Product Description

Brought to you by BKE and 2-time Grammy winner Dallas Austin, the Beat Thang is a breakthrough product in the world of sample-based music production. The world's first fully- portable professional workstation, Beat Thang allows you to create your own beats, grooves, and electronic music compositions wherever and whenever you want. Pick from an extensive array of thousands of original, high-quality sounds, upload your own, or plug in a mic and record samples with ease. Designed to feel and play more instrument-like than other workstations, Beat Thang's expressive controls and no-nonsense workflow make laying down tracks quick and surprisingly easy.

Beat Thang's innovative controls and rugged, portable design makes this standalone sampling studio all you need to make beats and grooves on the go. Every control surface, from the velocity-sensitive chromatic pads to the side-mounted pitch and modulation wheels, was engineered to give you greater artistic control over your samples and manipulating effects. With function-dedicated buttons, a useful file-filtering system, and multi-purpose scroll knobs, navigating Beat Thang's menus and directories is a cinch.

Great music starts with great sounds. That's why BKE paired up with the best producers and players to bring you a massive, all-original sound library packed with over 3000 premium electronica, dance, hip hop, funk, R&B, rock, pop, and world samples, chops, and loops. Also included with Beat Thang is an impressive collection of over 1000 premium samples from the private collection of Grammy-winning super-producer Dallas Austin.

This is just the beginning, as the Beat Thang allows you to edit and manipulate just about every aspect of your samples through advanced waveform editing, non-destructive autochop, timestretch, and pitch-shifting features, as well as over 60 studio-quality effects. This state-of- the-art beat machine gives you all of the layering, slicing, sampling, and sound-creation tools you need to make fully polished tracks, while over 300 pre-constructed kits, patterns, and acoustic and electronic instruments give you loads of content to hit the ground running.

While Beat Thang is a fully independent production workstation, it's extensive I/O lets you seamlessly connect to your other gear. Plug in your external controller, keyboards, or sound modules with MIDI In/Out and multi-functional USB A and B ports, and quickly load your samples and projects through USB keys, external hard drives, or through one of two (2) 32 GB SD card slots. An XLR combo jack with Phantom Power lets you record mics or guitars directly on the Beat Thang, and BKE's AU/VST plug-in software, aptly named Beat Thang Virtual, offers file sharing, drag/drop functionality, and DAW integration rarely seen in a true hardware device.

The team at BKE is fully committed to being there for you. You will receive free, lifetime live technical support from trained engineers and producers, as well as access to tons of online training and tutorial video content. And because the Beat Thang operating system is capable of future online upgrades via USB, BKE offers lifetime free upgrades so you can enjoy software and firmware enhancements for years to come.

With excellent build-quality, an impressive workflow, and a vast feature and all-original sound set, Beat Thang is quickly emerging as one of the most popular options in the world for sample- based production, groove-making, and live performance.

Features:

- Powerful standalone sampling groove machine that lets you create electronic music anywhere
- Onboard 16-track real-time sequencer with playable mute and solo functions lets you create
patterns and preform remixes on the fly
- One octave pad layout with 8 banks lets you lay down beats and play keys over 8 octaves
- 16 layers of velocity sensitivity per pad lets you create expressive performances
- Onboard effects include filters, delays, reverb, chorus, Disintegrator, overdrive, distortion,
phaser, chorus/flanger, pitch shifter, vibrato, vinyl effects, and much more.
- FX open-source LADSPA plug-ins allow future expandability
- Onboard mastering lets you add power and impact to your tracks
- Integrates seamlessly with Beat Thang Virtual plug-in software
- Export WAV or AIFF files of your songs and loops for easy import to your DAW
- Import WAV or AIFF to use as loops or samples
- Record your own samples directly via the built-in XLR/stereo TRS combo jack
- Fully editable samples with clear waveform view
- Edit start and end points
- Normalize, Reverse and Resample to customize your sounds
- Autochop function allows you to quickly create mash up parts and custom kits from your
samples
- Realtime and post-recording quantization
- Swing control lets you add shuffle to your patterns
- Song mode lets you string patterns together
- Virtually no load time when you switch beats and kits
- 32gb Secure Digital memory card formats (not included)
- 24-bit or 16bit/44.1kHz sampling, playback, and audio export
- USB and MIDI interfaces
- 3.5" color TFT display allows for quick and easy navigation of menus
- Fully illuminating controls for increased visibility in low-light situations
- Mod and pitch wheels for simple sound adjustments
- Foot switch control through MIDI or 3-button 1/4" jack for simple operation
- K-Lock security slot

Includes:
- Beat Thang Music Production Workstation
- Beat Thang Virtual Secure Download
- Dallas Austin Signature Series Expansion Sound Pack
- Getting Started Guide
- One (1) A/C Power Adapter
- 1-Year Manufacturer's Warranty
- Free Lifetime Technical Support zZounds is an authorized dealer of BKE Technology products.

Mic Preamps
- EIN 20Hz-22kHz: < -115dBu ref 150 Ohms
- THD+N @1kHz, 20Hz-22kHz BW: < 0.008%

Line Input to A/D:
- SNR 20Hz-22kHz: > 99dB A-weighted
- THD+N @1kHz, 20Hz-22kHz BW: < 0.007%
- Frequency Response: -3dB @ 15Hz and 21kHz, +/-0.25dB 100Hz to 15kHz
- Sampling: 16 or 24-bit, 44.1kHz *

D/A to Line Output:
- SNR 20Hz-22kHz: > 105dB A-weighted
- THD+N @1kHz, 20Hz-22kHz BW: <0.007%
- Output Level @ Full Scale: +11.8dBu, -1dBu (selectable)
- Frequency Response: -3dB @ 15Hz and 21kHz, +/-0.25dB 100Hz to 15kHz
- Sampling: 24-bit, 44.1kHz *

D/A to Headphone Output:
- SNR 20Hz-22kHz: > 100dB A-weighted
- THD+N @1kHz, 20Hz-22kHz BW, 300Ohm load: <0.01%
- Output Level @ Full Scale: 90mW @1% THD, 32 Ohm Load
- Frequency Response: -3dB @ 15Hz and 21kHz, +/-0.25dB 100Hz to 15kHz
- Sampling: 24-bit, 44.1kHz *
- *Samples are stored at 16-bit, 44.1kHz

Dimensions:
- 22cm (8.66 inches) x 7.5cm (2.95 inches) x 29.5cm (11.61 inches)
- WEIGHT:
- 2.86 kg (6.31 lbs)

Dimensions and Weight in Packaging

Base Item

Shipping Weight: 9 lbs

Shipping Dimensions: 15 x 14 x 4 in