I really dig this work. Been wanting something just like this! I find myself beatboxing here and there randomly, and sometimes i really brew up something nice. Would be awesome to have a great way to catalog these "beat-deas". I can envision this app as an easy means for me to pop out of my pocket real quick when i have a good one. Would be nice to have the original beatbox sample saved as well for a reference.
From there - getting this (beat pattern at the least) into something like Ableton (or some importable format beat format (does that even exist? (Inception!))) would be so awesome.
The biggest thing for me would be for it to be able to handle a pretty complicated rhythm. When i get goin, its a lot faster than your examples (and i'd imagine 2 notes hitting in the same place create a problem as well). I'd imagine it gets pretty complicated pretty quick.
Maybe even a way to record a beat, have it do the conversion, then record over it to make more complicated rhythms.
As you can see i'm excited about your product, and am probably getting way ahead of myself on some of the comments. But either way, keep it up, and let me know when i can try it myself. Thanks!
Thanks, the ability to export to Ableton would be very cool. It's actually not that hard; Ableton can import midi, so as long as you set up the actual sounds yourself it's as simple as storing a .mdi file on Dropbox or Google Drive. That's something we could feature. And exporting entire loops should be easy as well.
As far as complicated rhythms go, I'd love to get some audio samples of you beatboxing! One of the things we have planned is a petition for beatbox samples -- we'll write a web app or rich client that makes it as easy and quick as possible. That'll allow us to get some better data than the little corpus I've been building up!
If you want to help out, you can either sign up for updates at http://beatmaticapp.com or email us at dev at beatmaticapp com. It would be much appreciated :)
From there - getting this (beat pattern at the least) into something like Ableton (or some importable format beat format (does that even exist? (Inception!))) would be so awesome.
The biggest thing for me would be for it to be able to handle a pretty complicated rhythm. When i get goin, its a lot faster than your examples (and i'd imagine 2 notes hitting in the same place create a problem as well). I'd imagine it gets pretty complicated pretty quick.
Maybe even a way to record a beat, have it do the conversion, then record over it to make more complicated rhythms.
As you can see i'm excited about your product, and am probably getting way ahead of myself on some of the comments. But either way, keep it up, and let me know when i can try it myself. Thanks!