Aki Drum Machine

AKI Drum Machine was designed for musicians, songwriters, producers, and performers who want quick, hands-on drum backing without opening a full DAW workflow. Import MIDI drum styles, trigger song sections live, assign your own drum sounds, and play everything from the screen or a MIDI controller. It gives you playable drum sections, fast tempo control, easy sound swapping, and a portable library of styles and sounds in one app.

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Performance & Playback

• Playable Beat Sections - Intros, Variations, Fills, Breaks, and Endings

• Musically Timed Section Changes

• Start/Stop Control

• Auto Fill - Automatically plays a matching fill when you switch variations

• Fill Loop and Break Loop

• Visual Metronome

• Multi-Meter Support - Styles can have different meters/time signatures for each style part.

• Background Audio - Playback continues when the app is backgrounded

Tempo Control

• Tempo Control - Increases or decreases tempo in real time

• Tempo Reset - Double tap to return to original tempo

• Direct Tempo Entry - Press and hold to enter a tempo value directly

• Multi-Tempo Support - Styles can have different tempos for different style parts

• Per-Part Tempo Editing - View, adjust, and save tempo by style section for supported styles

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Styles, Import & Library

• Built-In System Styles - Includes factory styles: 8 Beat ADM, 16 Beat ADM, Ballad ADM, Country ADM, Pop Latin ADM, Rock ADM, Samba ADM, Swing Jazz ADM

• Style Info - View import format, section details, and expanded tempo/meter information

• Built-In Style Library - Rename and Delete Styles

• MIDI Style Import

• Yamaha and Korg MIDI Style Import - Directly imports drum and percussion sections from Yamaha and Korg styles exported as MIDI files

• Files App Integration

• Open MIDI Files Directly in the App

Sounds & Mixing

• SF2 Sound Import

• Built-In Sound Library Assignable Drum and Percussion Sounds

• Per-Style Sound Assignment

• Assign Sounds to Any Saved Style

• Reset to Default Drum Sound