Quick creation and powerful manipulation. Save wavs and presets in full version
Pros & Cons
Real-time drum synthesis with three dedicated drum types
Robust four-pattern sequencer with local/global pattern control
Comprehensive effects chain including stutter, bit reduction, reverb, and filter
Preset management and WAV export available in the full version, with a free-to-use lite option
Not ranked in any top lists as of now
Free version limits preset saving and audio recording
Lacks some common features seen in competitors (e.g., loops, pads, and broader beat/musical kits) as indicated by competitive feature gaps
About Dragon (lite) Drum Machine
Dragon (lite) Drum Machine is a music & audio app developed by Akunull Systems.
Download Statistics
Dragon (lite) Drum Machine has been downloaded 11 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 44 times.
User Ratings
Dragon (lite) Drum Machine is rated 4.00 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 59 ratings.
App Information
Dragon (lite) Drum Machine is FREE to download. The APK download size is 24.87 MB. The latest version available is 26. The last update was on March 27, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Dragon (lite) Drum Machine requires Android 4.2+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2017.
Description
Dragon is a drum machine built to quickly and easily make glitch, distorted, lofi drum beats and manipulate them live. The drums are simple and flexible, capable of some classic drum machine sounds and also new weirdness. Each is synthesized in real time and sent to a multi effect rig with variable speed stutter, bit reduction, pitched feedback delay, down-sample, reverb, and a resonant bandpass filter. The drums are triggered by a four pattern step sequencer. Patterns can be changed individually for each drum or triggered together for quick pattern switches for all drums.
Features: Four pattern sequencer with local and global pattern control BPM control with nudging Save/load presets Record audio as wav Three drum synths: -Bass-similar to tr-808 with more consistent pitch -Snare-similar to tr-909 with added fm and delay -Hi-hat-two tones and noise with fm Effects rig: -Asymmetry and tanh(x) for tape like distortion -Pitched feedback delay -Retrigger (aka stutter/buffer) with variable speed and reversing -Bit reduction -Down-sample -Reverb -Resonant bandpass filter
Preset management and wav export requires permission for file storage read/write
Unpaid version disables preset saving and audio recording
Possible future ports to desktop and ios. Made with Pure Data and libGDX. Any questions, concerns, or creations, please contact
Full parameter and effect reference:
SYNTH PARAMETERS
Bass drum- Freq: Frequency. Locks into semitones so you can harmonize easily Decay: Amplitude decay Freq Env Dec: Frequency envelope decay. Changes how fast the pitch drops Freq Env Amt: Frequency envelope amount. Changes how much the pitch drops Noise: Noise burst for click Amp: Bass drum amp
Snare drum- Tone Low Dec: Tone low decay Tone High Dec: Tone high decay Noise Dec: Noise decay FM: Frequency modulate the low tone by the high tone Freq: Frequency. Locks into semitones so you an harmonize easily, though fm and the high tone potentially bring inharmonic tones Freq Env: Frequency envelope. Changes how much the pitch drops Delay: Feedback delay Delay ms: Milliseconds of delay Tone Distance: Distance between low and high tones Amp: Volume of snare
Hi-Hat- Freq: Frequency FM: Frequency modulate the tone Tone Dec: Tone decay Tone Amp: Tone amplitude Noise Dec: Noise decay Noise Amp: Tone amplitude
EFFECTS
Retrig: Loop audio by the specified time interval (bottom box) within the range of another time interval (top box) Rev: reverse retrigger’s playback Speed: control the speed of the retrigger’s playback
Bit Red: Bit reducer. Mixes in a low bit signal BP Filt: Band-pass filter. All the way left is off Tanh: Amplifies and the waveshapes the signal through a hyperbolic tangent curve. Creates a tape-like distortion Asym: Adds to the signal, creating a DC offset. Needs Tanh turned a bit for a significant effect Down Samp: Down-sample the signal Reverb: Mixes in reverb signal Delay: Pitched feedback delay dry/wet Delay ms: Milliseconds of delay Freq: Adjust the pitch that the delayed signal is adjusted by. Also locks into semitones (0-12)
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Comments on Dragon (lite) Drum Machine for Android
★★★★★
Very convincing and usable lo-fi drum sounds (sampling the output). Punchy kick generator, dry sounding snares and hi hats with ample sound shaping per sound and a nice band pass filter plus bit destruction fx on global/master. The initial click sound for the kick should be suppressible and the min freq lower. And maybe the master delay could be tempo-synced. Will buy it later.
★★☆☆☆
The free app works on my Samsung Galaxy S8+, but the paid app doesn't. Please get this issue corrected.
★★☆☆☆
Painful and noisy, might work for glitch music but nothing more IMO.
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