Read what others say about easy beat

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MacWorld UK, August 2004:  easy beat received a 4-Star rating from Macworld UK in August 2004. Macworld says, "If you're a musician or aspiring musician wanting a serious sequencer that won't break the bank, look no further." Tucows: easy beat received the highest possible rating "Five Golden Cows" from Tucows. Hitsquad: easy beat has received the Shareware Music Machine Top50 Download Award. A1 Yippee Shareware: easy beat has been awarded a 5 star rating at A1 Yippee Shareware.

MacUpdate: James Earl (Jazz musician, London, UK): "This is a quite exceptional product which any musician or aspiring musician should try. Just occasionally a program comes along that immediately feels like it 'fits', and is elegant, intuitive, unbloated and highly innovative. easy beat has all these attributes. Easy Beat’s note-entry scheme puts other sequencer programs to shame (no fiddly set of tools, just a cursor which changes depending on your actions). The drum view is a brilliant tool for writing beats. The midi set-up is incredibly easy - it worked first time for me (compare to almost any other sequencer!). The printed scores are excellent, and... a hundred other things. easy beat’s support is second to none: I received a reply to a query within two hours! I finally read the (superb) manual for pleasure - I didn’t need it to understand the program. easy beat is permanently installed on my iBook (works great on an 700 G3). After trying it for three days I bought a licence. I am a professional jazz musician in London (and have no connection with the company)." Snifffer.com: "If you like music and you play or compose and play, you have to try easy beat: it is the best music authoring program for composing, scoring, and playing songs on Mac OS X."

VersionTracker: Q Higuchi (Translator/Composer, Osaka, Japan): "easy beat is THE ultimate 'word processor in music'. If you want a decent program that allows you to jot down that piece of music just beginning to take shape in your mind, easy beat is it. It is like the ultimate wordprocessing program in music, with a delightfully Mac sort of interface. When you see it, you know what to do. As you do it, you find that you can do more. I have tried quite a few music authoring programs, but I haven't seen anything as user-friendly as easy beat. No need to look up any help documentation. If you are interested in making music, this one is definitely worth a try. And chances are that you'll love it as much as I do." VersionTracker: Travis Gee (Student/Musician, Texas A&M University, USA): "This app is WAY easier to use than all the other programs I've tried. I haven't a keyboard or MIDI equipment, but I write all my music through this app. I play piano and guitar and trumpet, and this app is a wonderful tool for composing practicing, and whatever else!"

easy beat - User Comments

Kerry Lakey (CEO AmPlus Technologies), Houston, Texas, USA: "I tried several programs of this type, including Finale, and I found your program to have the best features for a beginner such as myself. easy beat is an excellent starting point for someone just getting into computer music." John Joyce (Artist), San Antonio, Texas, USA: "easy beat is the only midi program out there for Mac or windows (I know, I have been looking for Windows apps, too) which is actually intuitive to learn. Not to mention, it is also very stable! easy beat really is what many people are looking for. Most midi apps are intimidating and confusing. Not easy beat!" Flip Thillmann, Genk, Belgium: "I must say, this is the easiest GM sequencer I ever ran across. It's very intuitive to use, and for its small size can do quite a lot. Especially the possibility to view the main scores in several ways is great."

Erik Fohlin (Production Manager, Barsark AB), Falun, Sweden: "What a great software. You easily write music and play it using QuickTime instruments. We are specialized in making interactive QuickTime multimedia presentations that can include Video, VR, Sound, MIDI, Text and Images. I can't play any instrument but it was really easy for me to make music with easy beat and export into QuickTime format. easy beat is a perfect tool for us. I haven't had this much fun for a long time." Lisa Coleman (Film Composer and Recording Artist), Los Angeles, CA, USA: "I happened onto easy beat and it has allowed me to casually discover a new way of being creative. So simple to use it allows the creative impulse to thrive. I am a professional musician and composer and I travel a lot, easy beat is perfect for my laptop. Thank you!"

James Dunlap, Dallas, Texas, USA: "The first thing I did was to check out the price of the software and then downloaded the demo. To be succinct, it is a very good value. The user interface is reasonably self-explanatory or intuitive. Well done." Matt Paddock, Norfolk, VA, USA: "I think easy beat has the best features, and seems like the only software that combines notation, sequencing and MIDI entry in an easy-to-use package." Michael Fielitz, Berlin, Germany: "I like easy beat very much. The user interface - in particular the score editor - is excellent." Art Drewitt, Paris, France: "Just downloaded easy beat and have only played with it for a few hours, but I want to say how fantastic it looks. As an amateur (and frustrated) guitarist/musician, this is exactly what I have been looking for."