Why are there no effect sends?
Hi,
first post here... I've been using professional DAWs (and analog and digital studios before that) since... around 1997, and what totally baffles me about Beatmaker is that it has no real effect (aux) sends.
This pretty much makes it unusable for any kind of professional production. Is Intua aware of this, or is that not the intended audience?
If I want to have different amounts of reverb for different channels (which is pretty much true for every single production anyone does), you have to load a seperate reverb effect for each of them, or create a "FX Track" for each, and then load a seperate reverb effect for each, as it is not possible to control the amount of signal that goes to the FX track.
Why such a blatant omission in an otherwise great app?
first post here... I've been using professional DAWs (and analog and digital studios before that) since... around 1997, and what totally baffles me about Beatmaker is that it has no real effect (aux) sends.
This pretty much makes it unusable for any kind of professional production. Is Intua aware of this, or is that not the intended audience?
If I want to have different amounts of reverb for different channels (which is pretty much true for every single production anyone does), you have to load a seperate reverb effect for each of them, or create a "FX Track" for each, and then load a seperate reverb effect for each, as it is not possible to control the amount of signal that goes to the FX track.
Why such a blatant omission in an otherwise great app?
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I have a protools rig that has been collecting dust since I bought an iPad awhile back... The future isn't in DAW's that do everything under the sun, but software that works one angle well and easily functions parallel to other DAW's while remaining quick and intuitive.
beatmaker 2 has an excellent export feature, (although I think we should be able to have tracks sourced from the fx busses....) and that's the only reason I use it. It's only 44.1 16bit, but I don't care anymore. I run protools at 48khz 24 bit, and for the inspiration I get from using beatmaker 2 I can live with a little bit of low level distortion...
Well, I must admit that I'm mainly a NanoStudio user, and with its feature set, it is pretty close to fully replacing a "normal" DAW for my main production needs (Electronica / Progressive Trance). OK, the reverb quality is obviously not as good as a full-fledged convolution reverb, and its compressor / limiter is not really a mastering limiter, but the results of doing a full production INCLUDING final mastering in it are - to a layman - indistinguishable from a "professional" production.
I also always liked Beatmaker though, mainly because of its multisampling capabilities and MIDI out.
Too bad the recent update doesn't bring about the changes necessary (for me) to make it "full-production-worthy", although with Audio tracks, it does "beat" <!-- s;-) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_wink.gif" alt=";-)" title="Wink" /><!-- s;-) --> NanoStudio in this regard.