This is just a quick video I put together showing how to use sounds from beat thang virtual in Maschine.
Of course it will work for other programs too, but Maschine has some features that makes it pretty easy and quick to do.
A lot of folks that have BTV are always looking for ways to get the sounds out of it to use in their favorite daw, sequencer, mpc, whatever.
There’s a few ways to do it, I found this way to be very quick and easy.
Some other ways to do it are recording audio directly into a wave editor or daw from btv, and chopping the samples, manually. You can make a simple beat that has what you need in it, export as a wave, and chop it manually. You can use something like Sample Robot or another automatic sampling system to do it, and there’s even a way you can do it with a script using autohotkey.
For me, using Extreme Sample Converter was the quickest and most efficient way, since BTV is a vst plugin now, I can just use the VST converter tool in Extreme Sample Converter.
Here’s the video:
So let me know what ya think, as you can see this is a dope tool to have, and automated vst sampling is like waking up to fresh pancakes…just a good thing!
I got my update for BPM yesterday so I got it installed last night and today I just messed around with setting up the custom mapping.
It’s really deep, you can map pretty much anything, makes it very hands on now.
They also added the Beatbox Anthology expansion, which is basically a library full of tons of classic drum machines.
They added note repeat, with various rates, and undo button (no redo), aux fx in each bank, etc.
They even added midi pad select, so if you hit the pad on your controller, it will take you to that pad in the software…
Yeah…it may seem small but when building/editing kits and samples, this is very useful, because if you forget to use your mouse to go to the next pad….yeah…you just replaced your custom drum sound lol.
Overall some good stuff added, mainly on the workflow side of things. Of course there is quite a bit more kits and patterns included now, still along the lines of dance/urban and electronic styles of music.
They also updated a lot of the content from the previous version, removed some ground noise/hiss that was on some of the samples, and overall just cleaned it up even more.
So this is just a quick vid showing what’s in it, showing some of the content folders, and the various things you can now map to any controller.
I’ll probably do some videos on each part, maybe show how to map stuff quickly, run through some of the patterns/kits for those interested, etc…we’ll see.
You know I’m always looking for the best tools, that get out of the way and let you work.
One of my gripes with the current choice of drum sampling software is their inability to understand how simply we want to layer sounds.
Many folks just want to drag a sound to a pad, then another, and another, and have instant access to each layer to tweak and create new composite sounds.
Unfortunately, many of the products out just don’t get that. Most make you go deep into the keymapping setup to layer sounds on the keys, or they don’t allow layering at all, or it’s so complicated you just say forget it and just play each sound on it’s own, layering “in sequence”!
Enter Poise…from an independent developer one small clue…someone who, like me, must have been fed up with the current crop, bloat, and “just don’t get it” operation of the majority of software drum samplers out now.
What we need is something that’s simple, cost effective, lean, clean…and to the point.
So what is Poise?
In my mind, poise is the drum sampler we’ve all been looking for.
Poise is what I would make if I could write software….
Poise is a simple, 16 pad drum sampler that lets you quickly add layers, manipulate the layers, and come up with new sounds.
Poise is NOT a sequencer. You can NOT sample into it.
from the site:
Direct, straightforward, no frills and no bloat! Poise aims to make working with drum samples quick and painless, allowing you to focus on making music.
sounds good to me, so good I had to keep it under wraps until I could actually SHOW you what it did. It’s not new, it’s been around, but I just found out about it and I know many of you will love it, because I get the same questions from folks looking for an easy drum sampler that let’s you layer your drums quickly and tweak each layer.
Why I think Poise “gets it”
Why do I think it’s the best? Let me list the reasons.
It’s easy to layer sounds, just drag them onto the pad, and a layer number will appear in the window
layers can be played in round robin, layered, or velocity switching mode
You can have up to 16 outpus, enough to send each pad to it’s own track in your daw if you want
Very easy, very clean, very straight forward, and very intuitive.
It has everything you need to layer and play with your samples, and nothing you don’t.
No sequencer screen that you won’t use getting in the way.
No complex menus of keygroups and mapping to mess with.
16 pads, each with 8 layers, knobs to tweak each layer/sound…and not much else.
right-clicking on a pad let’s you access things like note on/oneshot mode, or mono mode, pad linking, etc.
It’s really simple, and everything you would try to do naturally, it just does it…this is the way a simple drum sampler should be…not a bunch of bells, whistles, and balloons.
So you really like it huh?
Uhhh….yeah.
This plugin is 5 subs all the way around in my honest opinion…I could hardly contain myself when I found out about it.
Try it and tell me it’s not what you’ve been looking for. You can layer, edit start and end points of samples, send each pad to it’s own output in your daw for simple tracking….tweak each layer, save your kits….really what else do you need in a drum sampler?
I honestly, so far, can’t think of anything I would change about it. It does what it needs to do…allow quick playing and manipulation of samples.
check it out at One Small Clue, download the demo, and see for yourself.
let me know what you think of course, leave a comment below.
Very easy, very clean, very straight forward, and very intuitive.
This plugin is 5 subs all the way around in my honest opinion…I could hardly contain myself when I found out about it.
