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BPM — Advanced urban rhythm instrument
Features
- Overview
- New in 1.5
- Videos and MP3s
- FlexLoops™
- Loops and instruments
- 19 GB sound library
- Beat Box Anthology
- Hardware controllers
- 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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Feature highlights
Overview
- Complete rhythm production center for Mac and Windows
- Combines state-of-the-art rhythm programming technology with playable virtual instrument operation inspired by the classic drum machines
- Provides complete creative control, from recording and programming individual samples to building and arranging entire songs
- Includes a comprehensive, expertly produced 19+ GB urban sound and loop library for urban, R&B, pop, rock and other music styles
- Includes Beat Box Anthology, a massive 4 GB collection of samples, kits, patterns, and loops from 80 iconic drum machines from decades past
- Combines drum machine programming, sampling, loops, synthesized drum sounds, multi-sample instrument sounds, mixing, effects processing, song arranging and asset browsing in one streamlined window
- Plug-and-play support for hands-on pad controllers such as the Akai MPD32 controller
- Exclusive SP1200 Emulation mode faithfully reproduces the unique characteristics of the classic sought-after E-mu SP1200
- State-of-the-art environment for laying down beats as quickly as your mind can "hear" them
Included sounds and loops
- 19+ GB library of loops, samples, patterns, and kits
- Includes a comprehensive collection of sounds from 80 classic drum machines
- Over 10,000 individual samples
- Over 1,000 new drum and percussion loops
- 24-bit 96 kHz audio quality
- Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC by top mastering engineer Chris Gehringer
- Beat Production/Sound Design by Eric K. Roz for Black Rose Corporation
- Over 200 drum kits + patterns organized by style categories (Beat City, Old School, etc.)
- Over 100 urban multi-sampled instruments, including piano, bass, guitars, synths, pads and more
- Built-in drum synthesizer for unlimited synthesized drum and percussion sounds (includes hundreds of preset sounds)
- Comprehensive percussion samples, patterns and loops
- Over 10,000 classic style beat box samples
- Hundreds of patterns in many styles (hip hop, R'nB, house, electro, techno, funk, soul, pop, rock, etc.)
- Play any pattern in any style with any drum kit (included or programmed) for virtually infinite combinations
- Load any MOTU instrument sound from MachFive, Ethno, Electric Keys, etc.
- Load any UVI instrument sound
- Add new sounds with BPM Expander packs and UVI SoundCards from UVISoundSource.com
Software operation
- Runs as a stand-alone application on Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista
- Runs as a plug-in with any Mac or Windows audio host (Audio Unit, VST, RTAS and MAS)
- Next-generation UVI Engine XT delivers state-of-the-art sound quality and operation
- Supports multiple separate outputs for multi-channel mixing
- Drag-and-drop importing for MIDI data, audio data and audio loops
- Slice loops and patterns can be exported to the computer desktop or audio host software as audio clip or MIDI clip
- Scenes and songs can be exported to the computer desktop as an audio clip
Sampling and synthesis
- Records individual samples or loops from any external source via plug-in host software
- Quick sampling feature lets you quickly record into the currently selected drum pad
- supports self-sampling (record BPM output back into BPM itself directly)
- Programmable drum and percussion synthesizer with hundreds of factory presets
- Mix, match and layer drum samples and drum synth sounds, even on the same pad
- Exclusive SP1200 Emulation mode faithfully reproduces the uniquecharacteristics of the classic sought-after E-mu SP1200
Drum machine programming
- 64 pads per scene (4 banks of 16 pads)
- Independent step sequencer for each 16-pad bank
- Use multiple banks to quickly layer basic drum kits with additional kits (percussion, etc.)
- Convenient controls for mute, solo, gain and pan for each pad
- Detailed parameter adjustment for each pad, including velocity, pan, fine/coarse tuning, fill, timeshift, filter cutoff, resonance, decay, and others
- Graph sequencer for each note for ultra-dynamic expression (includes presets)
- Unlimited sample layers per pad with programmable velocity switching or cycling (random or programmed) for expressive "human feel"
- Independent synth programming for each sample layer (AHD/ADSR, filter, drive, aux sends, pitch envelope, etc.)
- Unlimited FX slots per pad and per bank
- Waveform Editor with fade in/out, normalize, silence, gain, etc.
Loops, audio phrases and instrument sounds
- Two independent rack modules hold loops, audio phrases and/or instrument sounds
- Unlimited parts in each rack
- Independent piano-roll sequencer for each part (instruments and slice loops)
- Imports REX files, Apple Loops, AIFF, WAV and all standard audio file formats
- Automaps, plays and grooves REX files in real time
- Up to 64 MIDI channels
- Unlimited FX slots per part and per rack
- State-of-the-art time-stretching algorithms provide best-available audio quality at all tempos
- Loads and plays any MOTU or UVI multi-sampled instrument
Real time pattern recording with groove quantize
- Record, overdub and quantize patterns interactively in real time from any MIDI controller
- Plug-and-play support for pad controllers such as the Akai MPD32
- Apply grooves with independent control over timing and velocity
- Choose among dozens of groove presets or create and apply your own
- Combine kits, patterns and sequences into scenes
- Trigger scenes live with pads and/or MIDI notes
- Build songs in seconds via simple drag and drop of scenes
- Comprehensive and flexible scene and song programming
- Operate stand-alone or synced to host tempo and timeline
Comprehensive mixing and effects processing
- Comprehensive graphic mixer with independent channels for all 64 pads and instrument parts
- Master mixer with master channel strips plus FX processing for entire banks, instrument racks and aux channels
- Stereo main outs plus 16 or more stereo aux channel outputs (up to 99, depending on the host)
- Unlimited effect slot architecture for pads, banks, instruments, racks, aux outs and master out
- CPU-efficient convolution reverb
- Dozens of professional quality effects, including EQ, compressor/gate, filter, delay, reverb, phaser, chorus, drive, distortion and many more
Convenient browsing and file management
- Convenient, intuitive, unified browser for all assets (samples, loops, patterns, kits, instruments, etc.)
- Optional auditioning while browsing (list items play as you click them)
- Drag and drop loading from browser or desktop (including audio files, MIDI files and loops in all standard formats)
- Optional auto-loading from browser (list items load as soon as you click them)