Beatonal - Easy Music Maker
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Free | Luuk van der Graaff | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Beatonal is an accessible music making app, enabling you to easily create and share your musical ideas using the built-in synthesizers and drum machine.
Create drum loops using pattern pads, and effortlessly sketch bass lines, chord progressions and melodies.
This app is free to try, but requires an in-app purchase to unlock all advanced features and project saving.
other features include:
- 4 audio channels: drum machine, bass, chords and lead
- Input is automatically fixed to a user selectable scale
- Contains demo tracks to get you started
- Analog synth with two oscillators, FM, AM and pitch modulation, lowpass filter, and various effects
- Contains 60 built-in synth presets, but you can also create and store your own presets
- Store tracks on your device
- User friendly track sharing via track-url's
- Export track as MIDI so you can continue your work inside other apps or a DAW
- Export track as wav
- Output realtime midi to other apps on multiple channels, or to an external device such as your DAW
- Small app size
- Load your own drumsamples through iTunes on your mac
- Synchronize with other music apps using Ableton Link
Reviews
Ugly but Fun
Lewis7119
Um not going to lie, this is an ugly looking app. Reminds me of a late 90's Reaktor synth. But if you can get past the looks, this thing is really fun. It's like Figure on steroids. The external midi is fantastic. I've been using to drive a Monologue and Volca FM and it works great. Well done.
No Brainer Purchase Here!
anickt
The UI is not fancy but this guy is powerful and fun! Would like to see sample import from iOS Document Picker or AudioShare. It's what Figure should have been and more. Well worth it!
Extremely Useful!
Guycoolio
I agree with many that Beatonal is similar to Figure. But it has taken Figure's original beat making concept to a new level. It has landscape mode, 4 music tracks to work with, deeper editing of synthesis parameters, individual control over more drum sounds, effects, chords, scales, MIDI, Ableton Link, and on and on! Yes, the UI could be better and it could use pattern chaining/song mode among other things. But at the end of the day, it is an extremely useful music creation app that plays nicely with other apps. All the really cool things Beatonal does right out of the gate makes you want to support this developer!
Way better than i thought it was going to be
capedape
This is great fun and has huge potential. I own a lot of apps similar to this and most don't result in usable results so quickly. I should add I'm a long-time producer and usually play MIDI parts in with controllers or spend long hours meticulously painting drum hits in the piano roll on desktop DAWs. The difference is this is fun, musical and also *quick* to work with. Love it. Dev, export as separate tracks and some more patterns would be very welcome. Cheers
Forget the Looks, This Beauty Will Have You Making Music Fast, Seriously PRO Studio APP!!!
Musikman4Christ
Hello Luuk, First, i want to thank you soooo much for such and awesome and well programmed musical studio app! I sincerely thank you because it allows me to make music for God and to create songs that will touch people's hearts all over the world. You are so blessed to have the knowledge to program and develop such an awesome app! I would like to provide some ideas of how to make this app even better and again, these are just suggestions. I have over 35 years of music experience and I have been looking for a simple app that will allow me to make music, songs, basic sketches or complete songs in a matter of minutes and not days or months. I have found this in your app. My first request and greatest request, would be: 1. User option to link or unlink Chord Track with Bass Track. Why? Ok, i come from a background of using Arranger Keyboards, such as the Korg i30 interactive arranger keyboard synth, or the Yamaha Tyros, which these cost upwards of thousands of dollars. These keyboards allow the user to create backing tracks for songs in a matter of minutes. My idea is that your app basically already does this, but there's one step that many keyboard arranger players like myself always like, is to create the song in realtime as we change chords while listening toa Drum track. In this case, you app already does this, which is awsome! But the Bass track is static to what ever I had previously recorded. Instead, if only you could program a type of link where the Bass track listens to what ever root key I'm playing in the chord track, and it would actually play that root key, where now, as I change chords, the Bass track would match exactly they key I'm playing in realtime. This feature Luuk would attract thousands of Arranger Keyboard musicians all over the world because your app would be the only app in IOS that would be considered an arranger app. I imagine all this users buying you app for this feature alone. Because now, they would be able to create a backing track in a matter of minutes. Even better, since your app, outputs realtime midi out, imagine sending this realtime midi to Cubasis and have Cubasis host AUv3 synths like Thor, Infinite, and Beathawk, imagine the quality of sounds that could be achieved? Oh, and since the bass track and chord tracks are linked up, there is no need for song mode anymore since the midi would be recorded in Realtime into Cubasis, thereby creating a backing track of a complete song in one pass! Luuk, you app has soooo much potential and the fact that you have landscape is soooo awesome! I've been praying for an app like this and I am so glad a user in the Audiobus forum mentioned, and that's how i found out about it. Then I went to the SountTestRoom YouTube Channel, run by Sir Doug, and watched his video review of you app!, then I immediately purchased the IAP to Pro. My other wishes would be if you could upgrade the app to AudioBus 3.0 and with State Saving and MIDI input to use external midi controllers to change chords or do lead track. Or even add the ability to use the AudioBus remote where one can enable or disable specific tracks or patterns on the fly for even more control and for realtime playing in a live setting. Well, enough requests for now. I don't really care that the app doesn't have that "beautiful" look, i dont care, all i know is that this app works and works great at what it is designed to do. I had it controlling Beathawk, Moog Model 15 and PPG's Infinite and wow!!! This is truly a special studio App for composing and making music. I hope my ideas and suggestions someday may come to reality as I think this app should be on every single serious IOS musician's iPhone or iPad. It is that good!!!! I highly recommend this app! Musicman4Christ Update: After using this app more and more and tweaking all the Available settings in each of the four tracks plus master settings Ive concluded that this is one amazing, huge and deep app worth every cent spent and more! Dear Luuk, I have figured out how to use Beatonal as a One Man Band where the Bass and Chords are driving external synths such as Beathawk and Groovebox and Rock Drummer and I have it where the Bass track is actually following my Chord track although it's being sent out and recorded on a separate midi and audio track for the chord and bass tracks. I'm using AUM to record these and I'm blown away at the power and flexibility of this app! I'll contact you and will be doing a YouTube video to show how powerful this set up is to create backing tracks in a flash!!! Please add more Patterns if possible as these are the patterns that I'm using to create the Bass lines more would rock big time! I highly recommend this app! MM4C
Get it- Trust an ios seq./synth junkie
Maples Ex
If I really felt it useful or necessary, I could mention two really very minor details. But critically nitpicking this app makes no sense whatsoever. For $2.99...? Lemme just say you're good to GO for $2.99. They could charge $7.00 to $10.00 for the functions made available. But here's what I found ANYWAY: Rhythmically, the patterns/note values/division are controlled in a way very similar to the free 'FIGURE' app. There is no tap tempo ) : and for some reason it seems that on iphone the bpm can only be set numerically by every other number (ex: 92 bpm, 94 bpm, 96...etc.) ...However, THAT SAID, it CAN be synced up to Ableton Link. Also, the synth presets are 'just OK' ...However, THAT said, they are way way more than 'good enough' ($2.99??!!) AND you can tweak the sounds to your hearts content with the built-in parameters/controls. Besides, who cares? After all, This app is taylor-made for the MIDI/inter-app user...without a doubt. Like I said, I feel ridiculous mentioning any criticism at all. I love this thing. I predict that this will get way more use than many of my other midi sequencers. Good for banging out some ideas on your lunch break, or for serious songwriting over a long weekend. ....OH! And one last thing... the UI is pretty small. If you have the option of doing the really detailed projects on an iPad- you'd be less likely to get frustrated....(but whatever...) ....(c'mon-$2.99?- just get it).
oh wow!
so far so good123
Do you like Figure but wished it had greater features that enabled you to use it like a music workstation? This is it! For just $3!! The graphics are plain, but don't let such superficiality deter you. The UI itself is very functional, smooth workflow. An advanced Figure with MIDI out. Perfect. Should be "Editors Choice".
Very very cool
Leom187
It's definitely an easy music maker, and if you're familiar with Figure, you will feel right at home. The real star though is the synth engine. It's weird at first glance, but once you dive in and start playing with everything, you'll find that this is capable of some very organic sounds. Don't overlook any control, they all contribute, including the eq on the mixer page. Overall, it's just a very fun musical playground, you can really do no wrong here. And by the way it can be used as a MIDI controller! Total steal at the 2.99 upgrade price. My only wish is that there was some recordable automation possibilities, that would really send it over the edge.
Massive WIN!!! Beatonal is Amazeballs ??????????
BK Holiday
One of the best new semi-pro level apps (that some of the “pro” level apps could learn from) to hit the App Store in a LONG time! Just buy it! If you use midi, to export patterns into Gadget, Beat Hawk, Auria, Cubasis 2, etc you will be soooo glad you did. Yes it has some Figure like similarities -if Figure was made by a Tesla-esque selfless humanitarian focused on evolving the capabilities & joy of musicians first and everything else 2nd. *** please update to add the ability to individually mute drum track parts. It would be helpful to focus in on tuning/timing parameters on a busy groove without having to manually dial all parts volumes down then back to right volume in the mix each time I want to adjust a bass drum,snare,to,hats,etc. parameters for sample,tuning,decay etc. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!
