Low Latency Drum Pad 'Bare Drums' Now Available, $500 Contest For Best Jam
May 24, 2009
The App Store contains oodles of drum applications and I honestly couldn't tell you the difference between most of them. What I can tell you, at least based on a YouTube video performance, is that Ethervision's Bare Drums looks like a fantastic application for any of you out there with real drum skills.
Bare Drums' big selling point is Ethervision's claim that the application has the lowest latency of any drum application currently available in the App Store. They state that other drum applications hover around 100ms latency, while Bare Drums cuts that number almost in half. Since we can't actually prove this you will just have to take their word for it, at least until you try it out for yourself.
Bare Drums isn't just about latency either, the application allows you to reconfigure the layout any way you want. You are able to create different size pads, assign sounds to any pad, adjust the volume of any pad, change the color of any pad, and it even supports clamping, where one pad can be clamped to another to silence it when the other plays.
To further assist you in making a purchasing decision, at least for those of you out there with some musical talent, Ethervision is holding a $500 contest for the best drum jam and we have listed all of the contest details below for anyone who is interested. We have also included a YouTube video below which was created by Ethervision to showcase what can be done with the Bare Drums application. If you think you can top it, you may actually have a chance at winning the $500.
Bare Drums is available in the App Store for $.99.
Contest Details:
Post your video to youtube and e-mail the link to baredrums@ethervision.net. Winner chosen by Ethervision based on best jam and most creative use of the app. For best results plug iphone into an amp using 1/8" to 1/4" jack then record with vid camera for best results. Winner will be chosen exactly 40 days after the app is released on the iTunes store. No Gimmicks, just $500 for the best jam. Period. Note: When you upload to youtube add the keywords: "bare drums iphone application" please.
