What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

• Dropbox is back!
• Added Bluetooth MIDI support
• Fixed iPhone 8/8+ UI glitches
• Compatibility with iOS11
• Older (32-bits) iPad/iPhones/iPod Touch support is back
• Fixed the Bluetooth MIDI panel glitch
• Small improvements around the app

App Description

*** BEATMAKER 3 IS AVAILABLE NOW ! ***

BeatMaker 2: Advanced mobile music workstation.

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 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. Compatible with audio interfaces with the Camera Kit (iPad only).

Works on all iPhone, iPod and iPad models starting with third generation devices (iPhone3GS, iPod3G 32GB, iPhone 4/4S/5, all iPads).

* STUDIO:
- Create multiple instruments with Drum Machine, Keyboard Sampler, Audio Tracks
- 11 effects: Reverb, Compressor, Filter, Delay, EQ, Flanger, Chorus, AutoPan, BitCrusher, Overdrive, 6-Band Parametric EQ
- 3 effect slots for each instrument
- CoreMIDI support: connect your MIDI accessories to control instruments, effects and mixer.

* DRUM MACHINE:
- 128 trigger pads: 16 pads over 8 banks
- Chop Lab: Slice audio loops to automatically create new sound presets
- Control sound parameters on individual pad: volume, pan, mute, output bus, semitone, fine tune, reverse and autoscaling
- Low/high pass filter per pad
- Pad trigger modes: one-shot, hold & loop
- ADSR Envelope ADSR control for each pad
- Exclusive groups and polyphony management
- "Live" modes: trigger, mute, reverse, velocity and tune spreading.
- Pad copy & paste

* KEYBOARD SAMPLER
- 128-key keyboard with pitch wheel, double keyboard mode, note display and zoom controls
- Easily create your own instruments from any sample combination with the keygroup editor
- Volume and filter ADSR envelopes
- Low/high pass filter with key tracking
- 2 LFOs to control volume, pitch and filter parameters
- Polyphony control, up to 32 voices
- Legato play mode with glide
- Velocity layers

* AUDIO TRACKS:
- Add audio tracks for recording and sample playback directly on the sequencer
- Record multiple audio tracks simultaneously
- Gain and noise gate on audio inputs
- Support for disk streaming to load samples without consuming RAM

* MULTI-TRACK SEQUENCER
- Create unlimited instrument, audio 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.

* WAVE EDITOR
- Full-fledged wave editor with intuitive interface for manipulating samples
- Basic edition tools: trim, cut, copy, paste, with 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 microphone or instruments
- 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 each track
- Four sends available for each instrument/audio tracks

* LARGE SOUND BANK INCLUDED

* SHARING & GLOBAL OPTIONS
- MIDI files import/export
- MIDI Out, Sync, Thru support
- Virtual MIDI support
- Korg's WIST support
- Transfer files from/to your computer via iTunes or FTP
- Import songs from your iPod library to create new remixes
- Upload songs to your SoundCloud account
- DropBox support
- Share audio content via iOS pasteboard

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • May 14, 2011 Price increase: $9.99 -> $19.99
  • May 04, 2011 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • March 29, 2011 New version 2.0.1
  • August 17, 2011 New version 2.1
  • August 18, 2011 New version 2.1.1
  • August 31, 2011 New version 2.1.2
  • November 25, 2011 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • November 26, 2011 Price increase: $9.99 -> $19.99
  • December 09, 2011 New version 2.2
  • February 09, 2012 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • February 14, 2012 Price increase: $9.99 -> $19.99
  • August 10, 2012 New version 2.3
  • September 13, 2012 New version 2.3.1
  • November 15, 2012 New version 2.4
  • December 12, 2012 New version 2.4.1
  • December 14, 2012 New version 2.4.2
  • February 22, 2013 New version 2.4.4
  • March 18, 2013 New version 2.4.5
  • April 10, 2013 New version 2.4.6
  • April 11, 2013 New version 2.4.7
  • June 18, 2013 New version 2.4.8
  • October 25, 2013 New version 2.5
  • November 01, 2013 New version 2.5.1
  • November 20, 2013 New version 2.5.2
  • November 21, 2013 New version 2.5.3
  • November 26, 2013 New version 2.5.4
  • November 29, 2013 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $4.99
  • December 06, 2013 Price increase: $4.99 -> $19.99
  • May 27, 2014 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • August 27, 2014 Price increase: $9.99 -> $19.99
  • October 07, 2014 New version 2.5.5
  • October 07, 2014 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • October 10, 2014 New version 2.5.6
  • November 03, 2014 Price increase: $9.99 -> $19.99
  • December 01, 2014 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • November 14, 2015 New version 2.5.8
  • November 22, 2015 New version 2.5.9
  • June 23, 2016 New version 2.6.0
  • December 11, 2016 New version 2.6.1
  • December 13, 2016 New version 2.6.2
  • June 14, 2019 New version 2.6.4
  • June 14, 2019 Price increase: $9.99 -> $11.99
  • June 16, 2019 Price increase: $9.99 -> $11.99

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