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Hi Andreas

I’ve just heard about Beatstation after being way from forums for a while due to having my life hijacked by running my own business.

I really like the idea of Beatstation and would be very keen to be involved in any dialogue or beta testing on this product if that’s possible.

I love EZ DRummer, Superior (in fact all of your products) but the type of music I want to do is composition using drum sounds that are synthetic rather than seeking to emulate a real kit.I still want play rather off a farly involved edrum set up rather than use loops or programming.

My hope is to find an alternative to the usual NI Battery or Kontakt route in favour of something geared to edrummers so it has the same easy to use interface as EZ Drummer/Superior. Beatstation looks just perfect for me.

I love the idea of being able to layer sounds as I’ve seen on the youtube demo.

My set up is a TD20 with Alesis Control Pad (for effects sounds) and also a Mandala drum which I’ve just bought and am experimenting with.

I wondered if you had any thoughts on the Mandala and Beatstation as it’s large number of zones makes it somewhat more than the usual 2 zone edrum and offers the potential of something like the Korg Wavedrum as far as performance. I’ve not had time to get deep in about the Mandala software yet which is pretty basic compared with your great products.  Frankly I’d rather use the Mandala with Beatstation as it can just be used as a USB controller quite separate from the software that comes with it. My end game plan is to create a hybrid kit with Mandala pads for snare and toms (possibly even hihat) which I know is a weird thing to do but like I say traditional acoustic kits are not what I’m after and I certainly don’t want to programme drums or use midi loops.

Another area I’ve been actively chipping away at on forums is to try and get someone interested in a synthesis/modelled set of sounds for drums, again to take the sound pallet towards electronica and away from acoustic emulations. To this end I’ve been actively involved on the Image Line beta forum for Drummaxx which has some great sounds and the potential to make a huge range of custom user sounds.

Unfortunately there seems to be nothing synthesis based out there geared to edrums whcih I know is understandable as it is a pretty leftfield request.  I wondered of you had any thoughts on Beatstation or something like this being able to offer sythnesis/modelled sounds in addition to samples/rex/midi loops.

Finally, and sorry for all the questions, can I check if Beatstation handles multisamples/velocity layering or not.

By the way I find it depressing the number of posts on forums with people bleating on about the colour of the product – who cares at this stage.  It’s what it does that interests me and besides the skins you plan for it make this totally irrelevant anyway.

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