BeatPad for the iPad
I live on my iPad and iPhone. They are my pals on the road. I’ve tried all the music production tools on the iPad but BeatPad is the best. It is the only one I actually make usable clips with, a real workhorse with all the right features and sounds. I can literally spend ten hours on it zoned into a beat.
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