Coming Soon: BeatMaker v2.3 Update Details + Exclusive Screenshots
Date Added: Jun 28, 2012
Intua have announced the latest update to BeatMaker. Version 2.3 highlights include Audio Tracks with disk streaming support (something a lot of people have been asking for!), support for USB audio interfaces on iPad via Camera Connection Kit, the ability to simultaneously record up to 8 tracks of audio, gain & noise gate on audio inputs, and sample drag ‘n’ drop on the drum machine. Check out the full list and screenshots below.
The update should be submitted very soon. We’ll let you know once it becomes available!
New features:
- Audio tracks with disk streaming support
- Support for USB class audio interfaces on iPad via Camera Connection Kit
- Record up to 8 audio tracks simultaneously (current iOS limitation)
- Gain and noise gate on audio inputs
- Sample drag’n'drop on drum machine via “Quick Load” feature
- Event recording is now allowed anywhere in the app
- Patterns can be dragged directly on the song editor
- Sample streaming in drum and keyboard samplers (samples are not loaded in RAM)
- Automatic audition of samples in browser
- New auto-loop mode for pads (quantized)
- Revamped iPod Library import
- Sustain pedal is now supported in the keyboard sampler and is editable in the pattern editor
- Keyboard sampler now supports layers
- Revamped sampler mapping editor
- Retina graphic content for the 3rd generation iPad
- Receive MIDI clock messages for tempo synchronization
- App Settings: Added OMNI and input clock
- More automatizable parameters: Auto-pan sync and sync toggle / Effects bypass / LFO sync rate / Invert ADSR / Tune, Fine-Tune / Filter key / Pads reverse and mute / Mixer track mute and solo / Sustain pedal
Improvements and bug fixes:
- Fix crash when resetting auto-scale on an empty pads
- Fix noise when looping very small samples
- Fix issue with installing BeatMaker 1 ‘bmkz’ files
- Fix sampling rate issue with some accessories (ie. Apple Digital AV Adapter)
- Fix behavior of MIDI virtual input ports
- Install BMKZ kits when using Dropbox
- Other minor fixes and engine improvements
- Update to Dropbox SDK v1.2.2
- Improve preset/projects file format (quicker load/save)




Damn now thats what we need the ability to move wav files from beatmaker 1 to beatmaker 2 with out the extra headache and work arounds. Good to hear it Ive been using this app alot more for my samples lately. Now jus dont make me wait till christmas for the update. lol
holy mother of god, they did EXACTLY what i wanted and also posted on the forums a while ago. intua is so awesome. if they now improve on the effects sound, i would be close to the ultimate ipad music solution. still, this is so awesome. audio tracks!!!
now if they just redo and update the effects
This is looking great! Much needed update.