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We're extending the tradtional 808 Day, so that every day (for the rest of 2026) is now 808 Day. Grab any Beaotic instrument for only EUR 8.08

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Free sample pack: PWM-909

We've joined forces with PWM, the owner and modifier of a Roland TR-909, to create a sample pack showcasing its unique character.

We're giving it away for free in appreciation of the free exchange of knowledge that allows tinkerers to experiment and come up with stuff like this.

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What are Beaotic instruments?

Beaotic for Kontakt is a collection of high quality drum and percussion instruments for demanding producers. Based on thousands of samples, they provide a wide range of classic sounds from famous (and less famous) vintage rhythm machines - plus a generous amount of new original sounds - all tweakable to your liking.

Vintage drum machines

Most of the kits in Beaotic are based on thousands of samples of classic drum machines like Roland TR-808, WersiMatic CX-1, Korg Rhythm 55 and several others.

Electronics that - in some cases - are more than 40 years old are not as stable as modern equipment, but with multiple samples of every significant variation these machines have to offer, Beaotic has captured every detail (and every quirk) of these old instruments.

Extra sounds

As a bonus, every instrument features several custom sounds - electronic or acoustic - that have been carefully processed to match the character and quality of the original sources.

These custom sounds are part of what makes Beaotic instruments truly unique.

Just the right amount of features

The Beaotic instruments come with several features that lift expressiveness to another level.

These include “Velocity to sample start”, “Drift”, “Impact”, “Color” and others. Some kits even have “Multi-sampled Pitch” and “Multi-sampled Accent”. They all have full support for BMS, allowing you to easily set up any MIDI controller to tweak almost any parameter.

We have added the features that are most important for performance and control, but omitted those that would make the instruments unnecessarily complicated or degrade sound quality.

In other words, Beaotic instruments are just as simple, intuitive and efficient as the best hardware instruments.

Random Sample Select

We've implemented a custom-made algorithm to replace round-robin.

While round-robin works very well in most cases, it doesn't really work for rolls or trills, where the repetitive nature of the round-robin pattern would become apparent.

To fix this issue, we went for a randomizer. It had to be a customized one, because we wanted to guarantee that a specific sample would not be played until at least two other samples from the same pool had been played. And that is not possible with Kontakt's built-in randomizer.

The new algorithm eliminates the so-called machine gun effect even more effectively.

This feature was added in Beaotic v. 1.2.