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RealBeat review

I've been playing with this for a while now and I'm really loving the somplicity of the design, and the ease of use of this sampler sequencer.

If you don't know the app the idea is really straightforward. RealBeat is a sampler for taking sounds from anywhere and making them into drum patterns, or any other kind of pattern for that matter. Creating a sample is easy. All you do is press the record button and wait for the sound. If you're sampling a drum type sound then make the sound and the app will record what it thinks you're trying to record. If it's a lower level sound just push the button to record. You can edit the samples really easily in the app and undo changes too.

Pattern editing is a breeze and anyone who's ever edited a drum pattern will be immediately at home here. The app can audio copy individual patterns and has some nice real time FX processing too.

The only thing I'd like to see is a session record function on this. That'd be excellent. Even without it this is a really nice polished app.

RealBeat - joerg piringer

3 comments:

Jonwal said...

Another great alternative to this is the beat boxing edition of iZotopes iDrum app. unlike the other editions it allows you to sample from the mic and the interface is really intuitive. It just lacks a decent export function though.

Tha Big D.O.G. said...

Why do the "unwashed masses" now use the weaker gerund form of verbs... as in "I'm really loving this..."???

No one used to speak this way, and it's a downgrade of mentality. For one, it implies it's passing, merely current, might end sometime--maybe even soon.

Much more sterling and certain to say "I love this" ..albeit as love is one of those words so overused as to have little currency anyway. Same word used for holy matrimony gets used for an ice cream flavor.

At any rate, weird how this bit of viral language use has metastasized in recent years. Must be some pop media icon who started it... and off we went.

Marlene DeGrood said...

@ Tha Big D.O.G. ... I'da comment on yer post but I just ain't really lovin the idea of what you might havta say back at me