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BPM - Advanced urban rhythm instrument
Features
- Overview
- MP3 Examples
- Lay down your own beats
- Add loops and instruments
- Explore BPM's sounds
- Advanced programming
- Apply grooves
- Record and sample
- Mix and process (FX)
- Perform live
- Build a song
- Import and export
- Feature highlights
- Sound library highlights
- Specifications
- More sounds
"BPM is a remarkable instrument, providing almost everything you could ever want in a beat-production machine."
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"It sounds, looks and feels great and is one of the best urban music production tools currently available."
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What is BPM?
Sound libraries these days are awash with loops. And what is a loop, exactly? Someone else's beat. Isn't it time to take back creative ownership over your grooves?
Isn't it time to once again release your own unique, inspired beats on the world? If only you had a rhythm production instrument that let you program beats as fast as your mind can "hear" them. There just hasn't been anything even close...until now.
Experience the ultimate Beat Production Machine
BPM unites drum machine-style operation with advanced virtual instrument technology to give you the ultimate rhythm programming experience. Combine drum kits, sequenced patterns, sliced loops and instrument sounds to realize your rhythmic vision, mixing and matching any playing style with any drum kit. Or plug in your pad controller or MIDI keyboard to capture your live, groove-quantized performance directly in BPM.
Explore a new universe of new sounds
Browse BPM’s vast 15 GB sound library of expertly recorded and mastered 24-bit 96 kHz rhythmic material for urban, R&B, hip hop, techno, electro, house, pop, rock and other music styles. Sample your own drum sounds directly into BPM’s drum pads, or simply drag and drop clips from your computer desktop, to add infinite possibilities to your own, unique sound. Add further punch with BPM’s Drum Synthesizer. Combine unlimited sample layers per pad with programmable layer switching. Now add guitar, bass and other multi-sample instrument sounds from BPM’s included library, MachFive or any other MOTU or UVI sample instrument library.
BPM version 1.0.5 is now available as a free, downloadable update for all registered BPM users. Version 1.0.5 introduces beat slice editing and a new arpeggiator, plus all the new features introduced in versions 1.0.4 and earlier, including new Step Sequencer shortcuts and abilities, MIDI beat clock sync, MIDI modulation, expanded Metronome controls, One Shot pads, slice creation in audio files that don't yet have slices, and the ability to load sliced loops onto pad banks. For complete details on all of these exciting new features, see the PDF documentation included in the 1.0.5 updater download.
Let your beats flow, from start to finish
Trigger scenes during live performance from pads or MIDI notes. Drag and drop scenes into a song to build an entire track in seconds. Finalize your track with BPM’s comprehensive graphic mixer, unlimited effects processing and dozens of world-class effects, including multi-band EQ, filter, delay, drive, distortion and convolution reverb. Advanced features include drag & drop audio import/export, multiple outputs, universal plug-in compatibility and stand-alone operation.
Let BPM turn your computer into a rhythm production powerhouse. Watch the BPM movie to see BPM in action.
