About the Project

Reasoning:

As a beat-boxer enthusiast and music producer myself, I would have ideas for songs and would have a beat in my head. While I could beatbox this idea, I would always lose some of the idea in translation when I went to my computer to make the beat. I spoke with some of my other music producer friend to see if they had a similar problem. When I heard from 5 of them that they did have a similar issue, I knew that this product would bring value to a large portion of the music production community.

In terms of the reasoning of the design, I developed several iterations of the themes, and tested that the blend of hip-hop and comic-book style scored highest among the themes I presented.

Not only will the user have the ability to record themself beatboxing and magically turn that into a MIDI file that could be manipulated and used in music production, they could adjust the tempo, use as a drum pad, and change the style of drums as well.

Problem Statement:

Music producers need a mobile tool to transform their ideas quickly into usable drum loops to not lose their creative spark in the moment.

Key Features:

• Microphone enabling

• Metronome feature to keep the user “on-time”. 

• Ability for the app to translate drum sounds (kick drum, hi-hat, snare, clap, cymbals) via voice to match the frequency to the pre-loaded drum sample assets.

• Place the translated drum samples onto a drum machine grid, with customizable tempo and time signatures. 

• Ability to change the tempo and time signature on the interface. 

• Ability to adjust the placements of the drum patterns post recording. 

• Ability to export the finished drum sample into WAV and MIDI forms to be used on the user’s preferred DAW

Roles:

• Product Design

• UX Design

• UI Design

• Prototyping

Tools Used:

• Figma

• ProtoPie

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe Illustrator

• VS Code: Javascript, CSS, HTML

Category & Context:

• iOS, music app