BeatMaker 3

think beat master is great app for music but if it join up with or have access to splice on this it would benefit from it greatly.

I love this BM3.. but it needs some more dedication and output. The recent update did little to address issues and spark excitement for me. For the love of dog, please devs, get this app back to health. I’m happy to pay for AIP of extra features

‘BeatMaker is constantly improving’ so the blurb tells us. Yet the most recent update is the first in 2 years, and nothing fantastic. Happily, now Logic Pro is on iPad, apps like this can be binned.

As someone who didn’t experience BM2 I came to this app fresh and found it impressive...indeed, the most compelling iOS DAW, particularly because of the clip launching alongside linear sequencing. Also, it has a very well-rounded feature set with internal instruments, plugins, plus sequencing and sampling of external gear. Sadly, as is so often the case with iOS audio apps, it doesn’t quite deliver what it appears to. I tried to hook it up as the hub of an outboard rig and it appears there is no way to set the main output - this is hardwired to the headphone out, so the metronome is always routed this way rather than through my class-compliant soundcard. Although it will record in it will not output any sound through my soundcard despite ‘seeing’ all the outputs and allowing them to be assigned to tracks. Logging in again a few years after writing this review, I'm disappointed to see no updates in two years. Apparently, the software is dead. Intua, why did you acquire this only to let it rot?

This DAW use to be the best one available on iOS but now it is literally falling apart because it is not being updated. Intua keeps telling it’s users for over a year now that there is an update in the make but I haven’t seen anything materialising yet. It’s a shame actually that no one looks after this once so brilliant piece of software.

It is the easiest and most functional daw I’ve used on the iPad, so much so that I sold most my gear and used this primarily. I’ve gone through a stint of using my mpc as I needed to learn it better and have now come back to bm3 as I prefer mixing in digital then analogue style. Coming back to this now has made me realise how buggy it is. Things like au effects just dropping during playback, deleted automations resetting. Tracked out stems having missing audio. It’s a shame as bm3 used to be that guy but it needs updating, or at least realease a bm4. Also how do we still not have bm3 on the iphone, it would be great to work an idea on the go and bring it back to the iPad. I thought maybe the devs were putting out different apps and that’s why there hasn’t been a new bm or update for a long time but they just have this and the previous bm’s, unless they release other apps under a different company. It’s a shame as there’s more and more people moving to iPad production but there doesn’t seem to be another app as easy to use and as functional as bm3, I just wish it didn’t have all these issues (not to mention constant crashes) the devs do seem to respond to feedback though. I think for now I am just going to have to find an alternative and hope that this issues get resolved as I’ve spent around 2 hours trying to get 1 effect to work properly in bm3.

Amazing Daw and I’ve tried a few. The Bluetooth connection is no longer compatible with the new 16.2 iOS update please fix. Sending love

I'm a casual music maker and I was using BM2 which was great with the included instruments. But BM 3 looked much more powerful with more plugin options and the ability to use TP apps. Firstly the bundled sounds are pretty useless with almost nothing by way of variety and the free packs, or free pack, is pretty useless too. However, even more frustrating is that whenever I use AUv3 or IAAs BM3 constantly loses connection with the apps, or the apps freeze or no sound comes out of the keyboard or BM3 freezes. This makes it totally impossible to create tracks as I never have a stable environment which will play all tracks or plugin synths/drum machines. I've tried having the apps open before I open BM3, or opening them after BM3 is open. I've tried dedicated midi channels. All to no avail. Even using BM2 via midi channels is hit and miss. So at the moment it's an expensive GUI that does nothing. If anyone can help me get this to work I'd be really appreciative.

Still too buggy.. plugins auv3s constantly crash..gets very laggy with even moderate samples running…meh.. could be awesome ….

The piano roll could be easier to use to allow the user to make melodies faster and more effective a pencil tool and cut tool will be needed and the grid needs to be easier on the eyes