Beatstation plays Percussion Pads, Lead Instruments and Melodic Bass. It uses a flexible and skinnable open playing surface, records samples, supports external samples, MIDI Grooves and REX Files.
Beatstation harnesses the power of percussion samples and melodic instruments in one virtual 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 user’s computer hard-drive, mixing and matching any 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.
Beatstation 1.0.2
New Features
– support for mp3 files in the browser has been added
– skins previously imported can now be removed
Fixed in version 1.0.2
– fixed a bug affecting instruments with pitched and reversed samples
– fixed crash when setting new core content path and then exiting
– unmuting the drum bus should no longer cause noises or artifacts
– when using two monitors on mac it was possible to get the stand alone window below the menu bar making it impossible to be moved further
– some controls no longer had any effect after a sound had been dragged from and to the same pad properties
– the temporary MIDI file that is used when dragging is now written in the correct place and with the correct name
– the sounds recorded with the sample recorder was not saved in instrument presets due to temporary files being located in wrong place on Mac
– export of loop points from sample recorder is now working when left marker is at the start of clip
– looping of grooves effected by the flam control improved
– random instrument selections should now include all BTX-s, even those not previously opened in the browser
– the REX preview file is now unloaded when loading a new project that doesn’t contain one
– loading a preset referencing sounds from libraries not present on the system will now be flagged by an alert dialog
– pads referencing sounds in a previous core content location will load from the new location if the path has been repaired
– added error messages when trying to register an EZX or SDX without EZDrummer or Superior registered
– SDX-s paths should now be recognised regardless of the validity of the backup path (if any)
– EZX and SDX presets now only load the drums, no effects or bass or lead
– looping of odd time signatures grooves in the internal player has been improved
– EZDrummer groove remapping within Beatstation is further enhanced
– file types are now filtered out on the different browser tabs
– MIDI files containing an underscore as part of their name can now be traced back in the browser using the magnifying glass
– REX preview files that cannot be found in the browser are now displayed in the Finder/Explorer
– sound files that cannot be found in the browser are now displayed in the Finder/Explorer
– all instrument presets for the BTX-s should now be available from the INSTR tab as well
– custom user paths are now also shown in the Sounds tab
– the right/control click menu is now also available in the Sounds tab
– the right/control click menu no longer allows to remove a folder entry if not in the root of the custom path
– “Removed Folder” has been changed to “Remove Path” in the browser menu
– adjusting the FX level in the pad property window now affects all selected pads as intended
– hiding pads now hides the pad properties and color dialog as well
– CTRL double click to select all pads no longer bring up the pad properties floater
– the minimize/maximize button in the pad properties floater no longer stay lit if clicked in the very outer pixels
– soloing/muting the drum master is now indicated on the pads in the same fashion as soloing the pad itself
– the drum master tab in the pad properties floater does also reflect the state of the drum master solo/mute
– the first user pad layout is no longer checked by default
– scrolling the REX window after having dragged a REX slice should no longer trigger the drag icon on screen
– the instrument name is updated correctly when dragging a REX file to a pad
– the pad properties for Bass and Lead now correctly display the pad name
– selections in the pad shape dialog is ignored for lead and bass pads
– oval medium size pads did not display a note number on launch
– the slice number did not show on the REX slices when using inverted text color scheme
– all text values are followed by ‘…’ when the text is too long to be displayed in full
– the loading animation is now always on top
– residual floater panels are now forcibly removed when another control requires one
– ’emtpy’ tooltips are no longer shown on the stacks in the pad properties floater
– some additional tool tips were adjusted
– some web links were adjusted
– misc minor copy protection fixes
Content update
– suitable sounds have loop points defined
– wrong pitches above note 84 corrected for ‘MonoMachineD’
– wrong pitches above note 64 corrected for ‘Monster Lead’
– sounds for Snare Group Snaps Xtra (Organic BTX) should be less noisy
– some Crash samples in the Lowbit BTX should no longer be offset
– Snare 1 in the Peachtree preset no longer has muted sounds
– Synthetix Lead presets Hidden and Spurt fixed
– Carpenter preset should now load FX1
– misc non operational changes (pad labels, etc)
