Tricky Stewart Grammy Winning Producer: Beyonce - “Single Ladies” Rihanna - “Umbrella” Ludacris, Mary J Blige, Katy Perry “Teenage Dream” “One of the greatest inventions in music. The functionality of it is really great. I think it’s laid out very well for a producer."

Bob Ezrin: BKE Partner and Co-Founder/ Iconic Rock Producer: Pink Floyd - The Wall, Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel) “My partners and I spent years building this thing and I’m glad we did because what we finally ended up with is what we set out to do."

Jermaine Dupri Iconic Producer/Artist: Janet Jackson, Usher, Bow Wow, et al              “If you are a real producer then you’re familiar with these guys.” “I think its brilliant. I got mine. I’m going to be on it before y’all [laughs]!”

“Commissioner” Gordon Williams Multiple Grammy Winning Engineer/Mixer: The Roots, Lauren Hill, Damien Marley, et al      “What you have here with the Beat Thang is something that you haven’t seen before. This is for real. You’re going to hear a lot more about it.

Fast & Easy Navigation, Shortcuts, and Triggers User Friendly Navigation will have beginners and music pros alike spending much less time 'figuring it out', and much more time making incredible music! The controls and layout become second nature in no time, and friendly keyboard shortcuts and triggers save you valuable time. You'll be able to make beats, arrange melodies, build custom kits, and finish songs in less time. Quickly scroll through its 8 banks/octaves of keys/kits, 16 stereo channels with mute/solo per pad and channel, on-the-fly kit and sample changes, trigger rolls and holds, easy insert/copy of duplicate bars, and much more.

Quantize, Record Modes, Swings, & Bar Structures Quantizing - For those new to music production, quantizing 'snaps' your notes into place if you lay them a bit off. You can quantize down to 1/4 and up to 1/64 notes. Or just turn it OFF for that natural, live feel. Record Mode - Replace or Overwrite your performances with ease. Swing - Simply adjust in real time and add up to 75% swing. Bar Structure - Easily change up your bar length in real time. You can even assign different bar lengths to your separate tracks for more complex song structures. PLUS - Click/drag, or tap in your tempo. Adjust volumes (master or per channel/pad), and build tons of patterns and change-ups fast. Save, edit, duplicate patterns, and add effects anywhere in a snap.

.WAV Editing & Autochop On-screen Waveform Editing -Easily open up any sample (including the ones you import) and start editing the waveform directly in BTV SOLO'. Adjust nearly any parameter of your sample, including ADSR, Volume, Panning, pitch, and the start and end point. Quickly Autochop your samples to create useful kits and instruments in less time. Autochop - Take your imported samples from your CDs, MP3 players, vinyl collection and more, and BTV SOLO will "automatically chop" and format these recordings into playable sections already spread across the pads, and ready for you to use in your own music. Editing samples can be a hard, long, and tedious task. BTV SOLO gives you a hassle-free automated process, giving you more time to be creative.

Effects, Delays, and Reverbs Freak - Loaded with phasers, flangers, vibratos, choruses, pitch-shifters, high/low pass filters, and more. Freak takes your music to the next dimension with powerful, hard-hitting effects that will add dynamic expression to your sound. Delay & Reverb -Choose from tons of reverbs and delays, or create your own. Each pad gets its own set of rules! You can give any sample in any kit or instrument the exact feel you want with adjustable send levesl for each pad. Usually a lot of processing power is needed to get each sound/pad/instrument/sample to host its own full set of attributes. Even with all 16 channels filled with custom treatments per pad, BTV SOLO will still keep pushing through whatever you throw at it.

Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release Attack - Decay - Sustain - Release are all important once you get down to details and advanced music production processes. Attack - This is how fast a sound starts versus fading in a touch and softening the sharpness of the starting point. Decay, Sustain, & Release - Adjust these to give your sound some tail-end echo or keep it tight and raw. With BTV SOLO you can alter the attack, decay, sustain, or release of any sound you're working with in both Kit and Instrument Mode, allowing you to completely customize the sound of your drums, basses, pianos, synths, and more.

Precise Kit Building and Keyspanning Kit building - For the advanced users (and beginners alike), you'll love quickly building new drums kits in less time. Quickly access a velocity sensing screen where you can edit start/end volumes and even assign voice groups! Build kits with up to 16 layers of sounds per pad, each triggered by how hard you play, giving you greater expressive control. Keyspanning - Allows you to completely pitch-shift a single sample across one octave. This is great with drums when you roll your bass per pad, drop your snare on your gaps and fills, or just get crazy with your sound exploration kit sessions. Also use keyspanning to stretch any sample across multiple octaves, turning any sound you've loaded into an instrument you can play!

Pitch, Pan, Cutoff, and Resonance per Sound Pitch - Raise or lower the pitch of any sample by clicking and dragging up or down. Great for working with acapellas, instruments, or even drum!s Pan - Any sound can be panned from left to right with absolute precision. This really comes in handy for things like drums - where you want two of them in your left ear, the other two in your right, and a lead (or any instrument/sample for that stereophonic feel) in the middle. Cutoff - Resonance - Volume-Adjust cutoff and resonance all on the same screen - no more jumping around when mastering kits. Adjustable volume & trigger type are here too.

Custom Kit Builder Mode Build That Kit! - We give you quick guide icons to help walk you through what a standard kit looks like. But don't let that stop you from getting creative and mixing things up! Whether you're choosing from the massive sample library that comes with BTV SOLO or you're importing all your own sounds (even thousands at a time), you'll build kits faster with BTV SOLO's simple drag and drop feature. Simply open any sample folder and drag the sound you like to the pad you like. That's it. The sound combinations are truly limitless! Once you start mixing and matching samples, you'll find endless inspiration as you start to develop your own sound!

Custom Instrument Mode That's my sound... Just like in Kit Builder Mode, here you can start assigning your own sounds, or the BTV SOLO library sound-to the pads, banks, kits, etc., and keyspan them to create new amazing instruments in seconds! Want to create a new 8 octave instrument with a choir sample you loaded? Or maybe you want to layer 3 synths, a hit, and a sub-bass from the BTV SOLO library and create a new mega-synth? Do it all with ease in Instrument Mode. Just drag the samples to the pads, add layers if you want, and select how many octaves you want the instrument spanned across. Instrument Mode makes creating your own incredible instruments and crafting your own signature sound easier than ever before.

Song Mode Is Efficient and Smart Finalizing Your Pattern Structure in Song Mode - now that was easy! Once you're done building your patterns (let's say you made three patterns - one for your chorus', one for your verses, and one for your intro/outro), you simply line them up here in the order you want them to play, pick how many times you want each to loop, and hear your whole song play start to finish. The screen shot is showing that the pattern 'Blaze' will loop twice (length of a chorus), then 'Blaze2' will loop 4 times (length of a verse). Do this a few times over, export, and you have a full broadcast ready track ready for use in studios, with musicians, recording artists, etc.

On-Board Quick Effects and Mastering Kit! Quick Effects - quickly access your effects to get fast preview of your global effects sends. Choose from phasers, flangers, coil and old vinyl effects, reverbs, delays and more. Trigger over 60 presets or create your own and then send them to individual tracks, pads, or the whole song! Bang - Add instant compression, limiting, EQ, and more to your tracks. Bang literally adds more 'bang' to your beat and brings your speakers to life! Blang - Simply click on the Blang button to quickly change up BTV SOLO's skins. Select from a variety of included skins or import your own for that custom feel!

Modulation & Pitch Wheels! Pitch - Add subtle note bends or mega octive-spanning drops and raises to your production with BTV SOLO's pitch wheel. Adjust from a half-step to a full two-octave bend. Not just for production, you can jam live with instruments. Modulation - Have total control of yor filters inside BTV SOLO. Open & close filters and control effects with a built in modulation control. Not just for live performances though - you can record and pitch or mod changes and add them to your productions. This translates to even more flexibility for your sounds! Our evolving technology gives you more all-in-one versatility than any other program on the market.

Hook up MIDI controllers, pad controllers, connect to sound modules, and more.
Perform live remixes and mashups with live muting and soloing of your tracks or your pads.
Use built in pitch and modulation wheels to add subtle note bends or dramatic pitch changes to your production, or manipulate the parameters of BTV SOLO's phasers, flangers, compression, limiting, mastering, and more.

Over 1,000 premium drums, basses, synths, strings, effects, and more (every sound is professionally engineered and mastered to perfection)

Over 100 built in professionally constructed drum kits and octave-spanning, playable, velocity sensitive instruments.

Stereo quality 44.1kHz 16bit .wav library or load your own 16 and 24bit samples!

Develop your own sound Load your own 16bit or 24 bit samples. Built in Kit Builder and Instrument Creator. Create new effects from scratch. Advanced sample editing including autochop, timestretch, pitch shifting and more. "These sounds were made over a long time...its the sort of thing we don't give up in this industry." -D.A.

Simply hook up your MIDI controller to your PC/MAC for a full velocity sensitive keyboard experience.
BTV SOLO works with MIDI keyboards or pad controllers of any size with hot swappable connectivity.
With our expansion packs: You simply download them, run the installer, and you're ready to rock!
Importing your own sounds: All you have to do is copy your .wav or .aiff samples (or folders of sounds) into the BTV samples folder.
BTV SOLO will automatically update your sounds without even having to close and re-open the software and they are now loaded.