When iPod struck the market, it was a reveleation. As every home carried a TV and a computer, it was the same with iPod. It was such a blessing and disguise to the music lovers all over the world. Now with iPhones, apple has gone a step ahead and it has grown up to almost close enough to be called a mini pc. Now you can download apps of every single category you can think, buy music from iTunes and what not. But still, there was not really an app that satisfied the creators of Music. Well, not any more. There are already a few apps that are available through the app store that allows you to create music but the one i’m going to discuss here is a monster of an app. Yes, Beatmaker from Intua is a complete Music creation software that allows you to sample, record, mix, loop and what not. It is as good as a modern day desktop DAW application in the market. Of course with such a small device capable of doing this is simply majical. Music makers will love to take advantage of this mind blowing iPhone app for sure. Not to forget, all of this is done from
an affordable price of $19.99.

Now, check out all the features available from Intua’s BeatMaker.

BeatMaker stands out from the rest of the music creation applications. It is not for an amateur or a fun to play around with kind of product. It is actually a portable Music Production Center (MPC) right on your iPhone, with drum kits, sequencer and sampler features that you would find only in a desktop based DAW or MPC platform. 

Click here to check out the complete User Manual of BeatMaker from Intua.

When you install BeatMaker app, it already provides you with several high quality sample sound banks from featured artists to get you started. Well, you can also create your own sample kits/banks and transfer them onto iPhone using their free BeatPack desktop application, which is available for both Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista. All of these sample banks can be loaded directly into the application, and can be played back on a 16-pad screen layout. Plus it also allows up to five pads to be triggered simultaneously. That is simply awesome. I’ve tried that myself on my iPhone. It’s terrific and feels like playing on a physical drum machine .

Customization is also possible in the pad view. It allows you to adjust the pitch, volume, output channel and even start and stop points for every sample. A graphical waveform is also provided to assist with adjusting the start and stop points. Samples can also be chopped, scaled, muted or set to be played back in reverse. New samples can also be loaded from individual WAV/AIFF files either from the included BeatMaker kits or transferred from your computer using the free BeatPack companion application. MIND BLOWING !!! I think there is no better way to make music. You can now compose, arrange and make music from the train. Waalah !! What a technology surge this is.

From the pad screen, you can either simply play your sound bank live in real time, or record a pattern directly from the pad screen by selecting the record option and tapping on the iPhone screen to play back samples from each pad. BeatMaker also provides a song sequencer screen to lay out and place your triggering patterns along a graphical timeline, and a step sequencer to graphically adjust and the triggers for each sample track. It supports 16 samples per pattern, and an unlimited number of patterns within the song sequencer.

Within the step sequencer, screens are also provided for adjusting the velocity (or volume) of each pattern on a per-step basis, as well as a groove editor to allow more “humanization” of the patterns by setting earlier or delayed pattern triggers for each step.

BeatMaker also provides the ability to assign each pad to effects channel. Channels include a main (“dry”) channel which has no effects, and two independent FX channels that both include Bit-Crusher, 3-Band EQ and Synchronized Delay effects.

Your sequences and sound bank settings can be saved and retrieved, or even transferred to your desktop computer using the free companion BeatPack app from Intua. once you are done laying out the tracks, you can export them to either WAV format for playback or export to MIDI for further processing in a desktop music production application such as Pro Tools, Cubase or Logic Express/Pro etc.,

BeatMaker takes up about close to 180MB on your iPhone even before you start creating new stuff like samples and tracks on it. Of course it is a very large application but its good that it is large. Only a bigger product will carry the best features and this being a Music production software, it is totally worth to give your iPhone space for it.

With all that is said above, BeatMaker is easily the most sophisticated iPhone music application, offering a full-featured electronic music creation platform. I know it costs $20 but i’m sure that every single penny is worth, considering all its features in a tiny sized device such as an iPhone or iPad.

Enjoy your Music from Beatmaker and please do share your Music if you’ve made from it .

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