Posted on08 August 2009.
Been playing around with beat thang virtual a bit more, learning more and more about it.
Today I’m just putting up this short video that shows you how to create instruments.
This is different than how to create kits in beat thang, this is for creating instruments that you can play across the keys.
Despite how it sounds, it’s very easy, I built a bunch of instruments from some samples I had created when I had my hardware synths.
let me know what you think
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by far one of the more ground breaking features of BTV! the mp’s 16levels seems outdated in comparison, and cant beat the octave style layout!
Respect to SaintJoe for the hands-on! especially since i prefer to learn all i can about a products features prior to purchase.
Waiting 4 that hardware!Allday!
-S
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saintjoe Reply:
August 14th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
yeah man, it’s pretty dope and easy to use. However, I’d still like to see something similar to 16 levels…it’s still very useful for certain situations when you don’t want a multisampled sound but just quick access to various pitches. Maybe a 13 level option! That way you can do it on a single sound and use it for either pitch or velocity….I’m hopin they also add something like that.
I’m waiting on the hardware too man! I’m glad I could help ya out! Glad yo like the site, make sure to keep checkin!
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sup saint joe i dont get the difference between 16 levels on an mp vs the key spanning on the thang apart from the 3 note difference.
also can this create multi-samples say for instance i had a folder with 6 sperate keyboard notes can it detect pitch and place them on the correct keys then pitch the missing inbetween notes to create a full octave?
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saintjoe Reply:
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
sup fam!
well, 16 levels just goes up in pitch/velocity for 16 spaces… keyspannign let’s you create a playable instrument across all the keys.
so yeah, if you had 6 notes, you could recreate a nice playable patch.
I still hope they do some type of 16/13 level thing on the thang, cuz that is a quick way to get different pitches from one note
remember the beat thang can cover all chromatic 88 keys of a piano
I don’t think it has autodetect tho, that would be too dope! Hopefully they add something like that to autodetect the notes!
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good looks but i gotta say in my mind 16 levels is a playable instrument in the same way as a key spanned.
cos in both instances u start with one sample and the result is the same sample spread across many pads at varying pitches.
but auto-detect would be deadly
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saintjoe Reply:
December 26th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
yeah… 16 levels is coo, but even with the 4k…it’s totally different when you use a keyspanning…especially when you have the write notes to keyspan. You can’t do that with one note like 16 levels
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