Beat Maker for me?
I'm taking a look at what I'm gonna use as my main sequencer on the iPad.
looks like it's gonna be Beatmaker or maybe Cubasis.
Got Garage Band, but this is too little in terms of mixing.
Here are some Questions:
1)My main concern is whether Beatmaker has got a good MIDI editor. Your opinion?
Things like marking several notes and transpose them and move them around would be vital for me.
I'd also love to see a scale snap function in the MIDI editor, so that when moving notes up and down, they would stay in whatever scale selected. major, minor, pentatonic and so forth.
2) The description says more than 100 instruments are included. I did not see a list of sounds anywhere.
Did I oversee this?
3) I did not find a detailed description plus demo tracks about what one is gonna get when buying additional loops and sound with the in App purchase. Is there is description anywhere?
Thanks for any info in advance.
Tele
looks like it's gonna be Beatmaker or maybe Cubasis.
Got Garage Band, but this is too little in terms of mixing.
Here are some Questions:
1)My main concern is whether Beatmaker has got a good MIDI editor. Your opinion?
Things like marking several notes and transpose them and move them around would be vital for me.
I'd also love to see a scale snap function in the MIDI editor, so that when moving notes up and down, they would stay in whatever scale selected. major, minor, pentatonic and so forth.
2) The description says more than 100 instruments are included. I did not see a list of sounds anywhere.
Did I oversee this?
3) I did not find a detailed description plus demo tracks about what one is gonna get when buying additional loops and sound with the in App purchase. Is there is description anywhere?
Thanks for any info in advance.
Tele
Comments
@teleb if you are looking to make sampled based music or hip hop type shit BM2 is the best app out right now.
"100 instruments are included"
Watch the demo
Or import your own sounds/samples.
as for the in App purchases, you can download a demo pack to try out when you have the app.
For $20 and for what can be made with BM its a no brainier.
If you dig sampling, chopping samples, drum machines...yes bm2 is great here!
Sequencing...I even think the sequencer is really good...except for wave file dragging.
Synthesis...naw, doesn't really exist in app...but IAA and audiobus will allow outside compatible synth apps to record audio in on tracks.
Advanced sample manipulation does not exist on bm2... There is no real time pitch/time/formant manipulation, there is no sonogram editing.... These can be done outside the app in other samplers (workflow death) with virtual ans, samplewiz, samplr
Keyboard patch building MEH....I'd rather not if I don't have to.
Audiotracks? Sure it's got em... But they are static, they are default and reset every time you need one...to put it simple, they are about as plain as it gets as far as audio tracking goes...no frills, no bonus...just too many button presses for too little impression.
Mixing? Yea...not very easy or precise here either...teeny little faders, panning issue, no direct value entry for exact settings...very very easy to accidentally change track values instead of cross scrolling...just not intuitive...
Effects...shit. Imagine some 1980s radio shack hard wares you got the miserable effects in beatmaker2... Or should I say they are the default apple ios audio effects with little but ugly interfaces not designed for touch. The multiband eq for instance...yuuuuuuuuuuuck. So all effects will have to be done using audiobus, and then bouncing, and then re entering bm2! It's ridiculous.
The forum is composed of fairly worshippy fanfolks who want nothing at all more, so any whisper of a new feature gets ridiculed, flamed, or ignored...mostly.
The idea of what beatmaker2 could be one day, is much more than what it is, really.
Once caustic3 chops beats it will be very much poised to steal the market from this app, should it not advance much more...IMHO
Out of 10 points I would give these ratings:
Sample chopping 10 (I don't think it gets better than this really)
Sample editing 7 (basic stuff only)
Sample manipulation 4 (no wows here)
Sequencing midi 9 (this was actually modeled after Nanostudio and is pretty great)
IAA use 5 (doesn't eject IAA apps, makes for bad time)
Synthesis 0 (outside sources only)
Sharing files (depends on how you save)
Sequencing audio 4 (it's just not fun or inspiring to use)
Effects 2 (cuz something is better than none I guess)
Mixing 2 (it's all GUI related, it could be fixed by redesigning the mixer)
Mastering 0 (not possible with caveman tools)
File system 4 (this could be a bad ride user beware)
Thanks for the posts.
Guess I'll need to give it try.
Tele