GrossBeat - VST Effect

I used this VST in my new loop, and I’m impressed… it’s really useful, specially for electronica and house music, so if you’re an FL Studio 9 User you should try it…..

...otherwise it costs $99, when you buy it on image-line

http://www.image-line.com/documents/grossbeat.html

Play with time! Gross Beat is a time manipulation effect designed for repetition and scratching effects. Gross beat is perfect for real-time or rendered gating, glitch, repeat, scratching and stutter performances. Gross Beat stores audio in a 2-bar rolling buffer under the control of 36 user definable time and volume envelopes, giving you unlimited creative control.

Key features:

• Powerful MIDI controlled envelopes
• 2 bar audio buffer
• Real time effect, perfect for live performance
• 36 volume/gating envelopes with user-controlled smoothing
• Linked or independent volume & gating slot operation
• A large number of creative presets ready to go

I like to use Illformed Glitch for glitch effects since its free and very powerful. I would love to use Sugar Bytes Effectrix, but the $129 price tag just hurts my feelings. Gross Beat is awesome but I really was hoping it would be a bit more like Effectrix, especially since it’s a tidbit cheaper.

I haven’t seen anything come close to what Gross Beat achieves in scratching and for this reason alone, I’d like to get it. I’ve achieved good record-style scratches using Wave Traveller, FLStudio’s previous scratch machine, but Gross Beat takes this programmed scratch idea to a whole new level. The thing can realistically scratch any audio thrown at it and it comes with a slew of awesome preset scratches.

For those interested, here’s some youtube demos of the software mentioned.

Illformed Glitch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCgENwOytuA

Sugar Bytes Effectrix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsk1mJ_vwZw&feature=related

Image-Line Gross Beat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYuiCVmadig&feature=related

Regards, David

thanks ugotsta,

I didn’t knew this video… its indeed a lot better than the other 2 VSTs… I learned some new functions from this video.. GrossBeat is very powerful

are you a Ableton Live user? or maybe Logic? reason?

I actually use FLStudio. It’s my favorite of all the DAWs out there. I wanted to move over to Cubase or Logic on the Mac but not only can I not currently afford them, FLStudio is far faster for my purposes since I use all of its built-in effects and synths and I’m just so familiar with them now. I bought EnergyXT and Orion Platinum and I’ve used trial software of nearly all the DAWs but I keep going right back to FLStudio.

I especially love when they release new versions and include a bunch of new plugins like Vocodex, which I essentially get for free as a paid user. I would’ve loved it if they included Gross Beat as a bundled free plugin with the newest update but they should get paid more for this thing. It’s just so powerful.

Are you an FLStudio user as well?

yea I’m an FL user, that’s why I wondered.. you are an FL9 user and you haven’t GrossBeat, can’t believe that.. is it maybe because I have the XXL version?

I absolutely agree with you, I can’t afford all other programs… I tried A-Live, but it didn’t work for me… I’m just too familiar with FL, I hope Image-Line makes FL for Mac.. cuz I don’t wanna be on a PC forever or do you think that never gonna happen?

I think if you start with a good program you don’t gonna leave that program, cuz you just grow up with it, when I first installed FL it was FL 4 … now look how beautiful it looks

good thing you are a FL user, I stumbled across a FL Tutorial site which is quite nice, not only tuts but also VSTs, have a look http://www.tutozed.com/

yea I’m an FL user, that’s why I wondered.. you are an FL9 user and you haven’t GrossBeat, can’t believe that.. is it maybe because I have the XXL version?

I absolutely agree with you, I can’t afford all other programs… I tried A-Live, but it didn’t work for me… I’m just too familiar with FL, I hope Image-Line makes FL for Mac.. cuz I don’t wanna be on a PC forever or do you think that never gonna happen?

I think if you start with a good program you don’t gonna leave that program, cuz you just grow up with it, when I first installed FL it was FL 4 … now look how beautiful it looks

good thing you are a FL user, I stumbled across a FL Tutorial site which is quite nice, not only tuts but also VSTs, have a look http://www.tutozed.com/

The XXL version was discontinued a while ago and I’m guessing that you got Gross Beat for free since you already had the XXL version before it was discontinued. You’re probably one of the fortunate few who got that great deal. I only had the Producer Edition since I didn’t need any of the other big synth plugins. I use the free Synth1 for all my big synth needs.

I remember Fruityloops when it was in beta stage. It started as a clone of the freeware Hammerhead Rhythm Station, a program which was revolutionary during it’s time. FLStudio just kept growing and you’re right, it is beautiful. Fruityloop’s appearance was apparently modeled after MOD trackers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_(music_software) ), which I’ve always loved, so it always felt more comfortable to me. It really impressed me when Image-Line integrated support for Jeskola Buzz plugins ( http://buzzmachines.com ) since I’d been working with Buzz for quite some time and it’s plugins are, even to this day, amazing, not to mention free.

I bookmarked that tutorial website. I was going to purchase access to Warbeats, another FLStudio tutorial site, but I wanted to wait and see if Envato’s tutorial site gets more FLStudio tutorials since they have more than just audio tutorials.

Regards, David

seems so, thanks for the Link to these plugins, I gonna check them out.. I also like FL’s Hardcore, Maximus & Soundgoodizer

FL isn’t that popular on Audiotuts+, they have only a few tuts…... I thought about many times to submit a tutorial about how to create something with minidevices like the nanoKey… but I only own the nanoPad yet sooo I have to wait…...... I just love mini-devices