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Drum Buddha: Beats & Metronomev1.3

Released September 5, 2026Major

iOS

What changed

  • New featureSupport for custom time signatures with configurable counting and notation beaming
  • UXLandscape mode for full-screen notation view
  • UXRemoved tempo range limits on grooves
  • RetentionAdded three pre-made sessions to the Routines section
  • New featureData backup and restore functionality for logs, routines, and settings via file export
  • UXAdded feedback submission tool in Settings with auto-filled device metadata
  • PerformanceImproved audio clarity for cross-stick sounds in the mix
  • PerformanceGeneral bug fixes and stability improvements

Original release notes

Write in any time signature — and a few things you asked for.

• Any time signature. Write in 17/8, 33/8, anything — and say how the bar is counted. Tell it 17 goes 3+3+3+3+3+2 and the notation beams it that way, the grid shades it that way, and the click lands where you count. The metronome takes the same meters.
• Read it at the kit. Turn the phone sideways on any groove and the notation fills the screen, with everything else out of the way.
• Take a groove out of its box. Each groove still shows the tempo range it's traditionally played in — but that's guidance now, not a limit.
• Routines no longer opens empty: three ready-made sessions are waiting.
• A copy you keep: write your practice log, routines, favorite grooves and saved setups to one file, and read it back on a new phone.
• A Send feedback row in Settings, with your version and device already filled in. Most of this release arrived that way.
• Smaller fixes throughout, including a clearer cross-stick in the mix.

As always: free, every feature unlocked, no account, no ads.

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