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Fwiw, from my perspective having tried every flavor of DAW on iOS I can say with confidence that Beatmaker3 is fantastic release. I use Ableton Live on the desktop and with BM3 I feel right at home.
The support for AU synths and FX is great.
The Sampler is a blast to use...now I'm a basic Sampler head so don't complain about missing features in the Sampler, just submit feature requests
The Song, Scene and Pattern modes are great as well.
Do I wish it had more features?
I dunno. What it has as a 1.0 is significant for me as an artist.
I haven't had this much fun making tracks since I got AbletonLive.
For me BM3 opens the door to truly professional level editing and creation on iOS.
So...if you're on the fence at all I'd just get it while it's on sale. I have a feeling Intua is going to keep building upon the great foundation they've layed down with BM3 v1.0
Cheers
Agree 1000%.
Aaaarrrggghhh. Left it too late! Sitting here before heading off to Wales for the weekend. Suddenly thought, maybe I should buy it at the sale price. Only got my iPhone with me
Anyone know of a way to purchase with iPhone only?
Never tried it, might work though as you don't have to download straight away.
Heading off to Wales - pop in for a cuppa!
no, but if you can get to a computer I'm pretty sure you can do it through itunes. Don't think there's a way on iPhone only to buy an iPad app. Probably not an accident that it's like that, or they'd be swamped in refunds.
Get a friend to gift it to you, then pay them back.
Left-field thinking, like it.
@Jocphone Enjoy Wales, I have spent many a happy weekend there hiking and scaring myself witless on mountains.
I agree 100%. The way BM3 seamlessly integrates AU instruments into the music making process is brilliant. It has replaced my previous mobile setup consisting of an Ipad, MPC 500 and OP-1. Now I have just the Ipad and a Korg Nanokey Studio. Much less cumbersome, lighter and way more powerful yet extremely fun to use.
Thanks for the suggestions people. I managed to get 10 minutes on a friends computer and purchased it at the 11th hour. Phew, last minute fence dive!
And thanks for the invite @MonzoPro but it's a lightning visit to my mums. Another time eh?
@Jocphone welcome to the BM3 team!
Yeah any time - the kettle's always on, and unlistenable music pumping out of the stereo here!
I think you'll enjoy BM3, I can see it fitting in to your music making style nicely.
Hey,
Been on the road for awhile, saw all the hype about BM3, read a few posts & watched a couple demos.
Bought into it before the sale ends but getting buyers remorse that maybe I fell for the hype and didn't need this one.
However, the sampler and a couple other features like time stretching still have me intrigued.
Trouble is, I'm not intuitively taking to this one at all yet. Nearly completely lost so far.
Who's got the best "getting started" tutorial video out there for nailing the foundational workflow syntax of this one? I've managed a bit on my own, but still very much woefully awkward at this point.
My gut tells me this pad-based environment may very well be my jam, but it's not quite clicking for me quite yet. Suggestions for QuickStart videos?
I think there's something in this one for me. Just need a somewhat stabile foundation to start with and I think I can firgure it out for the most part.
Pants of Death's videos (my favs) always work well for me. I firgured out 50% of Dhalang MG from his video alone as a starting point. The other 50% from the dev's videos. Just need a good syntax/logic primer for this one. Haq's videos for Modstep got me over the initial hump on that one. Firgured there's gotta be a good one out there by now for BM3 given all the over the top hype this one's got.
What "5pinlink said - there's multiple ways of doing the same thing. I was stumped finding my way around - still am sometimes, but the best way to learn is to just muck about with it, and eventually the UI layout will make sense. And when it does, you'll start to love it.
I'm already loving it.
What a crazy couple of weeks for BM3. I've been trying to follow all the discussions, good and bad, and have managed to dodge the 'buy' button, but, Friday was pay day, and I hate to miss a bargain. SO....I had to buy it.
I didn't get on with BM1, didn't buy BM2 and have been slowly winding down on my iOS music making and app buying, and I certainly didn't need a new DAW.
That's what I thought, until BM3 came along.
If they iron out the bugs, this could be the app of the year for me.
It is the only buggy/occasionaly crashy app I have given five stars to. Doesn't make sense I know.
This is me. I’ve kind of ended my exploration phase of ios music. I’m lucky enough to have found just the right suite of apps that fulfill all of my needs. Its actually a collection of fewer apps than I thought it’d be. I was reduced to an occasional lurker here, and despite missing some of my virtual friends here (JGY, I'm not talking about you, don't be so vain) I was ok with that. But we’ve all been patiently waiting for this one from Intua, and I was pretty sure it was impossible that it could live up to that hype. But for the first time in a long time, I’m actually really excited to sit down and explore a new app. Didn’t even realize how much I missed that, but I did. I am starting to also realize that my time invested in learning the quirks of BM2 might have given me a head start on understanding this new beast, which doesn’t suck.
Exactly how I feel. KRFT is an app that gave me that also gives me that feeling. Now BM3 has also captured that feeling. This is an app that is worth discovering and learning.
I won't buy it cause I have Auria pro. It will be just overlapping fonctionalities thus pointless to get.
I found BM3's quick start guide to be helpful in terms of getting started. Googling BM3 videos can also turn up some topics of interest. I've found the app to be difficult for me to learn because it's complex and multi layered so I can easily forget where things are located kind of like the card game concentration where you have a number of cards face down on the table and try to match cards by turning them over one at a time. I know I've seen it but I'm not quite sure where. I'll defer music creation until I understand the app after spending more time learning it and have used it enough where the location and functions become second nature rather than confusing.
It's not an intuitive UI, and I'm still trying to remember the sequence of clicks required to access basic functions. It's a complex thing though, so hopefully they'll tweak it.
Doug's vid is probably the best as a quickstart guide, but the devs really need to provide some tutorials of their own, in particular the pattern/clip/song workflow.
Guys it's very simple. It's just like Machine only infinitely better.
I've figured out a fair bit of it. There's a good app buried in here somewhere, but this looks like one of those scenarios where the dev crammed in every half-cocked suggestion made by beta testers that only make any sense at all to the beta tester who insisted on it, and the dev who implemented it.
Sometimes everything but the kitchen sink isn't the wisest of approaches. In terms of intuitive, logical UI design, this thing is a real mess.
This will definitely not replace Auria for me, yet there's some goodness, and innovative approaches here, that I could definitely see used alongside my DAW of choice (Auria)
I don't regret the purchase yet, but I'm surprised it doesn't seem fully fleshed out with regard to the UI decisions and buggines, given the amount of time this was hyped. Like, it could've used a few more weeks or months in the oven.
I don't think it's accurate to say the developers took a kitchen sink approach with the app. There is a specific design and workflow around which the app was developed. If you're more familiar with this sort of workflow, it will make more sense to you versus if you're not. I'm not used to many of their approaches.
I agree the app would have benefited from more beta testing with an expanded circle of beta testers who weren't already familiar with how the app worked. These additional users could also have used the app in more unanticipated ways which would have provided more feedback for making the app more comprehensible for new users, especially those who are not used to the types of work flows represented in BM3. They would have facilitated the squashing of more bugs too.
I also think an In-App context sensitive help system similar to that found in Patterning would be very helpful.
Coming from being an old school MPC guy, this app is DOPE! And easy really. It took me a few hours to get sort of comfortable. You just need to learn the tabs and the file browsing system/terminologies.
My original goal was to turn an iPad into a MPC style beat machine/groovebox. Heard nothing but nightmares from iMPC Pro so never jumped on that.
Still going to use another program to mix or finish tracks.
Excited to see how this app grows.
I agree about the length of development time and hype this should been more polished out the gate.
Lately I've had hardware synths on the brain though which is never good haha.
Yeah, I agree that's not completely accurate. It's a brand new app for me and I haven't had it long enough to make blanket conclusions like that.
I'm definitely warming up to the new approach and possible new workflows.
I can also say that this will likely become a mainstay app for me. I'm not a musician with a lot of habits to unlearn. In some respects, this will make more sense to my own intuition than more traditional approaches do.
However, what's insanely aggravating while trying to learn this, is that sometimes things work, and sometimes they don't. Which makes it very difficult to know if I'm doing something wrong, or if the app isn't working properly.
While I have done the majority of my sampling and sample chopping in PC daws, I simply don't see BM3 as a daw. It is designed to evolve the sampler/groovebox workflow that already exists in the world. To me it is a super cohesive UI and amazing feature set. I don't see it as some weird ass Homer Car of ideas at all. It just may not be the ride you are interested in.
I totally agree and empathize with your last paragraph. At times things within the app seem familiar so I expect them to work in familiar ways so my first instinct is to think it's a bug. As I learn more about the app, I'm learning things are not always how they seem. At other times there are simple things I want to do within the app and I have no idea how to do them even after poking around for a while. There's enough very useful functionality in the app that I've been able to figure out that I'm excited to commit to the time needed to comprehend the rest.
Intua's forum is very active so it might be a good resource for learning about the app and addressing problems/concerns you encounter.