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How are you using BM3?
I love the app.I keep telling myself that.
Problem is, I can't exactly figure where it best serves for me.
Are you using the instruments from BM3 alone or with other apps?
Do you use it for just mixing/master your loops/stems?
I would like a "SKETCH MODE" or "GRID PLAYER" type thing in the app. That way I can do more free style experiments and less formal song construction composition DAW type feel all the time.
SIDENOTE:
ARE YOU AWARE IF THERE IS A LIMIT TO AUDIO QUALITY OF EACH APP DUE TO IOS DEVICE SYSTEMS? What is it?
For instance BM3, AURIA, and CUBASIS?
Is there a quantifiable way to measure audio quality output of each and which is has highest marks in the important categories for a musician making music with those apps?
Comments
Are you talking about scenes?
24 bit is the optimal quality for audio production. All the big apps BM3, Cubasis, GarageBand etc support that.
Scenes = sketch mode
It’s fantastic. You can experiment with grooves or anything you like here. Once you’re happy you transfer it over to main sequencers page.
I’m using it to create entire songs as a fully fledged daw. Audio and midi using my choice of the best AU synths, all controlled within and by bm3, without ever having to leave the daw.
If I ever have to leave the daw eg to use an IAA it breaks my creative flow. There are very few apps that make me want to do that.
Bm3 is amazing. Yet still has many fundamental clunky workflow issues that need implementing. Like no copy n paste audio in audio tracks. No duplicate tracks. No move pkayhead within pattern editor etc etc
I deleted it and am back to Cubasis full time. Probably will load it again but not until I get a larger iPad, could be awhile as I'm going to be picking up an arranger from Korg before that.
‘The Triton brothers were always so different’...
I’m still trying to find my groove in BM3. I actually feel like I’m ok with the more complex stuff like macros, sends, layers, etc. But I still get stuck on the basics when it comes to arranging audio on the timeline. Weird. I think I just need to watch a really good tutorial.
I load up a bunch of banks and make loops in scenes mode.
Then I run apps on the side with link (imaschine2, elastic drums, etc) and come up with more patterns. I export usable patterns as audio files into BM3. Then I start coming up with more patterns (cutting up loops in the sampler)
When I start to hear a structure of a song forming I begin naming scenes (intro, part A,
Then I put everything on to the timeline and start tweaking.
As I only make tracks for personal pleasure and playing along with, BM3 just fits me so well. Yeah I have most iOS DAWs etc, but BM3 is as close to my ideal of fast and simple as it gets beyond Gadget.
Reason I prefer it over Gadget is simply its AU use. IMO AU is the future of iOS music making and stand alone apps will steadily go the way of the dinosaurs without the cool factor!
BM3 gives me a nice linear old time DAW with a nice sketch ideal built in using scenes. While I do miss some IAA or Gadget only sounds, I simply sample them into BM3 when I come across a sound I don’t have on AU.
Once BM3 gets AU Midi use as in AUM, then it’s just about making BM3 more robust and keeping it updated for each new iOS release. I would gladly pay a small amount for additional updates over time, if they continued to put the work in they obviously are doing.
I had a blast when it came out, but haven’t touched it for months. Partly because the UI terrifies me, but mostly due to the fact I’m just using the iPad for jamming and live playing these days.
It’s a great app though, and I’m sure I’ll pick it up again at some point.
For me BM3 is like a 'Roland W30' on roids!
I use it to sample sounds and create loops & sounds I can use in Cubasis or LogicPro X and Renoise on my computer. The sequencer is far from complete yet but one day...
I'm very eager to see how the Vancouver Gadget turns out to be once released as I'm a bit of a Gadget junkie but I'm still not 100% friends with it's sequencer...
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+! This! I hate using IAA now. I try to keep everything as an AU inside of BM3. I will make exceptions for Sugar bytes apps and Samplr but that's it!
I'm in love with the app. It's everything I expected and more.
It crashes on me pretty much every session, so mainly I’ve just been laying some groundwork and learning a few tricks as they debug and improve the app. 2-3 more updates and hopefully it’ll be solid as a rock, at which point I’ll dive deep.
I loaded in all of my samples from everywhere, including the entire Logic/MainStage sample library (working with a 256 Pro) and I’ve made a few multi-layered instruments from that and messed around with some Apple loops, which I never really got into in Logic (BM3 plays and converts *.caf files).
Mainly just sending things over to Blocs for now, though.
The scenes mode works pretty well for jamming and recording guitar licks.
Oh, and it’s great for making sample chains. Cherry pick your favourites and send them, evenly spaced, to a slicer.
So so good for sketching and sampling other apps then twisting parts into newness.
Clunky to arrange in, but I prefer a mouse for that anyway.
With a few more tweaks, I might change my tune about arranging in it.
Haven’t been on BM3 since they updated GB lol...
I'm building my first full track in BM3 now and the workflow is starting to make more sense, but dealing with audio tracks is still opaque to me. As long as I'm making loops and patterns, everything works well. But a vocal as an audio track? Not so much.
Agreed. The missing feature for me would be able to record scene performances directly to the timeline. It would be cool to do with automation recording on. Things could get really crazy!!!
I use it with mpc5000. Mpc is the main workstation that i sample single shots and audio loops into. I have synth that doubles as midi keys hooked to the ipadi 2 way midi and output to 6i6 on ipad. 6i6 outputs via digital cable to mpc. I use bm3 to record midi for this synth and ios synths. Then record that single audio loop to mpc. I record the whole song back to ipad when finished for mastering. Waiting for the iphone version for bm3 so that its easier to use synths on iphone in similar way at the same time, with its output going through minibrute as one of its "oscillators", rack eq and possibly some fuzz mixed in. Sequencing the minibrute as the same time as ios synths so that they layer.
I also sometimes use bm3 sampler instead of chopping on mpc and effects for synths etc.
Patiently awaiting iPhone version....
Totally!....me too
To a degree yes.
For my lack of clarity yes you answered me.
My fail.
Clarification:
I like being able to trigger loops I made via MIDI.
I do have faith it will only get better.
I use BM3 as a sequencer essentially. I don’t track it out in song mode, I just create patterns and play them in scene mode. It helps me keep creating. When I want to track it out for bouncing I’ll use the song mode and arrange it that way. I treat it just like I would Logic Pro X which i haven’t touched for production since getting Beatmaker 3
I never used BM2.
So, in meantime I got BM2.
I actually find that I am using BM2 more on the iPads now than BM3.
I can put input slot with other apps and no glitches.
BM3 is very finicky at times with my CPU.
Maybe I missed it.
MPC?
App or hardware?
App pro or old version?
I have iMPC on 2nd iOS device at all times. Basically REtronyms is my 2nd iPad main use I guess besides iKaoss, Figure, and Sample.
IAA doesn't work well for you?
I have no issues using IAA in AUM.
Cubasis it is less than ideal.
I don't think I used any IAA in BM3.
I don't think I used many AU instruments either.
Using all the IAP I bought trying to learn their depth.
Juiced up!
LOL
Love the analogy.
Sustanon Beats Incorporated.
I'm an Ableton Live user on desktop so BM3 works just right for me, a la scenes. I've sampled all my fav Korg Gadget, NI iMaschine kits into BM3, and it's great. The FX are ok, although I still do use 3rd party. Chopping samples up into the pads are great.
It's quite a sketch app before sending into Live on Desktop, but if I had a faster iPad and intua opens the code for the spectrum analyzer in the EQ, I'd confidently do full on finished tracks on iPad with BM3.
Interesting.
Thanks
MPC5000. I think the app sucks hard, at least the pro version, never got the regular version as its so stripped.
I do not have issues with it but I prefer working with AU instances now; I'm hooked. I like IAA in AUM