Toontrack Beatstation News: The Toontrack Beatstation has just been announced. Here's the first teaser video from Toontrack:
Toontrack comment that the Beat Station is a ‘Tonal and Percussive Open Surface New Generation Virtual Instrument’ and represents a completely new direction for Toontrack. Indeed, BeatStation is Toontrack's first foray into tonal sampling and gives the user a workstation for creating and editing not just drums, but any kind of instrument.
Andreas Sundgren from Toontrack: “Although it is firmly planted in the Toontrack legacy of designing the best percussive virtual instruments Beatstation marks a departure for Toontrack, introducing melodic instruments, REX support, and recording capabilities making it the ultimate open surface sampler for sound designers, producers, musicians and songwriters alike.”
Toontrack BeatStation Key Features
Beatstation allows the user to design sound sets by dragging and dropping Wav, REX, MP3 and Toontrack library sounds on to the pads of Beatstation from the Beatstation browser or from the users computer harddrive mixing and matching any sounds available to build brand new personlised sound sets.
- Beatstation records samples.
- Beatstation browses and plays back audio and MIDI with all components in the browser drag and droppable into a host application.
- Beatstation allows the user to customize their playing surface to fit their needs by designing and changing skins as well customising the order of the playing surface.
Toontrack Beatstation Compatible Sound Sets
- BTX: The Beatstation expansion packs
- EZX: The EZdrummer expansion packs
- SDX: Superior Drummer 2.0 expansion packs
- Toontrack MIDI libraries
- REX files of any description
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