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BPM — Advanced urban rhythm instrument


MusicTech Excellence

"BPM is a remarkable instrument, providing almost everything you could ever want in a beat-production machine."
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Future Music Platinum Award

"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)
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