# Chip's Jack Machine — Retro Beats for New Heat

> Retro Beats for New Heat (iPhone/iPad app by Irwin Eberhart.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chips-jack-machine/id6792666335 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Irwin Eberhart](https://appshunter.io/developer/1888230063)
- Category: Music, Entertainment
- Price: $0.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 8 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-28
- Data updated: 2026-08-31
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chips-jack-machine/id6792666335/reviews.md

## What is Chip's Jack Machine?

Chip's Jack Machine is a pocket-sized classic house drum machine — 16 voices, a 16/32-step sequencer, and the hands-on knob-per-function workflow of the original hardware, with no menus to dig through.

Most of the kit is synthesized live rather than played back from a sample library, so every knob genuinely reshapes the sound instead of filtering a recording. A few voices are built from recordings where a real one simply sounded better.

FEATURES

• 16 voices — bass drum, snare, low/mid/hi tom, clap, closed and open hat, cowbell, rim shot, maracas, low/mid/high conga, claves, and cymbal.
• Per-voice TUNE, DECAY, TONE, SNAPPY, LEVEL, PAN and VERB — every one of them live.
• 4 scenes (A/B/C/D) with instant switching, copy and paste. Each scene keeps its own pattern, bar length, mute/solo state and knob settings.
• 8, 16 or 32-step patterns with swing.
• Step recording — arm RECORD and play the pads in.
• Load your own audio into any voice with SAMPLE.
• Low-latency audio engine built for playing, not just playback.
• Export a pattern as WAV, or export every voice separately as stems.
• Save and load projects as .house files and move them between your devices — the same format the whole Architect Series uses.

Runs on iPhone and iPad.

Buy it once and it's yours. No subscription, no account, no ads, no in-app purchases, and no network connection — the app works entirely offline, forever.

Part of the Time2Jack Architect Series.

## Chart rankings

- #26 in Top Paid · Music (US App Store)


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-08-29

No release notes.

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