Now available from the iTunes App Store, IK Multimedia GrooveMaker Cool & Dre are the IK Multimedia's latest artist-inspired apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. These music-creation and loop remixing apps feature the sounds of R&B and hip-hop beats and grooves.

GrooveMaker Cool & Dre are the product of the collaboration between Marcello 'Cool' Valenzano, Andre 'Dre' Christopher Lyon, and IK Multimedia. The apps offer music producers of every level the sounds and tools to make hip-hop beats that are currently trending on urban and adult contemporary radio.

According to IK Multimedia, the apps' sounds make it easy for musicians to cut hard-hitting records for the clubs, offering a grand selection of "Dirty South" hip-hop grooves and "West Coast" melodic vocals in an easy-to-use, 8-track loop, and remixing app for iOS devices. GrooveMaker Cool & Dre offer a selection of basses, drums, from 808-style subs to a variety of 76 to 90 BPM style loops. You will get dark synth leads, urban / ethnic percussion, moving vocal hooks, lyrical melodies, dozens of loops, and randomization for quick remixes, with export features to share and email your mixes to others.

GrooveMaker allows for instant control over eight stereo loop tracks, making it possible to remix the included loop library of vocal hooks, lead lines, bass, drums, bass drums, pads, percussion, and effects. Loops made in GrooveMaker may be manipulated in real-time (pan, volume, mute, solo, group, and tempo) and grooves can be arranged by dragging and dropping to create full-length tracks. These tracks can then be saved, previewed, and recalled on the iOS devices or exported as WAV files to any computer using a Wi-Fi network.

GrooveMaker Cool & Dre features:

• Instant control over 8 stereo loop tracks
• Play, mix, and randomize loops
• Combine studio-quality loops to produce your own grooves
• Manipulate loops in real-time (pan, volume, mute, solo, group, tempo)
• Arrange grooves with drag and drop to create full-length tracks
• Save, preview, and recall you mixed tracks
• Upload your tracks as WAV files to Mac / PC
• Interactive Help allows quick learning simply by following the indicated steps

Included sound features:

• Massive loops library of drums, bass, bass-drums, lines, pads, percussion, effects
• West Coast and Dirty South hip-hop style
• 4 included songs plus 1 free song when you register
• 315 loops
• 89-68.5-67-69-90 BPM
• 355 MB of samples

GrooveMaker Cool & Dre apps for the iPad and iPhone / iPod Touch are now available for $9.99 each. Learn more at groovemaker.com/coolanddre.