For those wishing to express their emotions without having great musical technical knowledge, BKE offers its Beat Thang portable workstation, a hardware equipped with everything you need to transform your ideas into music.
Il Beat Thang is the first fully portable music production workstation. It offers the features of a classic professional sequencer, sampler and electronic drum kit but with a totally redesigned operation.
Its strength is the total integration between software and DAW, It has the most sophisticated library of original sounds ever made, with over 3.000 splendid samples of electronic, dance, hip hop, funk, R&B, rock, pop, world, reggaeton and jazz created by BKE sound designers. It also includes hundreds of pre-packaged drum kits and instruments and over 100 original royalty-free beats and over 1.000 professionally mastered sounds from the Grammy-winning Super Producer Dallas Austin personal collection.
It features the most expressive control surface ever designed, with intelligent and sensitive pads at 16 speed levels, completely unique color pad organization and patent pending pitch and mod wheels. Engineered to the point of obsession and built to last, with world-class audio treatment, the finest sound design and uncompromising quality in every detail.
It can produce finished tracks in seconds using the BTV's revolutionary sequencer technology. Tap tempo, swing, quantize and many other functions allow you to produce fully complete songs in seconds, thanks to the simplest real-time production interface in the world. Powerful sampling functions. Upload your own 16 or 24bit samples, or record new ones, and then you can edit them in every aspect with the advanced waveform editing functions, auto chop, time stretch and much more.
Compatible software, absolutely versatile and ready for future expansion. Comes with software plug-in AU / VST BKE extension
for Mac e PC and integrates fully into any professional studio environment thanks to the sockets USB A / B and MIDI In / Out. It guarantees an unprecedented experience. You can play your own music thanks to its chromatic keyboard with velocity-sensitive dynamic pads and the “live” functions of “mute” and “solo”. It also has a complete effects treatment that includes: compression, EQ, filters, flangers, reverbs, delays and much more, as well as completely unique expressive controls, thanks to the pitch and modulation wheels supplied. Of course it can also work in the studio with MIDI keyboards and controllers, and provides access to dozens of videos, tutorials and other learning tools on:Learn Beat Thang, free technical support from active manufacturers and engineers, and free lifetime firmware and content updates via USB.
It has from 3 to 4 hours of autonomy, thanks to the rechargeable lithium-ion battery and does not depend on any external device or program (although it can be easily integrated).
For further information, we point out some links that we have selected for you:
The first is the presentation video of the Beat Thang with the symbolic man of the Beat Thang - Dallas Austin (US renowned producer and Grammy winner):
www.beatthang.com/products/beat-thang.html
The second one is a Youtube movie with a song by the producer / artist Will.I.Am whose base (in the DJ language, the "beat") was entirely made with the Beat Thang. To interpret it you will find "J Lo" and Mick Jagger. It gives you the dimension of what the Beat Thang is capable of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjIwmJMqrco
The third video is a brilliant clip subtitled in Italian where the practicality of Beat Thang in impromptu situations is brought to the fore. The song of the No code it has been totally revisited by the music producer Ali Ricci that appears personally in the clip enhancing the need to seize the creative moment without limits, in any place and at any time.
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2BOArsF339U
The others are links to the page on their site where there are instructional videos that explain in more detail how the Beat Thang works:
or:
www.beatthang.com/videos/browse/product_training.html
TECHNICAL FEATURES:
Registration: 16/24 bit / 44.1 kHz
pads: 13, at full octave
Dynamic pads
Inputs: 1 x Combo XLR and 1/4 ″
Phantom Power
Number of Tracks: 16, with Mute and Solo functions
Headphone output: 2 x 1/4 ″ stereo
Master outputs: 2 balanced 1/4 ″ TRS
Mid: IN and OUT, including USB MIDI
Internal Effects: Filters, Delays, Reverb, Chorus, Disintegrator, Overdrive, Distortion, Phaser, Chorus / Flanger, Pitch Shifter, Vibrato, Vinyl Effect and many others.
Compatibility: Import and export files in WAV or AIFF format
Connections:2 x USB (type A and B) for storage and computer connection
Foot Switches:1 x 1/4 ″ foot switch jack
Display: 3.5 ″ color TFT
Battery:Rechargeable battery
Card slot: 2 x SD card slot, supports cards up to 32GB
System required:
Mac:
Intel-based Macs only, 1GB RAM (or greater), OS
Windows:
Pentium 4 (or greater), 1GB RAM (or greater), Windows XP (SP2 recommended), Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit), 800MB free space on OS drive)
Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.5 x 2.8 ″ (292 x 216 x 71mm) Weight 6.3 lb (2.9 kg)
Good vision to all!
Antonio Campeglia
USEFUL NEWS:
Producer: Bke
Model: Beat Thang
Website:www.beatthang.com
Italian distributor: M. Casale Bauer
Price: Euro 1064 including VAT
