bleep!BOX
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $3.99 | David Wallin | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
MusicRadar.com ranked bleep!BOX #3 in it's Top Ten Music apps on the iPad!
bleep!BOX has NO SAMPLES - every sound is generated in realtime, so you can tweak to your hearts' content and kiss repetitive, cookie cutter drum beats and loops goodbye. bleep!BOX is not a simple toy - it's powerful enough for you to make real music. Great for house, hip hop, R&B, electronica, drum’n’bass, trance, techno, IDM and more.
bleep!BOX is the mobile app that musicians, DJ's, and producers have been waiting for. Check it out and see why Computer Music Magazine gave it 5/5 stars!
Looking to try out bleep!BOX? Check out bleep!BOX Player for free, which will let you get a feel for the app without having the full feature set.
"This is a complete synthesis solution for beat making, without relying on tired old 808 drum samples. " -- discchord.com
Features:
* Classic, tweakable x0x drum emulations
* Analog style 2-Osc synths
* MIDI Sync and MIDI trigger control
* 10 parts (voices)
* 50+ Parameters
* Ringmod, FM, PhaseMod, Sync, Distortion
* Global delay FX
* 8 Waveforms
* Universal app - Works on both iPhone and iPad
* Audio copying via the General Pasteboard method.
* Supports Audiobus
* Realtime processing - NO SAMPLES
* Tempo, swing, pattern length
* Save patches and presets
* Live performance modes
* Step sequencing + recording modes
* Parameter automation
* Song Mode: make a song from several patterns.
* Record songs or Patterns to .WAV
* VST / AU plugin is available for integration with your DAW (please see our website for details)
bleep!BOX was made by White Noise Audio Software (http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/), makers of Zero Vector, and Additive. We have over a decade of experience coding synthesizers and effects!
Check out audio samples, videos and news at http://www.bleepboxapp.com/
More user praise at http://www.bleepboxapp.com/blog/2009/08/listen-to-the-buzz/
Music Radar.com's review:
http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/round-up-7-iphone-music-making-apps-225503
Reviews
Excellent App!
evilnode
The dynamic sound generation is excellent, and the preloaded patterns are very cool, especially 'heat' and 'burn'. ;) Records nicely right into Garage Band! If you like playing around with synth sounds, you should do yourself a favor and get this app. Well worth the price!
Marko Beljan
mbeljan
So much more then your standard "fun-to-play-with" app. The sound generation is amazing and the sounds you can squeeze out of this baby are clear and snappy(read: energetic). Easy modulation(just double click on any parameter) and a scroll-wheel on the side are a big plus when it comes to intuitivity of this app, meaning, sketching the ideas quickly from your brain to bleep box efficiently. It's simply amazing.
Dope!
Babafd
This right here is a quality app. You can tweak and create. This app is capable of some ill sounds! One thing i would like is if the overall volume output can be increased. I cant wait to see further updates for this app. And the swing on the sequencer is real nice!
Great music app!
Audio Nut
This is a powerful music app. I'm not experiencing any crashes at all, like another reviewer. Although it has tons of features, it is pretty intuitive. I was able to get good results the first time, and I'm sure I'll figure out even more as time goes by. There are more features on the way, apparently, that show up on their site and with those this will be a 5-star app.
Great app
ArcadeImp
Not much to say, great app with lots of potential. I would like to suggest x/y control of effects etc where possible. With a big touchscreen it doesn't make sense to have to use sliders.
great sounds
flkajdshflksajdhflkjh
fun to tweak, full of features, lots of options. can get grooving pretty quickly. i daresay the interface is a bit opaque, this from a 20yr electronic music veteran.
This app is so awesome
Vdrumpro999
Words can't do it justice. I have so many paid apps (876 as of yesterday) that I hesitated at first for $10. However,I was sold instantly by the free version "bleep!box player" but was out of iTunes bucks! If you can't afford the tenner-- get the free one it is very generously full featured-- just no save. When it drives you nuts because you can't save masterpiece you'll make the drive, buy some iTunes $$ and lay down. I'm using a new amazing turntablist app called flair - combined with this app making the beats: I have a party in my pocket! If we could just get all music devs and apple together so we could have export direct to iTunes and shared samples dirs we'd be all set. ONE big question though (after checking both touch and iPhone/reboot/etc) is this app missing the handy "song" menu that player version has? I miss it instanly-- pulling up the seq's on the fly from a big grid of butons is where it's at for me.
Smart and stylish
Torley
David, the creator of bleep!BOX, is great at keeping users updated about improvements. That's how I found out about the newest 1.1.1, and I'm glad WAV recording is in here, as that's a fundamental link between my desktop-based production and making beats on the go. I wish there was a way to batch-export trimmed loops and that the RECORD button gave feedback, but it works easily enough, and it's pretty neat how the TRANSFER mode works — I had no idea my iPod could connect via wi-fi like that. However, iphone.local didn't work, so I had to use the numeric IP. The sounds themselves ("no samples" as advertised) can be phat and squelchy or crunchy and metallic. The paging system took some time to get used to, but in retrospect, it works well with the iPod Touch/iPhone's screen layout, and made me take a refreshing approach to the UI paradigms involved. The general layout is sensible and clean. Tapping and flicking becomes easier after you find your way around, and I'm glad the INIT button is easily accessible to start from scratch. One of the unexpected-yet-joyful surprises came when I entered PERF mode, held down on a column of the parts to do a live stutter edit, then dragged back and forth to focus on that moment in time. Very neat. The PERF pads are lots of fun to tap, but they'd benefit from velocity sensitivity (I thought this was the case earlier, but was mistaken) to enhance dynamics and complement the MOTION values. A global delay effect makes me hope for more effects like a tidy bitcrusher to be added and tweakable in realtime, enabling a beautiful fusion of step-sequencing and live jamming. I also hope the pixelfont used in some areas will be enlarged, because there's still space and it's quite hard to read. Overall, bleep!box is a fun romp into the world of iPhone music-making and an educational one at being able to understand, in realtime, what different parameters do. It requires some getting used to as I mentioned, but since improvements have been ongoing, I look forward to what's next.
It's all up to you!
anickt
This is not a pre-set music making machine. It's ideal for the creative musician who wants to make something that's truly their own. With all the tweaking that you can do you can come up with some pretty crazy stuff. It takes some effort to figure some of it out but it's worth it. The main thing I'd like to see is the ability to either route a sound through the global delay or not rather than using the high-pass/low-pass filter arrangement that this uses now. Also, a reverb effect would be nice. Overall this one's definitely a keeper.
Well done.
Joe Maulms
Best musical tool on the iPod to date in my opinion. This is what the Korg DS10 could have been and more! Worth every penny. The live jam potential alone blew me away, the smooth interface is an added bonus.
