Today BeepStreet released Impaktor – an iOS Universal drum synthesizer with a vast sonic palette, that turns any surface into a playable percussion instrument.
“You just slap your desk like you would a real drum. The real acoustical impulses from the built-in microphone are used as an excitation source for advanced sound modules that simulates behavior of membranes, cymbals, metallophones or strings. This makes Impaktor a highly responsive and expressive instrument.”
Impaktor is compatible with iPhone 4, 4S, iPod Touch 4th gen and all generations of iPad. It is priced at $4.99 USD. You can read the full specification and watch the video here.
To celebrate the release, BeepStreet have kindly provided us with four promo codes to giveaway! For a chance to win just leave a comment below telling us why you would like to add Impaktor to your mobile studio. We’ll be choosing the four winners in a few days time (competition now closed).
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I would like it because it seems like the best way to have expressive drum playing on the iPad.
i would like impaktor cause i have ipod touch with broken mic earbuds, but i promise i am gonna buy new.
I am professional drummer from Russia.
I will play with Impaktor and make video and upload it on YouTube.
Give me chance!
Because it looks amazingly fun!
Why I would like an Impaktor promo code: the Korg hardware is great, but it doesn’t fit in your pocket.
I saw the video on this thing and I am blown away. I am a teacher and am always looking for cool ways to add music into lessons. I envision kids working a pattern they have created for background music in a powerpoint presentation…
Impaktor is completely awesome! I have tried midi drums solutions, audio to midi converters, and even simple sampling to accomplish effective drums, but I have not been very successul. After watching the videos and knowing how great everything Beepstreet makes, especially Sunrizer, I know this will be the solution to my drumming woes. I feel that the iPhone and iPad are most musically useful as instruments vs. DAWs, so to use them for this purpose is key. If I don’t win this promo giveaway, I will still purchase this because it is awesome!
Really i waNT to touch the sound with this new app-instrument!!
Great work congrats !!!
A drummer, tired of being ridiculed by his peers, decides to learn how to play some “proper” musical instruments. He goes to a music shop, walks in, approaches the shop assistant, and says “I’ll take that red trumpet over there and that accordion.”
The shop assistant gives a puzzled look, and replies “OK, you can have the fire extinguisher but the radiator’s got to stay”
I am not from this planet. However, I have earned enough money from washing intergalactic dishes to purchase one of your stellar groovy iPads. I can use impaktor to spread rock n roll throught the universe. Please do not make me wash more intergalactic dishes.
It is a very innovative way to make rhythm!
My son has just started learning drums at school.
He’d love this.
I am teaching my son to play drums, and I am very happy with the Beepstreet apps. We have no room for a kit, but we improvise with household items.
It’s like playing a real acoustic instrument…it will bring life to my EDM.
Yes. I will pull the “tragedy card” in hopes that you will at least put a spring back in my step. It’s been a week since I sent my 2011 macbook pro back to apple for a broken battery, display, frayed adaptor, non-burning dvd drive and a failed hard drive. Applecare has added an “act of God” clause, which somehow justifies a quote of $800 dollars to fix (w/ warranty).. so, it turned to the ipad and what money i don’t have left, i spent on (now obsolete, as of 2 hours ago) dock connectors and overpriced midi connections. I stumbled across your blog and was stunned at how clean and positive this site was compared to other ios music sites. so………please?? :)
I’m a darbuka player, this seems soo much fun to be had with. Would love a PROMO code if there are any left, many thanks either way and good luck to the devs.
I love synthesizers, but only have one drumming app. Im intrigued by the sounds Impaktor will be able to make, combining the best of the synthesis and drumming worlds. If fortunate enough, I will make an album using only Impaktor for percussion or rhythm sounds and post it to the ios community sites including idesignsound.com.
Impaktor looks like the perfect instrument for creating real feeling grooves. I would love to win a copy of this app to really spice up my recordings, and to really capture the right feel to go with my bass playing. I’ve been looking forward to this app for a while now and really dig the extra sound control, the multitrack recording, and the ease of exporting. I really hope to win this one because I’ve never yet won anything, and this app look perfect. I’d also like to see if I can trigger it from bass notes alone and I’ve got a lot of ideas that I think with be very effective.
I also love the synth style sound manipulative capabilities of this incredible rhythm machine.
I’m really very keen to explore how far I can take the sounds, my search for unique sounds and grooves is never ending and all consuming. This drum app offers new scope and is very unique, it really would be the perfect addition to my mobile studio.
With THIS App I’ll be able to proove my wife the necessity of buying iPhone 5 and supposely iPad Mini!
I need it for my noisy toys collection!
Would be pairing with OP-1 and LGPT (piggy tracker). Fingers crossed!
Ohhhh, all my table tapping might come in use with this :-))
Now gethering setup for exclusivly live perfomances without usage of computer. Setup includes Tempest two modulars and iPad. I need Impaktor to give my drums more sonic versatility when paired to tempest.
I’d like impaktor from this giveaway
because if I buy it right now on my own I will get fired from my job for playing with it too much.
since the giveaway will only be decided in a few days, I have a few days to get all my work done before getting fired :) It looks way too cool.
and to the author – well done – Polak potrafi ;)
Just discovering my musical talents. Unfortunately my abilities seem to end at my wrists. Hoping this app might stretch them to my fingertips.
It’d be really nice to quickly make your “tapping” beats into audio.
I would love to win a promo code for Impaktor. I own all Beep Street apps and I have turned on quite a few of my friends onto them. I love Sunrizer xs( if you read my app store review on it you will see how much I have raved over it- it truly is the BEST iOS synth beating out Animoog, Cassini, Alchemy, and ikaossilator).
Plus I am a girl and there are not enough female electronic, ambient, electro, iOS female musicians–lol… No really I saw this app today and it looks sweet. I have already spent 250 dollars on apps, I beta test a few apps, and I am an avid reviewer. I tell a ton of friends which apps to get as well so I am sure you would make some lootboff of my friends. Also I am cash poor and cannot afford anymore apps! I am an iOS audio app addict!
This would be for my iPhone since I do not own an iPad yet. I don’t want to pull the female card. If I get picked that would rock. If not– I will still support Beep Street. But this app looks like it will be the top drumming app in the entire app store. There are not many great drumming apps and this one looks stellar!
Cheers and thanks for your consideration.
Did I mention that I LOVE this site and BeeP
StreeT apps? I saw the demo and I just about flipped. I not going to give a sob story. I am just tapped out on buying apps— but this app looks so sexy and useful for a chick like me… Thanks for the chance and good luck to everyone!!! Peace
Music is my passion….it’s my life. I’m also in college and can’t afford anything but ramen noodles. The giveaway would make my day!
this looks so cool, i would totally dig this
A way to create great music while you smack wood? Now THAT is true multitasking! ;)
I would like impaktor because I love beepstreet’s apps. Both sunrizer and sequencer are incredible musical devices. I’ve listened to literally all of the soundcloud samples and I can’t wait to get my hands on this.
This looks like a lot of fun, plus any App that has a preset called Big Conga has to be worth a look!
If this is anything like any of the other top quality BEEP STREET releases then I am dying to get my hands on it!
iSequence got me back into writing music. God knows what Impaktor might do!
It’s maybe a ***** TOP ***** app to compare with Drum Jam !
I give Impaktor a try to make from any surface a playable percussion instrument.
I can’t wait to try this out in my mobile studio !
Would like to compare this to iGOG drums and other impactive devices. Believe this option is under represented in iOS apps.
I am a music app addict. Plain and simple. Haven’t bought in a while and I am a twitchin’!!
Some free Impaktor would be pretty sweet! Lay the beats beater in me!!
looks super promising! would love to give it a try for live improv.
Hi would love to use the Impaktor in live situations. Its a brilliant concept that can help me get different sounds and beats in real time with just my iphone or ipad. There is so much scope for expression like an acoustic instrument. Thanks.
I would like to withdraw my name from the giveaway as I have already got it. Best of luck to everyone.
This is really something special.
is the app that I’ve always wanted to play with some custom drum sound!
In a few days, I will be visiting the home a fire chief of a large suburb to advise on music apps. Seriously. Unfortunately, this is my current money situation demonstrated in an email from BOA: To: DAVID —- Account: PERSONAL CHECKING/SAVINGS ACCOUNT ending in XXXX Date: 09/10/2012 Available balance: $0.00.
Violinist, marching band percussionist, composer, certified Apple Dev and. Perceptual Psychology degree holder. I have recommended and witnessed at least 50 purchases of RjDj apps after I demonstrated them to friends/people at gatherings. I would Iike to experience and trial the app for consideration as a recommended purchase. I have followed iDesignSound from the first days, and watched it grow to an amazing resource. My recommendations in twitter RT and FF are my proof
Looks like this can help me come up with some new creative drum sounds to stand out of the crowd! I want! :)
This indeed looks very cool and would be a nice addition to my iOS studio. I’m always looking for new ways to create sounds and add different tools to my ever-growing collection of apps.
This also looks like it would be alot of fun to use with my kids to help teach them about making music. I’m already picturing a kitchen strewn with wooden spoons, bowls, pots, pans and Impaktor!
we ( as Makunouchi Bento project ) release music for free. this interesting app could be a great addition to our noise / experimental tools arsenal !
I am user of all beepstreet apps since from their first intro in ios music creative “playground”
Isequence was my first really useful app before about 3 years and i am really in love with it.
Sunrizer,gyrosynth…
I am the fan of the beepstreet apps,and i believe i deserve the Impaktor app.
I can’t describe my feeling when i find the isequence in the appstore. That was ipodtouch 2g time.
Jacek is the one of the best music app music creator,and that is the fact.
Don’t worry,i will buy the impaktor if i’m not win,BUT I LIKE TO WIN!
Hail to the beepstreet!
Congratulations from croatia
Zoran
I’m always tapping my fingers on the table and making cool little rhythms. This app was made for me!
waiting so long for it, i gotta have it sounds amazing. I’m gonna drive my family crazy banging on different surfaces in my house! lol
great app ! it reminds me of some parts of AAS Tassman on PC. it would be fun to use it live. it sounds surprisingly complex :)
My music app budget is beyond busted, lol. Looks like a great app. I have the sunrizer synths and l LOVE them. Just got my desk delivered this weekend after 2.5 months of waiting. Can’t wait to try this out!
Nice.
I am live musician and I wish to use this synth in street performance together with animoog playing in background. With that synth I could finally play some drums without hitting my ipad so hard.
Last time I almost dropped it… I hope, that this will be the end of mpc style perc apps for me :P
Too busy saving the world, no time to buy the app…
This app seems to be great!
Would Love to have Impaktor. As a percussionist, this is the gestest addiction to my setup :D
Peace amd music