New video from the Beat Kangz showing more footage of the beat thang hardward drum machine.
This time they made it talk!
check it out

Read the full story

If you’ve been following my uploads and twitter updates from NAMM last week, you know that last Friday I had a chance to actually sit down with the Beat Kangz and mess around with the beat thang hardware.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to get any video.
We were scheduled to hook back up the next [...]

Read the full story

I don’t know, I keep hearing I’ll get to see it this year, the official, ready to play, ready to ship version.
I’m goin out to NAMM this year, Jan 14-17, so you know I’ll be looking around to see if I can catch a peek at the beat thang.
I keep askin them about it, I [...]

Read the full story

Well I’m sure you know by now that the beat thang virtual has been updated to version 1.5
One of the main things I noticed in the update was the fix to the windows bug that wouldn’t let you delete single sounds.
It would just mute the pad when you did it. Now if you hit ctrl+shift [...]

Read the full story

At the 2009 DJ EXPO, Beat Kangz Electronics Demoed The Beat Thang Virtual for Hip Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa.
He seems to approve, though we can’t see the entire time they spent showing him the beat thang software, which would have been really dope.

Read the full story

If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting for the full documentations….not that you haven’t been able to work, it’s just nice to have a full manual available.
well, beat kangz added it to their support page if you haven’t seen it.
go on and download it! virtual beat thang manual
I told you I’d update ya when I [...]

Read the full story

checkout this dope new interview with the beat kangz talking about the beat kangz beat thang as well as the company in general.
this interview was done by my man over at thezrohour go check him out after you watch this.

Read the full story

I know a lot of you want to see this feature, as do I.
It’s a quick way of working in beat thang or any software/hardware.
Us mpc users are definitely used to it.
But, in this video I show you a workaround that pretty much gives us what we want
It’s not totally seamless, but it’s better than [...]

Read the full story

this is a quick video showing the filter options inside beat thang virtual
a few peeps were asking about it, I couldn’t remember while I was at work so I just made this video when I got home
pretty flexible system, filter on each track and a basic cutoff filter with res on each sample/pad layer… that’s [...]

Read the full story

So I already posted a link to the beat thang virtual quick start guide.
Today I’m posting the pdf document that contains all the keyboard commands.
These will definitely help me out and I’m sure they’ll help you too.
Check it out  beat thang virtual key commands

Read the full story