DuoBeat Music Maker

DuoBeat is a pocket groovebox: an 8-track drum machine, sampler and step sequencer you can play with one thumb. Tap in a beat, turn a few knobs, and it's already sounding like a track. Made for iPhone Duo and at home on every iPhone and iPad. Fold an iPhone Duo halfway and DuoBeat becomes a little instrument, with the screen above the fold and the controls below. Close it and the whole groovebox fits on the outer display. Fold it while a beat plays and the hinge builds a riser that drops on the next bar. Make Beats • 8 tracks and 16 glass keys: tap steps on and off, or play the pads live • 4 knobs per track: tune, decay, fold and cutoff • Step locks: hold a step and turn a knob to change just that hit, plus velocity, chance, repeats and nudge • 16 scales (patterns) per project, switched on the bar line and chained into a song • Start blank with a kit's sounds, or from a template with…