Introducing Beat Scholar | Brand New Drum Machine by Modalics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- 00:00-01:36 - Introduction
01:36 - 06:16 - Basics & Pizza Slicing
06:16 - 09:30 - The Swing Slider
09:30 - 14:15 - Unique Subdivisions & the Swing Slider
14:15 - 22:40 - Composing with Beat Scholar
22:40 - 29:32 - DAW Integration & Sounds Section
29:32 - 31:09 - Thank You & Grooves!
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Get Beat Scholar at www.modalics.com/products
Visit us at modalics.com
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Hey Everybody,
The time has finally come! we're releasing Beat Scholar into the world and starting our journey as Modalics. The excitement is immense. The deep pocketed, spacefunk, booty girating beats are coming!!!
If you like Beat Scholar and want to get in touch join our discord server with this link: / discord
Or get in touch via email:
or@modalics.com
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You missed the opportunity to call it BEATZZA.
😂😂😂😂
Excellent marketing idea 😂
Making drum patterns with pizza slices makes so much sense. Big props gents, this is brilliant!! 1 custom beat in the trial and I was sold. 🤩
Thank you! Send us some cool beats if you got'em :)
Great work guys! I know this is more oriented at professional production, but while watching the video I kept thinking that an iPad version of Beat Scholar for jamming could be very successful too. One where you can slice the pizzas by drawing lines within them, or even by writing a digit inside them with your finger or pencil :D
An iPad version is in the works too! :)
Congratulations you guys. It’s a big deal to get a product out!
Much appreciated! 😁
This plug in can only get better from here on 👍👍
It will! Well be posting free updates regularly.
I’ve been searching high and low for a VST that could create a sound like stopler beats! Thrilled to discover this.
YES! :D Hope you enjoy Beat Scholar
Looks great - congrats.
Thanks! :D
Been struggling with all my drum machines to create 5/4 and 7/4. Then you come along… Thanks for a great product. And it integrates so well with Ableton…
Great guys! This is one of the best ways, I've ever seen somebody introducing a new plugin!! I wish you guys the best!!!
Very skilled and joyfull musicians, with a great developed Plugin! Well done, Great Job, I wish you lot's of succes! Going to try it out!
Thank you! We're joyfull because our work brings us to interact with cool people like yourself :) Hope you enjoy Beat Scholar and let us know what you think.
As drummer myself, id love a slimmed down metronome version of this. What a great tool to check yourself w accents in mixed subdivisions. The slicing concept is so intuitive. Great work guys and I wish you much success.
Really nice concept for a drum plugin. I think for sound design and layering we've already got plenty of options with tools like Drum Designer and Backbone and XO has made finding the right drum sample a lot easier. What we haven't had is a more complex drum programming tool. This fills a need nicely. I hope it sticks around a long time and has time to further develop. Cheers guys.
Thank you :) We're working on updates daily, we have a roadmap to make Beat Scholar much better!
Just watched the full video and this was so amazing. As a rock and metal guy who went on to learn classical music I loved the musical but human approach. I also love the passion you guys have for this. Now I need yo dive deep into this plugin.
Congratulation for your work. It's so helpful when real musicians create plugins, and not only engineers. We feel the spirit of Music in your software! I'm sincerely happy to spend my money to guys like you, in reward of your work.
Thank you! We both really appreciate this kind comment. 🤩
this is awesome great job and congrats
This brings music so much more to understand what is really happening in if you dont have musical knowledge..Looks clean and easy to use..Hope to get my hands on it soon.Thank you guys
Exactly! we want people to experiment with rhythm freely and with confidence :) Thanks for the kind words and let us know what you think when you try it out.
Great app!! You guys are geniuses!
It's so simple layout, yet you can get a complex rhythmic patterns in seconds!
Incredible 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Yeah! that's the idea :D Thanks Omri.
@@Modalics Love the vst I want to buy today but I have only 70€ in the PayPal account can u guys send a promo code for a little help! Thanks! Continue making good stuff.
This is a genius way of making music!!
The visuals makes it soo much more intresting as your able to visually see you hits.
Thanks definately getting this.
😎🔥🔥👊🏾
Looks fun! I love that you guys made it so easy to switch time sigs.
Thanks! Yeah we figured it shouldn't be THAT hard to experiment with time sigs when you're composing :)
@@Modalics At last. An intuitive drum sequencer for the metrically curious/adventurous. Adore this plugin. Word to the wise Prog snobs: Macedonian children sing their skipping rhymes in 22/16 without having studied them
Ooooohhhh snap!!! A plug-in from the guys from RNL?!? TAKE MY MONEY!!!
Good luck to you both. Looks like a great tool.
Drums and pizza are my two favorite things. Very interesting! Q: is there any way to set probability per slice? That would open it up to a huge degree.
Not yet, but we're working on it! you can expect this feature along with several others in updates coming soon.
Awesome plugin, good job!
This is incredible!!! Super cool UI super cool concept - you guys will go far. Defs checking the demo and putting it on my want list!!
Thank you! There's a fully featured 14 day trial, hope you enjoy it and let us know what you think :)
love this
This is amazing
Looks like a great product. Wish you guys the best.
Thank you!
Salut,
Super outil créatif !! Et déjà une mise à jour avec les possibilités de randomisation.
Votre présentation est claire et vous êtes sympathiques !
Merci
Thank you
Thank you! Love the pizza slice idea. Drum programming for electronic music can sometimes be very tedious, this app makes things a lot easier! I didn't need more than a 14 minute trial, bought it. Keep up the good work, for a new piece of software this is already very good, can't wait to see where it will be going.
Thank you! We've only just started, we have big plans for Beat Scholar :)
I really enjoy this plugin
cool idea
This pizza thing is a great idea. - If you offer the iPad version please add an icloud exchange feature to it so that we can create a project on one plattform and use it on another on-the-fly „loading“ it from the cloud.
after becoming familiar through the demo!
Wow Or, didn't know you were in that business. I just saw some videos and I need to get this.
This plugin looks great. The drums you can create remind those songs in "the in sound from way out" (Beastie Boys)
Amazing. While other plugins that I have tend to aim just to "the sound, finde the samples or which one sound identical to this old machine" and most of the time just experiment in 4/4, Beat Scholar aim the simplest and most interesting thing, the rhythm. This combined with the operator in Bitwig, is just fun for me.
So gooooood crack
Recently purchased this and it's great! Really intuitive and you can make really great beats pretty quick! A few feature requests for future updates... Ability to click and drag tracks and segments to reorder? And if you're in 4/4 time and go to 2/4 to see what it sounds like, when you go back to 4/4, those two beats are now gone. I know you can do the undo button, but would be great to be able to play around with different time signatures on the fly without 'lost' beats being actually lost. This is a really great start and can't wait to see future updates! Keep it up!
That's a great idea, we'll definitely consider it! We might patch it in an upcoming update.
Thanks for buying Beat Scholar :D
Fantastic ideas designed into this plugin, specially the time signature immediate changes and the direct slicing!
Feels like a redesigned, expanded and updated break tweaker.
Suggestion: if you add the ability to "play" notes (via midi input into a particular pad, for example), it would be a dream come true.
If I understand you correctly, that already works? You can use MIDI notes to to trigger pads or patterns. Unless this is another feature you're thinking about?
@@Modalics I did not express myself properly.
I meant to be able to load a basic synth sound in a pad and assign midi to that pad or play it, so we would have a melodic line/chords.
Then we would slice it, change the time signature, etc...
The midi should be able to be exported.
As it would be affected by the slicing and time signature changes, the exported midi would have all of those nuances and we could put said exported midi into our favourite synths.
The possibilities would be endless.
a lot of possibilitys ! DAMN!! can we import our own sounds ??? thanks guys this is a very good job !!
You sure can. Just drag and drop your sample to any drum pad or to the sample selection area! Hope you enjoy it and thanks for the kind words! :)
This seems great, I'm very tempted. Does it have individual outputs for the drums (so you can process them individually in your daw)?
Yes! I'm just uploading a complete tutorial about that.
We have a button in the plugin version that says "Stereo" but once you click it it will switch to "Multi" which will send each drum in its own output.
@@EyalAmirMusic Excellent, thank you.
Very good! Are you planning on adding randomizers?, thank you.
Yes, these have been requested and we will probably add them in an update soon. :)
Very cool! Can you edit the midi note numbers per instrument for using the midi out efficiently with external machines?
Yes! You can use the "map" button in the bottom left to remap the notes.
congrats for dropping such an awesome piece of pizzaware! is this software capable of putting for example 8 pizzas in the upper lane and for example 5 pizzas in the second lane and so on? quasi polymeter and polyrhythm things?
Thanks Illya! Funny you should ask, we already have this feature ready in the sequencer engine and it will be added in a free update sometime soon! Meanwhile you can kind of fake it by using several instances :)
Looks great guys. Does it output midi so you could use an external drum machine
Thanks! It definitely does... you can also map each drum pad to any midi note you want. If you end up doing something like that we'd love to see it!
It would be fire if you could have pitch automation etc.... awesome plugin!
Solid app! Really love the interface, any plans for adding probability? Either per-step probability or probably to ratchet or not?
Definitely! We were hesitant to add them at first but since people seems to really want them... We think we'll add those in a free update soon.
Hey guys, really interesting. Would be great if I could use this on a melodic instrument. Possible?
Any plans / time scales for iPad version?
Looks really innovative. If you add swing to a sequence and then export sequence out to daw will it maintain the swing percentage?
Also,have you considered adding maps for the more popular drum triggers?
Hey!
1. Yes, the swing will maintain on export
2. That is a very good idea.
This is super cool! I was playing with the demo and was wondering can you shift samples? (i.e snares and claps)
Hey! What do you mean by shifting samples exactly? Are you talking about pitch shifting (we do have that feature)?
@@Modalics so in Ableton you can delay a sample to offset it a little bit. For example, sliding a clap a little bit back for an early feel or sliding it a little forward for a lazy feel. Hope that makes sense! :)
@@DJKue Ah, time shift!
With our pizzas you can delay each note by intervals as small as 1/42 of a beat, which is very useful to get those exact flams you're talking about, for example between the snare and the clap.
We'll probably add even more ways to do that in an update soon.
@@Modalics oh that makes sense then! Still wrapping my head around the pizzas but I’m loving the cool drum loops I’m making for house with it!
I'm using Intego on MacOS Big Sur, + it kept Beat Scholar from opening in Ableton Live 11. Just FYI. Otherwise, it looks + sounds great!
That's good to know! sorry you had issues with it... Thanks for taking the time to check it out.
Great Software. What about doing just the same thing with adjustable filters and gates as the next project? That would be great to create very complex rhythmical patterns out of any sound with your pizza slices.
Amazing you say that because... well I can't tell you right now but I think you're gonna be pretty happy with the secret prototypes we've been running here. :)
@@Modalics Believe it or not, that will not be the first time, that someone releases a plugin I was thinking about a short time before....
I have been looking for a drum machine that does time changes well for a while, only thing lacking is a decay tap for snares
Hey! The "Damp" knob acts kinda like reversed decay. :)
th-cam.com/video/1pBAoGLexac/w-d-xo.html
Also, you can use Beat Scholar to control any other MIDI-controlled plugin, or load any sample into it (such as different snares with different ADSR settings from another VST).
Does It send or export MIDI? To play the best with another drum synth or Addictive Drums for an example
Definitely! Check out this tutorial to see everything you can do with Beat Scholar in your DAW: th-cam.com/video/uXtiDJJTjWs/w-d-xo.html
This looks like fun. Can you create Euclidean rhythms with this product?
Good question!
In terms of the audible result, you could probably program some euclidean-sounding rhythms in there, as long as they end up something that can be expressed in a linear way.
For example you could have circles as 1/2 notes and have at the same time a triplet and quintuplet over that 1/2, which I've seen people do with euclidean sequencers.
But in terms of layout, it's not a euclidean, it's linear - just with circles to represent the divisions within a beat.
@@Modalics Ah. Thanks for the example. Perhaps you folks could ingenuitively implement some form of Euclidean sequencing as a Beat Scholar 1.5 feature.
@@tonedef71 we're adding new features to Beat Scholar every day, so you can definitely expect quite a lot of rhythmic improvements in the upcoming weeks, even way before 1.5!
We're generally not happy if there's any kind of rhythm that exists in the world that we can't recreate, and that includes the (quite beautiful) things you can do with euclidean sequencers. I'm not sure if we'll go with full on euclidean UI, but we'll probably try our approach to help you create things that sonically sound similar or the same as quickly and accurately as possible.
Eyal
@@Modalics Sounds good. In the meantime, it would be awesome if you folks could make a new video demonstrating how to create some Euclidean-like beats with Beat Scholar.
Yeah, Euclidean beats would be so wonderful! And I bet it would give you some opportunity over other beat machines outthere. Sure, Euclidean isn‘t the big thing outthere, but there are people looking for it. And you guys seem to be experts when it comes to rhythms … so there. :) Thanks for bringing this up, @Tone DeF, well appreciated.
so at the beginning you said "mac, windows, whatever", but looking at the site, it seems you mean just "mac or windows". do your technology choices make it likely that we'll see a linux version of beat scholar?
Hey Paul!
Yeah, our codebase is portable and internally compiles and runs on Linux, at least on Ubuntu and Debian.
But - I'm quite reluctant to release on that platform for now, as it seems like the user base that makes music on Linux and also willing to buy software is quite small.
If that ever changes, you'll probably see a Linux release from us rather quickly. :)
Eyal
Can you step sequence fx, and any parameters for editing? Also swing?
Also, is there lfos/envelopes general modulation matrix that can be used/assigned to slices?
@@altmastering5661 All the sound params are automatable for now and that would be the best way to do that at the moment.
However! What you're asking is on our update roadmap and will be patched into Beat Scholar in a future free update.
@@Modalics thank you! I'll wait it out for this. Will get it for sure once thats part of it :-)
@@altmastering5661 Cool! Hope we'll be able to get to it soon. We also have another plugin coming out in the next couple of weeks.
By the way -
There's a 14 day fully featured trial if you just want to test it out as it is now.
Best.
Yo! so what band are you talking about guys? I wanna listen! :D.
Here: th-cam.com/users/ProjectRnL
:)
@@Modalics Thanks. I actually found it because after this video I went on to watch The Gaz Williams Show livestream with you guys on it, and you and him talked about your bands and stuff at the start :). I kept my comment though because I thought someone else might wish to know. Excellent stuff I might add. I love this prog-rocky kind of stuff. I just knew it would be a good find. 'Another One', and 'Twisted Truth' have been blasting out today several times. I am going to dig through more on there tomorrow. I subscribed though. Haha. Niiiice one guys!
@@jamescuttsmusicjcm5013 You're awesome :) Thank you so much..
I want to buy it today. Can u send a promo code to have a little discount?
Beat Scholar is already running at 79$ introduction sale price (instead of 99$) honestly we can only offer additional discounts for multiple purchases or well produced promotional content at this point.
Hope you understand :)
great idea, price to high for me
We just started our christmas sale and you can get Beat Scholar at 50% off! just go to Modalics.com
Piedm
This video is hard to watch. Trying to study the interface and it keeps cutting to shots of the narrators which is completely useless. :/
Sorry you're not enjoying this video - Here's a playlist of tutorials that show just the interface:
th-cam.com/video/9feC7Vk4ueg/w-d-xo.html
You can also subscribe on our site and download a trial via the "Downloads" page
@@Modalics Sounds great. very helpful. Thank you.
this is where I say all those metric/decimal system supremacists can suck it. If a person feels metric is so superior, please stop enjoying fractions based music immediately.