Comments on: Intua BeatMaker Arrives for iPhone/Touch: Sequencer, Sampled Drum Pads

By: jm999

jm999 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:36:51 +0000

does anyone know if its possible to import your own tunes from your iphones music library into the programme? I’d like to know before I buy as I primarly mix using virtual DJ and am looking for a sufficient substitute.

By: suckho

suckho — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:38:35 +0000

For a drum machine on S60 mobile phones, check out the BeatEd home page:

BeatEd homepage

YouTube video

By: Ominous Red

Ominous Red — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:50:21 +0000

I was never impressed with an iPhone until I saw this. This is amazing.

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By: Rc

Rc — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:14:49 +0000

Is Beatmaker on an iphone/Ipod Touch something which could be seen as an alternative to a device like an AKAI MPC1000? (Im not fussed about portability).

Also can you get samples from songs with BeatMaker like you can with an MPC1000. My understanding is that you can its just that you need to do it through a computer instead of directly from a device which plays music.

Cheers

By: HS

HS — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:17:22 +0000

Bhajis runs circles around this thing when it comes to samples and effects…this thing has a LONG way to go to catch up with software written 3 years ago for a platform that has 2/3’s less power.

Nice start…now let’s see where it goes.

By: Beats1

Beats1 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:12:55 +0000

Yep audio recording I think is a must, This isn’t a professional piece of sequencing equipment and shouldn’t be treated as one, it is a toy, but isn’t a producers MPC2500 their toy too? it’s a great app for jotting down quick ideas on the go, This would be easiest if you could beatbox, drum, sing, hum, or rap into it then use the recording as a pad and drop it in to a song ( to see if this beat goes well with this bass line ). Maybe a completely different app that is set up like a tape looping type thing?????? has anyone used any of the microphone apps, can you do anything like this on them?
But had the app for 3 days now and still can’t put it down. BeatMaker is the ultimate beat makers iphone app, and with the ability to load your own sounds, endless posibilities. ILOVEIT!

By: M. Baker

M. Baker — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:02:48 +0000

looks great…but what about audio recording? I know that some developers seem to be worried that the iPhone’s mic doesn’t deliver quality audio, but I think getting hung up on audio quality obscures a great opportunity here.

I would kill (or at least actually buy an iPhone, and the associated app) for something that would let me beatbox for 4 bars, quickly loop that beat and then track sung lyrics, hummed basslines, and countermelodies over that. I’ve been dreaming of having this capability in a device with practical form factor and sensible UI for at least a decade - is the time finally arriving?

By: Roland Reinke

Roland Reinke — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:15:42 +0000

the iPhone is getting more attractive for me …… Really intruiging stuff.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:14:19 +0000

@Mike: You’ll be the first to know when it has MIDI export.

It’d be great to see Apple do something in this space, certainly … perhaps extend MainStage, for instance, as a remote. I think the main thing is, this stuff takes time, and DAW developers are very busy… plus, their apps may be built on frameworks that can’t easily be ported to the iPhone platform. (That could make Linux mobile devices more interesting, by the way.) But even that aside, it’s a time problem.

I haven’t seen anything in the pipeline quite like BeatMaker, though who knows. It sounds like we will see some cool drum machine sorts of things and other musical creations, though.