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What is the Beatnik Editor™? | top
The Beatnik Editor™ is the essential tool for creating compelling interactive musical content in Beatnik's RMF® file format. The Editor is the doorway into the Beatnik Music System and allows you access to the Beatnik Audio Engine's full General MIDI instrument bank, percussion bank, the Beatnik Special instrument and percussion banks, and user defined banks. In all, you control over 400 built-in instruments and sounds!

The Beatnik Editor can be used as a standalone application for converting and combining MIDI and digital audio files into RMF format. Editor can also be used as a complete virtual General MIDI sound module from within MIDI sequencing software packages like Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer, Steinberg's Cubase VST, any of Opcode's Vision products, or Cakewalk Pro 8 for Windows.

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Beatnik Editor 2.1 Key Features | top

• Imports General MIDI files, MP3 files, and wide selection of other digital audio formats
• Generous selection of high-quality reverbs from "Closet" to "Catacombs"
• Combines audio samples with General MIDI and Beatnik Special Instruments
• Allows the use of all the instruments contained in the Beatnik Player's General MIDI and special Beatnik Sound Banks, along with options to build custom instruments, add LFO's, modulations, etc.
• Outputs RMF files and linear audio file.

Combine the Editor with nearly any of the most popular sequencers to create compelling musical products and applications. Here are some of the possibilities:

For games and digital device applications:

• Create custom ring tones for cellular phones
• Create 5-10 second audio preview clips that load almost instantly into wireless digital devices for music enabled applications
• Create a sound track for complex interactive digital device applications
• Create a complete audio suite of navigation sounds for digital devices
• Create sound effects and music tracks for PC or console games

For any application:

• Import MIDI or digital audio files and turn them into extremely small, fast-loading RMF files with near CD- quality results. Create a completely unique audio experience for any web site.
• Create exotic custom instruments by importing small audio samples, modify envelopes and apply up to 5 different modulators per voice using the Sample and Instrument Editor. Play your new instrument from the computer keyboard, from within a sequencer or from any MIDI device. Export your new creation as a custom instrument within an RMF file.

New in 2.1
This is primarily a maintenance release with several usability improvements.

New in 2.0
Improved Workflow

• Extremely Cool New User Interface
• Cross Platform
• Compatible with 1.0 sessions
• New JavaScript Window
• Unlimited Undo and Redo
• One step RMF Creation
• Simplified RMFX Creation
• State saved when closed and restored when opened
• Copyright/Info profile can be saved
• Copyright info can be applied to multiple songs simultaneously
• "Always live" sequencer connection

Sessions

• Unified tabbed interface
• Open multiple Sessions simultaneously
• Drag & Drop files directly into and between Sessions
• Share Sessions between Mac and Windows

Compression

• Better, faster MP3 compression
• Compression previews
• Batch Compress

Sample/Instrument Editors

• Unified Interface
• Visual waveform editing with Crop, Delete, Gain, Change, Normalize, Fade In and Fade Out operations
• Visually set loop points
• Redesigned comb filter editor
• Support for 5 modulators per instrument
• New modulator system allows choice of LFO, Envelope, LFO with Depth Modulation or Offset Modulator

Documentation

• Extensive Context sensitive help
• Tool Tips (Windows)
• HTML and PDF

System Requirements for Authoring | top

For Authoring on Windows

• Pentium Pro/200MHz processor (or higher)
• Windows 9x/ME, NT, 2000
• 64 MB RAM
• 4.0 browser or higher (online help)
• 6 MB disk space
• MIDI Yoke version 1.61 or higher (available from www.midiox.com) For Web Playback
• Beatnik Player 2.1 or higher

For Authoring on Macintosh

• PowerMac with 604/180MHz processor (or higher)
• MacOS 8.6 - 9.x (is not supported under OS X)
• 64 MB RAM
• 4.0 browser or higher (online help)
• 15 MB disk space
• OMS version 2.38 or higher (available from www.opcode.com)

For Web Playback

• Beatnik Player 2.1 or higher

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