Beat Maker Pro - Drum Machine

Beat Maker Pro puts a whole music studio in your phone. Tap 16 drum pads to build a rhythm, program melodies on the step grid or in the piano roll, and record your voice or everyday sounds with the mic, then chop them into an instrument of your own. Every sound is synthesized in the app or recorded by you, and it all works offline: catch an idea the moment it hits and finish it as a WAV or MP3.

KEY FEATURES

■ Drum pads that feel your touch
Hit near the top of a pad for a louder note and lower down for a softer one. Hold Note Repeat (1/8, 1/16, triplets, 1/32) for hi-hat rolls and snare fills. Long-press a pad to set its pitch, volume, pan and length, or put it in a choke group.

■ 7 synthesized drum kits
Analog 808, Trap, Boom Bap, Dance 909, Studio, Lo-Fi and Percussion, ready for hip-hop, house, techno and more. All generated in the app, with no sample packs to download.

■ Step sequencer
Tap the 16-step grid to lay down a groove. Set velocity, chance and roll for each note so your beat shifts a little every time it plays, then add swing or quantize.

■ Piano roll for melodies and bass lines
Draw notes straight into the piano roll and drag a note's edge to change its length. Steps and piano roll are two views of the same notes, so use whichever suits the part.

■ Scales and 94 synth sounds
Pick a key and one of 14 scales, from major and blues to Dorian and the Japanese Miyako-bushi. Notes in the scale are marked, so melodies stay in key even if you don't read music. Choose from 94 sounds (leads, basses, pads, keys, plucks, bells, brass and FX) and shape them with cutoff, resonance, attack, release and glide.

■ Sampler: turn any sound into an instrument
Record your voice, claps or any sound around you, or open an audio file, and play it on pads or keys. With "Start when sound is heard" on, recording begins the moment you make a sound. Trim it on the waveform and chop it into equal parts, by hits or by hand, one slice per pad. Normalize, reverse, trim silence, or play it in tune on the keyboard.

■ Patterns and song mode
Make up to 16 patterns (A–P), each 1 to 8 bars long, for your intro, hook and break. Line them up in the Song tab, set repeats for each section and play from any section.

■ Live recording
Play along while the loop runs to record your performance. A one-bar count-in helps you come in on time, and notes can snap to the grid.

■ Mix and export
Faders, pan, mute, solo and level meters for every track, plus reverb. Export the whole song or one pattern as WAV (16-bit) or MP3, rendered at full device speed, then share it or save it to any folder.

PREMIUM

Premium unlocks with a single in-app purchase. You pay once; it is not a subscription.

• Up to 16 tracks (4 before purchase)
• Track effects: filter with LFO wobble, delay, bitcrush, drive, chorus and compressor
• Performance FX that work while held: stutter, tape stop, filter and crush
• Play and record with a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard
• Export each track as a stem, plus MIDI files, for your desktop DAW
• 5 color themes

Even before you buy, everything you need to finish a song is there: pads, steps, piano roll, synths, sampler, song mode, mixer and WAV/MP3 export.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Start from a Hip-Hop, Trap, House, Techno or Lo-Fi template, or an empty song
2. Tap pads in the Play tab, or program steps and notes in the Edit tab
3. Add keys or sampler tracks for melodies and recordings
4. Arrange your patterns into a song and balance the mix
5. Tap Export to share or save a WAV or MP3

GREAT FOR

• Sampling your own voice and everyday sounds
• Sketching ideas before you move to a desktop DAW

YOUR DATA, OFFLINE

No account needed. Your work saves automatically, any edit can be undone, and songs and recordings stay on your device. Everything works offline, and the microphone is used only while you record.

Available in 39 languages.