The Toontrack Beatstation Virtual Instrument marks the next step in powerful yet simple sound design and music production. It is a drum sampler, bass sampler and melodic sampler in one. Offering drum, bass and lead instrument creation and arrangement with drag and drop simplicity, Beatstation is your go-to instrument for quickly getting a full groove up and running in no time at all. It also includes full MIDI & REX file support. Couple those features with the flexibility of working in Beatstation as a stand-alone instrument or an AU, RTAS or VST plug-in inside your favourite DAW and Beatstation becomes a creative musical force.

Beatstation comes standard with a 1.5GB core content library packed full of beautifully recorded instrument patches, loop-ready REX files and even completely customizable MIDI arrangements. Beatstation also lets you use and combine all of your existing Toontrack EZX and SDX drum libraries together to create one of a kind drum kits and sounds. From basic musical sketches to lavish complete productions, Beatstation gives you the tools and freedom to design your own musical agenda any way you want to.

The main features of the Toontrack Beatstation Virtual Instrument include:

• Sound sets can be created by dragging and dropping Wav, REX, MP3 and Toontrack library sounds on to the pads of Beatstation from the Beatstation browser or from the users computer hard drive mixing and matching any sounds available to build brand new personalised sound sets
• Sounds can be recorded using the Beatstation recorder
• Browses and plays back audio and MIDI with all components in the browser drag and droppable into a host application
• Beatstation allows the user to customise their playing surface to fit their needs by designing and changing skins, as well as customising the order of the playing surface
• Compatible sound sets:
  • BTX: Beatstation expansion packs
  • EZX: EZdrummer expansion packs
  • SDX: Superior Drummer 2.0 expansion packs
  • Toontrack MIDI libraries
  • REX files of any description

System Requirements:

• 2GB of free hard disk space
• Windows: XP SP3 or newer, Pentium 4 or Athlon processor with 1 GB RAM
• Mac: OS X 10.5 or higher, G5 or Intel-based Mac with 1 GB RAM
• Audio Unit, VST, AAX or RTAS host application and professional sound card recommended