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November 29, 2005
Palm Based Sequencing
Wanna create beats on your PDA?
Mobile music making is taking yet another step as a program for up market Palm and Treo branded handhelds.
miniMusic has been working on a new version of their Palm software called Beatpad, an essential tool for making music on the airplane, subway or anywhere else where it is impossible to bring a full studio or even a laptop.
As real processing power has been made available to the PDA market for some time, it was only a matter of time before a piece of software would pop up. The latest model of BeatPad Version 1.1 is a pattern-based sequencer. It provides a simple yet elegant and powerful interface for creating musical patterns of various instruments or drum kits, layering or chaining these patterns, and performing them on a handheld device.
Using the PDA's large touch sensitive screen, it is easy to see every aspect of a pattern at once and manipulate it with the stylus. With a built-in softsynth that bears the strange name Krikit, the possibility to add multi clips of various sounds is a reality. A library is provided for organizing your own patterns and probably the most unique feature of all: midi export, that renders to a full-fledged sound file that you can bring back to the studio ready for output.
As stated the software is available to the Palm-powered clients exclusively. So if you have a Sony Clie, a Palm, Treo or Handspring collecting dust in the corner, this news is reason enough to get enthusiastic again. With a price tag of $29.95 for the sequencer alone, the era of the ultra-portable studio is finally on it's way.
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Comments
Nice review, my blog has lots of links to palm based music. Might be of interest to you.
Posted by: Ashley at July 14, 2006 12:23 PM