Toontrack Beatstation Review

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Review of Toontrack Beatstation Virtual Instrument by chris brackenbury for floridamusicco.com

At its core, Toontrack Beatstation Virtual Instrument marks the next step in Toontrack's evolution of creating virtual instruments that are both simple and effective to use but also very powerful sound design & music production tools. Offering drum, bass and lead instrument creation & arrangement with drag and drop simplicity, Beatstation is your "go to" instrument for quickly getting a full groove up and running in no time at all. As if thats not enough, weve also added full MIDI & REX file support. Couple those features with the flexibility of working in Beatstation as a stand alone instrument or an AU, RTAS or VST plugin inside your favorite DAW and Beatstation becomes a creative musical force to be reckoned with.

Toontrack Beatstation comes standard with a 1.5 Gb core content library packed full of beautifully recorded instrument patches, loop ready REX files and even completely customizable MIDI arrangements. If you can think of a sound, Beatstation can help you bring it to life.

Beatstation also lets you use and combine all of your existing Toontrack EZX & SDX drum libraries together to create one of a kind drum kits and sounds. From basic musical sketches to lavish complete productions - Beatstation gives you the tools and freedom to design your own musical agenda any way you want to.

Toontrack Beatstation's core content 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)

With the core content, you are granted instant access to all the acoustic, electronic and resampled instrument samples vital to modern production. Each category contains a variety of kit presets with corresponding MIDI variations comprised of drum, bass and lead parts. Keep in mind that they are all just a click and drag away! The core content come stocked with thousands of MIDI grooves, REX loops, drum/bass/lead instrument presets created from 148 of the popular sounds and timbres from a massive collection of one of a kind, rare, vintage, modern and custom instruments- all meticulously multi-sampled by Toontrack.

For the advanced user Toontrack Beatstation contains a number of powerful yet simplified tools for manipulating MIDI, sound design, instrument creation and full mixing. This includes 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 within the MIDI file.

Toontrack Beatstation Virtual Instrument System Requirements:
-2 GB free hard disc space
-DVD drive
-Windows
-XP SP3 or newer
-Pentium 4 or Athlon processor
-512 MB RAM
-Mac
-OS 10.4.11 or higher
-G5 or Intel processor
-512 MB RAM

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[naguilu]

i have an small question, maybe someone could help me!

Can i use this with fruity Loops 9, or Adobe Audition 3.0???

Or wich is the right way to use this software??

[floridamusiccompany]

@naguilu

yes works.

i don't if there's a right or wrong way to use this software just call it up within your daw and hit some pads on the software.

[irpinia125]

hello again ...i am looking for drums kits for techno/house and rave styles music

is it included in the software???

[floridamusiccompany]

@irpinia125 there is plenty of sounds for all types of music also tyou can record your own.

regards chris

[irpinia125]

will this work with cakewalk sonar studio 7???  thank you............Tony

[floridamusiccompany]

@irpinia125 yes

[SandJJProductions]

it appears like it has a lot of loops is it also good with recording

[OUWATZAHLE08]

toontrack rules man i use it to my nanokontoll and nanopad

[dripgoss]

@TheLantern009

I don't know about protools, but in logic I load it as a virtual software instrument on a track just like i would EZD. Then drag some midi (or play some midi in a record armed software track) and it triggers even my home made samples through the virtual instrument. It's actually quite handy.

[TheLantern009]

Is there a way you can route sample to individual track like EZ Drumer in Pro tools? I ve spent all night since I bought this

If not, this drum machine is waste of money

[AtlantisMassif]

Am I the only person who thinks that this GUI looks like a nightmare from 2004?

I like Toontrack but what is the point of deliberate ugliness? Have you looked at the skins for this? Am I missing something? Is painful to look at some kind of new cool?

[lindseyjondawson]

I have superior drummer 2.0 and its pretty much my go to live sounds, I brought this because the price is very reasonable and it has some lofi stuff and digital stuff I didnt have with SD2, Beatstation rocks, especially for the price, I guess the olny thing I thought was missing (in the stand alone anyway) was the ability to program your own groove, I thought that would have be great especially with the sample recorder. Although there are a lot of midi files that come with it,