DISC - Beat Kangz Beat Thang Hardware & Sennheiser Headphones

Full Description

Create and Experience Music Wherever You Are

Loaded with over 3,000 original, professionally mastered sounds, a sampler with waveform editing, built-in effects, chromatic keypads, and a fully portable rugged design, the Beat Thang simplifies professional music production down to its core by providing you with all the tools you need to make high-quality, radio-ready, club-friendly music right out of the box.

The Beat Thang reimagines the production experience in a way that lets any music enthusiast, beginner or pro, make music the way its meant to be made - in the moment. Everything about the Beat Thang interface has been streamlined, saving you valuable time while never compromising on features or functionality.

Create original songs in a matter of minutes with access to the sounds that the world's top producers have been using and keeping secret for years. Use the Beat Thang's sampler to record your own sounds, or import your own sample library to increase the size of your musical toolbox. Integrate the Beat Thang into your professional studio setup or digital audio workstation with Beat Thang Virtual companion software. Use the hardware as a controller for Beat Thang Virtual, as a standalone device, or unplug and take your fully portable Beat Thang into the streets where inspiration really happens.

Never before have musicians been offered so many ways to produce professional music with one device. If you're a veteran, the Beat Thang has the versatility and uncompromising quality you demand. If you're new to the game, the Beat Thang offers unprecedented ease of use and portability.

Get the Sounds the Pros Use

Great music starts with great sounds. With the Beat Thang - you start with the same sound quality that multi-platinum producers like Dallas Austin, Jermaine Dupri, Will.i.am, and Paul Oakenfold use to make their hits.

The Beat Kangz, meticulously recorded and mastered hours of original music to give you over 3,000 radio ready sounds all included with the Beat Thang. In this versatile and dynamic library, you'll find hundreds of original drums, live basses, striking strings, horns and keys; out of this world synths and effects; and exotic world instruments like tablas, sitars, kotos, djembes, and more.

You'll find real funk guitars and chops recorded by Motown artists, keyboard licks by Grammy-winning players and top session musicians, even beatbox samples by a world champion beat-boxer. Each sound offers the warmth and character that professionals demand, and that will help your music stand out.

"As a producer - your sound is who you are. Its how you express your emotions. Sound is everything." These are the words of none other than Dallas Austin, the two-time Grammy-winning producer who has worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Chris Brown, TLC, Boyz II Men, Pink, Fishbone and many other legends and icons.

"These sounds were made over a long time. It's the type of thing we generally don't give up in this industry," Austin says.

When you sit down to write you get the benefit of all of those years of work. Sounds crafted by the best session players, recorded through a menagerie of premium microphones and pre-amps, mixed and mastered by the best engineers - it's the sort of thing that makes a difference. Just strike the pads to be inspired by one of the most exciting sound libraries released in years.

Or Make Your Own Sounds

You're starting with top notch, professional samples as a base. But, You're an innovator. You want to create and design your own sounds and kits. Go for it.

The Beat Thang allows you to tweak and edit just about every parameter you could imagine on each sample. And if that isn't enough you can layer up to 16 samples per pad. Add effects. Now reverse the third layer.

If you've amassed your own sample library. Go ahead, and drag those samples into the Beat Thang by connecting your external hard drive to one of the USB ports.

Or better yet, dig into the crates and pull out Dad's collection of Bavarian drinking songs on vinyl. In fact, you can sample from just about any sound source - even the Internet. The Beat Thang's sampler includes on screen waveform editing and autochop, so creating your own sounds is easier than ever.

Make Music Wherever You're Inspired

From the studio to the stage - the park to the plane - the Beat Thang let's you make music wherever inspiration strikes.

With a 3-4 hour rechargeable lithium ion battery, illumination of every button and key, and a vivid 3.5" full color LCD screen, the world's first mobile music production system is as versatile as you are - equally "at home" in the dimly lit club or on the plane or in the studio. No longer do you have to wait until you "get back" to capture your ideas and arrangements. Just record those flashes of brilliance the moment they arrive.

Features/Specifications:

• Fully illuminated control surface: allowing you to see what you're doing in a dimly lit studio, stage or club

• One octave pad layout: with 8 banks so you can bang out beats OR play the keys over 8 octaves

• 16 Layers of velocity sensitivity: per pad for emotive performance. Pad solos and mute for added remix control

• On board Effects: Filters, Delays, Reverb, Chorus, Disintegrator, Overdrive, Distortion, Chorus/Flanger, Pitch shifter, Vibrato Vynil effect anf more. The FX are open source LADSPA plug-ins so they are future expandable

• Export .wav or.aiff files of your songs and loops for easy import to your DAW

• Import .wav or .aiff through the USB to use as loops or samples

• Record your own samples directly into the Beat Thang

• Fully editable samples with clear waveform view. Edit start and end points. Normalize, Reverse and Resample to customize your sounds.

• Auto Chop allows you to quickly create mash up parts and custom kits from your samples.

• Easy to use Real-time Sequencer: Create patterns in real time using quantize, swing, individual bar lenths and tap tempo, then sting them together in SONG mode. Step sequencing also available.

• Mod and Pitch wheels let you put your own feel and touch to your sequences.

• Easy to browse file system that syncs with thte Beat Thang Virtual PC application

Further Specs:

• Audio: CD Quality 16bit / 44.1kHz sampling, playback and export
• Stereo XLR/Line input with Phantom Power and input gain control
• 16 tracks with playable mute and solo functions
• 2 x 14" headphone out for two listeners at one time
• 1/4" stereo master out (balanced)
• MIDI: in and out Plus USB MIDI control
• USB typ A & B for computer integration and storage expansion
• Foot switch control through MIDI or 3 button 1/4" jack input
• 3.5" Colour TFT display
• Portable Power Rechargeable battery with up to 6 hour run time. External 12-volt power supply included
• Storage Capacity: Dual SD (Up to 32GB each) 256 MB RAM. USB for Hard-Drive or Flash drive storage. Samples play directly from storage media so expansion is easy & load times are short