HEXBEAT vs Cue8

Make music like a pro — right from your iPhone or iPad. HEXBEAT is a fully-featured iOS synthesizer and beat machine for musicians, producers, and beatmakers who want studio-quality sound in their pocket. No samples, no imports — every sound is generated in real time using advanced audio synthesis. STEP SEQUENCER Build rhythmic patterns with a 16-step grid sequencer and 8 programmable drum tracks including kick, snare, hi-hat, clap, 808 bass, tom, and cymbal. Fine-tune your groove with BPM control from 60–200 and swing up to 100%. Save up to 64 patterns across 8 banks and 8 slots each. SYNTH PAD Play melodies with a responsive XY touch pad. Choose from 8 musical scales including Major, Minor, Dorian, Pentatonic, and more. Slide your finger to control filter brightness and pitch simultaneously — up to 5 simultaneous notes for expressive, real-time performance. POWERFUL SOUND SYNTHESIS Shape your sound with 6 oscillator types (Sine, Square, Sawtooth, Triangle, Noise, Super Saw), full ADSR envelopes for amplitude and filter, a resonant low-pass biquad filter, and a 4-waveform LFO with destinations including pitch, cutoff, volume, pan, and PWM. 8-CHANNEL MIXER Mix your tracks withper-channel volume faders, pan control, mute/solo buttons, reverb and delay sends, and real-time peak meters. A master channel with limiter keeps your mix clean and loud. BUILT-IN FX RACK Add depth and character with Reverb (5 room presets from Small Room to Cathedral), Delay with tempo sync, multi-preset Distortion, and a 10-band parametric EQ. BUILT FOR LOW LATENCY HEXBEAT runs at 44.1kHz with 32-bit internal processing and configurable buffer sizes down to 128 samples — delivering under 10ms latency for live performance feel. Whether you're sketching beats on the subway, performing live on stage, or producing tracks at home, HEXBEAT gives you the tools to create. Compatible with iPhone and iPad.

Cue8 is a live act you can play anywhere. Eight instruments, one disk, and every control you need to build a track and perform it from a single screen. No menus to dig through, no setup ritual. Open the app and play. EIGHT INSTRUMENTS, ONE GROOVE Kick, snare, closed hat, open hat, tom, percussion, bass and synth. Each one opens into its own knobs: tune, decay, tone, filter, drive and level. Mute and solo any instrument while the pattern runs. FROM PATTERNS TO A FULL SET Build sections, chain them, and watch a full arrangement come together. Intro, groove, break, drop. Eight patterns and two fills stay ready to switch while the set runs. See your bar count, duration and tempo at a glance, then reorder anything while the set is playing. BUILT FOR TRANSITIONS Filter, hold, gater, riser and throw. The moves you reach for on stage sit under your thumb, ready the moment you need them. THE MASTER CONSOLE LFO, chorus, delay, reverb, equalizer and accent control. Shape the whole mix in real time without leaving the performance. EVERY NOTE IN KEY Bass and synth are locked to the key and scale you choose, so the notes you place always land in the song. Seventeen scales, from the modes to pentatonic, blues and diminished. Pick a root, pick a scale, then play freely. THE STAGE AND THE STUDIO Act mode keeps performance controls front and center. Edit mode opens up deep sound design with classic drum machine character. Switch between them whenever the idea strikes. 15 FACTORY TEMPLATES House, melodic techno, techno, trap, UK garage, psytrance, drum and bass, UK drill, trance and more. Complete starting points with tempo and key already dialed in. 55 SOUND PRESETS Ready to play. Load one and go. MIDI EXPORT Take it to your DAW. What you build in Cue8 is yours to finish anywhere. RELEASE IT TO THE COMMUNITY Release a project to the community, discover what other artists share, follow the ones you like, and load their releases straight to your deck. ONE PURCHASE. A LIFETIME LICENSE. Buy Cue8 once and keep it. No subscriptions, no recurring fees, no features held back for later.