Summarised by the developers as a ´Tonal and Percussive Open Surface New Generation Virtual Instrument´, Beatstation is designed to represent a new direction for Toontrack.
It is their first foray into tonal sampling and gives the user a workstation for creating and editing not just drums, but any
kind of instrument.
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 sounds available to build brand new personlized 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 customizing the order of the playing surface.
• 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.
RRP: To be confirmed
Available May 2010.
kind of instrument.
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 sounds available to build brand new personlized 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 customizing the order of the playing surface.
• 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.
RRP: To be confirmed
Available May 2010.
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