BeatMaker
BeatMaker 3 is a comprehensive music production app that combines the power of traditional desktop software and hardware into a single, intuitive audio and MIDI workstation. It offers a streamlined workflow for performing, recording, and shaping musical ideas efficiently. Users can create and customize instruments with up to 128 banks of 128 pads, each functioning as a full-fledged instrument. The app includes a state-of-the-art sampling engine with modulation and layering capabilities, as well as ZPlane’s Elastique for live stretch and pitch shift. BeatMaker 3 supports integration with external synth and effect apps through full AUv3 and IAA support. Its classic timeline-based pattern and song editor, along with the flexible scene mode, facilitate precise sequencing and remixing opportunities. The app also features a modern mixing board with multi-channel recording, input/output routing, unlimited effects per track and pad, and up to 8 sends.
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SpectraLayers
The expert in spectral editing and AI-driven audio processing. SpectraLayers delivers audio empowerment by showing sounds as visual objects. You can explore, reach in, take, and transform, working wonders on tasks ranging from repairing and restoring audio to freeform sound design. Unmatched selection tools developed over many years are now joined by new artificial intelligence-driven audio extraction and repair processes, making this the most significant version of SpectraLayers yet. Looking at audio on a spectrograph display is one thing, but the ability to easily touch, sculpt, and shape what you see is what sets SpectraLayers apart. And now you have a skilled, highly trained AI partner who can sense patterns, perform operations, and speed you on your way to perfect audio. The manual selection tools in SpectraLayers allow everything from broad brush editing to microscopic intervention. AI-assisted processes bring even more speed and precision.
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Hydrogen
Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 4. Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats. Support of samples in compressed FLAC file. Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song. Up to 192 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length. Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities. Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument). Time-stretch and pitch functions via rubberband cli. Require the rubberband-cli package. Director Window with a visual metronome and song position tags. Export/Import single patterns into song projects. Midi learning via Shift+MouseClick on many gui-cotrollers combined with a midi settings editor. Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
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Mixcraft
Created by musicians, for musicians, Mixcraft is unrivaled in the industry for its ease of use and raw power. Record and mix your tracks to perfection, in record time, with Mixcraft's incredibly intuitive interface, the lightning-fast sound engine, reality-defying pitch-shifting, and time-stretching technology, and nearly-universal support for third-party plug-ins, audio interfaces, and hardware controllers. Don't just take our word for it. There's a reason Mixcraft has been honored with so many awards from so many respected magazines, including Electronic Musician, Computer Music, MusicTech, and Keyboard Magazine. Record an unlimited number of audio and virtual instrument tracks, edit, crop, and crossfade sounds effortlessly, add tons of effects and automation, and mix and master your project to WAV, MP3, and other formats. Mixcraft's massive loop library features over 7,500 professionally-produced loops, music beds, sound effects, and percussion samples, in a massive array of genres.
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