iMPC Pro!

AS I've said loads of times, all an MPC (or MPC-like tool), at its simplest, does is place bit of audio, or midi notes, on a sequencer. Sure you can chop, mix, add FX, etc. but you're just arranging bits of audio into a pattern at the end of the day.

So on the market today there are dozens and dozens of solutions to do this - plain DAW and built in sampler, Ableton Live, FXpansion Giest, MOTU BPM, hardware MPC, software MPC, NI Maschine, iPhone/iPad apps like Beatmaker 2, etc., etc.,

So what it all breaks down to is what YOU find comfortable and inspiring. I don't like making music solely with a DAW and a plasticky controller. I've never been so unproductive as when using a DAW for everything - too easy to stop being a music maker and more of an audio engineer or just a mouse-clicker. Pre-DAW, when you just had midi sequencers (hardware or software) an already-dated S1000 sampler, one or two synths, and some cheapie outboard FX I would just jam out tracks for fun in an afternoon.

I stare at a Mac screen in my main job for hours a day and music is supposed to be my escape - so I love my MPC 2500 and cheap hardware synths as the core of my music making before dumping it all into Logic for final mixing and to use great high quality plugins.

Now, sometimes I use Geist and and MPD32 - usually when I'm away from the rest of my stuff. For software it's really, really good - can't fault it really. I usually go to Spain for a few weeks a year and love Beatmaker 2 on the iPad, or even the iPhone - dump a bunch of sounds to Dropbox. Have fun. Scratch the music-making itch.

But given the chance I prefer hardware. It's more fun. More inspiring. More sound-based than screen-based. And, a lot of the time, I feel I like the stuff I make with it is better. I also like the fact my hardware stuff is all 90s and early 2000s vintage - absolves me of the need to worry about the new cool thing all the time and just use what I have.

I don't see why an iPad App can't be as full-blooded in terms of features as any MPC. But does that mean everyone should start wondering, or even worrying, if they should embrace iOS music as their primary platform? Nah.

Loopy has been updated to Audiobus 2.1 and I can sample from it in iMPC.
So I guess I was right.

Oh: PS: I betatested AB2

What I got from sebs comment on discchord.com was that they are using IAA as the underlying architecture but that the app has to have audiobus intergration to use the IAA features. I hope your right though, that would be awesome..

alexbuga wrote:Loopy has been updated to Audiobus 2.1 and I can sample from it in iMPC.
So I guess I was right.

Oh: PS: I betatested AB2

What I got from sebs comment on discchord.com was that they are using IAA as the underlying architecture but that the app has to have audiobus intergration to use the IAA features. I hope your right though, that would be awesome..

Wow, that is great news! Should open up a lot of possibilities for linking AB apps with IAA apps

Any body got a link to Beat hawk???

UVI showed it to the homie Saintjoe at NAMM in January. Have not heard a peep about it since.

I own many UVI products and regularly receive notices and coupons from them. Not a mention of Beathawk at all in 6 months.

VAPORWARE WARE WARE ware war.........

alexbuga wrote:Loopy has been updated to Audiobus 2.1 and I can sample from it in iMPC.
So I guess I was right.

Oh: PS: I betatested AB2

What I got from sebs comment on discchord.com was that they are using IAA as the underlying architecture but that the app has to have audiobus intergration to use the IAA features. I hope your right though, that would be awesome..

Awesome news man, thanks for the confimation

Metatron72 wrote:UVI showed it to the homie Saintjoe at NAMM in January. Have not heard a peep about it since.

I own many UVI products and regularly receive notices and coupons from them. Not a mention of Beathawk at all in 6 months.

Emailed them a week or so ago, they assured me they are very much still in development. The quiteness on their part is a worry though, you would think they would hype it a little to draw some attention away from impc pro...

64padzzx3 wrote:VAPORWARE WARE WARE ware war.........

I'd be inclined to agree but that isn't some PC or Mac running the Beathawk demo it's an iPad in that casing.

My hope would be that due to UVI making a lot of money on their desktop stuff it just fell by the wayside and they will get back to it in time. Their sounds are ultra high quality and what they had done so far on that app looked interesting.

But 4-5 months of silence when the man in the video non chalantly indicated a March release is quite.......

loosecaboose we posted the same general thoughts in sync.

and....iMPC Pro should be out on July 8th next Tuesday as of this post's writing.

$19.99 price....$12.99 introductory price. This info is direct from Retronyms.

Metatron72 wrote:and....iMPC Pro should be out on July 8th next Tuesday as of this post's writing.

$19.99 price....$12.99 introductory price. This info is direct from Retronyms.

What kind of iPad are you going to be running this on? Can't wait for impressions.

I'm on the iPad 3 still. Should be able to run the app fine. But Audiobus has me hitting the wall fast lately. I'll wait until fall for the next round of iPad Air releases.

The date I posted was in Retronyms newsletter. You never know it might drop a few days sooner. I think they used July 8th as the ETA to be safe.

Its out now in Aus and Rus appstores. UK in 4 hours