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That would be pretty huge. If/when that happens, I'll proceed with abandon!
Choosing bm2 over any other mpc style app for live work is a no brainer. I would not feel comfortable with the ram usage hovering around 90% all of the time. The track record is absolutely staggering. I presume bm2 will get an update to ab2 before ios8 launch. I was actually hoping in bm3 but I'm not a fan of active waiting. I'm actually very surprised that people gave up on this app just based on UI. Yes, it is quite different from your usual DAW but isn't Ableton different from the old Cubase/logic format. Once you know where things are it's absolutely fine to use. In my case it was the case of not being able to afford anything better but accidentally I ended up learning one of the most useful packages. For those who've bought impcp I'd say, well done for getting it so cheap. Now, get on the ifunbox and transfer all of the samples to bm2 library and get to make some sweet music. At the risk of repeating myself, the day bm2 or 3 gets iaa fx slot I'll be done looking for my ideal ios daw and I'm quite confident that's gonna happen soon enough.
As for audiobus I will still be using it for my live looping. Win win situation.
Edit: let's not forget that apart from the bloat bm2 has rather small CPU/ram footprint for what it offers.
@cinebient it's pretty straightfoward to record an AU instrument in Logic. Do you have that yet? Likely Reaper too but it's been a while.
@syrupcore: I saw a you tube video how to record the midi track and audio track at the same time
At the moment i just have Garage Band X which is really unexpected great for a free DAW and i bought for 4,49€ the content with 14GB. I'm sure i want Logic Pro X too but GB X is a great way to start here. It's better for me then the most iOS DAW's and that for free. Since GB X seems to be a Logic Pro X light, it's the way to go now 
I don't know how these things work but I find it bizarre that one can delete the bloat with a jailbroken device (like Tim did in the video) but not with the ifunbox.
Lately, I think my biggest struggle with BM2 is how the filter works (or doesn't). If you activate the filter envelope, it completes disables the ability to use the cutoff frequency knob. It moves around, but there is no audible effect. The same thing happens if you activate an LFO on the cutoff frequency. Kinda frustrating.
Aside from that, I really just wish I hadn't watched all the impc pro log videos. That UI and workflow is so good. I find myself trying to do stuff I saw in the videos in BM2, and it just doesn't happen.
@duck_waddle with filter envelope activated I think that cutoff frequency is assigned to the "amount" knob. Does this work for you? Same goes for activating the LFO. Glad that you've found a good workflow too
@duck_waddle said:
Could it be that the sound you're using is a sine or something quite already dark at the waveform stage? Try different, brighter sounds like sawtooth or something. Does it still happen to you with moug bass 01?
@supadom said:
That's exactly the preset I was using, actually. I think this is a well-documented bug - here's a post on the Intua boards about it.
http://intua.net/forums/discussion/2722/filter-envelope-kills-cutoff-setting/p1
@DarbyA said:
Well, the amount knob does affect the amount of envelope applied to the filter. But I should still have control of the filters cutoff frequency at the same time.
I watched a bunch of those vids last night, thx guys. I'm focused on the drum sampler at the moment and that thing is deep! One thing that was a little confusing was X groups. I'd like to configure an open hat to cut off when I hit the closed hat. Anyone know how that would work?
@MoonWolf said:
To do this I assigned both to the same x group.
I'd like to know how you use streaming samples within BM2.
Got this from the manual: Select a sample from the browser, and drag it onto a pad. You can optionally load the sample in disk streaming mode by toggling “STREAMING” before dragging.
Note to self...rtfm....thanks @telecharge.
@funjunkie27 said:
You're welcome. Manuals really are a mixed bag for iOS apps. This is another area where Intua has outclassed Retronyms/Akai.
(Sorry, had to get that dig in.) =P
@duck_waddle of course you always have the option of using a filter in the effect section which is also automateable.
Thx, @supadom!
Thanks @supadom! That's what I am going to have to do, although I will miss any LFO routing options in that regard
looks like i got my home work ahead of me.... I need to start dumping some of my impulsive app buys... So BM2 may survive to the keeper list
Apparently there's a bug with the sustain pedal releasing notes that you've still got held down on the keyboard? So frustrating, BM2 is so perfect except for a small collection of massive glitches.
I too am trying to decide what is best. Right now, it is between a fixed and working iMPC Pro, Beatmaker3 (Beatmaker2 for now), Beat-Machine and Fingerlab DM1..... :-)
Just watched some if the tutorials that @telecharge posted and I may have to revisit BM2 as it doesn't seem to be as convoluted as I recall. So thanks for that!
Glad you're finding some things of interest to you, @thinds.
I hope others will contribute any tips/tricks/tutorials they know of or come across.
Yeah great links @telecharge, thank you. Lots to learn. @Audiojunkie I would be interested to know how well BM2 works as a multi-channel sampler with Cubasis on one of the latest iPads if you happen to try that
I wonder how long we'll have to wait for BeatMaker 3. Intua could literally just take BM2, give it a slick interface that's something like a mashup of iMPC Pro and Cubasis, and call it BeatMaker 3 and lots of people would be happy.
Whatever Intua does with BM3, I'm sure it'll raise the bar once again. I'm looking forward to seeing how NanoStudio 2 turns out as well.
iMPCubasis.
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@DarbyA Unfortunately, I only have an iPad 2. :-) However, BeatMaker has something no other sampling app has on the iOS platform, which is disk streaming. You shouldn't be limited only by RAM. :-)
I just scanned the manual, but couldn't find the midi notes for the drum sampler pads. Is there a chart somewhere, or is it assignable?
Moon wolf, just tap on MIDI learn and all pads become assignable.
@Moonwolf Found this on the Intua forum. Hope it's enough for you to go on...
http://intua.net/forums/discussion/3385/beatmaker-2-midi-in-problem/p1
"The reason why the pads are not working is because your mpd is sending midi data to pads that have no samples assigned to them.
The pads start at midi note 0 which in BM2 is c-2 so you have to set your mpd to send midi notes 0-15 to the drum pads. Midi note 0 is the first pad and midi note 15 is the 16th pad in pad bank A. If you want your mpd to send midi notes to the bank B of pads then your mpd has to send notes 16-31.
Just create a preset on your MPD for BM2 that has the pads assigned to the right midi notes and you should be fine."