Give us a brief history of Beatskillz.
2D) “Beatskillz
started here in LA. | was
struggling to get a foot inside the music
industry
-
coming from India, with many hits
under my belt and big Hollywood placements
in movies such as Gravity, doesn’t guarantee
further success in this business.
“Working at the Capitol Records
building as a composer/producer let me get a
feel for the city and the work, but also the fact
that pursuing music even at the highest level
here has an uncertainty. Waiting around was
boring, so | put my technical training as a
computer engineer to use.
| initially designed
plugins keeping my own ‘quick’ workflow in
mind. | could design algorithms, but hadn't
touched audio coding since engineering
college, so it took some help initially to make bug-free
code itself. Along with our
passionately-made audio/video demos, that got us noticed over time. We
make stuff we want to use and are super passionate.”
Col Your new plugin, SampleX, emulates the sounds of vintage
samplers ina plugin effect. What inspired the idea to make it?
fe) “I've never had those super vintage samplers, but once | started
getting into vintage sampling, | was very interested in bringing it out as a
convenient and modern process. I’ve tried many such plugins, but felt that
you couldn't yet go into every sample rate or have the ‘grit’ or filters of the
real machines. | started sharing my progress in YouTube videos, taking in
feature requests and actually developing it into something even better.
I'm very very happy with what people are saying.”
Co Can we expect a
full-on vintage
sampler emulation instrument?
[LJ “Yes, for sure, and the key feature
for this upcoming plugin is also
human interfacing. A sampler that
gets the workflow going fast,
capturing those initial great ideas,
rather than making the user dive deep into menus and too many features.
This sampler is based on one MIDI track for everything programming-
related. It’s a new kind of approach, and | promise it won't disappoint.”
EG) This month, you're giving cm readers Synthwave Keys for free.
Tell us about that plugin.
EE) “Having too many choices is a boon but also a curse. Synthwave KZ
gives users a fabulous sound set that you can limit yourself to and create
absolute magic with. These sounds are already treated with rich outboard
processing and work together in a mix, eliminating the need to try to
make your sound ‘fit’”, and making them exciting to hear as soon as you hit
the keys. It has one purpose: inspire the user! ‘Less is more’ is its biggest
feature! For a deeper control set, try our Retrovolt ’samplesizer’.
C0] What's next for Beatskillz?
Cf) “Many, many, many, many plugins being simultaneously developed.
Too much work on our hands! I can’t reveal much now, but a huge wave of
new things are coming and we have at least one to two releases per
month on both our brands - Beatskillz and Tone Empire. We're making the
most of the quarantine to make it happen. In short, we’re very excited!”

 

Wow, I did'nt knew he was from India.

 

VINTAGE SAMPLER - Emulation Plugin (No talk.. only sounds )