Beat English 01-2022

Fat beats for Techno, Electro, Minimal & more Analog Techno Drums Every style of Club Music thrives on powerful and crisp drums. This month‘s software highlight comes with a whopping 1,056 drum sounds and matching modern synth sounds, ideal for a wide range of styles from Tech-no and Electro to Minimal, House, R&B and Hip-Hop. Analog Techno Drums shines with 66 kits including stylish bass, chord and effect sounds. Download: see Page 9 win | mac All serial numbers securely accessible: The Beat Serial Center To ensure that none of your serial numbers are lost in the future (for instance, in the event of a new installation, Outlook crash or disk crash), you can now conveniently manage them online. The advantages are obvious: The Editorial Team can send you targeted…

The common thread: Beat issue 01/2021 For many years, Beat has been inspiring its readers not only with practical and musical topics, but above all with the tight integration of editorial content. From the very beginning, Beat has been about creating, about the structured building of ideasand the common thread - in the magazine as well as in the tracks. This navigator shows you the highlights of this issue andallows you to see the big picture. Studio Insights: Boys Noize Alex Ridha‘s fifth Boys Noize album aggressively explores the split between swooning melodies and hard, atonal beats. Danny Turner reveals Alex‘s modular approach. Page 54 Review: Korg modwave Wavetable synthesizers are more in demand than ever, and modwave combines this powerful sound generation with diverse modulation and performance possibilities for…

Wider sound with chorus floor pedal from Eventide As part of the dot9 Series, Eventide announces the release of their fourth effect pedal, the TriceraChorus. This pedal is intended to appeal not only to guitarists, but also singers and keyboardists. During its development, the manufacturer was inspired by the classic Tri-Stereo Chorus and Stompbox Chorus of the 1970s and early 1980s. TriceraChorus has three Chorus voices with left, middle, and right, as well as the three Chorus types: Chorus, Vibrato, and Chorale. For psychedelic Flanging, Phasing and Univibe sounds, they provided the Swirl footswitch. In addition, there is an active footswitch. The connections of the MIDI-enabled pedal include stereo line inputs and outputs. There is a rear panel level control for adjusting the level to guitar, synthesizer, FX loop or…

For professional Audio Restoration and Post-Production, iZotope helps out with the modernized restoration suite RX 9. Both the standard and the full-featured advanced version are now available. In the Advanced version, the Dialogue Isolate tool is said to have received improved extraction, allowing dialogue to be separated from an environment - free of artifacts. Speech should be able to be separated even better from crowds, traffic, steps, weather or similar. Ambience Match has also been enhanced with a new Complex mode, so it should be possible to seamlessly combine dialogue and ADR cuts with real background motion and textures. Both the Standard and Advanced versions benefit from the new Dynamic Mode of the Dynamic De-Hum plug-in. The goal with this is to eliminate humming, buzzing, wireless ringing or interference. In…

Roland revives the legendary SP-404 portable sampler after 16 years of radio silence. With the new SP-404 MKII, you get a 32x polyphonic playable sampler with 17 velocity sensitive pads. A capacity of 16 GB for samples can be used for recording. The memory can be expanded by way of external SD cards. A small OLED display helps editing the samples through the waveform display. Even slicing is said to be possible. The functional diversity of the sequencer has been expanded to include shuffle and roll, among other things. In addition, multiple samples can be played back with just one key thanks to Pad Link. With the help of a new resampling technology, the layering of effects is supposed to be simplified. Regarding the effects, there are also new additions.…

Cableguys introduces NoiseShaper, a new Lo-Fi effect plug-in to the studios of the world. The central element is the freely drawable or synchronizable LFOs, which are typical for Cableguys. This also makes every modulation visually apparent. LFO edits can be restored with unlimited undo. LFO quantization ranges from 1/128 to 32 beats. Dozens of noise samples are included in the plug-in, sorted into noise, organic and analogue categories. Noises include vinyl crackle, hum, destroyed digital textures, organic field recordings and much more. Importing your own sound files is also supported. Nine slots are available for saving your own samples. In addition, there is a ducking mode, mono mode, envelope follower and a high and low pass section. Over a hundred presets are included. NoiseShaper should appeal to sound designers in…