UVI Beathawk and Expansions now 50% off!

Lady_App_titude

Beathawk has been one of my favorite apps for the iPad., and I just got an email announcing a 50% off sale. Beathawk has played a central role in most of my iOS projects to date, including one I just released.  As an example of some of what you can do, check out my latest project, done about 90% w/ Beathawk, and which makes extensive use of the Funk and Electric Piano expansions:



Looks like I'll be picking up some new expansion packs soon! :-)

alexbuga

Nice, I was just browsing through their expansions today.

TozBourne

Thanks for the heads-up, I probably would have missed this since I'm way behind on emails.  

I do like BeatHawk quite a lot and find it  very versitle.. I used it to make several tracks for my upcoming, soon to be released, next album.  With this news, I need to go check out the app and see what sound packs I'm lacking. 

null____void

Is there an expansion featuring their musical toy sound library (like what they have for desktops)? I would get it for that but I didnt see it on the UVI site.

Lady_App_titude

Toy library-- alas, no. Some great packs available, but pales in comparison to what they offer for desktop. 

JohnnyGoodyear

@Lady_App_titude said:

Toy library-- alas, no. Some great packs available, but pales in comparison to what they offer for desktop. 

I'm sure our friends over there are working on the packaging as we speak

kobamoto

how long is the sale, can the packs be used in other apps?

Tritonman

It is a pretty good length of sale time, Ibelieve until sometime afterChristmas but do not hold me to a date.

anickt

I had taken Beathawk off my iPad because I was short on space. Now when I download it (with about 2 GB free) I see no soundpacks and no response when I try to restore purchases. Are they getting hammered with this sale going on?

JohnnyGoodyear

@anickt said:

I had taken Beathawk off my iPad because I was short on space. Now when I download it (with about 2 GB free) I see no soundpacks and no response when I try to restore purchases. Are they getting hammered with this sale going on?

Might be that. Sometimes I've found the downloading from BH a bit squirelly....can do more than suggest you give it another try in the morning....

JohnnyGoodyear

@anickt  For what it's worth, BH does take up 3.4 gigs on my iPad. So, depending on what packs you already have, maybe space is an issue?

anickt

I guess that's a possibility JG

Tritonman

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@anickt  For what it's worth, BH does take up 3.4 gigs on my iPad. So, depending on what packs you already have, maybe space is an issue?

How many packs do you have?

Tritonman

Lady, you have inspired me to re download Beathawk and I am getting along much better this time!  Thank you.  I even picked up a couple of packs because of this.

Lady_App_titude

Awesome!  I don't know why some apps just click for you. I've got other apps, like iMaschine (which currently is offering ALL expansion packs for just 99 cents) and Gadget (also on sale), which have maybe better sounds, and cool features, but something about Beathawk -- the interface, the quality of sounds -- just seems to connect and flow for me. I like how a pad can be either a single hit, a loop, or an instrument that you can play.

[Deleted User]

I love BeatHawk except for the occasional hiccup in song mode, where a sound from one pattern seems to cut off wrong going into another pattern. It happens seldom and there seems no rhyme or reason for it.

JohnnyGoodyear

@Tritonman said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@anickt  For what it's worth, BH does take up 3.4 gigs on my iPad. So, depending on what packs you already have, maybe space is an issue?

How many packs do you have?

All of them.

JohnnyGoodyear

@Lady_App_titude said:

Awesome!  I don't know why some apps just click for you. I've got other apps, like iMaschine (which currently is offering ALL expansion packs for just 99 cents) and Gadget (also on sale), which have maybe better sounds, and cool features, but something about Beathawk -- the interface, the quality of sounds -- just seems to connect and flow for me. I like how a pad can be either a single hit, a loop, or an instrument that you can play.

Right here. It's just, I dunno, weird. BH just has some one-plus-one-makes-three thing happening (sometimes).  

SpookyZoo

@JohnnyGoodyear Can you please help me understand what a 'Preset' is in Beathawk terminology? An IAP pack in the store description will state something like '37 presets' but there are exactly zero entries of the word 'Preset' in their 44 page manual.

Being the literarian you are I'm counting on a concise and 'leave me in no doubt' snippet of info.

Cheers.

JohnnyGoodyear

@SpookyZoo said:
@JohnnyGoodyear Can you please help me understand what a 'Preset' is in Beathawk terminology? An IAP pack in the store description will state something like '37 presets' but there are exactly zero entries of the word 'Preset' in their 44 page manual.

Being the literarian you are I'm counting on a concise and 'leave me in no doubt' snippet of info.

Cheers.

NO PRESSURE THEN!

I can't seem to add images into the screen any more, but have attached two here.

The first, BH1, shows sound packs on the left hand side. You will see that the top one, EDM, is highlighted. The top folder on the left (Drum Elements) is selected and that opens a third column, Drum Kits, the top choice in this is also selected and then that opens the list of choices in the fourth column. Each of these (symbolized by the piano keys) can be loaded to your playable grid (top right) and also thereafter 'played' across the keypads (another screen altogether ).

The second picture, BH2, is similar. Here the sound pack 'Atlanta Urban' is selected on the left hand column, opening up a list, from which Construction Kits is highlighted and then in the third colum ATL-067 etc. This opens up a fourth column which, as you can see, has choices with the piano symbol, but also a loop symbol (yup, you hit the associated pad when loaded and it loops) and then also a 'wave file' symbol which is for a one off hit.

Sorry it's all a bit long-winded, but hopefully the pics (1,000 words!) will give you a better idea etc.

I'm a fan of this app. Much like myself it's by no means perfect, but work is still very much ongoing (and good things are coming, shhh....), and I really like the easy loading and then playing the chosen sample in pitch across its keyboard.

I'm also SUPER happy that in a world of IAP packs, and restrictive modeling, you can still audiopaste your own stuff into BH.

SpookyZoo

@JohnnyGoodyear You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!

Thanks for going above and beyond on this, appreciated!

I read another 10 page Beathawk thread here earlier in which yourself and others were enthusiastic about the app workflow. Sounds like a shiny horizon coming soon too.

Cheers fella!

JohnnyGoodyear

@SpookyZoo said:
@JohnnyGoodyear You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!

Thanks for going above and beyond on this, appreciated!

I read another 10 page Beathawk thread here earlier in which yourself and others were enthusiastic about the app workflow. Sounds like a shiny horizon coming soon too.

Cheers fella!

Naturally, I opened up the thing for the first time in a little while and started to play ("Let's do the song right here!")....am always trying to put my finger on what I like about this app and having quickly run up 8 bars with a grand piano and an electric organ, I like its wateryness (technical term). It doesn't have to sound mechanical, digital, danceable etc. It very well can, but it isn't hard to go the other way. Watery is how I always thinking of Debussy. I know, I don't play like that (at all), but it just can sound, erm, real....

fjcblanco

Expansions are cheap but, what about the sounds included out-of-the-box?

Thanks.

JohnnyGoodyear

@fjcblanco said:
Expansions are cheap but, what about the sounds included out-of-the-box?

Thanks.

I can't recall now exactly what comes as the base pack, but it was enough to play with/learn to like it etc. More importantly, AFTER it was released they did open it up to allow you to import your own samples and that made it a new ball game (for me)....

SpookyZoo

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

Naturally, I opened up the thing for the first time in a little while and started to play ("Let's do the song right here!")....am always trying to put my finger on what I like about this app and having quickly run up 8 bars with a grand piano and an electric organ, I like its wateryness (technical term). It doesn't have to sound mechanical, digital, danceable etc. It very well can, but it isn't hard to go the other way. Watery is how I always thinking of Debussy. I know, I don't play like that (at all), but it just can sound, erm, real....

Good to hear it's versatile. I just grabbed the choir pack. Nice. I also tried to control a pitched sample externally with Soundprism Pro, but remember seeing others mention issues with virtual midi.

MIDI keyboard controls just fine though.

I like the UI. Should have some fun in here methinks.

JohnnyGoodyear

@SpookyZoo said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

Naturally, I opened up the thing for the first time in a little while and started to play ("Let's do the song right here!")....am always trying to put my finger on what I like about this app and having quickly run up 8 bars with a grand piano and an electric organ, I like its wateryness (technical term). It doesn't have to sound mechanical, digital, danceable etc. It very well can, but it isn't hard to go the other way. Watery is how I always thinking of Debussy. I know, I don't play like that (at all), but it just can sound, erm, real....

Good to hear it's versatile. I just grabbed the choir pack. Nice. I also tried to control a pitched sample externally with Soundprism Pro, but remember seeing others mention issues with virtual midi.

MIDI keyboard controls just fine though.

I like the UI. Should have some fun in here methinks.

I like the choirs also. Especially run through Ab and adding some sauce...I always thought I would use BH mostly as a 4 bar chunk creator for use elsewhere, but it can become pretty more-ish once you get a handle on moving around. AND while not flawless I find the song mode very easy to work on. Perhaps my favorite (or most profited from) functionality is the ability to super-quickly copy and paste pattern 1, say, to pattern 2 and then keep developing your riff/melody with a captured print as a safety net. I know many programs have variations on this, but how it's accessed/used in BH is pretty much better than anything this side of the otherwise-elliptical Zillidrone.

anickt

Is there any way to loop a song? When putting something together I'd like to be able to let it run continuously while determining what to do next. If it's there it's well hidden. I suggested that they add that function either way. Also, patterns should finish before going to the next chosen pattern when in pattern mode. Suggested that too or at least an option for instant or delayed change.

Lady_App_titude

You could export a song to a stereo wav file, then import that as a sample and assign it to a pad, and then record that as a pattern (holding the pad contiously as the song phrase plays. That's one way to loop a song. But there is a max length for a sample, so it can't be too long.

anickt

Yeah - but I just want to play through a group of patterns in song mode and have it loop back to the beginning. Almost any sequencer type software will do that.

fjcblanco

Thanks. Probably next purchase.

[Deleted User]

Love BeatHawk.

Would like to see the following changes:

I would like it to save the altered pitch mod and key settings to the project.

I would like it to save the pitch key to the pad if wanted.

I would like a piano roll just for tweaking.

I would like to be able to assign midi channels to each pad (please tell me if I've missed this feature somehow)