After the last post about making music on the iPhone, I decided to to a search and I came across two nifty little iPhone Apps that actually let you make beats within the iPhone itself. The first is called mpc500 and looks amazing! (See image above on the left). It has 9 pads and I think you can even sequence with it. You can use all your own sounds and even load them in from iTunes. Sounds DOPE. The second one is called BeatPhone (which is on the right) and it looks pretty promising with much of the same features as the mpc500 except it even has a single octave keyboard controller built in. They both look like solid Apps (for what they are) and far easier to install than the manual concept I discussed earlier but it does require a slight hack to get it popping. Again, there’s now way I would use this to make something serious though I could probably get away with some D4L type joints — easy. This would definitely come in handy when you just need to lay down a quick idea on the spot. Surely it beats leaving wack beat box voice messages for yourself.
BeatPhone Example Video (Using the old interface)
