BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker

BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker is a professional groovebox-style music production app and AUv3 plugin host with everything you need to bring your musical ideas to life.

Ready, set, create! Experience music production with next-level productivity, BAM’s versatile functionality and feature set is easy to pick up, and hard to put down. In addition to AUv3 plugin support, BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker comes loaded with its own set of high-quality instruments and effects, for a groovebox with a well stocked toolbox.

Whatever you want to make, quickly turn inspiration into creation with BAM’s intuitive easy-to-use interface, supercharge your workflow and build beats, loops and scenes in minutes. Expand and grow your projects with BAM’s MIDI clip and scene launcher, perform live and arrange full tracks using extensive follow actions.

A step ahead of the competition, BAM’s step sequencer gives you up to 256 steps per clip. View and edit multiple track clips simultaneously, and visualise a scene’s clips together.

Summary of features:

- 16 rack-style tracks plus Master and 2 send channels
- AUv3 plugin support
- Full mixer with volume, pan, mute, solo, arm controls
- Built-in synthesis engines: Oscillator synth, Drum synth, sampler, classic acid bass synth
- Built in effects: Filter, EQ, parametric EQ, delay, chorus, compressor, reverb, saturator, bit reduction, 3D panner and stereo width
- MIDI clip piano roll editor
- Step sequencer with up to 256 steps per clip
- Clip based parameter modulation editor
- Track level trigger options plus LFO and EG modulators
- Matrix MIDI clip and scene launcher with extensive follow action options
- Real-time adjustment of audio clip playback speed to match the tempo of the song, without altering pitch
- Sample library including over 1000 drum and percussive samples, plus melodic timbres

“I’m marking ambient, field recordings and techno projects, the modular interface is perfect for this type of projects, and the interface is minimal with no weird distractions.”

“Great app! Intuitive, fast, logic…”

“Whatever I try, I always come back to BAM to start my tracks. Either to jam live and have fun or to build the basics then export in audio or MIDI and complete in another app.. BAM is versatile enough to allow any musical genre. The team is responsive and helpful in case of questions or issues. I like: intuitive & simple yet powerful UI, built in effects, work with audio loops, export capabilities.”

“How did I miss this one? Easy to learn and like nothing else for live jamming. Get two iPads and run this on one and DRAMBO on the other and go wild. Who needs hardware when you can have this much fun for the price of a couple of beers.”

“I’ve never clicked with what people call ‘groovebox’ apps but this just made sense to me and I had instant results. The more I use it the more I learn and I realize the possibilities it brings. I’m making some slow, dark, atmospheric stuff with it as well as making quick, rhythmic things. The developers are passionate about what they do and respond to questions quickly. I wrote this a few days after buying BAM and I can’t wait to learn it inside out to fully explore it. I think this app is an absolute bargain considering the amount of work that has gone into it and the features included.”

“This app is incredible. The demo tunes alone are well worth it!”

“Great app for building whole songs, courtesy of the built-in clip launcher. The developer is very active, and constantly fixing bugs and adding new features, so definitely recommended.”

“This app has me excited to make arrangements, jams and tracks on the ipad. Your YouTube tutorials were super helpful. The app is easy to use with powerful tools to have a lot of fun. Really appreciate the work you put into this and all of your apps. We are very fortunate. Thank you. Keep jammin!”

“This is literally the type of app I’m looking for, FAR easier to use than most music programs and so far their best work since DRC.”

Version 1.7.2 release notes

- Added custom graphical panel design for the Compressor, Delay and Phaser effect engines. - Added a Layout setting to force the phone or tablet layout instead of relying on screen size detection. - Added copy, paste, import and export of MIDI mappings, so a mapping setup can be reused across projects. - Added Matrix clip width and height settings in Preferences. - Added a Matrix master column width setting in Preferences. - Added Root, High and Low controls to the generate popup in the Composer, to control the octave range used by the melody and chord generator. - Reworked the Composer scroll and zoom bars. - Added an Only While Recording metronome setting. - MIDI mappings for play, stop, record, undo, redo, clear locks, shift and the panel selector buttons are now global. - Fixed new projects ignoring the default clip length preference. - Fixed crash when adding a MIDI Out engine with automatic parameter automation enabled. - Fixed the Compressor, Bitcrusher and Filter UI panels on iPhone. - Fixed the timeline toolbar reading and writing the signature, swing and speed of the previously selected clip after selecting a different scene. - Fixed the previous project's clip and its audio loop staying loaded after opening another project. - Fixed the Start, End and Loop Start markers display in the Sampler engine. - Fixed a crash when using a mono audio file as a clip loop. - Fixed a crash when opening a project in which a track's selected clip slot was empty. - Fixed the Composer page bar showing the timeline's page count instead of the pages of the selected clip. - Fixed pressing record while the song was playing triggering the recording count down, which paused playback until the count down finished. - Fixed tapping the transport buttons on iPhone bringing up the iOS home bar instead. - Fixed samples and audio clips playing pitch shifted and with the wrong length after the audio sample rate changed.