UltimateSoundBank has announced Beat Inc., a brand new collection of urban loops and sounds, produced by top producers and mastered by "one of the baddest mastering engineers on the planet". |
- The first "HD" Instrument: true 24-bit/192 kHz sounds & engine ("normal" 16bits/44.1kHz versions of the sounds also included in the box).
- Exclusively produced for UltimateSoundBank by top producers who have sold millions of records.
- Mastered in New York (Sterling Sound) by Chris Gerhinger.
- More than 16 Gb of TOTALLY new fresh sounds.
- 1000+ of fresh new loops including construction kits, drums, kicks and snare, hi-hats, fx...
- 4000+ of fresh new individual sounds and samples including kick,snare, hi-hats, fx, percussions, bass, synth...
- Hundreds of mastered samples of the most famous analog beatbox of all time.
Expand and import:
- Expandable with UVI Soundcards.
- Import your MPC and ASR sounds.
- Import any WAV, AIFF, REX, APPLE LOOPS files.
Edit & sound design:
- Drag & Drop from sequencer or desktop to a pad for easy sampling.
- Wave Editor with essential editing features.
- Sound Design-Shaping tools : envelopes, multi-mode filters, LFOs, pitch...
- Each pad/instrument can have up to 4 different FX and 2 Aux Send.
- Complete professional effects arsenal, with easy editing: delay, reverb, phaser, flanger, chorus, EQ, drive, distortion, compressor... Also includes a convolution reverb.
Working with grooves:
- Integrated step sequencer with Drag and Drop.
- MIDI grooves player with Drag and Drop.
- Direct sync to host : tempo & transport.
- Realtime sync to the beat : loops are always in time.
- State-of-the-art realtime time-stretch algorithm.
- Latch mode to start/stop loops with a simple keystroke.
- Double/Half tempo.
- Sample/Slice Start for loops and phrases.
- Drag & Drop MIDI files of sliced loops into the sequencer.
- Drag & Drop Audio files from stretched or sliced loops into the sequencer's audio tracks.
- Import of REX, Apple Loops, Aiff & WAV files.
Beat
Inc. will be released for Windows and Mac OS X as a stand alone
application and as a virtual instrument software plug-in in VST, Audio
Unit, DXi, RTAS and MAS formats. Release schedule and pricing
information are not yet available, although audio demos are.