Matrix Music Pad vs Dawnbeat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Matrix Music Pad
Create your own music and performances with this intuitive sound creation tool. Its easy-to-use interface allows anyone to instantly generate unique songs and explore interactive art, regardless of musical experience. Enjoy superb sound quality and a novel creative experience.
- Create own music and performances
- Easy-to-use controls
- Superb sound quality
- Save and load presets
- Twice as big grid
- Bank switching
- Sequencer mode
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Fight japan!!! 2009.10.26 VERSION 1.2.0 with a lot of new features (such as save and load your own presets, twice as big grid and bank switching to mention a few) is in review! For a more complete list check out RxR Project on MySpace! With Matrix Music Pad anyone can have fun! This application is the first product in our Media Art series called "YUDO Music Toys". The controls are very easy and the sound quality is superb! Fully possible to make your own music or performance with! We have plans for at least five additional functions that will be implemented in free updates! If you lost your data by pressing on the Bomb or just want to reset all data to as it was when you first bought it please do the following: Go to sequencer mode, Press on the "!?"-button, tap four times on the yellow lamps and press on the blue lamp for Factory Reset. If you do this all data will be restored. BlueSynthesizer (9 Patterns) RedBass & Drums (9 Patterns) YellowEffects If you press and hold on the "!?"-symbol in the lower right corner for a little while a detailed explanation will appear. Tap on the yellow lamps in the lower right, Inside the "!?" screen 4 times to go to the easter egg screen. Shake your iPhone while you are in the main screen to switch to sequencer mode. By just plotting sounds on the grid you can make your own songs! In sequencer mode as well you can push on the "!?" button for a detailed explanation and 4 times on the yellow lamps to switch to the easter egg screen. Since it's possible to choose between different scales, it will sound nice even if you just plot sounds randomly. Matrix Music Pad MMP-I ( is a media art product produced by Sound Artist DJ nagureo (Reo Nagumo) and Game Designer Reo Yonaga's Media Production Unit "RxR Project" and is the first media art product in the "YUDO Music Toys"-series. * After a few touches anyone can enjoy it instantly! * When you try it you will understand how to use it directly. * An interactive art production. * No music knowledge or experience is necessary. * Offers a totally new experience! * And now, possible to possess! "RxR Project" plans to keep on releasing Media Art Productions under the year of 2009. The origin of the development, Reo Nagumo's company called Yudo have also made the synthesizer software "8BitOne" that got top rank (all categories) in Japan. DJ nagureo is game music composer who have been reached many achievements as an artist. Reo Yonaga is a music interactive game designer who also have been awarded for his game designs. These two people wanted to make something more then just games and decided therefore to start this unit in order to bring life to their media art product ideas. The "RxR Project" will release more Media Art products from now on. We hope you are looking forward to that!
Dawnbeat
This app lets you create music by sampling and sequencing audio. It offers advanced features like multi-touch pads, an always-recording buffer, and flexible routing for creative sound manipulation. Integrate with external MIDI devices and apply a wide range of built-in and AUv3 effects.
- Multi-touch and draggable pads
- Always-recording buffer (Memorizer)
- Advanced loop manipulation (BRIIKS)
- Flexible mixer with assignable busses
- Polyphonic pads for chords
- MIDI IN/OUT for external control
- AUv3 effects and instrument support
- Auto-slicer for audio chopping
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Dawnbeat inherits the best part of the classic hardware samplers and takes it further by adding features only possible on a multi-touch device. Create more natural patterns by tapping and swiping pads. Focus on creativity, you don't need to select a tempo before hit record to finally play a pattern until you get the right take, just play and forget about to record! Dawnbeat is always recording! Multi-touch and draggable pads: - Pads are multi-touch, play a single pad with two fingers at the same time! - Pads are individually configurable, allowing re-triggering when dragging for amazing fills, tone variations . - Mute and Solo buttons for pads available. - Mute groups. Memorizer: - DawnBeat is always recording pad events, you'll never miss a beat, play and experiment and when you hear something you like, it's already recorded! simply go to Memorizer and select the desired events. BRIIKS sampler: - Advanced loop manipulator. Rearrange and combine your loops. Also available as standalone, AUv3 and MacOS. Mixer: - 4 assignable BUSSES and one MAIN BUS. Assign pads to busses, assign internal effects or AUV3 effects to busses. - Mute and Solo buttons. Polyphonic pads: - Pads can be turned polyphonic, import a piano-like sample and play and sequence chords with a single pad. MIDI IN and MIDI OUT: - Trigger samples from a MIDI controller, play melodies from a MIDI piano. - Sequence hardware drum machines and synths from Dawnbeat. - Use Dawnbeat as an intermediary between a midi keyboard and a synth, save the sequences you are playing. Dawnbeat can save poliphonic sequences! Pattern sequencer with piano editor. - Swing, count-in, metronome. Audio Units: - Dawnbeat support AUv3 effects and instruments! Built in Effects: - Reverb, Delay, Compressor, Flutter, Gate, Tremolo, Noise, Filter, Chorus, Equalizer, Stutter and Tape slow motion. - Effects can be rearranged. Built-In sample browser: - 6 drum kit sample libraries, and 1 bass sample library. Selectable internal sample rate: - Internal sample rate can be changed, choose between HI-FI and LO-FI sample rates. AUTO-SLICER: - AutoSlicer detects hit points and slices audio into individual files minimizing the need for manual editing. Chop up any audio file in a few seconds. Recording sample rate can be selected. Export movies with images and animated GIFs .
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dawnbeat at 4.2 against Matrix Music Pad's 3.5. Matrix Music Pad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Dawnbeat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Matrix Music Pad asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dawnbeat holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 115 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Matrix Music Pad's written reviews are positive against 70% of Dawnbeat's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Matrix Music Pad ships an update every 5 weeks, Dawnbeat every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Matrix Music Pad | Dawnbeat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (64 ratings) | 4.2 (115 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.9% of reviews — better | 70.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 64 | 115 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 504 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yudo Inc. | Luis Rivas |
Customer experience
Matrix Music Pad
Dawnbeat
Bugs and requests
Matrix Music Pad
Reported bugs
7 issues- Horrible on iPad (pixel doubler)
- Save not working correctly
- Original song lost after factory reset
- App disappeared after purchase
- No sound on OS4
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- Keyboard pops up and disappears at beginning
- Multiple yellow dots problem in setting screens
Requested features
22 requests- New version with new sounds and features
- Native iPad compatibility
- Ability to get and hear other people's sets
- Sharing and downloading other users' sounds
- Add sharing feature
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- Add downloading feature
- MIDI clip import feature
- Ability to save/load tracks to share
- Add more instrument choices
- Make it easier to create beats
- Add oscilators
- Wav file output
- Data load and save
- A forth track
- Optional onscreen grid overlay
- Sample loading
- Make own ringtones
- Share track sets with other users
- More selection menu
- Add flat, sharp support
- Allow composing with different scales
- Fix transposed music composition grid
Dawnbeat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Matrix Music Pad
No in-app purchases
Dawnbeat
- Dawn Beat Complete$5.99
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