Description:

Beaterator is a portable studio that guides users through the process of constructing beats and songs with thousands of loops and sounds made by both Timbaland and Rockstar.

You can jam in Live Play mode with genre-specific templates, or jump into Song Crafter to compose original drum beats, melodies, and even record vocals.

Beaterator is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and will also be available later this fall on the iPhone and iPod touch.

More info is available at the Rockstargames site.

Rockstar Games and Timbaland have announced that Beaterator, a new DJ/remix game previously announced for the PSP and Playstation Network, will be coming to the iPhone and iPod touch this fall.

Beaterator features thousands of loops and sounds, made by both Timbaland and Rockstar, and is designed to make making professional-sounding music portable, accessible and fun.

Details are available at the Beaterator site.

Rockstar games has released this trailer for Beaterator, which will be made available for the PSP and through the PlayStation Network on September 29th, 2009:

Beaterator for PSP system and PlayStation Network puts a world-class mixer at your fingertips – enabling easy, powerful and innovative creation.

Featuring original music and a sound-kit which includes thousands of loops and sounds produced by Rockstar and multi-platinum producer and entertainer Timbaland exclusively for Beaterator.

Beaterator will be arriving on shelves on September 29th, 2009 in North America and on October 2nd, 2009 in Europe.

Nice to see gaming taking on electronic music.

via CrateKings

DSP Music has released version 3.0 of PSPSeq, a free homebrew application for composing music on the Sony PSP handheld game system.

PSPSeq contains both realtime synthesis and sample playback capability, along with multiple FX modules of widely varying types for modifying instruments in countless ways. PSPSeq also has a powerful and unique step sequencer for triggering samples and arranging loops into full songs.

Key features of PSPSeq:

• up to 16 independent audio tracks per song
• a wide variety of synthesizers from traditional virtual analog and FM to Karplus-Strong
  and unique digital oscillators with parameter controls rarely seen in commercial synths
• WAV file playback with looping, pitch shift, and configurable start/end points
• many FX algorithms from digital filters and waveshapers to bitmasks and decimation
• all synthesizer parameters can be set to unique values on a per-step basis
• step sequencer with configurable step length, swing, highly accurate BPM, and tap tempo
• probabilistic sequencing: the decision to retrigger to be based on a 0-100% probability
  rather than a boolean yes/no operation
• song sequencing with 100 different loops per song, 1000 measures per song, and loop
  repeat capability
• load and save of synthesizer presets between songs
• record loops and songs to WAV

Some of the improvements over PSPSeq 2.11 include:

• fixed dc offset in humanize and delay cases
• synthezier presets
• load to step, loop, all loops, save current step, preview preset data,
  multiple preset files per synth comp
• fixed wav save bug
• add exponential decay on freq to all synths
• 7Mbytes of memory for samples
• global configurable sensitivity on apad
• START always exits menu entirely
• fm feedback for BFM and FM synths with configurable routing
• shortcut to synth params from sequencer screen (triangle+L-trig+R-trig)
• per step pan, pan and vol moved to ENV as well as Stepedit Mode
• faster load/save and more compressed SEQs
• configurable stepping through sequencer with apad
• randomize parameters with ranged setting, start/end points for random values
• configurable colors
• namable loops, display next loop jump point
• better DADSR controls
• edit a subset of steps in a loop (latched mode)
• jump by 8 through seq load list (triangle+D-pad up/down)
• enhance clear track to clear from an arbitrary step
• enhance shift track to keep old hits for copy/paste functionality

PSPSeq 3.00 can be downloaded here.

The PSP RHYTHM development team has released RHYTHM version 8, a free music sequencer for the PSP.

According to the team:

RHYTHM version 8 has been in development for over one year. We have rebuilt the audio engine from the ground up, making many improvements. The User Interface and controls have also been completely redesigned to streamline the music making process. Virtually every feature of RHYTHM has been improved upon.

Improvements:

• New Easy to Use Interface
• 32 Step Patterns
• 6 Octave Piano Roll
• Synthesizer and Loop modes
• Waveform display with ADSR Envelope
• More Patterns
• More Song Steps

You can preview a demo song below:

Rhythm 8

RHYTHM is an audio sequencer for the Sony PSP (Playstation Portable).

RHYTHM was created to entertain and inspire the end user (producer) by allowing the user to create music with a high level of artistic freedom.

RHYTHM is a single player game where the user organizes sounds into rhythmic and melodic patterns, and then organizes the patterns into complete, exportable songs. Up to 16 sounds can be simultaneously sequenced with a precise degree of control in up to 64 patterns. These patterns can then be arranged into a song which can consist of up to 999 song steps. The user can then export the completed song as CD quality PCM wave files.

The heart of RHYTHM is its sample based audio engine aptly named the RHYTHM ENGINE. The RHYTHM ENGINE enables the user to chop, pitch-shift, time-stretch, and effect digital audio files.

The graphic user interface (GUI) is designed to be a highly efficient visual aid to the creative process of producing electronic music. RHYTHM clearly displays the basic building blocks of audio sequencing, musical notation, sound editing, effects processing, and song arrangement in a well defined and organized manner. The GUI is easy to navigate while still providing detailed information and control over the user?s music.

RHYTHM uses four pattern mode views (PATTERN, TRACK, WAVE, & EFFECTS) and one song mode view (SONG) to display all song information. Each view has similar control and data input. Each view displays a specific type of information. PATTERN VIEW displays an overview of each pattern. TRACK VIEW displays sound specific pitch information. WAVE VIEW displays sound specific sample information. EFFECTS VIEW displays an overview of the effects applied to each sound.

The control scheme and button implementation is designed to be simple and easy to understand. Button functions are intuitive and require little guidance to learn. Control functionality is consistent throughout each view.

RHYTHM’s simple and intuitive interface gives the user access to an otherwise complex music process. Producing music is streamlined which keeps creative ideas flowing instead of being interrupted by a bombardment of programming features and a cascade of menus and sub-menus. With beat templates and instrument sequences, RHYTHM will instantly bring out the music producer in everyone.