SPC - Music Sketchpad 2

3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars | 193 ratings

Price: 4.99

Last update: 01-09-2025


Latest updates

What's new in version 2.2.5
  • - Sample and loop listing in alphabetical order
  • - Android 4.4 ready
  • - Fixes for hdpi und xhdpi phone screens
  • - Xxhdpi 144x144 icon added
  • - Improved low latency support for devices with a 48 kHz sample rate
  • - Improved Delay and Filter effect
  • - Reset knobs to zero position by double tap
  • - Sample preview in browser, start and stop pad by double tap

Product Details

Release Date: 2011
Date first listed on Amazon: April 1, 2011
Developed By: mikrosonic
ASIN: B004US3PVO
Customer reviews:
3.4 out of 5 stars193 customer ratings

Developer info

Product features

  • Turn your Android device into a sampler and sequencer
  • Play and mix patterns, loops, and sequences with 16 pads
  • Program your own beats and grooves
  • Record sounds and loops
  • Scribble your musical ideas
  • Add realtime effects like reverb, delay, phaser, filter and distortion
  • Load WAV files from anywhere on your SD card with the browser option
  • Integrate loops you've created with RD4 - Groovebox
  • Share your tracks directly online on SoundCloud
  • Program, produce, and share your tracks anytime and anywhere

Product description

Mix, record, play and perform your own electronic music with the SPC – Music Sketchpad 2!

It’s the Android app for sampling, sequencing and beat programming on your phone or tablet.

Start producing now: Play loops and sequences with the 16-pad multi-touch enabled main screen and program your own sequences and drum grooves by setting steps and notes.

Upload and manipulate your own loops and sounds or use and mix the ones included in the app or provided for download on mikrosonic's website. Tweak the sounds with the sampler and effects like reverb, phaser and distortion. Record any sound with your device’s built-in microphone.

Optimized for phones and 7- to 10-inch tablets.

If you already use mikrosonic’s popular RD4 – Groovebox, loops you’ve created and exported there can also be instantly available to work into your music!

Use the SPC – Music Sketchpad to:

Perform live
- 16-pad screen mixes loops and sequences
- Remix your tracks in real-time
- Import your own samples/loops in the WAV format up to 24-bit 96 kHz
- Recording of performances in exportable WAV format
- Comes with 2 pre-programmed scenes
- Additional scenes for download at the mikrosonic website
- Pad play options: Loop, One Shot and direct sample play
- Three pad start options: Instant, Next Beat, Next Bar
- Tap Tempo

Program your own beats and grooves
- Full featured drum machine
- Flexible sequencer
- Step sequencer for each of the 16 pads
- Every step sequencer with up to 64 steps
- Individual velocity/accent settings for each step
- Different step lengths from 1/4 to 1/32

Scribble your musical ideas
- 16 tracks with up to 4 variations
- Keyboard for melodic composition
- Sound library with one-shot samples

Record sounds and loops
- Record your voice, instrument or any other sound directly with your device's built-in microphone
- Record one-shot samples with trigger function
- Record loops in sync with quantization and overdub function
- Use the recordings instantly in your performance

Edit your sounds
- Waveform display
- Gain, pan and tuning knobs
- Envelope control with attack and decay
- Reverse, normalize and cut function
- Up to 16 steps volume and pan envelope for loops
- Slicer for recombining loop elements
- All actions in real-time

Add effects
- Reverb, delay, phaser, filter and distortion
- Freely assignable to each pad
- Real-time controllable effects
- X/Y control field for each effect
- 4 effect sends
- Chaining of 2 effects

Technical Features
- Multi-touch control
- Optimized for phones and 7- to 10-inch tablets
- Special rack view in portrait mode for 10-inch tablets
- OpenSL integration for lower latency
- Direct integration of RD4 - Groovebox loops
- Integrated browser for loading WAV files from your SD card
- SoundCloud Sharing Kit integration
- File sharing capability
- App2SD

System Requirements:
- Android 2.2 or higher
- screen resolution 800×480 (WVGA) or higher
- 800 MHz CPU or faster supporting ARMv7

User Data Privacy

Information not provided by the developer.
To learn more, visit the developer’s privacy policy.

Technical details

Size: 8.7MB
Version: 2.2.5
Developed By: mikrosonic ( Privacy Policy )
Application Permissions: ( Help me understand what permissions mean )
  • ACCESS_ALL_DOWNLOADS
  • Open network sockets
  • Record audio
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
  • Write to external storage
Minimum Operating System: Android 2.3.3
Approximate Download Time: Less than 90 seconds

Top reviews from the United States

  • Kathy
    5.0 out of 5 stars great app!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2011
    Don't listen to the naysayers regarding this app. Yes if you just open it up and start clicking around it seems that it doesn't do a lot other than play some techno beats. But after you read the directions & figure out how to really use the app you'll see that you can do a lot with this. Don't let the "read the directions" comment turn you off either. It isn't difficult to figure out & use. Again great app!
  • fawsy
    1.0 out of 5 stars waste of time and money
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2011
    this app is mediocre at best. you only loop pre-recorded sounds that the app has (which are few) Yes you can upload your own .wav files, but seriously, if you are going to take the time to find or create them you might as well stick to editing software on a computer. I am glad I tried this for free because I was very disappointed and uninstalled this app after five minutes. I would have been upset for even paying .99 cents for this overrated app that does almost nothing!
  • MamaDK
    2.0 out of 5 stars not sure how or why but it killed my memory card
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2011
    as soon as I downloaded this app my SD card had an error and shut down. Then the phone kept saying it had been removed unexpectedly when it had not been removed at all. I uninstalled this app and suddenly the phone could find the SD card once again. it looks like a fun app but I can't seem to use it.
  • slipshade
    5.0 out of 5 stars best mobile music program i've seen
    Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2012
    So, this app is not for everybody, and it has crashed once or twice. It does not replace a mixing studio or some of the better computer based programs for a pro, and if you have never done any music editing before it may seem overly complex. Even so, it's undeniably 5 stars, and I say give it a chance.

    As for how complex it is, my six year old opened up the program and was having an impromptu dance party inside of one minute. It actually sounded pretty good. So despite the overwhelming appearance for the uninitiated, just jump in and you'll find that it's not so bad.

    It is very, very easy to get started and the program is well laid out. Just press a couple of buttons at random and the music starts. Turn on or off the different instruments until you find a combination you like.

    It's slightly more complex to move on from there, but that is only because of the wide variety of options you can tweak. The good news is, you're making music all the time, so even those without prior experience will have fun exploring if they keep an open mind. If you don't explore much, this is probably not worth the price of admission because the default loops are really only good, not great.

    As someone who has messed around with sampling/looping/mixing in the past, I must say for a mobile solution I am extraordinarily impressed with the power and flexibility of this app. It's a lot more useful and easier to use than some of the outrageously expensive drum machines I bought a decade ago, and it is on par with some synthesizers for exploring sound concepts once you get it tweaked to your personal taste. I really like the easy to use interface for changing time/meter/rhythm and inserting loops in an easy to visualize array of fractional beats. It's not perfect, but it's easy enough to make a good tune; you can certainly have fun with it or even make a complete song or album if you're motivated.
  • John D Phillips
    3.0 out of 5 stars Decent app, good sounds, laggy and limited.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2013
    Had a tough time figuring out the UI, might be more my problem, but maybe the navigation and command structure could be a little more intuitive.

    This app sounds really good, I like the choices of samples and tones. I don't usually work with electronic music, so I have not found a lot that will prove useful in my own work, but it has given me some neat ideas to expand my palette a little.

    It's probably my mid-range phone, but the app is very laggy for me, there's a significant (~1 sec or so) amount of latency between tapping a button and the activation of whatever effect the button causes. And when there are more than a couple tracks going at once, things can get dicey - some samples will get out of time, or the whole project will stutter.

    It's an okay app, but I'm glad I didn't pay money for it.
  • A. Taylor
    4.0 out of 5 stars really interesting but I would love an instructive tutorial
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2011
    i like this app, but i am confused at first bite. playing with it a bit, i can agree with several other reviews, who is this for? its like it's too complicated for an outright noob, but impractical for anyone but a noob...

    just add more usage info, or more help on manipulation on the main website.

    as is, i am keeping this. i like dinking around, and using my own sound files will make this interesting for a while. my kids are enjoying it on our tablet too.
    if you wanted to make ringtones, use ringdroid.

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