Amen Break Generator

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About this app

Amen break - coming from the late 60's is one of the most famous drum loops sampled and remixed in hundreds of jungle, drum'n'bass and breakcore records. This six-second clip spawned several entire subcultures and gained massive fame among DJ's, producers and music fans.

We bring you the Amen Break Generator - a vintage-looking loop player designed for a real-time generating of infinite combinations of this famous break! You can remix the loop with your fingers, use nonstop beat randomizing algorithm and add various DSP effects.

FEATURES

• 44.1 khz, 16-bit low-latency audio engine
• beautiful vintage-looking graphics
• 16 buttons for manual tempo-synced triggering of the breaks
• live recording to WAV files for further use in other apps
• randomization algorithm for automatic remixing
• single slice freezer and loop reverse mode
• high quality DSP effects including ring modulator, stereo hipass filter, flanger and resampler.
• 7 additional classic drum loops just for even more fun!

Ratings and reviews

Good, but theres a bug. At tempos of exactly 170 or above, if you tap the last orb (or whatever you call them to play the last 16th of the break) it always switches back to the first before you can tap another one. This can be recreated best by turning the tempo to exactly 170, turning on the play button and tapping the last orb as fast as possible. It always loops back to the first one. It works on a BPM of 169, or at 170 with pressing different orbs. I'll switch my review to 5/5 if it's fixed.

It's a great app and a fun little tool. I have one request. Could you include a menu to arrange in what order the drum packs come in? I feel like it would be fun to play arround with different drum sets together by switching mid loop. I've already found two that work pretty well with each other and I transition using the freeze effect and then letting off once I change my drum pack.

Great pick-up-and-play experience, but only has 8 audio loops to play with. Not much depth, but that's what exporting your "performances" to a DAW is for. The info dropdown is hard to reach on my phone (bottom of screen), I don't think it's showing fully, and I can't scroll down on it. Leaves me wondering if the "BASE" [sic], "SNARE", white dot, or double circle symbol are supposed to do anything. Still worth it as a fun toy to scratch that D&B/Jungle/etc. itch on the go.

What’s new

New Free-play mode: single beat slices can be manually triggered by the user