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@BigDawgsByte - thanks so much for outlining all the content and file sizes. That's really helpful information.
Got email back from UVI and the user sample slicing plus the user sample library organizing request will be forward to the developer team.
Until then I am puzzled for refund or not... It has the best layout I used ever (IMO), but afraid it will end up like impc classic....
Time to dig beatmachine again!
How many padbanks are available?Just one?One more thing i really love about the drumsampler in BM2 that you can have EIGHT padbanks available at once.Unfortunately,the best (drum)sampler on ios is still surrounded by the rest of the app...
My Epic guide demo should be live in about half an hour or so, personally I really like it
I've been reading the reviews about Beathawk and waiting for Dougs review Video before I purchase it. Thanks Doug. Going to YouTube now.
can you time-stretch & pitch shift your own user imported samples? That's the only thing I'm unclear about with this. I'd like to be able to import a bassline and repitch it up or down while retaining the same tempo. (ie. 2 bar bassline in key of A at 98bpm - can I repitch it to key of B at 98bpm?)
@Halftone you can pitch shift your samples plus or minus 24 semitones in semitone increments. You can time stretch them up to 200% or compact them to 50%.
Hi Guys,
Olivier from UVI here. I'm one of the dev of Desktop application but I've followed BeatHawk development
First of all, the 800 MB of the application do not includes the inApp content.
InApp demos material are downloaded afterwards on your iPad. Only demo songs and not the whole inApp which is downloaded only if you actually buy it.
Lots of multisampled instruments hence the disk footprint even if flac is used.
You can timestretch/pitchshift user samples.
Factory sample have their tempo already set so it will automatically follow the song tempo and do not require manual speed adjustment like your own material. You can actually have the same behaviour with your own sample if they have the wav ACID chunk with the right tempo
Right now only factory content can be sliced and mapped to the keyboard.
Hope this clarify things.
Thanks @otristan. Nice to have you here. Congrats on the release. I think it's pretty smashing for five bucks.
Bummed about not being able to slice my own samples. That wasn't clear from the tutorial videos (which showed slicing to pads).
Also, around here anyway, using AudioBus to sample into beathawk is going to be a popular request.
This is a 1.0 so you can expect some improvements over the time.
We will mainly focus on stability fixes right now. There are few reports that we need to investigate.
UVI is not a newcomer when it comes to music app so don't worry we know our stuff and we'll try to make you guys happy
Cheers !
Hi Otristan,
Did I understand right that it can import sample packs in the ACID format (which I sometimes see as an option when buying sample packs)?
If so could you tell us more?
Otherwise appologies if I've got the wrong end of the stick.
Thanks
You can import any samples (wav, aiff, flac) by copying those to the iTunes shared folder of BeatHawk application and then we do read acid chunk from wav files to set the tempo for automatic timestretch to match with your song tempo.
@otristan said:
I know. It's why I bought it.
Really glad to see you guys on iOS.
@otristan thanks for stopping in. Glad to hear that development on this isn't a 'one and done' deal. It's a very interesting product and I look forward to seeing how far you guys can take it.
@otristan Thanks for engaging with us. Can you see about adding BeatHawk as a choice on your support contact page? Thanks.
http://www.uvi.net/contact-support
@otristan while you are here, there are two feature requests to hopefully add in the near future. It would be great to be able to export and open files to and from AudioShare; along with AudioBus import directly into your sampler.
The second feature regards MIDI. You have good MIDI input implementation for external MIDI keyboards, drum pads and controllers; but what you are missing is MIDI clock sync (lock to tempo) for virtual MIDI. Besides needing to start and stop your pattern or song sequencer from other iOS apps, you need to lock into sync tempo, driven from the external clock of other iOS apps like Cubasis, Loopy HD and others. This is really crucial for music production on the iPad or iPhone. Most of the iOS music apps are still missing this essential feature. If you could add this MIDI function, you would have a more complete solution to music making on the iPad.
So, to recap since this is getting hard to follow -
Beathawk has AudioBus but only as an output for sounds - you can't import sounds/samples w/ AB yet
IAA not working yet
AudioCopy/Paste not an option yet for exporting loops or importing content.
External MIDI control works but not clock sync yet
User samples can only be imported via iTunes file sharing
Is all of this correct as of Saturday, 01/24/15?
+1 on the updating support contact page (UVI did respond to me quickly, much appreciated)
+20 on the AB input
+300 on audioshare in out.
and my FR is quick slicing my samples. Not necessarily making a new engine. Just calculating the length and divide it equally X times .Fast and simple while a sequence plays.
Oh ,forgot to complain about making folders on the user sample library...(ok, I'll stop trolling now!)
@StormJH1
you can import/export samples via audiocopy/paste and IAA is working (tested on audioshare)
@StormJH1 said:
BeatHawk only works in the AB input slot.
If you're talking bulk import, then yes, iTunes File Sharing or iFunBox.
@Moderndaycompiler said:
I'm glad you posted...your interest and use sounds similar to what I would do; and like you and Doug at TSTR, I really like good chorus/choir type of sounds. That and Latin percussion should be worth the price of admission.
Downloading now. (Lucky for me that, as of today, I can mow move iSymphonic to my iPhone freeing up the space to accommodate BeatHawk...things like this usually don't work out for us iOS music makers).
@TozBourne I have the choir pack and it is good....
@StormJH1 Just to confirm you can most certainly bring in your own samples via general pasteboard, rename them as you wish and delete them also. You can then time stretch them very easily and also play them across the keys. Very nice.
virtual midi both in and out is needed.
destructive sample editing too.
is this app universal?
also still need to know does the current sample editor point markers to the sample or does loading up a sample in the app take up more space?
@TozBourne said:
Hi Toz. Looking forward to hear your impressions overall. The choir samples are of similar quality as ISymphonic's samples (great IMHO;) I learned a lot from Doug's epic vid about using Beathawk as a composition tool so I may just try using it that way. I really enjoyed JohnyGoodyears vid too:) Smiled when I saw that Doug had bought mostly the same sound packs as I did. I did not initially get the grand piano ($10) or the rhodes ($6). But those do sound gorgeous and I just might get em now. I was hoping the Funk, Brass Riffs,Trip Hop, and such had more instruments rather than focus on mainly loop sets and hits and such. Still some useful articulations and instrument effects to use from those loops. I would really like to see UVI release an app more along the lines of a Sampletank,Crudebytes apps, bs-16i, etc. UVI does have killer sounds that I would like without the beat tool, impc, interface.
BTW, the new ISymphonic (and other crudebyte apps) being universal is quite welcome (in addition to the fixes and improvemnts) so my phone is happy. My 128GB ipad air has some room left
@otristan said:
Is it possible to create a drum kit?
@DaveMagoo said:
In as far as you have 16 pads to play with, each of which can be assigned a particular instrument or drum (or clanky pipe), then yes indeed...
is the swing/quantize global or can you have it on for some samples but off for others?
@JohnnyGoodyear said:
Nah I mean on one pad as there are some already available?
the kits you're referring to have uvi's meta data in them, think of them like rexfiles, they have the slicing information already mapped, you can't do this with regular wavs from within the app yet.
Had a good time with Beathawk tonight. It's extremely musical, very focussed and very clean (what menu?). Easy to build up patterns and easy to copy and whatnot - feels like very little gets in the way (have not tried to use my own samples yet though!). I'm actually digging the lack of piano roll—which I'm normally addicted to— because it's helping me listen instead of look. One thing I'd appreciate is a dynamic erase button. Instead of erasing a whole track it'd work like some classic beat boxes: while in record mode, if you hold it down along with a pad it erases just while being held. That way you can remove a flub without wiping out the whole part. Some modern apps work like this as well.
I love the keyboard and volume screens. And it's really fun to be able to hold repeat while using those screens. Would be rad if there were an overdub mode that allowed you to adjust the volume and/or pitch of a recorded pattern without entering new note data. So, say I have a nice hi hat pattern recorded and now I want to mess with the velocity/volume; enter volume mode and gliding my finger around would adjust the existing hits, not add new ones.
Actually, upon reread, looks like both of those requests are kind of based on life without a piano roll. They would both make certain things made trivial by piano rolls easier to do without needing to resort to one.