Beatbox Anthology 2

[SirkusPi]

Anybody check both Beatbox Anthology vs Wave Alchemy Revolution?

I have Wave Alchemy and it sounds great (although it takes *forever* to load on my system). But I find that, for my personal workflow, I don't really care that much about the detailed tweaking that it allows. For my purposes, I've come to realize that with regard to drum machine emulations I'm much more of a "what overall preset sound do I want, do some mild, quick adjustments and go!" type of person.

So I'm thinking BBA2 will be more up my alley, and, at the current sale price (plus $10 gift certificate at Audiodeluxe, bringing the "effective" price down to $89), I likely will go for it.

EDIT: My current go-to is Hollow Sun's DrumBox, which is excellent and pretty well meets my needs. Which may make BBA2 somewhat superfluous for me. But at this price, the GAS is strong.

[KeithAdv]

I have Wave Alchemy and it sounds great (although it takes *forever* to load on my system).

Is that a Kontakt instrument? Did you try batch re-save? That may help.

[MrDuke]

For people who have this. In your opinion, is it worth buying if I already have Beatbox Anthology 1 (came free with MOTU's BPM)? Obviously this has a much better GUI along with other improvements, but also a ton of the same drum machines as in the first version.

How are the LinnDrum sounds? In BB1, the patch in it was saved with the "wrong" pitches (too high)...

for $49 the update is very cool, there are so much classic drums, you don't find elsewhere, and now beatbox has also a great workflow.

I can't see an update option anywhere, only the introductory price of $99?

[sacer]

i got an email. Have you registered BBA1 in your uvi acount ? If you login, the price gets reduced on UVI homepage.
I realy welcome the patterns and the kits are more easy to edit, if you want to create custom kits. Also they were not layered in BBA1

[MrDuke]

i got an email. Have you registered BBA1 in your uvi acount ? If you login, the price gets reduced on UVI homepage.
I realy welcome the patterns and the kits are more easy to edit, if you want to create custom kits. Also they were not layered in BBA1

Thanks! Yeah it's registered, but I didn't login. For $49 I'll probably pull the trigger...

[OneOfManyPauls]

I just had to be logged into my UVI account and then the https://www.uvi.net/beatbox-anthology-ii.html page automatically lists the upgrade price. If you're logged in and still don't see the price, maybe it's restricted to people who purchased BBA 1, rather than got it free?

The LDrum samples sound identical.

I guess whether it makes sense to upgrade or not depends on how you feel about the 32 new machines covered, the layering, the inbuilt sequencer, and separate audio outputs for each drum part even in UVI workstation.

[Stefken]

I don't see a possibility to save your custom patterns, kits or layered drums. I use the free uvi workstation. Am I missing something?

[UltimateOutsider]

I don't see a possibility to save your custom patterns, kits or layered drums. I use the free uvi workstation. Am I missing something?

Yes, you need Falcon for that.

[OneOfManyPauls]

I don't see a possibility to save your custom patterns, kits or layered drums. I use the free uvi workstation. Am I missing something?

Yes, you need Falcon for that.

At least in ableton live, you can also save/load pattern/kit/layers using the built in .fxp preset saving - which works fine with UVI workstation.

[Stefken]

I don't see a possibility to save your custom patterns, kits or layered drums. I use the free uvi workstation. Am I missing something?

Yes, you need Falcon for that.

At least in ableton live, you can also save/load pattern/kit/layers using the built in .fxp preset saving - which works fine with UVI workstation.

Thanks a lot OneOfManyPauls !
Always right on the money with very practical info.

[Stefken]

I don't see a possibility to save your custom patterns, kits or layered drums. I use the free uvi workstation. Am I missing something?

Yes, you need Falcon for that.

At least in ableton live, you can also save/load pattern/kit/layers using the built in .fxp preset saving - which works fine with UVI workstation.

I don't know whether you found a way to save kits and sequences separately?
Like e.g. when you want to leave the sequence as is, but load a custom kit.

I tried to clear the sequence before saving the fxp hoping that no sequence data would be saved with the fxp and when opening that fxp the existing sequence would not be overwritten. But no luck. It overwrites the sequence with the blank sequence.

I looked at the fxp with notepad ++ so see if I could make something of it but it's all gibberish.

[OneOfManyPauls]

I think it's just an all or nothing job - but at least it's a way to do that.

[db3]

Picked this up...and yes I'm very disappointed by the lack of kit/seq save
Other than that, first impressions are that it sounds really good, but is somewhat CPU heavy.

[Stefken]

I've had contact with UVI.

You are able to save your work as Multi files in UVI Workstation (see 'Save Multi' via the wrench icon at left on the Multi page).
Please note that you can use the option 'Append Multi' option from the Multi Browser to merge several Multis into one.

This DOES save both the kit and the pattern together. So when you load it, you also overwrite your pattern.
To this they responded:
There is sadly no pattern import/export options yet but it has been forwarded to our devs for reviewing.

[db3]

You are able to save your work as Multi files in UVI Workstation (see 'Save Multi' via the wrench icon at left on the Multi page)

Thanks for the info, good to know. Although, clearly not as useful as being able to save/load custom kits and patterns as per the factory content.