Beatmaker, iPhone, and Elf pt.2 – Preparation

Beatmaker is a sampler / sequencer application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Some may initially balk at a $20 app. I would suggest you think of it less as a toy and more as a musical instrument. This is a fully realized program with seriously amazing functionality.

Propellerhead’s Reason was used to compose each of the audio elements. After tracking them to make sure they flowed together each segment was exported into an individual WAV. Beatmaker only has 16 sampler slots, so I weighed how much impact each piece would make to the entire composition. I isolated bass drum, snare, hi hat, and open hat. This let me program multiple rhythm elements on the fly.

Download Reason Project file
Download Beatmaker Kit 1
Download Kit Samples (WAV files, key of A, 120bpm)

I collected various Elf samples and a few other stabs / builds. The core song elements were assembled into iPhone kit 1, and the Elf / accent elements were assembled into Daniel’s iPhone kit 2. The kits were assembled with Beatpack. (link at the bottom of the page).

Download Beatmaker Elf Kit
Download Elf Samples (WAV files)

Screenshot of sample mapping (the first version, we tweaked this a bit)
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Don’t miss part 1 of this post.