Android

Drummer Friend HD Drum Machine

by zaoloapps · more by this developer →
Topics Music

Drummer Friend HD Drum Machine has 2,039 installs (+0.2% a month, measured over 49 days to 2026-11-03), rated 4.0 from 75 ratings, #34,688 of 83,354 in Music & Audio.

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Installs
2,039
+0 (0.0%) a week, measured over 15 days to 2026-11-03
Rating
4.0
75 ratings
+0 ratings a week, measured over 15 days to 2026-11-03
Rank on Android
#826,835
of 2,922,830
down 34,219 since 2026-11-01
Version
2.1
Last updated 2024-02-27

Description

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Preset drum machine (also programmable) for live playing with your preferred musical instrument.
Drummer friend plays the drums as a real drummer using different samples at different velocity and even different samples at the same velocity, simulating left and right hand.

Over 140 rhythms covering almost all styles, everyone user customizable and with intro, fill-in, variation and ending.
Bossanova and latin styles like samba, beguine, salsa, songo, lambada and merengue.
Jazz and swing, funk and fusion, groove and shuffle.
Traditional world styles like tango, cha cha, rumba, reggae.
Modern pop styles. Hip hop and dance.

Five multilayer extended drums kits: high dynamics, groove, ludwig vintage, dirty jazz, sonor force 3001.
Over 700 stereo high quality samples for realtime wavetable synthesis.
Uses multisample/multivelocity on most sounds, with audio effects: reverb, bass boost, 3D sound, equalization, expander/limiter and humanized playback.

Editor: to modify an existing rhythm select it from main app and simply touch the edit checkbox, then the rhythm editor will be started and show four tracks of events view with some controls in the upper part of screen.
Every quarter note is divided by 24 ticks, at 12th ticks we have an 1/8 note, at 6Th ticks a 1/16 note, at 3 ticks 1/32 note, at 2 1/32 triplet, at 1 tick 1/64 triplet.
You simply touch a + symbols or an existing sound and the app show you a dialog for add, modify or clear an event.

On the selection list in the main screen the user sequences are written in blue bold style.
User sequences are stored in /drummerfriendhd/"name".xml.
You can share your sequences with another user (that must have drummer friend ver 1.2 or above) sending this file as attachment with Gmail.
When the user receive and views this attachment from Gmail using drummer friend, sequences will be imported.
 
When the user receive and views this attachment from mail using drummer friend, sequences will be imported.

Footswitch support thru USB.
Need a device with USB HID support (keyboard/joystick); to check this you can connect an USB keyboard or a joystick with an USB OTG adapter cable and try to trigger events. If it works then also a generic HID USB footswitch should work.
Operations are:
first-clic start with Intro
1-click from Intro, switch to Play
1-click from Play to get Short fill + Change norm./var.
2 click from Play to get Long fill + Change norm./var.
3 click or long click then go to Ending
1-click from ending, then Stop

Is Drummer Friend HD Drum Machine safe?

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  • Listed on Google Play.
  • Made by zaoloapps; no developer website listed. Details →
  • On Google Play since 2013-04-15. Last updated 2024-02-27 (over 2 years ago).
  • Rated 4.0 from 75 ratings. Details →

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From 69 ratings.

Growth change in installs

Per Growth Growth % Actual change Measured over
day Not enough history yet
week 0 0.0% 0 15.1 days
month +5 +0.2% +8 48.7 days
year Not enough history yet
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Tracking since 2026-09-14. History accumulates as changes are observed — check back soon.

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