It's BEAT THANG made virtual

We know some people prefer software over hardware, so we created an exact replica of BEAT THANG for your PC or MAC. BTV turns your computer keyboard into a pad controller with a chromatic layout, so you get the feel of an instrument without the need for additional equipment. Install BEAT THANG's award-winning operating system on your computer and you'll be able to focus on your music instead of your equipment because the workspace is simple, clean and well-organized.

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Reorganized for better performance

All the features are grouped together in a way that makes sense. Access to each each feature is prioritized based on when it's used in the creative process. The interface is organized in a way that dramatically shortens your learning curve and keeps you focused on making music, and not on setting things up.

  • Important functions given their own button
  • Features are grouped for easier access
  • One-button access to sampling, editing, mixing and sequencing

True innovation

The future of drum machines on your computer.

Showcase your artistic abilities by using well-organized controls that are simple and intuitive, with performance enhancing features so you always sound your best with less effort.

BTV behaves more like a playable instrument and less like a computer. This is the virtual drum machine software for professionals who prefer to focus on the artistic side of creating high-quality music while not bogged-down by the mechanics operating complex equipment.

Supercharge your sound

Beat Thang is packed with powerful professional features, but all things being equal the sound is what matters most and that’s where Beat Thang excels.

Sure, each original sample in the Core Collection is 16 bit and 441khz stereo, but that doesn’t do the real quality justice.

Each internal sound is obsessively processed by engineers with decades of experience so you can focus on your creative process and greatly trim-down your mastering time. This library gets you much closer to a radio ready project faster.

Our process

The BKE proprietary sound design process guarantees you get superior quality samples. Every sample starts with exotic instruments played my master musicians. The samples are tracked through boutique microphones like Neumann, Goffel and Royer. Each sample is cut on a class A preamps like Anthony DeMaria, Personus, Trident, and Malcolm Toft.

Only the best

During the mastering process, most of the samples we captured were left on the cutting-room floor. Only the absolute best samples are obsessively polished and approved for use in the Core Elements Collection.

Because your sound matters

When you own any BKE product you possess a library that required 2 years of dedicated focus to create, by a team of professional engineers, with world-class talent, using high-end studio gear. The end result is that you have a crisp modern sounding library that can't be duplicated easily.

 

Loved and trusted by

By many multiple Grammy award winners and iconic producers including...
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Open the box

Try and product based on Beat Thang. You'll quickly fall in love with the sounds, as you realize you simply can’t get better drum sounds that these inside factory content. You get 3,233 all original samples and synths inside 300 diverse kits. You'll infuse your music with modern drums and authentic influence from cities like Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, N.Y.C., L.A., New Orleans and Memphis.

Modern sounds for any genre

Create rap in any sub-genre, digital dance, R&B and Reggaeton. Craft menacing beats or slow grooves with a more relaxed & casual flow. The Core Collection also includes 100's of samples of shouting vocals, call-and-response acapellas and sampled sound effects.

Capture or import your own sounds

Sample anything fast

Sampling can be tedious and time consuming, so we changed the game. Paul Nagle, from Sound on Sound magazine, said the Beat Thang interface has the “most streamlined sampling implementation in the known universe.”

It doesn't get easier to usably capture samples in 24 or 16 bit and perform basic editing features quickly. Record microphones, guitars and basses, turntables, or even your iPhone or iPod and find endless inspiration for new songs, capture ideas on the go, or create amazing remixes.

  • Mic input includes +48v phantom power preamp
  • Choose from 24-bit or 16-bit sample depth
  • Exterior Gain Control knob
  • 50 minutes of sampling time
The simplicity of sampling with BTV

Press the dedicated SAMPLE button and select NEW. Press THRU, PLAY and RECORD. When you are done press STOP and SAVE it. It’s that simple.

Advanced sample editing

You can edit your any sample with clear waveform view. You can can adjust the gain, bit depth and effects send. Quickly adjust the stop and start points or reverse your sample and/or trim unwanted portions of your audio. You can also pitch shift, normalize, amplify and perform basic time stretching quickly up or down in increments of .01.

 

Hear Beat Thang in action

Watch "The Hardest Ever" by Will.i.am, JLo and Jagger,
with music by Dallas Austin created using Beat Thang.
Automatically turn any sample into a playable instrument

With Autochop it's simple to turn any sound you can sample into an instrument you can play. It's great for creating custom kits for remixes. The Autochop feature will automatically spread any sample you capture along 13 pads. If there are more chops than that it will spread them across all 8 banks.

Enter KIT mode, press NEW and select a pad. Select your sample to be chopped. Scroll to AUTOCHOP, adjust your START and END points and press AUTOCHOP. Set your FREQUENCY and SENSITIVITY and press OK. Now just play your new sampled kit. It works with any 16 or 24bit .wav or .aiff audio file. It's takes about 45 seconds flat.

Create kits and instruments

Building custom kits and instruments is exceedingly easy with Beat Thang. Press Kit mode and select New. Scroll to the sample you want press Load. Select the next pad and repeat the process as many times as you want, until you have the exact kit you want. Name your new kit and Save it. You can fill each pad up to 8 banks.

Fast navigation

All the samples are grouped by type for fast navigation and the display screen displays icons for each sample type so you can easily see what sounds correspond to each pad.

Easy Kit pre-mastering

Optionally, more advanced users can even pre-master sounds further by easily adjusting the volume, pan, pitch, cutoff, resonance, Trigger mode, delay, reverb, attack, decay, sustain, release, start and end point, velocity, voice group, and keyspan of each sound as it’s selected.

The fastest way to build a kit period!

You can build new kits in just minutes. Enter KIT mode and press NEW. Simply drag the samples you like from the library to each pad. Once you're done adding samples just save your new kit. You can even play your kit on the fly as you build it to mak sure you like where it's headed.

Another helpful feature is the ability to pre-master or add effects to each sample as you add it to your kit. At any time, after you've saved your kit, you can EDIT it again. The quick kit building feature is one of the many ways we made it easy for you to spend more of your time creating music and less time setting up your equipment.

 

Plays well with others

  • MIDI Sync In and Out
  • VST/AU plugin support

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