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Your S60 smartphone as a drum machine!

22 replies · 11,312 views · Started 20 April 2008

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!

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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... 😊

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!!

You can now add the Nokia E61 to the list of supported devices. Nice work!

I've been waiting for something like this to pop up since I got a Symbian phone. Excellent!

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 😉

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! 😊

Also works great with N81 8GB. The application is very polished and usability is fantastic!

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.

Check out the BeatEd download page:
BeatEd downloads

-Saku

Roland CR-78 and TR-909 analog drum machine sample kits available for BeatEd! See the download link above. Have fun!

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

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.

BeatEd homepage:
http://www.byterapers.com/BeatEd/

-Saku

The new BeatEd v1.20.00 released 2008-12-12.

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..

Download the latest release from the BeatEd homepage:
http://www.byterapers.com/BeatEd/

Four new sample kits are available from the BeatEd home page:
http://www.byterapers.com/BeatEd/

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.

Probably, yes, but I cannot give any ETA for that.. See the BeatEd homepage for more info about that.

works a treat on my n85 wish i heard about this little ap sooner