Good news coming from the developer of BeatMaker. Intua has announced finally an official release date for next version of Beatmaker app for iPad. Beatmaker 3 will coming on July 15 with a special introduction price of $20 for seven days only. I’m beta bester since the first beta version and I can say that Beatmaker 3 is really a big step forward to a far better experience compared to Beatmaker 2. With a lot of new features, a complete new interface design and full iOS Audiounit, the new version is an absolute must have for every beat maker with an iPad. Check out below the features of this upcoming new version.
BeatMaker 3’s digital audio workstation provides versatility ideal for both on-the-go production and more complex MIDI/audio studio setups. Suited for both amateurs and professional users, BeatMaker 3 emphasises the strengths of its critically acclaimed predecessors while taking the future of music composition to the next level. BeatMaker 3’s ability to integrate with both MIDI hardware and the music app ecosystem makes it a powerful tool in any musician’s arsenal. In anticipation of launch, a series of screenshots of the soon-to-be-released app’s UI we’ve posted recently on the company website. Additionally, a list of partial features confirmed in the forthcoming app includes:
Main functionalities
- Compose with high quality instruments & loops, integrated in a powerful and streamlined DAW
- Design your own instruments using a state of the art sampling engine with unmatched modularity (multi-layer, live slice mode, realtime time-stretching/pitch-shifting, Audio Units V3/IAA, full modulation system, …)
- Powerful integration of MIDI hardware to control the app and its instruments in a unique way (MIDI actions, parameter macros, …)
- Arrange songs with instruments & audio tracks
- Play live, remix or sketch ideas with a powerful scene mode
- Export, share, and expand your library with soundpacks designed by the best sound design companies
Specifications
BeatMaker 3 has eight banks of 128 pads. Each pad is now a full-fledged instrument running a state of the art multi-layered sampler engine, with additional IAA/Audio Unit V3 hosting. Additionally, audio tracks and can be added to the mix, for recording and playback of audio clips. Up to eight aux tracks can be added for even more complex routing.
Per Pad
- Multi-layered sampler
- Optional Audio Unit (AUv3/IAA), used simultaneously with the sampler
- Mixer channel, with volume, pan, mute, solo and eight sends
- Unlimited number of effects
- Link & choke groups
- Audio output routing
- Swing mode
Per Bank
- Hosts up to 128 pads, with 16/64 pads mode
- Sequencer track
- Mixer channel, with volume, pan, mute, solo and eight sends
- Unlimited number of effects
- Output to the main mix or a specific audio hardware output
- Up 16 macro controls with additional X/Y controller
- MIDI input / output
- Swing mode
The sampler
- Multi-layered sampler
- Per layer up to 4 voice effects
- Per layer modulation of parameters, with ratio. Available modulators: AHDSR, LFO, MIDI, Random S&H, 64-steps mod, and more to come
- Per layer trigger mode: one-shot, hold, on release
- Per sample loop type: none / forward / alternated
- Sample cross-fading with bending control
- Per layer 64 voices polyphony, with optional mono & polyphonic portamento;
- Sample Disk streaming support
- Live time-stretch & pitch-shift with Elastique v3 algorithm
- Tempo detection
- Slice mode for live chopping of samples, with transient detection, split, divide, different play modes, slice fading in & out
- Reverse playback, semitone & fine-tune controls;
- Gain, pan, saturation;
- Full fledged sample editor
- Intuitive mapping editor to create your own instruments
- Host an external Audio Unit plugin simultaneously with the sampling engine;
- inline recorder that can record from any external audio inputs or from any BM3 internal buses (outputs, banks, pads, audio tracks, AUX tracks…), bringing easy and quick resampling.
- Slicing exports to layers or pads (up to 128);
- Internal recorder and resampler
Macros
Sixteen macros are bound to each track inside BM3. This means each bank, output, audio & aux track has its own set of 16 macros. This is particularly interesting for Banks because this means bank presets can be saved with a chain of effects and macros as well. Macros can control multiple parameters at once from banks, pads, layers, effects, and much more…
Intua BeatMaker 3 will coming out on July 15th for a special price of 20$. (1 week)
More informations here: Intua BeatMaker 3
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