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I’ve been hav­ing entirely too much fun with this awe­some iPhone/iPod Touch appli­ca­tion by Intua. I put off buy­ing BeatMaker for a long time because of the 19.99 price tag. When there are so many good music appli­ca­tions for much less, why bother, right?

The rea­son I both­ered was that you can upload cus­tom sounds. I searched and searched for a cheaper appli­ca­tion that has this same func­tion­al­ity, but in the end I just gave up and dished out the 20 bucks — it was totally worth it!

I don’t really want to make this a review since there have already been plenty of great reviews on BeatMaker, (you can find a very thor­ough review here) but I do want to show some of what I have been doing with it.

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After play­ing around, mak­ing beats on the train like the one above, and learn­ing the ins and outs of this app, I finally got around to cre­at­ing my own kit. I used a col­lec­tion of sam­ples that I down­loaded from freesound.org, (attri­bu­tion page included in down­load) and I also made some sam­ples using my key­board and guitar.

I wanted to have an amount of vari­ety with each sam­ple that I cre­ated. The C7_Rhodes, Organ&GuitarVamp, and OrganBass sam­ples are prob­a­bly all best used after slic­ing down the audio file to a spe­cific sec­tion that you want to use. This isn’t a prob­lem because you can crop down any audio file within BeatMaker eas­ily. Here is a lit­tle beat I cre­ated with my cus­tom set.

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I am post­ing this kit on my down­loads page. Anyone is wel­come to use it, or any of the indi­vid­ual sam­ples, as long as they credit me for the sam­ples I cre­ated, and/or the orig­i­nal authors of the sam­ples used from freesound.org. The sam­ples that I down­loaded were also treated to some effects and edit­ing in Ableton, so my ver­sions may sound slightly dif­fer­ent from the orginals.

Have fun, and feel free to leave com­ments or suggestions!

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