Wow. The uses for a S60 smartphone just keep on growing. AAS friend Saku Tiainen has just released BeatEd, a full, professional drum sequencer/machine - just plug in your headphone lead from your smartphone into an amp and you're away! Break out your guitar and start rockin' out. Links and video demo below the break, enjoy!
Over to Saku: "BeatEd is a simple drum machine application for Symbian S60
mobile phones. It was originally developed in couple of nights to get a
drum machine and metronome application for personal guitar playing
purposes. After getting a lot of new ideas and positive feedback, I
decided to improve it a bit and make a decent public release of it. So
here it is, have fun!
Feature highlights: - Easy to use beat editor, even easier beat player. - Change tempo and volume while playing. - Edit beat on-the-fly while playing. - 16 bit 16 channel audio mixer. - Extremely accurate beat timing (1-999 BPM). - Real-time VU meters. - 16 different drum tracks. - Supports S60 v3.x mobile phones. - Adjusts to different screen layouts. - Random volume variance. - and much more..
Supported devices: - All S60 3rd edition devices (Forum Nokia list)
Brilliant idea and superbly executed. Top work Saku ! :)
RogerPodacter
now this is awesome!! i'm a drummer so i will be downloading this app ASAP:)
n0k1a
That is a seriously cool piece of coding!
It seems that it would be a relatively small leap to implement a full MOD tracker on S60, especially considering the Amiga demo heritage of the author's group... :)
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wow just wow. whats next some fruity loops action?
evilweasel
....nice one ! Been looking for a decent metronome for ages....now got a drum machine as a bonus :-)
we-are-borg
Fantastic! Fist steps on what I hope is a Bhajis Loops solution for S60 devices. I would pay any money to get a full sequencer back in my pocket!!
kontraband
wheres zxon... sounds up his street too?
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You can now add the Nokia E61 to the list of supported devices. Nice work!
buster
That's really cool. I'm not a drummer (yet!), but it looks like fun...
vehka
I've been waiting for something like this to pop up since I got a Symbian phone. Excellent!
Unregistered
I really like this beat-sequencer, for people who still have an old symbian device (like me n-gage :), there is a full tracker from http://slajerek.demon.pl/mobitracker/, i am not sure if the developer will be happy i posted the link here, but this software may not be unnoticed :) I hope Saku/byterapers will make a full tracker from BeatEd, so we can use new devices (allthought i still love my n-gage)...
greetz Dwark (sorry for my bad english ;)
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Works flawless on Nokia 5500 so you can add that device to your list!
A real killer app, easy to learn and works like a charm!! Should be in the pocket of all musicans! :)
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Also works great with N81 8GB. The application is very polished and usability is fantastic!
suckho
BeatEd v1.11 with improved support for multiple sample kits has been released and is available for download.
Also, couple of new sample kits are available: Nintendo Game Boy 8 bit chip tune kit and Roland TR-808 analog drum machine kit.
Roland CR78 and TR-909 drum machine kits will be available very soon.
Roland CR-78 and TR-909 analog drum machine sample kits available for BeatEd! See the download link above. Have fun!
markkyboy
Nice one Saku - i'm approaching my 40's and can clearly recall looking at Roland drum machines as a teenager, lol, now i can have it on my phone(s), its tested and working well on my N95 and my N73, both phones have the latest firmwares too.
Keep up the good work!
Regards
Markkyboy
suckho
There are couple of new BeatEd sample kits available for download. Both kits are provided by BeatEd users. If you have your own ideas for a good drum kit, please check the "Own sample kits help" info on BeatEd homepage. I would be very pleased to publish good sample kits by all you BeatEd fans on the download page.
New features include:
-Sharing drum loops over MMS and Bluetooth messages.
-Exporting patterns to audio files.
-Sharing exported audio over MMS or BT.
-Improved audio quality.
-and other minor improvements..
The new kits include:
* Clapper Kit: 16 hand claps to build rhythmic clapping with.
* Glitch Kit: Edgy, sharp, shorty, unusual but usable modern sounds.
* Simmons Kit: Classic and lesser known sounds from the famous Simmons electronic drum kit.
* C64 Newskool Kit: Fat Commodore 64 8580 SID sounds from the master of SID drums, Linus/Triad+Viruz.
All kits are arranged by AMJ/(B), except samples for the C64 kit by Linus/Triad.
Blackbagz
Can ou get this to work on the new touchscreen??
suckho
Probably, yes, but I cannot give any ETA for that.. See the BeatEd homepage for more info about that.