, Sounds of the Universe, that beautiful balance is still as stunning as ever. While the band and producer Ben Hillier turned to a huge array of vintage synths and drum machines to make Sounds of the Universe, they didn’t shy away from new technology. In fact both the plug-in version and the new mobile iPhone/iPod touch incarnations of iDrum were key to the production process. Here’s what Ben had to say when we asked him about the making of the new album:

"Martin [Gore] used iDrum fairly regularly in his demos, in Logic, and quite a few of those original sounds will have made it through to the final versions. I also used iDrum on the iPhone for a couple of tracks, specifically 'Perfect' which Daniel and I worked on in London during a break in the US sessions. All my gear was still in New York so I had my laptop and iPhone. It was quite handy to experiment with different grooves quickly on the iPhone, which we then sampled by plugging the headphone socket into various mic pres and amps. I found it very quick and creative. Most importantly you don’t have to interrupt the workflow on the computer, because you’re self contained, and mobile!

But the story doesn’t end there. iZotope has collaborated with Mute Records to bring a special new edition of iDrum to the iPhone/iPod touch featuring sounds from the new Depeche Mode album. Fans of the band’s music can now re-arrange and remix actual elements from the album right on their handsets with iDrum: Depeche Mode Sounds of the Universe! To order the special Depeche Mode edition of iDrum for iPhone/iPod Touch, visit the Apple App Store.

EDITOR’S CHOICE – "Loads of great sounds and one of the slickest interfaces we’ve ever seen on a drum machine—software or hardware."
– MacAddict Magazine

"The perfect beatbox" "quick and easy beats."
– Keyboard Magazine

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What’s new in version 1.7?

• Easy song editing – Build beats and backing tracks faster than ever before
• Over 50 new kits including live acoustic drums, hip hop and dance track sounds and more
• Create patterns in a variety of time signatures
  – 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8 and beyond
• Get more iDrum kits at the click of a button with iDrum Sound Portal
• Share sounds with iDrum Editions for iPhone® and iPod® touch – take your beats on the road! (iDrum Editions for iPhone and iPod touch are sold separately on the Apple App Store).

iDrum Features

• iDrum comes bundled with Over 500 drum and percussion samples – from classic beatbox kicks and snares to congas and shakers. To top it off, you can load your own AIFF and WAV drum samples (up to 2 MB per sample), which makes the possibilities for beat creation virtually endless! Download Kits quickly and easily with the brand new iDrum Sound Portal.
• iDrum features an array of sound-shaping tools like filters, pitch control and envelopes, letting you non-destructively transform drum sounds at the click of your mouse.
• Create and save an unlimited number of Kits (iDrum files). iDrum comes packaged with over 200 exemplary, preprogrammed Kits so that you can start enjoy iDrum’s capabilities right away!
• Each Kit (iDrum file) can have up to 99 Patterns and 1 Song associated with it. Since you can build as many Kits as you want, there's no limit to the number of Songs you can store with iDrum. You can even make copies of Kits to use them to perform more than one song.
• iDrum also includes dozens of Part presets – individual drum parts you can mix and match to create killer grooves, even if you’ve never touched a drum machine before!
• iDrum features an array of sound-shaping tools like filters, pitch control and envelopes, letting you non-destructively transform drum sounds at the click of your mouse.
• Play beats in real-time using your MIDI controller (or even your QWERTY keyboard)!

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Standalone or Plugin for your Host App

Use iDrum by itself or inside GarageBand® and other host programs. iDrum runs as both a standalone native OS X and Windows application and as a plug-in for Pro Tools®, GarageBand®, Logic®, Ableton® Live™, SONAR™, Cubase®, Digital Performer® and other host programs. Supported plug-in formats include: RTAS (Pro Tools 7+), VST, Audio Units and MAS. This means you can use iDrum to create beats from right within your favorite music software environment, perfectly synced with your arrangement and always right where you left it when you return to your project after your next world tour.

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New Song Editor!

Link patterns together easily to create entire songs. The new Song Editor window makes it a snap to assemble your composition.

iDrum Skins

Several iDrum ‘skins’ – customize iDrum’s appearance to your liking.

   
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Minimum System Requirements