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Video..BeatHawk by UVI The Epic Guide for iPad
I enjoyed using this more the iMPC Pro and iMachine, I found it easier to get along with, I also go through using Audioshare to import your own samples.
http://www.thesoundtestroom.com/beathawk-uvi-epic-guide-ipad/
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Great value for a powerful app. Thanks for the demo, Doug. Sold!
Nice video, especially liked how you expanded on options for song mode. You can rename, copy, paste, and delete samples by tapping two fingers on the sample in the browse window. The export song function can add the song to your User Library so you can effectively re sample using the app too.
Ah, brilliant, thank you @Paulinko
Great video Doug, I spent some time with beat hawk this morning and really enjoyed it. I've tried many other apps to get a workflow going but so far was struggling and ended up frustrated but I realised this morning that this app is what I've been waiting for. The song mode you showed off has more features than I thought so thanks for the info.
Brilliant
Shades of Gary Numan early on... great looking app, and high quality.
What are the guitars like?
I'm a rock/blues guy and this seems to be mostly disco/EDM/urban/funk oriented, but I'm tempted nonetheless...
Thank you Doug!
Looking forward to watching this. I did a little piece yesterday with Beathawk (can't say I love the name, reminds me of a percussionist called Gordon from Indiana who's gone Native, but what the hell) and I liked how you can get things done, the options/constraint argument, but I found the song mode choices very limited. I'm sure I missed things...
Thank you Doug and thank you Paulinko!
Great vid!
How do I create a drum kit?
@DaveMagoo said:
You can't...
Thanks Doug, I was in two minds about this one, but those choirs, very nice indeed.
@DaveMagoo said:
Did you mean how do I allocate drum samples to the pads? If yes, it's simple via the browser, touch a pad, find your sound and press load.
@thesoundtestroom said:
I agree Doug. KISS is the formula here. Top notch sounds as well.
And to think some folks were put off by the promo video? Our gain, their loss. As with any app, it's HOW you use it. This app is not genre specific and all the better for that. Great sounds all round. BM2 and iMPC pro, eat your hearts out
@Korakios said:
You can... Just load the sample from the browser to which pad you want, that's what I've been doing, or am I missing something?
I though he meant creating a kit like the factory kits ,which are complete set of drum elements and can be assign in one pad, but the elements can be accessed individually ,on pitch mode.
@Korakios said:
Yep it would be nice if you could 'zone' drum samples, fx, etc., who knows maybe a future request but how it's implemented here keeps it nice and simple.
Yeah 1 user kit per pad....hopefully in a future update
I would also love to see the cool 'preset' loop functionality (ie: the auto transient detection and splitting across the keys) work for audio copied loops in a future update...
...this app is solid so far:)
@DaveMagoo said:
Yes to this, and also maybe if it's not too CPU intensive, automation on the edit parameters.
Ended up buying it because at 5 dollars, I can feel okay about kicking it off my device if I need room. But I was pretty happy with the first impression. The pros are the simplicity of workflow and the pitched keyboard with MIDI control. The cons are the lack of a piano roll grid like iMPC Pro and some missing export options, like AudioCopy for finished loops.
I really enjoyed the video. I'd love to see / hear a demo of the iap grand and how it sounds compared to igrand and cmp.
@DaveMagoo said:
You can indeed create a drum kit and save it, but you can't assign a custom drum kit to a pad. Only a "factory" kit can be assigned to a pad.
Is the Pitch screen the only screen from where one can play various patches?
I'm trying to figure out if this would be useful as a "Rompler" type of synth. To play various sampled patches live with a midi keyboard controller. I wonder if it's Possible to program various patches to the pads and select them live for "live" patch switching. Is this possible?
@Musikman4Christ said:
Yes, you could assign say 16 different instruments to each individual pad, tweek them then save this as a kit or project then reload this project and select the pad and then select pitch, play away.
If you needed more just save another kit, of 16 sounds and so on. Hope this is helpful.
If anything, for this reason alone, I might get it.
But I would only need one instrument per pad. Would be a really cool feature for playing in a live situation and for switching between patches in a flash.
Do the patches load quickly tho?
@Musikman4Christ, if you only need 16 'instruments' when you create a kit/project they're on the pads and loaded, you just then select them instantly, if you need more than that you'll need to load a new kit, haven't checked how long that takes, think it depends on the size of the instruments you use, but I am thinking of using this as a romper via Audiobus, and also maybe live, the choir IAP is one of the most distinctive I've heard, worth it for that.
Awesome!
For playing live this may be it then! If we create our own samples, will they be placed correctly across the keyboard?
@Musikman4Christ, Yes but, the samples in the packs for BH would be multi-samples zoned across the keyboard range, whereas our sample would stretch the full range of pitch, giving massive distortion as you move way from the original samples pitch, so only of use near the original pitch, unless you require special effects.
My new 'work in progress' song with BeatHawk: