Ausgabe 12/2025
Hi Hats are Your Tracks‘ Most Important Element – Find Out Why
The perfect drums and hi-hats for your next beats, songs, and productions! Our masterclass shows you how to choose the right hi-hat sound or design your own, utilize the full... Weiterlesen
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Ausgabe 12/2025
Hi Hats are Your Tracks‘ Most Important Element – Find Out Why
The perfect drums and hi-hats for your next beats, songs, and productions! Our masterclass shows you how to choose the right hi-hat sound or design your own, utilize the full... Weiterlesen
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Beat English 12/2025
Hi Hats are Your Tracks‘ Most Important Element – Find Out Why
The perfect drums and hi-hats for your next beats, songs, and productions! Our masterclass shows you how to choose the right hi-hat sound or design your own, utilize the full stereo width, and shape your own signature groove with micro-rhythmic finesse.
With the correct use of compression, transients, and EQs, create crackling drum textures, punchy snares, and rolling fills – based on synthesizers, grooveboxes, and even field recordings.
In the bonus chapter, you‘ll also learn everything about miking, recording, and mixing acoustic drums. And watch out: As a Beat reader, you‘ll receive over 200 MIDI clips with ready-made beats and hi-hat patterns for free!
Plus, a market overview of the best tools for mixing and recording drums and hi-hats. Beat Magazine couldn‘t fit more content!
Exclusive: Free Hi-Hat MIDI generator to produce an endless stream of hi hat grooves
Always the same 16th-note hats? With our Hi-Hat MIDI Generator, you can create organic rhythms with swing, dynamics, and character – quickly, musically, and inspiringly. The free web app delivers fresh patterns for hi-hats, shakers, tambourines, and more at the touch of a button and allows export in MIDI format. FREE!
The Most Authentic Sounding 808 – Wavea Flite Ultimate
With Ultimate 808, Wavea delivers an explosive expansion for their free sound generator, Wavea Flite Play, containing hundreds of finely tuned samples of the legendary drum machine. We are, of course, talking about the Roland TR-808, which was recorded for the ultimate punch via a classy SSL G-Series console. The result: Fat, punchy, and dynamically playable drums that you can tailor for any style with the macro controls!
Compact, Analog & Cinematic: Oberheim TEO-5 Desktop reviewed
Following the Take-5, the TEO-5 is now also available in a compact desktop case, and you couldn‘t get a genuine Oberheim synthesizer any cheaper than this! But the TEO-5 Desktop is anything but a stripped-down version; apart from the keyboard, you only have to do without a few controls compared to the TEO-5 Keyboard.
New! Now with AI Music Production Corner – in every upcoming issue
Artificial Intelligence polarizes and can be unsettling, but the technology is here and isn‘t going away. With this issue, we are expanding the existing section to explore this topic in more depth. To explain the tools, reveal some of the magic behind them, and also point out their limitations. Because just because it says AI on it doesn‘t always mean it‘s intelligent.
We already featured Moises as one of the leading stem separators (also found in Ableton 12.3) in one of the first episodes of our AI series. Recently, the Moises AI Studio introduced a new level of AI-assisted production. The idea here is to use your own audio snippets like a guitar riff or piano chords as a starting point and have the Moises AI find matching instruments, melodies, and rhythms, thus, breaking out of the loop becomes even easier.
Hi Hats are Your Tracks‘ Most Important Element – Find Out Why
15 GB plug-ins & sounds for inspiration and more fun while producing
Oberheim TEO-5 Desktop reviewed
The comparison may be flawed, but in our eyes, hi-hats are like cups and tea lights: They‘re incredibly unspectacular, but you can‘t do without them, and in the best case scenario, they create a good atmosphere. They carry the groove of a track, are needed for every style of music, and even have a major influence on the stereo width of the overall mix. That‘s why we‘re dedicating a whopping 18 essential pages to them, starting with general tips for browsing and trying things out, and then delving deeper and deeper into the subject matter. Required reading for anyone who wants to get away from robotic staccato beats. And there‘s an exclusive online tool for Beat readers that lets you easily build beats in your browser and export even more patterns. Take a look on page 17. We also have another current topic on our minds: Artificial Intelligence. It polarizes and can be unsettling, but the technology is here and isn‘t going away. With this issue, we are expanding the existing section to explore this topic in more depth. To explain the tools, reveal some of the magic behind them, and also point out their limitations. Because just because it says AI on it doesn‘t always mean it‘s intelligent. With that in mind, enjoy reading and learning!
Cult drums brought to you with our magazine highlight Ultimate 808 right away: Hundreds of drum samples from the Roland TR-808 have been collected and refined with the sound of an SSL console. As a second highlight, you can choose two instruments from AAS as a full version. The crème de la crème of the best patches from the legendary Virus TI synthesizer has been compiled for you in our Expansion Pack Polar Fox for Zampler and AKAI MPCs. Through analog refinement, the 74 patches with leads, basses, and pads sound even more powerful, warmer and wider than the originals. Our 5.5 GB large sample archive this month is a colorful mix across electronic music. From Bigroom & House, through Dubstep to Tech-House by ZTEKNO and Disco, diversity is the order of the day here. There is also a first-class multisample organ for common sampler formats with the TownHallOrgan.
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