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Good comments @syrupcore. Just got off the Beathawk horse myself. The limitations are pluses (however momentarily frustrating) when you've got an iPad full of apps that offer all kinds of things, but you find yourself all too often in the crossfire of choice. The sample import (with limitations) works just fine.
Thanks @otristan, good to see you here, I'm enjoying using Beathawk, the choirs are stunning, but if I had one request for future sample packs I really would love to see a good quality Gospel choir.
This is in total a £60 app and compared to what you can get for VSTs and sample packs, this is very good value for money. You get instruments, loops, choirs, brass et all and at studio grade quality. In terms of workflows this is far better than BM2 and iMPC pro. With this app you can go from a to b in real quick time without going from A to Z and back to b. The pain of using BM2 and iMPC pro means they will stay deleted on my iPad although I do use their samples in Logic.
The general UI here is very simple and efficient and I'm sold on just the sample packs alone. I was looking at getting a jazz funk sample pack for $99 but then comes a Brass, Disco and Funk UVI sample packs for peanuts basically.
@kobamoto
Hi @otristan, are there any plans for sample packs in rock, blues, 60's genres?
@otristan i am getting a crash every time i open the app and go to the first pad...i then select browser and Disco, construction kits, am on the bus(2nd down), select to preview and it crashes....repeats every time even with a reboot.....(on ipad air 2)..
can you reproduce this?
also can you reveal any future plans for the functionality of user loop transient detection and user created kits?
Thanks, Dave.
I really like the app so far but it is the first app I see that installed without an app icon. So its icon is now the generic one that you see during download of an app. Weird.
Same here, @nick. I've also got wierdness with the IAP pricing. They're all the same price.
Iconless for me too.
@DaveMagoo, the actual BH dev will check crashes on Monday.
I prefer not discussing planned features as nothing precise has yet been decided. We wanted to see the first feedback before planning anything.
@mmp, I don't have the list of upcoming soundbank but I know that we have some material in this area at UVI though so it will maybe used for an inApp.
@nick @telecharge, we have some returns of people experiencing some weird state with inApp, so we will investigate this this week.
@nick @markk, which device do you have with what ios version ? I know that Apple have changed the icon size between ios7 and ios8, something like that.
iPad Air 1 with iOS 7.1
by the way -- it shows the correct app icon during installation but it is lost after installation
@otristan said:
Ok I understand...i have to say it has a great feature set at launch...I particularly like the workflow as its a unique blend bringing some smart ways to craft a track...
...my favourite element being the way the pads have a pitch option to play the sound across the keys..as opposed to 16 levels which is more restrictive.
The prices on the IAPs are constantly changing. It's a bit manic! When I first installed the app, I was a bit disappointed to see each pack listed at $9.99 USD. Then when I looked again last night I saw a range of prices from $1.99 to a max of $5.99 I believe. I scooped up several packs at $4.99 and below. Then things got weird... Just about every time I browse the packs now the prices are different. Sometimes $9.99 across the board, other times $3.99, $4.99 or $7.99. The craziest one is the Choirs pack because that price changes as I try to purchase it! The button will say $4.99 but as soon as I click it the price changes to $7.99. What's going on here?
As for IAP packs, I'd like to see much less drum loops/loops. I've had/own a majority of the sampled drum loops UVI are charging money for inside Beathawk for like a decade or so.
@otristan I hope you (and UVI) are open to some constructive criticism. In addition to what's already been mentioned, BeatHawk needs some proper documentation. I'm guessing the idea is that it's so easy to use, only a few notated screenshots are needed, but that's almost never the case. With users unable to figure out some features and others not working, it's already hurting you guys with less than enthusiastic reviews in the App Store.
I think my only criticism so far if any would be the HP/LP filters as they don't seem to have much character....they seem very rudimentary more like an eq....still very useful....
Agree wholly with Mister @telecharge as regards basic marketing. In this case the extra effort to ensure that you're not nailing one of your feet to the floor while trying to compete in the race.
I got this app 'early' and was trying to give some 'minute to minute' feedback to folks here and for the first hour was convinced (pity) that there was no copy/paste until someone pointed out the (almost) hidden link from the browser page and then the trick of two-finger-tapping to bring up rename, delete etc. Without the smarter people hereabouts this app wouldn't have made it through the first 24 hours before being deleted and bad-mouthed to all and any who asked me about it.
Perhaps there was a marketing meeting (across a board room table or stood around a coffee machine) which said 'let's not make it to clear that folks can easily import their own samples; that'll help pack sales!' but that was either a) a bad decision or b) the product of a paranoid imagination on my part brought about by a simple lack of communication concerning a MAJOR part of the app's utility.
The upside is you've got a good piece of work here and plenty of room to grow further both technically, gui-wise, and in terms of additional (paid) content.
Quick thoughts:
-Allow some kind of selection of loop parts in the song mode to let the user move pieces around more easily.
-Allow use of the Category and Group folder banks to help users organize their imported samples.
-Make the most of this free and dedicated resource of interested users by encouraging improvement ideas and continuing to communicate
@Doromo We will check this. Thanks for the report.
@DaveMagoo It was intended to be used as an EQ not as a creative filtering
Hopefully the fact that I've registered on this forum and answered on a Sunday will show good will from UVI
Awful official intro video, fortunately Doug's rescued my interest. Like the Audioshare in, and AB out, big ticks there.
Is it possible to delete samples? I don't really want to fill up my drive with funky sax riffs I'll never use.
And what kits/samples does it come with?
@monzo said:
Agreed, but Doug did not climb stairs....
@monzo No, you can't delete factory samples. (Maybe if you're jailbroken?)
The 2 included libraries are EDM Factory (Sorry, @bonso) and Urban Factory. Mainly drums and drum loops, with some synth, bass, piano, guitar, and percussion samples as well. No funky sax riffs AFAIK, but you can surely buy some.
Rubbish answer, already better covered so deleted. Hits self, goes off for coffee
@nick said:
Same here but iPad 3.
I have that happen all the time with icons not showing in AB - sooner or later they will appear.
funny, here it's the other way round, icon shows in AB, but not on iOS screen
@nick said:
Again, same here.
@otristan Despite some of the initial constructive criticism (no virtual MIDI clock sync, missing piano roll editing, awkward sample import and slicing, lack of a detailed user manual, etc), I find BeatHawk to be one of the best music making apps available. The speed of getting musical ideas captured very quickly, along with the gorgeous and functional user interface makes this a keeper for me. I have been able to create very interesting and complex rhythms and textures using the high quality preset sounds and a few extra packs. Hooking up my CME XKey keyboard and Korg padKONTROL was a breeze. With the Korg padKONTROL I was able to drum with dynamic velocity, and BeatHawk captured all the nuances.
I look forward to UVI's commitment for improving the product over time. Keep up the good work!
On my 'overdub volume after the fact' request... If I'm not mistaken, that's the only way we could apply velocity variation on kits imported to a single pad or sliced loops. Another less fun solution might be to make the last note touched the 'active' note for the main grid; then we could use the levels screen to record that slice/part and do them one at a time. Definitely less fun but as it is now, it's a bit too fixed.
And/or add the ability to record changes in the sample sidebar as automation.
Except the fact that it's not made by retronyms... is there other reasons explaining why there is less hard critics on this app than on iMPC Pro when it was first released... I was never convinced by iMPCP (it's deleted from my ipad for a few months now) but I find BH way worth... more buggy, less sexy, less intuitive (one of the worth music app on this point so far for me), even less opened, less stable ( on ipad air ios 8 at least), based on an even less user friendly business plan (based on very expensive imposed sound libs)... I don't get how this thread can seem so enthusiastic, is UVI the son of a crazy Godfather ;-b