[yeahimsteve]

John Baker, congratulations and I’m happy to hear that it works for you.

This is more of a public service announcement to save a lot of engineers from being extremely disappointed to find out that their drums in their project will have to get made in another program because they have no control over each individual pad in a real world mixing environment.

In other words, Toontrack is saying with BeatStation: “Hey guys, here’s a very powerful program that can do the wildest things for your music production……….just don’t expect us to give you anything more than a stereo file in the end, so you’d BETTER get your entire rhythm sounding absolutely, 100% perfectly mixed inside Beatstation or else.”

“…Oh and P.S.: If you ever wanted to use your own environment like Pro Tools to add your own UA plugins to your tracks, you better forget it, because we never made this product for people like you.”

Sincerely,

Toontrack

Ok all seriousness aside, I just spent $250 on FXpansion Geist when I could have just used BeatStation for a whole lot less if this one silly extra feature (that every other product already has) was included. That SUCKS that I had to buy an FXpansion product, let alone having to buy multiple products because nobody can get it right. Heck, before this, I bought SoniVox Pulse…….and that program was just buggy and would crash my computer. I’ve been looking for something reasonable for quite some time……..got very excited that my fav company Toontrack released this, and then whammo…….slam in the face.

I still love Toontrack and will pimp them over any other drum software company out there. I’m just more disappointed at the lack of foresight, included with warning potential buyers that they will be seriously pissed off if they don’t read the fine print.

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