[NAMM] IK Multimedia GrooveMaker Cool & Dre Apps

Marcello 'Cool’ Valenzano and Andre 'Dre’ Christopher Lyon have teamed up with IK Multimedia to release “GrooveMaker Cool & Dre”, described as “the apps for every level of aspiring music producer to make the style of hip-hop beats currently heard on today’s hottest urban and adult contemporary radio” in the styles of Cash Money, Interscope and Def Jam, or the beats behind superstars like Lil’ Wayne, Trey Songs, Mary J. Blige, and Nicki Minaj.

GrooveMaker Cool & Dre offer a selection of “Dirty South” hip-hop grooves and “West Coast” melodic vocals in an 8-track loop and remixing app for the iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. Musicians are given an arsenal of basses, drums and more to choose from – a palette of room rumblers, 808-style subs, and a variety of 76–90 BPM.

GrooveMaker Cool & Dre includes dark synth leads, urban/ethnic percussion, and moving vocal hooks with lyrical melodies. It is designed to allow for control over 8 stereo loop tracks, making it possible to remix the included loop library of vocal hooks, lead lines, bass, drums, bass drums, pads, percussion and effects.

Features:

• Control over 8 stereo loop tracks
• Play, Mix and Randomize loops on the fly
• Combine loops to produce millions of possible grooves
• Manipulate loops in real time (pan, volume, mute, solo, group, tempo)
• Arrange grooves with drag and drop to create full-length tracks
• Save, preview and recall you mixed tracks
• Upload your tracks as .WAV file to your Mac/PC (Wi-Fi network required)
• Interactive Help allows quick learning simply by following the indicated steps

Included sound features:

• Massive loops library of drums, bass, bass-drums, lines, pads, percussion, effects
• West Coast and Dirty South hip-hop style
• 4 included songs + 1 FREE song when you register
• 315 loops
• 89–68.5–67–69–90 BPM
• 355 MB of samples

Range, pricing and availability

GrooveMaker Cool & Dre apps for the iPad and iPhone/iPod touch are now available from the Apple iTunes App Store for only €7.99 each.

Click here for GrooveMaker Cool & Dre for iPhone on iTunes Store.

Click here for GrooveMaker Cool & Dre for iPad on iTunes Store.

This brings the number of currently available GrooveMaker applications to 13 style packs.

For more information, video and audio demos, visit www.groovemaker.com/coolanddre.