by Chad Glenn

Making beats on your mobile device is now a potent reality for Apple’s Iphone. Intua (featured above) has developed a music creation platform called Beatmaker, which appears to be a beatbox, loop sampler and sequencer all-in-one package. This is the most robust beat-making package I’ve seen for any mobile device. Automatic sample slicing, FX (EQ, delay, bitcrushers) and FX busses, live pattern recording and song export are some of the features advertised. This seems to be a step beyond some of the early idea-jotting mobile software like the mpc500.

Another beat-making app that seems to be making waves is Beatphone (featured below). This “studio in your pocket” app for the Iphone features one-shot and loop pads, samples in “any” format, and up to 256 samples polyphony, which is no doubt a powerful tool for getting ideas down while on-the-go. Check out the demo below.

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