Vibrant Digital Engineering updates Diode-108 Drum Machine for iPad to v1.2.0 with New Features

Vibrant Digital Engineering has updated Diode-108 for iPad to version 1.2.0 with three new features:

• A "Choke Grid" (a flexible new approach to choke groups minus the limitations and confusion).
• Microphone Sampling for quick input of new samples.
• In/Out Song Markers for working on one section of a song at a time.

The choke grid gives you complete control of choke. It's much more flexible than simple choke-group implementations, and it's very easy to use. Any one of the 16 instruments in your kit can choke any or all of the others. It's simple enough to do normal chokes, but comprehensive enough to allow you to configure weird choke ideas as well. Even something like the closed hat chokes the open hat, which chokes the crash, which chokes the closed.

Microphone sampling is great for serious uses and also for goofing around. Use Diode's note mode to turn a sample into a melody, and use the drag & drop Special Effects to create new sounds.

In/Out markers. Need to work on a four-pattern section of your song? Mark the beginning and end of that section in the SONG view. Now, add more hits on the PADS view as the song loops the section you're working on. No more constantly starting from the beginning of the song.