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iZotope kicked Beatmaker's ass
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:17 am
by beats me
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/idrum/iphone/
Soooooo much more flexible and tons more sounds.
Exciting times.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:02 am
by djfm
holy shit that looks sweet as
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:43 am
by sweetjesus
massif massif droolz
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:26 pm
by Tarekith
Yep, pretty fun stuff, I like the iDrum interface a lot more. Being stuck with their sounds kind of blows though, as is still not having a really valid way of doing melodies. Oh export options are only 40 second ringtones as of now, though I hear in an update the kits you make on the phone will load in the computer plug in for further work too.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:44 pm
by beats me
I like the interface a lot better too but I guess there are some things beatmaker does that idrum doesn't, specifically letting you crop the ends of samples on the fly and I didn't notice any kind of swing/groove on the idrum.
The sounds are great though and you can get the club and hip hop editions combined for half of what beatmaker costs. And I thought softsynths were going dirt cheap compared to harware, now it's about spending $10 or $20....well, except for that stupid expensive $150 mixer app.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:32 pm
by Sales Dude McBoob
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:04 pm
by beats me
yeah I don't think they are going to win any points calling both their plug-in and iphone app iDrum. Watching videos you aren't going to know which is which unless you have them both.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:33 pm
by Daim
Obviously the one controlled by a mouse curser is not the iphone app.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:03 pm
by Wesley
their site doesn't really say if you can export decent quality WAV/AIF files though.
btw, iDrum existed by itself before there was an iPHone version. I'm a little sick of iEverything, but overall iZotope is a kickass plugin company. You can even download their Vinyl plugin for free.
-Wesley D.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:32 pm
by condra
Very impressive, and great to see competition already.
I wonder what will happen first - will Beatmaker improve their interface up to iZotopes level, or will iZotope allow user created kits.
God I love my iphone.
:)
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:56 pm
by missjade
just messed around with this app last night... really fun and addictive. interface is pretty easy to use and i like how you can drag out patterns and slide your finger on the pads for different velocity levels. i absolutely love that you have to SHAKE the phone to delete patterns. sick feature!!
Re: :)
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:02 pm
by Sales Dude McBoob
missjade wrote:i absolutely love that you have to SHAKE the phone to delete patterns. sick feature!!
I dunno. I saw some dude playing some sort of Tetris-esque game on the subway last night. Every time he finished a board he'd have to shake his iPhone around to reset the game.
I carry my beloved white 3G around in a diaper. I would never subject it to such uncouth hostilities.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:30 pm
by landrvr1
iCarumba!
How's the latency? Same as with Beatmaker or improved?
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:56 pm
by condra
landrvr1 wrote:
How's the latency? Same as with Beatmaker or improved?
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I second that pondering..
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:06 am
by dm_hawk
idrum's latency is pretty bad on my phone - real-time recording is pretty much useless.