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Beatonal is GREAT as a Bluetooth midi controller (IPad or Android)
If you have multiple devices, Beatonal is a powerful (and cheap) sequencer you can hook up via Bluetooth. It's basically like Figure but can send midi out. I don't remember how much it costs to enable midi exactly, but think it's only 3 bucks for Android or iPad. I just downloaded a free Bluetooth midi transmitter on Android and was off to the races.
I've been using Beatonal on a cheap Android Kindle Fire (have several I got a few years ago to use in my classroom) hooked up to my iPad as a multi instrument 16 step midi sequencer. It's fantastic for several reasons (I have several ipads and could use Beatonal on any of those as a midi controller, but I have other midi programs that are ipad only like Xynthesizer that I prefer to load on them, all sent to my main iPad running AUM).
One, it has a drum, bass, chord, and lead sequencer lanr that can scale quantize notes to major or minor. Each sequencer has its own midi channel so you can drive 4 different instruments. Having a chord sequencer that can lay down some progressions, then a bass and lead sequencer lane to jam with is very fun and powerful. I can't think of any other touch sequencer that has that flexibility and immediacy.
Two, each sequencer has a bunch of rhythm patterns/grooves that you can choose. Each lane in the drum sequencer has a lot of patterns.
Three, you can choose to have a recorded sequence or to just play notes live, but if you play live the notes are still quantized to your host tempo. I'll go between having record toggled (so I can record sequences and change them on the fly) and shutting off record so I can just play.
Four, you can record sequences live or put them in by tapping each track'sgrid.
I've been sending the midi to instruments directly or sometimes I'll send it to Rozeta Scaler first, hook up an LFO to Scaler's transpose, and jam.
Since there are so many groove patterns, it's also been great as a groove input for step sequencers like Mididreams that can use note input to advance the sequence. I'll set up Mididreams, change the notes on the iPad, and on my Android tablet keep choosing different grooves to drive the Mididreams rhythm.
With my Android tablet I've needed to tweak the Ableton Link latency settings to get the timing just right. If I use the audio of Beatonal sent into a mixer instead of midi (the synths are actually surprisingly powerful... There's FM!), the latency settings are different for the right timing.... This means that at least on the Android, I can't send midi and audio at the same time since they each need different latency settings.
Anyway, for such a cheap program, I'm impressed with how musical it can be. It's definitely made the couple cheap Android tablets I have lying around useful and fun!
Now I just wish Korg would put Ableton Link on the Android iKaos Pad... ☺. That would allow me to make these Kindle Fires scream!
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Yea, it’s one of those apps that I’m bummed never got more love or development by the dev.
It would be killer as an AU interface in AUM.
You should check out Reason Figure as well. Doesn’t do midi, but the audio is cool, and it does a good job of creating loops for export.
Another app that needs the AU treatment.
Right on, I used to love Figure!
For me, it's the midi out that makes Beatonal really special. It turns all of my old tablets, Android or IOS, into powerful 4 track bluetooth sequencers (with one being a full 4 measure drum sequencer, another a polyphonic chord).
This has so been a lot of fun to drive my hardware with Beatonal on a tablet. I'll hook up my Microfreak, Uno Synth Pro, and Hydrasynth Explorer to AUM, throw on Patterning 2,thrn have Beatonal hooked up via bluetooth to drive the three synths while I tweak knobs.
I love beatonal, had it forever, it’s one of my many options for sketching something out then either export midi or run it via core midi into AUM to record in atom 2. Fun and easy app to use. IAP was $2.99 for the midi capabilities.
https://apps.apple.com/app/beatonal-easy-music-maker/id1157803880
If you have the app, I'd highly recommend backing it up with iMazing. An app that hasn't been updated since 2017 could end up disappearing. All it would take is for Apple to send a warning to the developer about its stale app policy, and the developer deciding it's not worth it, for it to disappear.
Thanks.