Too heavy on resources! Not recommended! – BeatHawk Review

Well, what to say, the samples are very nice. After listening what it sounds like on YouTube, I bought several packs at once which was a MISTAKE! I was testing in standalone mode and everything sounded good. But who wants to use a sample player (that this app essentially is) in standalone mode?? Good luck using more than one AU instance! 2 instances inside BeatMaker3, Cubasis, or ApeMatrix are just about all you can fit. Meaning trying to fit other instruments/AUs will often cause crashes and just not work properly. Three instances of just BeatHawk is not possible on any DAW I’ve tried. It just crashes. I have iPadPro 10.5” (latest 2017model) This is just a sample player, it should run super smoothly especially for a single layer sounds that it has! Will this be fixed? Probably not. It’s not a bug, the whole code needs to be reviewed and changed accordingly. That might take time. Meanwhile if you’re planning to use this app as an AU inside your DAW, keep in mind this performance issue. Ravenscroft 275 is also inefficient eating up a lot more of resources than it should, limiting what you can use with it. As a reference, I have other sample-player type apps where I can run many AU instances without any problems. Loaded this 3 gigabytes sound font into bs-16i running 4 instances with room for more. BeatHawk’s samples are mostly 2-digits in megabytes. I will keep an eye out for updates, and gladly change the review to 5-star if I can run at least 4 instances of this AU simultaneously.
Review by GadgetMojo on BeatHawk.