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Pattern-Based Sequencing Comes to Palm OS
May 18, 2000
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miniMusic™ has released BeatPad™, a pattern-based music sequencer for the Palm OS family of handheld computers. The new software allows real-time control over music while it plays and an intuitive interface that both beginners and professionals will find simple and powerful. Last year miniMusic revolutionized the industry with the first portable music notation software, NotePad. Now BeatPad continues this innovation and brings more freedom and flexibility to musicians of all skill levels. BeatPad allows the user to create and save a number of musical patterns. These patterns can contain a series of notes (pitch, volume and length of every note can easily be changed) and up to eleven drum instruments. Every aspect of a pattern can be changed while it's playing, or another pattern can be recalled from memory without missing a beat. Such features allow for performing songs which use multiple patterns, and even improvising as the patterns are being played. "BeatPad is an amazing tool for real-time sequencing and performance," says Simon Gatrall, president of Swivel Systems. "The analog-style lead sequencer combined with the grid-based drum programming screen bring everyone's favorite old school interfaces into the future. Modifying, copying, muting and soloing patterns on the fly is extremely intuitive with BeatPad; this system is so much cheaper, smaller, and easier to use than any computer or hardware based sequencer with equivalent capabilities." BeatPad was developed in collaboration with Swivel Systems, a hardware company which will soon be selling the SG20, a clip-on sound module for the Palm OS Platform to extend the audio capabilities of the handheld computers. The miniMusic software can play limited music from a Palm device's built in speaker, but becomes a very powerful tool when connected to other audio hardware like the SG20, using the industry standard MIDI protocol. "We want to provide portability that musicians have never had in software, but with BeatPad you also have a very powerful interface for controlling all of your gear in a studio, club, or on-stage," says Chad Mealey, president of miniMusic. For more information, visit their web site at http://www.minimusic.com/.Recent miniMusic headlines
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