Pulsonix has released an update to its drum machine, step sequencer and REX loop player plugin for Windows and macOS (VST3, AU and standalone).
Version 4.1.5. of BeatForge comes with a reworked antialiasing approach for the 31 circuit-modeled drum synths.
Instead of running every engine through blanket 8× oversampling, each engine was measured individually with an offline FFT analysis harness and now uses exactly the antialiasing it needs: most engines run at 1× with source-level techniques, while a few that genuinely require oversampling keep it (FM kick and snare at 4×, Reese bass and the tanh-based lead engines at 2×).
Distortion modes now use first-order ADAA with 4× oversampling. The measured result: alias floors around −90 dB through the mids, matching or beating the previous approach — at noticeably lower CPU, with the biggest gains on older machines.
Doubling as a REX remixing environment, BeatForge plays .rx2 files natively (via the official Reason Studios SDK) and treats every slice as a fully editable voice.
Slices take per-slice parameter locks — pitch, filter, envelope, drive locked to individual hits — can be tagged into color-coded link groups for editing whole hit types at once, and can each be routed to their own plugin output. In practice that means taking one REX loop, sending its kicks, snares and hats to separate DAW channels, and remixing a twenty-year-old loop with modern processing per element.
The built-in slicer does the same for WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 and OGG — and with ReCycle recently made free by Reason Studios, creating and playing REX files is now a complete workflow for the price of BeatForge alone.
Version 4.1.5 also allows users to reorder tracks by dragging them, with auto-scrolling at the edges. A sequencer on/off button is now available per track for driving BeatForge purely from DAW MIDI, and MIDI export has been improvement.
The update is free for all owners. New customers can purchase BeatForge for €25 EUR, or download an unrestricted 14-day trial to try it for free.
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