Comparison

MPC Progression Builder vs Baethoven 2

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

MPC Progression Builder

Create and export musical chord progressions for your music production workflow. Features include keyboard, scale-based, and circle of fifths modes for building and refining harmonic ideas. Export directly to MPC devices or as standard MIDI files for use in any DAW.

Highlights
  • Virtual keyboard for direct chord input
  • Build progressions with up to 16 chords
  • Scale-based chord suggestions
  • Circle of Fifths progression builder
  • MPC-ready .progression file export
  • Standard MIDI file export
  • Instant playback and auditioning
Features
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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.

About

Baethoven 2

Create and export melodic pad banks for Akai MPCs directly from your mobile device. Features original samples, multiple banks, and MIDI controller support for seamless beatmaking.

Highlights
  • 379 original melodic samples
  • 8 pad banks with individual octaves
  • Tune samples across pads
  • Export native MPC kits
  • MIDI controller support
  • Built-in sample browser
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Baethoven 2 turns any sound into a playable melodic or chord kit, then hands that kit to your Akai MPC. You don't need to play keys: pick a key, pick a sound, and every pad is already in tune and in scale. Built by a producer, for producers. 8 BANKS, 16 PADS EACH Every bank is SCALES, CHORDS, DRUMS or CUSTOM, with its own sound, octave, tuning, volume and POLY / MONO. One good note fills a whole melodic bank, pitched across all 16 pads. Change the key and every bank follows instantly. CHORDS THAT BELONG TOGETHER Diatonic or fixed chord sets in any key. Set the SIZE (triad to 13th) and VOICE (inversions, drop 2, open). NEXT suggests what usually follows the chord you just played, EDIT lets you pick or BUILD any chord, and RANDOM deals a fresh set in the same key. STRUM rolls the notes UP, DOWN, IN or OUT, and HUMAN loosens them so they play like a hand. PRESETS, FX AND EXPRESSION PRESETS fill all eight banks at once in your key. An FX rack with EQ, COMP, DRIVE, TAPE and REVERB, with GAIN MATCH so every effect stays as loud as it went in. EXPR adds vibrato, bend-in, fall, glide, MORPH between chords, pressure, timbre and drift, plus MPE on MIDI Output. SHAPE EVERY SAMPLE Trim with zero-crossing snap, loop with a crossfade, and set A·D·S·R. NOTE ON and LOOP pads sustain for as long as you hold them. EXPORT TO YOUR MPC Save a complete MPC project (an .xpj with a WAV per pad, already tuned), an MPC 3 program (.xpm), your pads added straight into an MPC Sample project, or your chord banks as MPC progressions. Save to Files, iCloud Drive, or straight onto a USB drive or SD card. THE BAETHOVEN AUv3 Play Baethoven inside GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis, Logic Pro for iPad and any app that hosts Audio Units. MIDI IN AND OUT Play the pads from a MIDI keyboard or pad controller. MIDI Output sends your chords, strums and expression to another synth, app or computer, over USB or Wi-Fi, with an X/Y joystick and 64 knobs. YOUR LOOK Four styles (CLASSIC, SOFT, STUDIO, HARDWARE) and seventeen colour palettes, with haptics. Ludwig's tutorials and a searchable HELP walk you through everything. FREE AND PRO Free: every bank and pad, the keys C, A and G, three scales per feel, the first five sounds of every category, FX, EXPR, the SAMPLE drawer, your own files and MIDI in. Pro, a one-time $14.99 purchase with no subscription: every key, scale and sound, PRESETS, every MPC EXPORT, MIDI Output with X/Y and KNOBS, and the AUv3. A killaviccheatcodes.app account that already owns Baethoven unlocks Pro too. Baethoven is part of the Killavic Cheat Codes family of tools for beatmakers and sample-based producers.

Screenshots

MPC Progression Builder3 screens
Baethoven 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Baethoven 2 at Free against MPC Progression Builder's $2.99. On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Baethoven 2 is free to download; MPC Progression Builder costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MPC Progression Builder against 5.0 for Baethoven 2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MPC Progression Builder versus Baethoven 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMPC Progression BuilderBaethoven 2
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid Jonesvictor borges

Customer experience

MPC Progression Builder

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Baethoven 2

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

MPC Progression Builder

No in-app purchases

None

Baethoven 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MPC Progression Builder free?
MPC Progression Builder costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Baethoven 2 free?
Baethoven 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MPC Progression Builder or Baethoven 2?
MPC Progression Builder and Baethoven 2 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do MPC Progression Builder or Baethoven 2 have ads?
Neither MPC Progression Builder nor Baethoven 2 shows ads.

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