MPC Progression Builder vs Battlestation Groovebox

Progression Builder for MPC is a powerful yet intuitive tool for producers who want to build rich, musical chord progressions and send them straight into their workflow. Designed with AKAI MPC users in mind, it also exports to standard MIDI files, making it equally useful for DAW producers, composers, and beatmakers alike. Build your progressions your way: - Keyboard Mode: Tap out chords directly on the built-in virtual keyboard and hear them instantly. - Progression Builder: Arrange up to 16 chords into full progressions you can audition, refine, and export. - Scale-Based Mode: Explore chords that naturally fit your chosen scale — perfect for clean harmonic flow. - Circle of Fifths Mode: Craft progressions using classic relationships that sound balanced and musical. Every chord pad can be customized, rearranged, or saved for later — giving you a flexible sketchpad for harmonic ideas. Whether you’re working on a soulful lo-fi loop, a jazz-inspired sequence, or a cinematic score, Progression Builder for MPC helps you find the right chords fast. Export your ideas with ease: - MPC-Ready Export: Generate .progression files compatible with MPC Live, X, One, and Force. - MIDI Export: Drop your chords into any DAW, sampler, or synth. - Instant Playback: Audition and tweak voicings, inversions, and timing before you export. - Clean, efficient, and tuned for real production environments, Progression Builder for MPC bridges the gap between music theory and creative flow — helping you stay in the zone.

Battlestation is your 1-minute groovebox: a workstation designed to get an EDM jam going in less than 60 seconds. Note: iPad or Mac recommended. iPhone support is provided for plugin compatibility purposes, but Battlestation is best experienced on a roomy screen. Battlestation contains an analog drum machine, three synths, a mixer and a bunch of effects and utilities, all accessible from a single screen. Battlestation mixes traditional groovebox concepts with generative sequencers borrowed from the modular world, and the immediacy of a streamlined DAW-less jamming setup. Create banging techno on the bus. Lay down some acid tracks in the forest. Tinker with weird sounds on your lunch break. Battlestation targets that sweet spot between being creative and spending a few minutes doing something fun and entertaining. Although Battlestation is designed to be a self-contained, standalone casual fun box, it has a bunch of power user features built-in to make it work in your DAW setup should you want to turn your jams into tracks... - Works on iOS, iPadOS and MacOS - Loads as an AUv3 plugin in compatible plugin hosts - Separate outputs for each instrument* - MIDI IN/OUT for each instrument* - All automation parameters exposed as AU Parameters* - Does not contain AI - Handcrafted in the Netherlands * = when loaded as an AUv3 plugin Find the user manual on ruismaker.com