GrooveFX · The drum app

DrumFX

Hear it. Write it. Play along.

Drop in an MP3. DrumFX pulls out the drums, writes them down as a score and lets you play along with the band. Fix any bar, or write a part of your own.

Open DrumFX

Hear a demo song

    The screen plays the drum part DrumFX wrote for the song.

    What DrumFX does

    One song in. Your drum part out.

    Then

    Practice with the original song.

    How DrumFX works

    From the song you love to the part you play.

    1. Import

      Drop in a song. Get the drums back.

      MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG or FLAC. A neural network made for pulling drums out of a mix runs right in your browser. It finds the beats and the bar lines and writes the drum part down. Nothing is uploaded.

      The import window after a song came in: its backing track with the drums turned down and the drum track on its own, each with a waveform.

    2. Play along

      Play along with the band.

      The score follows the recording bar by bar and the kit lights every hit, in the color of the hand or foot that plays it. Switch the drums off and the part is yours. Slow the song to 75% or 50% when a fill gets fast.

      DrumFX playing the song Low Thunder: its waveform, the drum score with the cursor on the notes that play, and the kit lighting the hi-hat, snare and kick.

    3. Edit

      Fix any bar.

      The step editor shows the song as beats falling toward you. Tap a step to add or take away a hit, choose Normal, Accent or Ghost, and undo anything with ⌘Z.

      The step editor as a waterfall: the song's hits falling toward a glowing line, with the Normal, Accent and Ghost brushes above.

    4. Grooves & fills

      80 grooves. 111 fills.

      From first beats to linear fills, each with its sticking. Stack grooves into sections, choose the bars that get a fill, and share the whole line as a link.

      The fill picker: fills one beat to one bar long, each drawn on a small step grid, with filters by length, level and type.

    5. Compose

      Write new grooves.

      Ideas makes up six new grooves or fills at a time in 20 styles, from a straight rock beat to bossa nova. Keep the one you like, or ask for more like it.

      Groove ideas beside the song's line and the library: a rock groove it wrote, shown as steps and as notation.

    Start in Basic: your songs, the score and the kit. Switch to Expert any time for the library, the line builder, groove and fill ideas and a mixer for every drum. Nothing you made is lost when you switch.

    On a phone

    Practice anywhere.

    The same DrumFX in three tabs: Songs, Play and Drums. Add it to your home screen and it keeps working without a connection.

    DrumFX on a phone: the song, its waveform and the score playing.
    The Drums tab on a phone: the kit lighting the hi-hat, snare and kick as the song plays.

    The intro

    See it in 41 seconds.

    DrumFX importing a song, pulling its drums out, playing along and rewriting the groove.

    BeatFX mid-run: notes falling onto the drums of a 3D kit. Also from GrooveFX BeatFX Every song and groove you make in DrumFX turns up in BeatFX, the drum beat game. Play it there, and every hit is judged. How BeatFX plays

    Pick a song. Press play.

    Free, with no sign-up. The songs you import stay on your device.

    Open DrumFX Read the guide