DISC Toontrack Beatstation Virtual Instrument

Full Description

Toontrack are well known for their virtual drums and instruments and the Beatstation marks a new direction. You'll create virtual instruments that are both easy and effective to use and through powerful sound design and music production tools.

Versatile Instrument Creation and Arrangement

With Beatstation, creating and arranging drum, bass and lead instruments comes down to simple dragging and dropping. You might just be surprised how quickly you'll get a groove up and running. There's also additional full MIDI & REX file support, especially if you've got things already created that you want to spice up with high-quality sounds. Experience the flexibility of working in Beatstation as a stand alone instrument or as an AU, RTAS or VST plugin inside your favourite DAW.

Explore the Core Content Library!

Out of the box, you get a 1.5 Gb core content library loaded with amazingly recorded instrument patches, loop ready REX files and even thousands of MIDI arrangements which you can completely customise. There are drum/bass/lead instrument presets created from 148 of the popular sounds and timbres from a massive collection of rare, vintage, modern and custom instruments. All of these of course are expertly multi-sampled by Toontrack and just a click and drag away as well. The library is divided into three distinct categories:

• Lowbit: 45 Basses, 48 Leads, 385 Percussive sounds, 53 REX Loops, 25 Bass Patches & 19 Lead Patches, 3 Complete MIDI Arrangements (173 MIDI files) with 3 full kit patches (Bass, Lead, Drums)

• Synthetix: 18 Basses, 52 Leads, 750 Percussive sounds, 206 REX Loops, 24 Bass Patches & 102 Lead Patches, 9 Complete MIDI Arrangements (498 MIDI files) with 9 full kit patches (Bass, Lead, Drums)

• Organic: 4 Basses, 11 Leads, 317 Percussive sounds, 250 Metal Guitar REX Loops played by Fredrik Thordendal / Meshuggah, 24 Bass Patches & 82 Lead Patches, 6 Complete MIDI Arrangements (362 MIDI files) with 3 full kit patches (Bass, Lead, Drums)

Combine Other Toontrack Libraries!

If you have Toontrack EZX and SDX drum libraries, Beatstation lets you combine them all together, so you can create even more versatile drum kits and sounds. Whether you're creating basic musical sketches or making lavish complete productions, Beatstation gives you the tools and freedom for you to get creative and musical.

A Variety of Tools at your Fingertips

Advanced users can benefit from powerful yet simplified tools for manipulating MIDI, sound design, instrument creation and full mixing. Take advantage of full ADSR, pitching, reverse, sample off-set, note-on/off, mono/poly, 5 part sample/REX loop or slice layering per pad all with individual parameter control, variable swing, flam, transposition, 1/2 x tempo, 2 x tempo and a handy part separation feature for extracting a specific part from a MIDI file.

(When using the SDX or EZX, there is a fixed mix of the microphones available for an instrument, typically without ambience. You can also use any MIDI included in the SDX or EZX.)

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

System Requirements:

Windows: Windows XP SP3 or newer, Pentium 4 or Athlon processor with 512 MB RAM

Mac: Mac OS X 10.5 or higher, G5 or Intel processor with 512 MB RAM (only 32 bit), 2 GB free hard disc space, DVD drive.