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Videos & links
60 videos and 22 articles, threads, preset libraries and official pages that explain Drambo well, from BeepStreet’s own clips to the community’s best tutorials. Each one also appears beside the guide section it covers. Videos load from YouTube only when you press play.
Drambo - Video 1 - Watch This First If You Are A Beginner!!
Daddy Long Les
A 27-minute start on the current app from October 2026, and the introduction the official docs recommend. Its chapters cover templates, the tempo menu, the rack, the step sequencer, clip view and the pads’ TRK, PAT and INS modes.
Drambo - Video 3 - Building Your First Song GREAT FOR BEGINNERS!
Daddy Long Les
A first song built step by step on the current app: a kick and snare from Drambo’s own modules, a Model D Audio Unit bass, a polyphonic pluck, four patterns played as a song and an automated filter on the master. From October 2026.
Drambo 2.0 walkthrough
Ben Richards
Ben Richards’ 55-minute tour of Drambo 2.0, linked from BeepStreet’s own Drambo page, with a chapter for almost everything: modules, auto-advance step entry, the clip launcher, piano roll, automation, p-locks, clip locks and morphs. Filmed in May 2022, before time signatures and MIDI profiles (2.40) and additive step entry (2.51).
Drambo 2.0 quick walkthrough
Ben Richards
The 19-minute version of the same 2.0 tour: mute and solo, the scene fader, the clip launcher, auto-grow recording, the navigation bar, stems and the Morph module. He calls it 1.5 at the start, but it is 2.0. From May 2022.
Is Drambo still relevant in 2026?
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
SoundForMore, after more than 100 Drambo tutorials, on whether the app is still worth learning in 2026, with patch examples, performance tools and plugin support. From April 2026.
Drambo - Video 2 - Lots Of Cool Stuff To Learn!
Daddy Long Les
The second part of the October 2026 series: a solo and mute tip, extending, duplicating and looping bars, an empty clip to silence a track, more on the INS button, what sits at the right of each track, and the Morph crossfader.
Drambo - Video 4 - Quick Help
Daddy Long Les
Eight minutes aimed at beginners, with chapters on the sequencer editors, looping, transport, selecting and copying, the undo and clear commands, and modules. From October 2026.
DRAMBO V2 - Getting Started For Beginners & Looking At Some New Features
The Sound Test Room
A 52-minute live stream that builds drums and a bass, records stems, launches clips and plays a song in the then-new 2.0. From May 2022.
BeepStreet Drambo - Tutorial Part 1: Getting Started, Interface
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
Part 1 of the long SoundForMore series that the docs point to, which they describe as covering 1.4. The 1.x screen from April 2020 looks quite different, but the modular ideas and signal symbols still hold.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 65: Introduction to UI, Clips and Patterns
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
SoundForMore’s first 2.0 video: the redesigned interface, then clips and patterns. From May 2022.
Drambo 2.0 tutorial #1 - Preamble, ramble, sequencer and auto-grow record
The Man Who Shouldn't Speak
Part 1 of a chatty but careful six-part 2.0 series: the step sequencer and auto-grow recording. From May 2022, before additive step entry became the default in 2.51.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 105: Step Sequencer Additive Mode
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
Four minutes on the additive step entry added in 2.51, where you hold a step and toggle notes, or hold a key and tap steps, without wiping what is already there. From February 2026.
Drambo 2.0 tutorial #5: Step Sequencer Values Editor
The Man Who Shouldn't Speak
A 45-minute dig into the step editors – velocity, gate, offset, probability, retrig and cycle – then step components such as Jump, Once, scene conditions and Transpose. From May 2022.
Drambo 2.0 tutorial #3 - Piano Roll (the deepest of dives)
The Man Who Shouldn't Speak
Half an hour in the 2.0 piano roll: scrolling and zoom, note preview, quantise options and velocity, with detours into saving presets and the keyboard, pads and scale modes. From May 2022.
Drambo 2.0 tutorial #4 - Automation and the automation editor
The Man Who Shouldn't Speak
Recording and drawing automation, the editor’s shaping and curve tools, copying automation between clips and automating Audio Units. From May 2022, before 2.57 doubled the recording resolution and added the wheels.
Drambo V2 Tutorial - Super Easy Guide To Parameter Locking Step Effects - For Beginners
The Sound Test Room
A seven-minute beginner’s guide to locking effect settings to single steps. From May 2022.
Drambo by BeepStreet - Parameter Locks / P-Locks
Ben Richards
P-locks in depth, including triggerless steps, locking a sampler’s offset and conditional modulation. Filmed on 1.x in April 2020, so the screen differs, but holding a step and turning a knob works the same way.
Note Locks - Playable P-Locks in Drambo
Ben Richards
A community rack that turns MIDI notes into playable parameter locks. From March 2025; the Morph Switch added in 2.57 now has note modes built for the same job.
Drambo 2.0 tutorial #2 - Clip Mode (deep dive edition)
The Man Who Shouldn't Speak
A deep dive into launching clips from different patterns together, recording new clips and clip locks, with a master-effects clip-lock trick. From May 2022.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 66: Clip Launcher Detailed Walkthrough (inc. Clip Auto-Grows)
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
A 23-minute walk through the 2.0 clip launcher, from auto-grow recording to clip settings, editing gestures, and clip length and speed. From May 2022.
Drambo by BeepStreet - Morphs/Scenes
Ben Richards
What morphs are, how to edit, copy and clear them, scene step conditions and punch-in effects. Filmed on 1.x in April 2020, when morphs were also called scenes.
Drambo 2.0 tutorial #6: The Morph module
The Man Who Shouldn't Speak
The Morph module from 2.0: driving it with an LFO, envelopes or the Graphic Modulator, pointing it at several targets, and using it across tracks as a performance surface. From June 2022.
Morph Switch - Meta control for Drambo
Ben Richards
Ben Richards on the Morph Switch added in 2.57: index and note modes, crossfades and automation, performance uses and controlling AUv3 plugins. From October 2026.
Drambo by BeepStreet - Manual Connections, Modulation, and some fun modular ideas
Ben Richards
How Drambo connects modules for you, how to patch by hand, stacking modulation sources and reading the oscilloscope. Filmed on 1.x in April 2020; the patching ideas still apply.
Drambo by BeepStreet - Signal and Voices
Ben Richards
Every signal type explained, then polyphony, paraphony, the voice selector, MIDI mode in instrument racks and stereo. Filmed on 1.x in April 2020, before 2.0 raised polyphony to 16 voices.
Drambo by BeepStreet - Feedback Send and Receive
Ben Richards
Using Feedback Send and Receive to get round Drambo’s one-way signal flow, ending with a delay built from scratch. From September 2020.
Drambo - using Unison module for parallel processing.
BeepStreet
BeepStreet’s own two-minute demo of the Unison module spreading a signal across voices, here as a band-pass filter bank with separate modulation per filter. From June 2025.
Drambo Bites Ep. 1: Building a Simple Synth - Daveypoo, The Mobile Music Minstrel
Daveypoo: The Mobile Music Minstrel
The three-minute synth build the official docs recommend: an oscillator, an amp envelope, a filter and a filter envelope. Filmed on 1.x in April 2020.
Drambo - How To Make & Save a Synth From Scratch - Beginner Friendly Tutorial
The Sound Test Room
A synth from scratch – oscillators, filter, LFOs and effects – then saved as a preset. From June 2022.
MASSIVE SOUNDS - New DUAL OSCILLATOR with Exp FM - Drambo Tutorial 114 (iOS)
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
A 22-minute look at the Dual Oscillator’s waveforms, cross-modulation and FM. It went up in September 2026, a month before 2.57 brought the module to everyone, so it may show a pre-release build.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 101: Macro Oscillator (Mutable Instruments Plaid)
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
The Macro Oscillator added in 2.45, based on Mutable Instruments’ code: its engines, chords, speech and random modulation. From August 2025.
Drambo by BeepStreet - Racks, Presets, and Layers
Ben Richards
What a rack is, saving and organising racks with sections, labels and compact view, and building layers. Filmed on 1.x in April 2020; preset selectors on rack headers only arrived in 2.48.
Drambo by BeepStreet - Samplers
Ben Richards
A thorough tour of Flexi Sampler, Sampler, Shot Sampler and the Recorder, with chapters for each mode. Filmed on 1.x in April 2020, long before the Looper and Granular modules.
Drambo: FlexiSampler Tutorial
echo opera
Loading samples into Flexi Sampler and its shortcuts, then modulating cutoff with an LFO and randomising slices. From October 2023.
Slicing Ambient Samples in Drambo for iOS
Field Tone Audio
A 94-minute live stream working out how to slice ambient samples in Flexi Sampler and build a track from them. From March 2026.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 94: Sample Browser
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
Browsing and loading samples, then modulating them with LFOs. From September 2023.
SP Flexi 2.0 - Sampler for Drambo
Ben Richards
A community instrument rack, on Patchstorage, that puts 16 or more Flexi Sampler slices on faders for an SP-style workflow, with a lo-fi mode. A good example of what a well-built rack can be. From February 2023.
Finally Here! BeepStreet DRAMBO - GRANULAR SAMPLER - Tutorial 113: How to use it! (iOS)
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
The Granular Sampler from the Granular in-app purchase that arrived in 2.55: sampling into it and building a soundscape. From September 2026.
BeepStreet Drambo Tutorial 112: Midi Generative Sequencer (iOS)
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
The MIDI Generative Sequencer from 2.56, which writes melodies and chords within a scale and can copy what it makes into the current clip. From August 2026.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 🔥🎉 100 🎉🔥: Spectral Filter
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
Number 100 in SoundForMore’s Drambo series, on the Spectral Filter module. From January 2025.
Drambo: Speech synthesis module (Formant IAP)
beepstreetapps
BeepStreet’s two-minute demo of the Speech Synthesis module, which comes with the Formants in-app purchase. From November 2025.
Akai APC40MK2 midi mapping in DRAMBO. Eng
PTRVCH
Mapping an Akai APC40 mk2 – its template, encoders and the clip launcher – with the mapping tools that arrived in 2.40. From December 2025, with a link to the forum thread it grew from. Drambo has shipped a ready-made APC40 mk2 profile since 2.47.
Ableton Move to Drambo
Stefan Boeykens
A short demo of an Ableton Move driving Drambo through a custom mapping, with the feedback port pointed back at the Move. The description explains the USB and mode settings. From December 2025.
I turned DRAMBO into a GROOVEBOX!
Stedt Martin
A custom hardware set-up that gives Drambo encoders, keys, step buttons, selected-track control, morphs and macros. Shows how far mapping can go. From August 2026.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 88: Beginner video Drambo inside AUM
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
A beginner’s guide to running Drambo inside AUM: MIDI routing, audio channels and buses, and sequencing several instruments. From March 2023.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 89: Beginner video on Drambo outputs inside AUM
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
Sending Drambo’s tracks to separate outputs in AUM, up to eight, so each one can have its own effects. From March 2023.
AUM + Drambo MIDI Automation - For Beginners
Sampletheworld
Using a CC Generator and a MIDI Output inside Drambo to automate faders and plugin settings in AUM. Recorded in early 2023 and posted in January 2024.
Drambo in Ableton??? Why not?!
BJamminSinceBirth
Drambo as a plugin inside Ableton Live: setting it up, recording and sampling from it, and adding Live’s effects. From July 2024.
LK vs Drambo for AUM MIDI Sequencing | haQ attaQ
Jakob Haq
Why one producer chose Drambo to sequence synths in AUM, with a set-up walkthrough. From January 2021, on 1.x.
drambo quick start: auv3 host + onboard effects
echo opera
Loading an AUv3 instrument into Drambo and adding Drambo’s own effects, with clip speed, cycle settings and song structure along the way. From September 2022.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 82: Record Midi into a clip from an Audio Unit Midi Processor
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
Recording what an Audio Unit MIDI processor plays into a Drambo clip. From December 2022.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 69: Drag and Drop and Upload files from PatchStorage
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
Dragging in audio and MIDI files, and importing presets and zipped projects downloaded from Patchstorage. From May 2022.
Live DSP Coding in Drambo 2.49 (Code Module)
beepstreetapps
BeepStreet’s 90-second clip of the Code module from 2.49, edited while it plays. From January 2026.
BeepStreet Drambo v2 - Demo / Tutorial 104: Code Module WOW 🤩
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
A sine oscillator built in the Code module, then given envelope parameters and gain, ending with a look at the module’s own documentation. From February 2026.
Drambo Visual - Intro Walkthrough
Ben Richards
A 43-minute introduction to the Drambo Visual purchase from 2.54: patching, modulation, audio reactivity, shaders, 3D, feedback and export. He also points to the in-app Visual Rack tutorials. From July 2026.
Drambo Visual Extension - Easily Create Stunning Visuals
Simon Inwards
A short showcase of an evolving visual made with Drambo Visual after working through the factory tutorials. From September 2026.
How to create Classic House Music - Drambo Tutorial 115 (iOS)
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
A classic house track from scratch on the current app: drums, chords, bass, processed vocal samples, strings and the final arrangement. From October 2026.
Making Techno In Drambo (with explanation)
Tone Garden
An 80-minute techno session with commentary, on a MacBook: the Macro Oscillator, Flexi Sampler hi-hats, scene states for variation and an unsuccessful Code module experiment. From February 2026.
BeepStreet Drambo - Tutorial Part 43: Transpose Multiple Tracks
SoundForMore MusicTech Tutorials
Transposing several tracks at once from one keyboard. Filmed on 1.x in 2020, but a 2025 forum thread still points people to it.
Hole Puncher by tyslothrop1 // 🔥 Drambo Midi Gating Rack (iPad, iPhone, Mac)
Gavinski’s Tutorials
Hole Puncher, a free community MIDI rack by tyslothrop1 that thins out incoming notes, compared with the midiGATEs app. It also shows how to load a MIDI rack from Patchstorage. From January 2026.
Official BeepStreet
- DramboBeepStreet — BeepStreet’s own overview: what Drambo is for, where it runs (iPad and iPhone on iPadOS or iOS 15.6 or later, and Apple-silicon Macs, each standalone and as AUv3 instrument, effect and MIDI effect) and links to the docs, forum, Patchstorage and recommended videos.
- Drambo docsBeepStreet — The official documentation this guide draws on, from the interface and sequencer to modules, MIDI mapping and the Code module. Its video page warns that some recommended videos show older versions.
- Drambo on the App StoreBeepStreet — Requirements, in-app purchases and the version history. Its release notes are the most complete record of what changed in each version.
- Drambo VisualBeepStreet — BeepStreet’s page for the Visual expansion: how texture signals flow from sources to the Projector, visual racks, shader building and per-pixel modulation.
- SupportBeepStreet — BeepStreet’s contact address for questions, feedback and bug reports, with links to each product’s manual.
- Drambo — BeepStreet forumsBeepStreet forums — BeepStreet’s own forum, where the developer, beta testers and long-time users answer questions.
- Tips and Tricks — BeepStreet forumsBeepStreet forums — Years of shared techniques, from sound design and controller set-ups to rack-building habits.
- How to’s — BeepStreet forumsBeepStreet forums — The place for beginners’ questions. Search it first: routing, recording and mapping questions have usually been answered already.
- Known issues — BeepStreet forumsBeepStreet forums — Bug reports from users, some with replies from the developer. Worth checking before you report something.
- Drambo Visual expansion — BeepStreet forumsBeepStreet forums — Where Drambo Visual users share projects and techniques, and where the developer often joins in.
Articles & reviews
- Drambo | PatchstoragePatchstorage — The community library of Drambo racks, presets and projects that BeepStreet links to. Several of the racks shown in the videos here come from it.
- BeepStreet Drambo changes the face of iOS music appsCult of Mac · 2020-04 — Charlie Sorrel’s launch-week piece, the source of the quote on BeepStreet’s page. One for the history: it describes 1.0, two years before the clip launcher and piano roll.
- Drambo Modular Groovebox Gets Free Major Update To Version 2.0Synthtopia · 2022-05 — The 2.0 feature list as it launched: the song arranger and clip launcher, automation recording, the piano roll and step editors, auto-advance entry with rest and tie, clip locks and stems.
- Drambo (iOS/macOS): update 2.55: modular groovebox gets granular synthesis and moreSynth Anatomy · 2026-08 — A running article that adds each update on top: 2.55’s Looper and Granular modules, Drambo Visual, the Code module, the 2.40 MIDI and time-signature changes, and back to 2.0.
- A Huge Update For BeepStreet’s DramboThe Beat Community · 2026-10 — The full 2.57 notes: on-screen wheels, the Signal Monitor recorder, Dual Oscillator, the new LFO and Noise modules, Buffer Live, Multi Envelope and Morph Switch.
- BeepStreet Update DramboThe Beat Community · 2026-02 — The 2.51 notes that introduced additive step entry and made it the default, with where to switch it off.
- BeepStreet Have Updated DramboThe Beat Community · 2025-08 — The 2.40 notes: mapping profiles, controller feedback, shift buttons and mapping conditions, plus time signatures, polymeter and muted steps.
Forum threads
- MIDI mapping and controllersBeepStreet forums — Started the week 2.40 came out, this thread works through feedback ports, shift buttons and conditions with real controllers such as the APC40 mk2.
- Copy one track to another?BeepStreet forums — How to duplicate a track, with or without its sequences, by holding one track pad and tapping another. Some users report it misbehaving on certain iPads.
- Code module development repositoryBeepStreet forums — A community member’s public repository of Code modules, with testing and linting tools. From October 2026.
- DRAMBO Version 2 General DiscussionLoopy Pro Forum — The long-running thread that began with the 2.0 launch in May 2022, 64 pages and still active in October 2026. The developer is on that forum as giku_beepstreet.
- Drambo (iOS)Elektronauts — More than 2,000 posts since the 2020 launch, on the Elektron users’ forum, so many come from people using Drambo alongside hardware.