Hello Luuk,
First, i want to thank you soooo much for such and awesome and well programmed musical studio app! I sincerely thank you because it allows me to make music for God and to create songs that will touch people's hearts all over the world. You are so blessed to have the knowledge to program and develop such an awesome app!
I would like to provide some ideas of how to make Beatonal even better and again, these are just suggestions. I have over 35 years of music experience and I have been looking for a simple app that will allow me to make music, songs, basic sketches or complete songs in a matter of minutes and not days or months. I have found this in your app.
My first request and greatest request, would be:
1. User option to link or unlink Chord Track with Bass Track. Why?
Ok, i come from a background of using Arranger Keyboards, such as the Korg i30 interactive arranger keyboard synth, or the Yamaha Tyros, which these cost upwards of thousands of dollars. These keyboards allow the user to create backing tracks for songs in a matter of minutes.
My idea is that your app basically already does this, but there's one step that many keyboard arranger players like myself always like, is to create the song in realtime as we change chords while listening toa Drum track. In this case, you app already does this, which is awsome! But the Bass track is static to what ever I had previously recorded. Instead, if only you could program a type of link where the Bass track listens to what ever root key I'm playing in the chord track, and it would actually play that root key, where now, as I change chords, the Bass track would match exactly they key I'm playing in realtime.
This feature Luuk would attract thousands of Arranger Keyboard musicians all over the world because your app would be the only app in IOS that would be considered an arranger app. I imagine all this users buying you app for this feature alone. Because now, they would be able to create a backing track in a matter of minutes. Even better, since your app, outputs realtime midi out, imagine sending this realtime midi to Cubasis and have Cubasis host AUv3 synths like Thor, Infinite, and Beathawk, imagine the quality of sounds that could be achieved? Oh, and since the bass track and chord tracks are linked up, there is no need for song mode anymore since the midi would be recorded in Realtime into Cubasis, thereby creating a backing track of a complete song in one pass!
Luuk, you app has soooo much potential and the fact that you have landscape is soooo awesome! I've been praying for an app like this and I am so glad a user in the Audiobus forum mentioned, and that's how i found out about it. Then I went to the SountTestRoom YouTube Channel, run by Sir Doug, and watched his video review of you app!, then I immediately purchased the IAP to Pro.
My other wishes would be if you could upgrade Beatonal to AudioBus 3.0 and with State Saving and MIDI input to use external midi controllers to change chords or do lead track. Or even add the ability to use the AudioBus remote where one can enable or disable specific tracks or patterns on the fly for even more control and for realtime playing in a live setting.
Well, enough requests for now. I don't really care that Beatonal doesn't have that "beautiful" look, i dont care, all i know is that Beatonal works and works great at what it is designed to do. I had it controlling Beathawk, Moog Model 15 and PPG's Infinite and wow!!! This is truly a special studio App for composing and making music.
I hope my ideas and suggestions someday may come to reality as I think Beatonal should be on every single serious IOS musician's iPhone or iPad. It is that good!!!!
I highly recommend Beatonal!
Musicman4Christ
Update:
After using Beatonal more and more and tweaking all the Available settings in each of the four tracks plus master settings Ive concluded that this is one amazing, huge and deep app worth every cent spent and more!
Dear Luuk, I have figured out how to use this app as a One Man Band where the Bass and Chords are driving external synths such as Beathawk and Groovebox and Rock Drummer and I have it where the Bass track is actually following my Chord track although it's being sent out and recorded on a separate midi and audio track for the chord and bass tracks. I'm using AUM to record these and I'm blown away at the power and flexibility of Beatonal!
I'll contact you and will be doing a YouTube video to show how powerful this set up is to create backing tracks in a flash!!!
Please add more Patterns if possible as these are the patterns that I'm using to create the Bass lines more would rock big time!
I highly recommend Beatonal!
MM4C
