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TECHNEWS IN ASSOCIATION WITH VOCAL CUT-UPS A-GO-GO


TAKE OUT your knife and fork and start slicing those vocal melodies, with assistance from our main man Jonny at Point Blank.


APP REVIEW


APP NAME : BEAT TWIRL DEVELOPER : TIV STUDIO FORMAT : PRICE :


IPHONE/IPAD/IPOD TOUCH £5.99


GIVING YOU the technology to slice beats, breaks, songs and phrases on the go, Beat Twirl could be the ultimate time-saver for those of us who are fans of using samples in their productions. Importing from your iPod library, or using audio copy/paste from other supporting apps, you can adjust tempo, duration, and using the app’s detection algorithm (or manually) slice parts from your chosen audio file. You can even record directly from a microphone into the app, then begin your audio edit right away.


There are 300 inbuilt percussion samples to include in your edits, which means that audio slicing is only half of the fun – you can also augment the existing file with dance perc hits, or ethnic drums or even melodic percussion.


We recorded a basic tabletop


drum rhythm and watched the algorithm at work. It did exactly what we hoped it would, and within seconds our live masterpiece was sliced into sections between beats, for which we were able to fully adjust the sensitivity


of the beatmarkers. A few seconds later we had exported our file in 16 bit WAV quality. What a great little app!


VERDICT 8/10


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