Bob
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Bob

Drums you play with your fingers.

A sample-based drum machine and step sequencer for iPad. Deep, conditional sequencing you can read at a glance, that never loses your kit in a host.

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Bob on an iPad in landscape: the transport bar, the eight-track step grid with the Motor City demo playing, and the mute and solo keys

Sixteen steps, eight tracks, four pages. Everything a step does is written on the step.

Pads view
Pads. Eight velocity pads with hardware-timed touch, ROLL at four rates, and the pattern bank beside them.
Step inspector view
Step inspector. Chance, trig conditions, velocity, micro-timing, flam, ratchets and sound locks, two gestures from any step.
PERFORM view
PERFORM. Page loops, mutes queued to the bar, big pads and eight punch-in effects along the bottom.
Sound browser view
Sound browser. Four bundled kits and your own samples, filtered by type, auditioned while the pattern plays.

Playable

  • Velocity pads with hardware-timed touch
  • Roll and note repeat
  • Ratchets and flams
  • Performance view with punch-in FX

Legible depth

  • Trig conditions and fill
  • Parameter locks per step
  • Micro-timing and per-track swing
  • Every step edit in two gestures or fewer

Trustworthy plug-in

  • AUv3 state restores without the UI
  • Nine stereo outputs
  • Recordable MIDI out
  • Follows the host transport

04 · Sounds

Four bundled kits, all synthesised in-house.

Each clip is one of Bob’s bundled demo grooves, rendered by the engine itself. Import your own samples from Files.

Volt

Clean analogue-style

Motor City

Techno · 130 BPM

Hands

Hand percussion

Highveld

Afro house · 122 BPM

Grit

Bright, aliased digital

Brick City

Jersey club · 140 BPM

Dust

Warm, worn lo-fi

Boom Bap

Hip-hop · 90 BPM

Keeps going

Keeps playing while you switch to another app. Collects no data and never goes online.