Most drum-machine app updates are a changelog nobody reads. This one is a history lesson. Fingerlab's 4.6 update for Fingerlab's DM10 doesn't just add generic "vintage" or "electro" presets, it names the actual hardware it's modeling, and the list reads like a crate-digger's want-list: the DSI/Roger Linn Tempest, the Korg 01/W, Mutable Instruments' Anushri, and the Wiard 300 modular series.
Why do these specific machines matter?
Anyone who's programmed a Tempest knows its swing and its filter have a texture no plugin quite nails, Dave Smith and Roger Linn built it as the analog/digital hybrid drum machine techno and house heads kept asking for after the Tempest's 2011 launch. The Korg 01/W is a workstation synth from the early 90s that ended up sampled into a thousand house records without anyone crediting it. Mutable's Anushri, a hand-built French Eurorack voice, and the Wiard 300 series, a boutique modular line, are both cult objects: gear most producers have read about on forums but never actually touched, let alone owned. Fingerlab is selling nostalgia to people who couldn't afford the originals the first time and can't find them secondhand now. The Amdek PCK-100, Forat F9000 and Keio Checkmate round out the eight, three obscure drum machines from the 1980s that rarely get emulated anywhere.
The new resonator FX processor slots into DM10's multi-FX chain alongside the app's existing 15 effects (overdrive, delay and the rest), so a kit modeled on one of those machines can be pushed through a resonant filter without leaving the app.
Fingerlab is selling nostalgia to people who couldn't afford the originals the first time.
Does this still run like a real production tool, not just a toy?
Yes. DM10 supports native Apple Silicon and works as an AUv3 plugin on iPhone, iPad and Mac, meaning it drops straight into a DAW session rather than staying a closed sandbox. That AUv3 support is what separates DM10 from the wave of iOS drum-machine toys that never leave the App Store: producers can sequence a kit here, route the resonator through it, then bounce stems into Ableton or Logic without ever exporting a file. The update is free for anyone who already owns the $17.99 app, no in-app purchases, no subscription.
DM10 itself is the continuation of Fingerlab's DM1, the drum machine app that won an Apple Design Award back in 2012 and helped prove iOS could host serious music-production tools rather than just games. Thirteen years later, the studio is still updating the same lineage with kits modeled on gear its original audience grew up wanting.
