NEW BEATKANGZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrpFfvSUzuE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYQp9-cha4I


WELL IT HAS 8 TRACK
OVER 3000 SOUND
IMPORT YOUR OWN SAMPLE
YOU CAN PLAY IT ON YOUR RADIO WIRELESS
USB IN/OUT
2 SD CARD SLOT
MIC/LINE IN
PRO EFFECT
RECHARGE BATTERY
PITCH/MOD WHEEL


Music Instrument Startup Assembles Powerful Team, Bridges Culture and Technology to Create the Next Big 'Thang'

Nashville, TN: As the music industry continues its rapid evolution, Middle Tennessee producers The Beat Kangz have conspired with Live Nation Recordings head Bob Ezrin and Nashville real estate magnate David Crabtree to establish an innovative music technology startup called Beat Kangz Electronics, LLC (BKE).

BKE heralds the next age in music creation with The Beat Thang Music Production System, scheduled for retail release in Spring 2009. The Beat Kangz integrate pre-loaded sounds, sampling, and on board waveform editing in the portable, stylish and customizable Beat Thang. Flexible, functional and user-friendly, the Beat Thang moves effortlessly from the studio to the stage to the streets with tons of features for recording, live performance and DJing.

Aja "A.J.A." Emmanuel, Luke "Boom Bap" Jackson, and Reavis "Rev" Mitchell have been banging beats and ripping stages individually as artists, producers and promoters on the flourishing Southern hip hop scene for over a decade. In 2004 they joined forces to become The Beat Kangz, and began collaborating on a series of forward thinking music production and sound design projects.

The new partnership bore its first major fruits with the development of the SB-246 Streetboxx, the world’s first dedicated hip hop drum machine, designed by The Beat Kangz for Japanese manufacturer Zoom. The Streetboxx became Zoom’s best selling rhythm machine, and The Beat Kangz moved on to form their own musical instrument manufacturing company.

One hallmark of the Beat Kangz is the seamless integration of culture into their products. This is most evident in the Streetboxx with the names of drum kits and sounds. With names like “Dirty South”, “West Coast”, and “Old School”, there is no mistake that hip hop was the inspiration for this product and not the other way around.

“Most companies just put out the technology and ignore the culture,” says BKE president Emmanuel. “We bring the culture first, and that defines how our technology is developed.”

The Beat Thang will take this approach to the next level by going beyond the naming of kits and sounds to the futuristic styling of the machine. No other beat machine offers users a choice of custom skinz and grillz allowing the customer to individualize their Beat Thang.

Innovative ideas like these have helped the Beat Kangz attract a diverse group of power players from three countries to develop the Beat Thang. Legendary producer and music exec Bob Ezrin, perhaps best known as producer of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece, The Wall, has most recently been revolutionizing the music business as the head of Live Nation Recordings. A series of high profile deals with Jay-Z, Madonna and U2 are poised to make concert promotion powerhouse Live Nation a major new player in the recorded music world. As a BKE Vice President, Ezrin will help remake the musical instrument business as well.

David Crabtree of Nashville's Brookside Properties brings the financial acumen as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. The Kangz have also assembled a crack team of developers to create The Beat Thang and direct their streetwise marketing campaign.

BKE Vice President Reavis Mitchell voices the group’s appreciation for the team they have developed. "It’s a massive blessing that the universe has bestowed upon us to have such a talented and powerful collective of like-minded individuals dedicating their energy to putting out the next big thang, which is The Beat Thang."

another wannabe MPC. looks more like a sp606, mpc and asr-x mixed in one unit lol. very toyish lookin. i guess its goin to be a hit for those soulja boy and weezy garbage beats.

it's not real

Too gimmicky for me.

jellyjim wrote:it's not real

I don't know about that...

http://www.beatkangz.com/main/product

It's limited to 16 midi tracks only. They gave mention that you can work around this by muting parts and whatnot.

not sure about it...

"I Challenge any and all Presidents of our competition to a beat making battle. I'm ready any time if you got the ballz to battle a KANG!!! " AJA Emmanuel, President, Beat Kangz Electronics

Come on man. at least release the product first and then talk smack. That's just being ghetto, in a bad way.

But overall, this looks like its gonna be the shit as long as they take it seriously.

THE BEAT THANG
The Most POWERFUl, Portable,
Real Beat Machine
Ever Made!!

Pounding kicks, smacking snares, sizzling hi hats, thunderous claps… we’ve come to expect killer sounds from The Beat Kangz after the history-making sound design of the Streetboxx™. But THE BEAT THANG moves beat making into the stratosphere with real bass, live strings, striking synths, Latin and African percussion, crunchy electric guitar, and startling sound effects all available right at your finger tips with no load time!

All in all the Beat Kangz have stuffed over 3000 sounds and over 500 production ready HIT beats, patterns and loops into THE BEAT THANG. Each sound can be edited, fine tuned and manipulated with onboard waveform editing and fully functioning Digital EFX (EQ, Compression, Reverb, Delay, Filter and “FREAK”). But that’s not the end of it. THE BEAT THANG is the most advanced beat production device with the fattest (and phattest) pre-loaded sounds AND onboard SAMPLING and Re-Sampling. With USB in and out and Mic/Line input, you can add your own Samples. Create your own custom Kits with up to 8 layers per pad (each layer can have its own pitch ,pan, Volume, cutoff and res). Our Key Span Feature allows you to take one or more samples and instantly make an instrument that spans an entire 88 note keyboard. Want bass on one octave and strings on another? No problem! It's simple.

Don’t forget the 16 Track MIDI Sequencer that can Sequence internal sounds or External sound modules....... I know what you are thinking....Only 16 tracks?? Yeah, well we got that covered! No need to put your kick, snare, and hi hat on separate tracks anymore. PAD MUTE and SOLO!!!

No more confusing programs and loading of SAMPLES, KITS and BEATS to deal with. Everything on your SD cards is available in Real time with NO LOAD TIMES!!

* Sampling with onboard waveform editing
* Over 3000 Blazin' Brand new sounds designed by The Beat Kangz
* 16 Track MIDI sequencer
* 500 production ready Platinum beats and loops created by The Beat Kangz
* Sleek design and styling with customizable “Paintz” and “Grillz”
* Convenient, light-weight portable design with internal rechargable battery
* USB In & Out
* Pitch and Mod Wheels
* On Board FX including Reverb, Delay, Automated Filters and tons of Crazy "Freak FX" including "Chopped and Screwed"!!!!
* On Board "Mo Bang" Mastering with EQ and Limiting
* 256 MB Ram standard
* 2 High Speed SD Card Slots
* Export Beats to a Mac or PC
* Very Easy to USE!!!
* More top Secret Features and Surprises that we dont want our sleezy, thieving corporate competitors to know.... but we'll tell ya soon!

Portable Playability

Mobile? Yes, that’s right. THE BEAT THANG is portable, baby. The rechargeable lithium ion battery gives you up to six hours of portable playing time. Bang out some beats on the plane. Tighten up your edits on the train. When you’re ready to roll to the show, the studio, or the library, THE BEAT THANG rolls with you. You can even play it on the bus when you travel to visit yo momma.
Inspirational Styling. Individual Personality.

THE BEAT THANG captivates the senses with its sleek, sexy styling, user-friendly controls and slammin’ sounds. Make it your own THANG with custom Paintz and Grillz TM. Add it to your DJ rig and create live remixes on the spot... even in the dark. Every button is back lit. Put it in your studio and add the hot, new Beat Kangz sounds to your latest creations.

It's Your THANG.

At Beat Kangz we plan to listen to your feedback and actually implement your suggestions. Our Software is fully updateable via download and we want your input It’s YOUR THANG! ..... We are not a huge greedy corporation that's trying to make a quick buck by exploiting a culture. We actually use the products we make and know what it's like to struggle to make it.

It looks like a fisher price toy. Maybe this thing works great, but the looks has me already thinking like
The only thing that looks intresting to me is the rechargeble battery option.

How's that an MPC killer... MPC-4000 will crap on that me thinks, screw features give me functionality, quality, good design, build quality and other things I cannot explain lol Limmiting yourself to one machine is dumb...so if you want to do everything just use a MPC of your choice and a PC and will most likely kill that thing.
My fave MPC's are the 60, 3000, 2000XL and 4000....Wish I owned one of each hahah
I own the 2kXL and have used a 3000 next to mine and man the 3000 is such a nice machine, dated but it inspires me even by looking at it, that mpc killer just gives me a headache, all those tacky blue lights, what is it some gay bar?

You know, I've always wished that Akai should've made the XR-20 with a sampler in it. But I'll wait a year after the BeatKangz release before buying, just in case for bugs and upgrades.

Ill-Green wrote:You know, I've always wished that Akai should've made the XR-20 with a sampler in it. But I'll wait a year after the BeatKangz release before buying, just in case for bugs and upgrades.

If it's a drum machine with a sampler in it you want errm forgive me but isnt that an MPC and you get a sequencer!
Also the Xr-10 is a nifty little drum machine
Last rant...how comes every thing now days looks like it was designed by a 5yr old?

the shit does look toyish, but come on y'all. you know it ain't the gear, it's the person. And most of these sampling sequencers work the same.

im very exicted by this. let's hope the effects aren't a joke. And I hope they let me take off all them tacky lookin' body parts and make it a little raw.

Yeah thats UGLY! bugly

one thing got my tears wet from laughing in the FX section they say it includes Screwed & Chopped hahaha will it make S&C version of the track lol

this shit looks like a transformer... Not digging it... Looks cartoonish and this lame ass commercial is not directed towards producers its directed towards cornballs who wanna get into production.... Should be called the "Huffy beat machine".