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Beaterator impressions: Making music on the PSP

We recently got a chance to check out a new music-making title for the Sony PSP from Rockstar Games (best known as the creators of Grand Theft Auto), called Beaterator. It's not really a game at all, but instead a boiled-down music production suite, combining premade samples and loops with a reasonably robust sequencer, and most importantly, the ability to import your own sounds.

Beaterator is loosely based on a music-mixing Flash app of the same name that Rockstar has hosted on its Web site since 2005.

We're very familiar with PC and Mac applications such as ProTools, … Read more