Overview | BeatMaker 2

Combining music production tools that were behind the success of countless artists, BeatMaker 2 is a powerful, easy-to-use composition interface for amateurs and professionals alike.

Build your own virtual home-studio, create multiple instruments, audio tracks and connect them to a full-range of audio effects. Compose, record, arrange and transform your ideas into complete songs, ready to be shared with others.

Import your own sounds or use the sound library provided: more than 170 high-quality instrument and drum presets from synthesizers to realistic orchestral sounds. You can even import songs from your iPod library!

Connect your MIDI accessories for an external control of BeatMaker's instruments, effects and mixer, ideal for home-studio productions and live performances.

Using MIDI outputs and virtual ports, BeatMaker can now control your hardware instruments and compatible iOS music applications within BeatMaker, unleashing whole new sonic possiblities by connecting to other synthesizers and sequencers.

Works on all iPhone, iPod and iPad models beginning with third generation devices (iPhone3GS, iPhone 4/4S, iPod3G 32GB, iPod4G iPad 1, 2 & 3).

STUDIO:

Create multiple instruments with Drum Machine, Keyboard interface or Audio Tracks
10 effect units to choose from: Reverb, Compressor, Filter, Delay, EQ, Flanger, Chorus, AutoPan, BitCrusher, Overdrive.
3 effect slots for each instrument, unlimited global effect racks
Customizable Cross Controller for all effects, to manipulate multiple parameters at once
MIDI inputs, outputs, virtual ports and sync support: connect your MIDI accessories and compatible iOS applications to control BeatMaker's instruments, effects, mixer... and vice-versa!

KEYBOARD SAMPLER:

128-key keyboard with pitch wheel, double keyboard mode, note display and zoom controls
Supports velocity layers to create complex presets
Easily create your own instruments from any sample combination with the keygroup editor
Volume and filter ADSR envelopes
Low/high pass filter with cutoff, resonance and key tracking
2 LFOs with customizable amplitude, offset and rate (synchronizable), controlling volume, pitch and filter parameters
Polyphony control, with up to 32 voices per keyboard sampler
Legato play mode with customizable glide
Supports sustain pedal
Keygroup controls: volume, pan, semitones, fine-tune, reverse and one-shot, hold, hold & loop trigger modes
Powerful mapping editor to edit and create zones and layers

AUDIO TRACKS:

Add audio tracks for recording and sample playback directly on the sequencer
Record up audio tracks simultaneously
Gain and noise gate on audio inputs
Support for disk streaming to load samples without consuming RAM

WAVE EDITOR:

Full-fledged wave editor with intuitive pinch and selection for manipulating samples
Chop Lab: easily slice your samples and automatically create presets and patterns out of them
Basic edition tools: trim, cut, copy, paste, with 8 levels undo/redo
High quality time-stretching and pitch-shifting algorithms
Audio tools: normalize, silence, reverse, fade in and out, cross-fade
Record new samples from device microphone or plugged instrument
Loop points and tempo/signature editor

MIXER CONSOLE:

Realistic multi-track mixer with level meters
Edit volume, pan, solo, mute and bus routing features for individual tracks

LARGE SOUNDBANK INCLUDED:

68 Drum Machine presets from all genres
111 Keyboard Sampler presets, from synthesizers to realistic orchestral instruments.
More than 1800 quality samples to choose from

DRUM MACHINE:

Up to 128 trigger pads: 16 pads over 8 different banks
Loop samples on pad easily using the auto-loop mode with quantization
Chop Lab: Slice audio loops to automatically create new sound presets and patterns
Control sound parameters on individual pad: volume, pan, mute, output bus, semitone, fine tune, reverse and autoscaling
Sample drag'n'drop for quick and easy kit creation
Edit samples start and end playback positions
Low/high pass filter per pad with cutoff and resonance control
Choose between various pad trigger modes: one-shot, hold & loop
Customizable envelope (ADSR) control for each pad
Exclusive groups and polyphony management
"Live" modes: trigger, mute, reverse, velocity and tune spreading.
Pad copy & paste

MULTI-TRACK SEQUENCER:

Create unlimited instrument and FX tracks
Automations: Record, edit and replay instrument and effect parameters
Record, draw, arrange and resize patterns along the timeline to build your song
Compose and modify patterns with a piano-roll interface. Edit notes, parameters, and automations.
Instrument and effect recording options: Quantize, take or partial undo, pre-roll, Overdub, note erasing.
Includes multiple convenient tools such as zooming
Quantize modes and auto-repeat

SHARING & GLOBAL OPTIONS:

Native iPad and iPhone interfaces
Fully supports Retina display
Support for USB class audio interfaces on iPad via Camera Connection Kit
Import MIDI files
Export your songs to Audio or MIDI files
MIDI Out, Sync, Thru support
Send or receive MIDI clocks for synchronizing to other apps or hardware
Virtual MIDI support: connect multiple music iOS apps together
Korg's WIST support
Transfer and manage your files from your computer using the integrated FTP server
Import any songs from your iPod library to create new remixes
Share audio content with more than 20 other music applications using the iOS pasteboard
Upload your songs directly to your SoundCloud account
Access, download, upload to and manage your DropBox account
User friendly file browser and manager, with sample, preset and project tagging for quick lookup
Supports BeatMaker 1 kits and projects
Works with A2DP-compliant bluetooth speakers and headphones (output only)