Patterning : Drum Sequencer
Olympia Noise Co.
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About this app
Circular beats, off the grid. Most drum machines hand you the same 16-step grid. Patterning starts you on a circle, so new ideas come quickly and you discover rhythms you wouldn't have reached on your own. Sketch a simple beat in seconds, or go deep. Every track is a loop on the circle: • Give each loop its own length and hear polymeters drift in and out of phase. • Rotate a loop to move its downbeat and find a new groove. • Add trigger conditions, probability and automation to build variation into the loop. Patterning has been in development since 2015, and the original was a runner-up for Apple’s iPad App of the Year. It’s designed by a composer who has taught experimental electronic music for twenty years. FREE TO START • The circular sequencer: loop lengths, rotation, auto-rotate, trigger conditions, probability, ratchets, automation and playback modes • Undo • Mixer with levels, pan and sends • Built-in drum kits • Save your patterns and projects PATTERNING STUDIO A one-time in-app purchase that unlocks: • Song Mode: chain patterns into full songs • Sampler: import and shape your own samples • Effects: delay, reverb, EQ, distortion and compression • Parametric swing, per pattern or per loop • Cloud Kits: 800+ user-made and factory drum kits • AUv3: use Patterning as a plugin, or send its MIDI to other plugins • Audio export as stereo or multitrack stems (WAV or AIFF) • Ableton Live Set export, with a free Ableton Live 12 Lite license • MIDI file export and MIDI output to hardware and your DAW • Ableton Link, Link Audio and MIDI clock Owners of Patterning for iPhone get Patterning Studio at a discount. GO FURTHER WITH PATTERNING 3 Patterning 3 runs on iPad and Mac, on its own or as a plugin in your DAW, with loops up to 512 steps, modulation, randomization, fill patterns and more. Open your iPhone projects and keep going.
What's new
Version 3.3 · Nov 10, 2026
• Undo and redo • Trigger conditions: set a step to play only on certain passes of the loop. Requested by the Patterning community. • Shift: move a loop's steps one step at a time • Per-loop swing: swing just one part (Patterning Studio)
In-app purchases
The most popular purchases on the App Store.
- Patterning Studio UpgradeConsumableUSD 7.99
- Studio Pack (Lifetime)ConsumableUSD 12.99
- Patterning+SubscriptionUSD 1.99 / month
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