Create your own grooves and drum loops with RD3 HD - Groovebox!
Use your Android phone or tablet as a musical instrument and make your own electronic music tracks!
Recreate the sound of early electronic dance music with the RD3 HD – Groovebox that recalls two 303-style analog synthesizers, a drum machine plus reverb, distortion, phaser, filter and delay audio effects!
Developed in Berlin, RD3 HD - Groovebox is a pioneering audio app that lets you program your own grooves. This multi-touch enabled app makes it simple to invent unique loops and manipulate them with resonant filters and effects on the go.
Appropriate both for experienced musicians and novices.
Use it for live performances in landscape mode on phones and 7-inch tablets or use the additional special rack view on 10-inch tablets in portrait mode.
RD3 HD is optimized for Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), 3.X (Honeycomb) and Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
Loops you've created and exported with the Groovebox can also be automatically integrated into mikrosonic's audio mixer app SPC - Music Sketchpad.
Features
Channel mixer/sequencer:
- Volume control with level meter
- 4 bars with 16 steps per instrument
- 3 play modes: Solo, loop or random
- Channel mute
Two virtual analog synthesizers:
- 4 types of waveforms for each synth
- Reminiscent of the legendary 303 synthesizer
- High-quality or regular filter modes
- Real-time step sequencer for each synth
- Free assignable audio effects
Drum machine with:
- 10 drum kits: 808, 909, 606, CR-78, Linn, KR55, RX11, RZ1, DMX, DPM48
- 8 channels per drum kit
- Channel mute
- Punch control for volume and envelope adjustments
- Accent programmable for each drum channel
- Free assignable effects for each drum sound
- Real-time step sequencer
Audio effects:
- Reverb, distortion, filter, phaser and delay
- Real-time controllable
- X/Y control field for each effect
- 4 effect sends
- Chaining of 2 effects
Technical features:
- Special rack view in portrait mode for 10-inch tablets
- Multi-touch control
- Live session recording
- Audio loop export feature
- SoundCloud Sharing Kit integration
- Session save capability
- Cut/copy/paste pattern
- OpenSL support
- App2SD
System Requirements:
- Android 2.3 or higher
- Screen resolution 800×480 (WVGA) or higher
- 800 MHz CPU or faster supporting ARMv7
More details at: http://www.mikrosonic.com/rd3hd
Terms of Use: http://www.mikrosonic.com/terms
Privacy Policy: http://www.mikrosonic.com/privacy
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Use your Android phone or tablet as a musical instrument and make your own electronic music tracks!
Recreate the sound of early electronic dance music with the RD3 HD – Groovebox that recalls two 303-style analog synthesizers, a drum machine plus reverb, distortion, phaser, filter and delay audio effects!
Developed in Berlin, RD3 HD - Groovebox is a pioneering audio app that lets you program your own grooves. This multi-touch enabled app makes it simple to invent unique loops and manipulate them with resonant filters and effects on the go.
Appropriate both for experienced musicians and novices.
Use it for live performances in landscape mode on phones and 7-inch tablets or use the additional special rack view on 10-inch tablets in portrait mode.
RD3 HD is optimized for Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), 3.X (Honeycomb) and Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
Loops you've created and exported with the Groovebox can also be automatically integrated into mikrosonic's audio mixer app SPC - Music Sketchpad.
Features
Channel mixer/sequencer:
- Volume control with level meter
- 4 bars with 16 steps per instrument
- 3 play modes: Solo, loop or random
- Channel mute
Two virtual analog synthesizers:
- 4 types of waveforms for each synth
- Reminiscent of the legendary 303 synthesizer
- High-quality or regular filter modes
- Real-time step sequencer for each synth
- Free assignable audio effects
Drum machine with:
- 10 drum kits: 808, 909, 606, CR-78, Linn, KR55, RX11, RZ1, DMX, DPM48
- 8 channels per drum kit
- Channel mute
- Punch control for volume and envelope adjustments
- Accent programmable for each drum channel
- Free assignable effects for each drum sound
- Real-time step sequencer
Audio effects:
- Reverb, distortion, filter, phaser and delay
- Real-time controllable
- X/Y control field for each effect
- 4 effect sends
- Chaining of 2 effects
Technical features:
- Special rack view in portrait mode for 10-inch tablets
- Multi-touch control
- Live session recording
- Audio loop export feature
- SoundCloud Sharing Kit integration
- Session save capability
- Cut/copy/paste pattern
- OpenSL support
- App2SD
System Requirements:
- Android 2.3 or higher
- Screen resolution 800×480 (WVGA) or higher
- 800 MHz CPU or faster supporting ARMv7
More details at: http://www.mikrosonic.com/rd3hd
Terms of Use: http://www.mikrosonic.com/terms
Privacy Policy: http://www.mikrosonic.com/privacy
Tags: rd3 hd groovebox apk, rd3 hd apk, rd3 hd, mikrosonic rd3 groovebox apk, groovebox apk.
Recently changed in this version:
- GUI enhancements for 7 inch tablets
- Support for low latency compliant devices (e.g. Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 10) running Android 4.2
- Loop Export bug under Android 4.2 fixed
- App doesn't close anymore when switching to lock screen
- Time delay for bluetooth added to assure undisturbed audio transmission
- GUI performance enhancements





Comments and ratings for RD3 HD - Groovebox
(69 stars)
by Keith Lane on 29/04/2013
Really could use a way to record automation, or sequence automation, that is the major problem for me hence it dropped a star. It's super easy to use, n makes music fun.
(69 stars)
by Caleb Bradley on 20/04/2013
Best drum machine for Android, hands down.
(69 stars)
by Matthew Creighton on 09/04/2013
Just what I was looking for. I'm glad it allows me to save and export what I've created.
(69 stars)
by Matt C on 18/03/2013
Xperia s, awesome promise but phone can't handle it,so sad as the interface is real easy to use! Please fix!!!
(69 stars)
by Darien Bartholomew on 06/01/2013
When I save my mixes, they don't show up in the LOAD SONG option! Im really confused. Any suggestions anyone? It's an amazing app though. :)
(69 stars)
by Ryan King on 01/01/2013
Easy to learn, im not very good at making beats but im getting better.
(69 stars)
by Luis Bares on 16/12/2012
Best synth in the Android market!