NEW BEATKANGZ

thanks for the update man, good to know especially about pad/mpc control.

at least I know I'll be able to hook my mpc up to it when I get it back in the lab...if I want to.

but you know what I really want man lol...that hardware thang

can't wait for the updates.

Will they be sent out via email? I know yall been gettin hit with a bunch of input...

peace

Hey Aja,

What's the best way to email you guys bug reports/suggestions? I'm guessing [email protected]? Oh, speaking of the sounds, I was pleasantly surprised going through all the kits/instruments. I assumed it would be more geared to a southern style of production, but there's enough variety in there to pull of that grimy New York boom bap and that smooth west coast g-funk as well. The rock kits are some of my favorites.

DJ Illustrious wrote: Oh, speaking of the sounds, I was pleasantly surprised going through all the kits/instruments. I assumed it would be more geared to a southern style of production, but there's enough variety in there to pull of that grimy New York boom bap and that smooth west coast g-funk as well. The rock kits are some of my favorites.

that's how I felt man...was pleasantly surprised as well.

BEATKANGZ wrote:The reason the MV doesn't automaticly correspond to the Virtual is beacuse MV's, MPC's and Most all Pad controllers start out at midi note 36

our virtual is mapped to start on note 0. The reason for this is beacuse it is mapped to be played on an 88 note keyboard. If we started on 36 there would be no sounds on the first three octaves on a big keyboard like that.... However this created a problem for the pad controller users because in most of our kits the drums are mapped 0-36 and on 36 is usually SFX perc or synth bass etc.

Since we got allot of feedback from users regarding this we came up with a simple solution. We have added a note shift in our system menu so now when that's set to note number 36 it makes all the notes shift up 3 octaves meaning that now Controllers that start on 36 play note 0 on ours. So problem solved.

I'm testing it now with an MP controller and it's working great. We also added MMC so transport controls on the Controllers will also control virtual now!


These along with a ton of other Lil updates and fixes will be out next week.

Then comes all the auto chop and plug in stuff.

We just getting started. Users who have the virtual are already effecting the Development.

149$ and all of you can get on board....

Let's make something special..... Allot of these changes will also be added to the hardware so if you were wanting that get the virtual and start helping make it how YOU want. Plus you get 150$ off the hardware when you get the virtual.

Just a thought.

AJA

ps. Hung out with Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Qbert all week. They both now have it and think it's the hottest thang out. Vids comming this week.
The functions are great but it's THA SOUNDS that got them geeked about it!

Universal Zulu Nation

saintjoe wrote:yes...

ctrl+shift and hold the pad you want to erase...

haven't tried it with ctrl+shift and midi controller or pad key, but you can do it with the keyboard or even the mouse I think.

works pretty good too...I need that, better than just starting all the way over.

this isnt working for me!!! all it is doing is muting the pad,, really pissing me off!!

Saintjoe - some samplers and audio editing applications have a zero crossings fuction that allows you to automatically detect clean start and end points for a loop. Usually there's a setting that will snap your anchor points to these zero crossings of the waveform on the horizontal axis.

G4s

g4s wrote:Saintjoe - some samplers and audio editing applications have a zero crossings fuction that allows you to automatically detect clean start and end points for a loop. Usually there's a setting that will snap your anchor points to these zero crossings of the waveform on the horizontal axis.

G4s

thanks yo! Makes sense...I've heard them talking about that...but I've never used it myself, or I did and didn't realize it lol.

inflict3 wrote:

saintjoe wrote:yes...

ctrl+shift and hold the pad you want to erase...

haven't tried it with ctrl+shift and midi controller or pad key, but you can do it with the keyboard or even the mouse I think.

works pretty good too...I need that, better than just starting all the way over.

this isnt working for me!!! all it is doing is muting the pad,, really pissing me off!!

I just tried it myself, can't figure it out either...it don't work.

I'll keep trying to see if I can figure it out...but just muting my pads isn't going to work! lol.

saintjoe wrote:

inflict3 wrote:

saintjoe wrote:yes...

ctrl+shift and hold the pad you want to erase...

haven't tried it with ctrl+shift and midi controller or pad key, but you can do it with the keyboard or even the mouse I think.

works pretty good too...I need that, better than just starting all the way over.

this isnt working for me!!! all it is doing is muting the pad,, really pissing me off!!

I just tried it myself, can't figure it out either...it don't work.

I'll keep trying to see if I can figure it out...but just muting my pads isn't going to work! lol.

yea, its like,, dont mess up!! lol,, man I have yet to make a beat with this thang, and that is saying something,, Im not too happy with this software right now, I know i said i gave up from the start when i first started noticing all the flaws, but I kept turning it back on thinking give it another try, and another, and another, and another, after a week of screwing with it and realizing there is no way this is gonna happen, I put it down and realized how much I love my mpc, the work flow is perfect, and the load times are nothing compaired to all the dicking around ive been doing on that thang, now im starting to see why there was no trial version,, all this and im still not a hater, i like the idea of what the kangz are trying to do, I just dont like the way they are going about it,, sooo much talk and hype, but the bite is not there yet, hopefully the bite will be in this next update, but like grandma always use to say "dont count your chickens before they hatch" lol

I feel ya man lol..I can't front, I've used it, I've been making tracks...but there are little workflow things that need to be worked out. I keep turning it on, because I do like the "environment" it gives me, I can turn it on and make a track.

workflow is not like my mpc that's no lie, good thing is that it's software that can be updated. I think this will be a huge test, because theoretically...any updates to the software, will be moved to the software.

I think we have an opportunity to influence the product, so we will see if they listen to us. I think with our feedback ( I know between me and you they've been getting alot! lol) it can be what it was meant to be.

Again, I don't get discouraged, because I've been down this road before with too much software...it's one of the reasons I took so long to actually make software my main tool.

I can deal with a few limitations and desired features for now, since we are in version 1, I'm waiting for the updates to see what's good.

It sucks you haven't made a track yet...I've made a few, that's what keeps me going, I actually like working with it...I just want to see some of these updates.

But if you look around in ableton forums, native instruments, motu bpm, etc....it's like the story of software, waiting for updates lol.

What makes or breaks a company, is if they actually deliver the updates their users want...

Are the new software updates going to be available online for download to existing Vitual users?

G4s

g4s wrote:Are the new software updates going to be available online for download to existing Vitual users?

G4s

yeah we get em free all updates from what I hear will be free for us.

I think they updated version will be released as the "pro" version though...with added features

I've been following the BTV with a lot of interest - was going to buy Fxpansion Guru but this looks a lot more interesting, any chance it will be sold as a download in the near future? In these cash strapped times it would be nice to buy it without having to pay extra customs charges here in the UK.

Congrats on what I hope will be a very successful venture for you folks!

EVPS wrote:I've been following the BTV with a lot of interest - was going to buy Fxpansion Guru but this looks a lot more interesting, any chance it will be sold as a download in the near future? In these cash strapped times it would be nice to buy it without having to pay extra customs charges here in the UK.

Congrats on what I hope will be a very successful venture for you folks!

I don't know if it will be available as a download or not.

I have GURU it's definitely a good program, but there are some workflow differences that I think BTV gives more of a hardware feeling.

the slicing in guru is top, but we should be getting some advanced chop/slice features in BTV so it should compete on that level.

If they listen to us, and make some of the suggested changes, it will be a very useful and feature rich production station.

I think they all do some things well and some not so well, but if we can get one that does most of the things well then it's better for everyone.

thing is, they are listening to our input, so that's a good thing...well see what happens.

I will definitely keep my site updated with any changes.

inflict3 it sounds like you're a beta tester.

Maybe they should've had a free download with a limited sample library that expires in a few months, let the public beta test, use the feedback to polish the product, then release the full version for sale with all their prepackaged sounds.