BKE Tech Beat Thang

The All-in-one Beat-production System You've Been Waiting for!

The BKE Tech Beat Thang sampling groove machine is brought to you by some of the world's hottest producers, including 2-time GRAMMY winner, Dallas Austin. It's the perfect way to create original beats and electronic music, wherever and whenever you want to. Choose from the massive library of cutting edge samples, import your own, or hook up a mic and create new samples on the fly. Thanks to the Beat Thang's super-intuitive layout, you'll be making beats in minutes, even if you're totally new to groove production. Keep reading to find out more about the incredible Beat Kangz Beat Thang groove workstation.

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• One of the easiest ways to create grooves and electronic music
• Loaded with amazing sounds from the world's top electronic music producers
• Flexible I/O provides integration with all of your studio gear

The basic concept behind the Beat Thang is to make sample-based electronic music production as simple and and intuitive as possible. That's why BKE Tech designed it so that nearly every function has its own button or pad - forget about navigating through endless submenus! Even if you've never tried producing music before, you'll find creating beats and grooves with Beat Thang fun and easy. But don't confuse simple with limited - Beat Thang has serious horsepower under the hood. This incredibly sophisticated beat machine gives you all of the layering, slicing, sampling, and sound-creation tools you need to make fully polished tracks. And thanks to its rechargeable lithium-ion battery, you can even use the Beat Thang to make music on the go.

Great tracks start with great samples. That's why BKE Tech loaded the Beat Thang with a collection of top-of-the-line samples, from funk guitars to award-winning keyboard licks, plus all of the drum sounds you could ever ask for. With its chromatic keyboard pad and side-mounted pitch shift and modulation wheels, it's easy to see that the Beat Thang was made to give you more musical control over your sounds than a typical groove workstation. Add to that on-screen waveform editing, a powerful Autochop function, and over 60 on-board effects, and it clear to see that no sound is out of reach for the Beat Thang!

Extensive I/O that's designed to be extremely flexible lets you use your Beat Thang in a variety of fun and creative ways. In addition to an XLR combo jack that lets you sample and record directly on the Beat Thang, it also comes equipped with MIDI for use with external controllers and sound modules. Want to load up your favorite samples? No problem, just connect your external hard drive via USB or load up your samples in one of the Beat Thang's SDHC slots.

• Powerful standalone sampling groove machine that lets you create electronic music anywhere
• Onboard 16-track sequencer with playable mute and solo functions lets you create patterns and preform remixes on the fly
• One octave pad layout with 8 banks lets you lay down beats and play keys over 8 octaves
• 16 layers of velocity sensitivity per pad lets you create expressive performances
• Onboard effects include filters, delays, reverb, chorus, Disintegrator, overdrive, distortion, phaser, chorus/flanger, pitch shifter, vibrato, vinyl effects, and much more
• Onboard mastering lets you add power and impact to your tracks
• Export WAV or AIFF files of your songs and loops for easy import to your DAW
• Import WAV or AIFF to use as loops or samples
• Record your own samples directly via the built-in XLR/stereo TRS combo jack
• Fully editable samples with clear waveform view
• Edit start and end points
• Normalize, Reverse and Resample to customize your sounds
• Autochop function allows you to quickly create mash up parts and custom kits from your samples
• Realtime and post-recording quantization
• Swing control lets you add shuffle to your patterns
• Song mode lets you string patterns together
• Virtually no load time when you switch beats and kits
• Integrates seamlessly with Beat Thang Virtual plug-in software
• 24-bit or 16bit/44.1kHz sampling, playback, and audio export