![]() ![]() Analog Interface Design: from the clever downbeat lights to the odometer-style beat counter.Wide Music Variety: while the selection is limited to 12 tracks at the moment, they’re from a number of genres – and Beatport is promising many, many more tracks.Each new pack (there are 12 to purchase at the moment) in the built-in marketplace costs $1.99. The application comes with just three tracks to mess around with- “Funky Cold Medina”, “C’Mon”, and “Party of Politics”. 99¢ after that – but it’s clear that Beatport isn’t expecting to make money off of app sales, but rather of loop pack sales. The application is free until December 31st, and then. You can’t do anywhere near as much as in a real DJ program or DAW, but it does do what it claims to – building mashups on the fly – very well. The interface essentially comes off as an extremely stripped-down Ableton Live styled in a cute-but-frustrating analog design. In addition, there is a single FX unit that can be applied to one or many of the channels concurrently – we found that the delay was nice, but the distortion often overpowered a number of the samples and needed a significant volume decrease. All of the loop triggering is quantized and completely synced, so (for better or for worse your mashups will always sound clean and on-tempo. Each channel can have a maximum single loop playing on it at a time, and is controlled with an awkward volume knob at the top of each one. The loop packs are divided into six different channels, “Drums”, “Percussion”, “Bass”, “Theme 1”, “Theme 2”, and “Sweetener”. Mashbox is a surprisingly simple workflow, allowing the user to load and mash up loop packs of various popular tracks. We take a closer look at how good the application is for performing and playing around, and Ean has his own editorial perspective to share on what this means for the future of stems and mashups. What happens when the largest internet music store for DJs decides to make an iOS app? This morning, Beatport announced a new iOS application for mashup enthusiasts, Mashbox. ![]()
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