B.Box - Legendary Drumsounds for the PC

B.Box - Hammerhead, the next step - now distributed by Steinberg

March 11, 1998 -- Frankfurt Musik Messe '98 - It was one of the coolest products on the Internet. With good grooves, great sound: Hammerhead, the first Groovesampler in Software for the PC. Now it is for Project B.Box! Steinberg is distributing the next generation of this innovative Software Tool. Via step input B.Box can be programmed like a traditional Drum Machine. For the right beats the user can choose from the best sounds of various musical genres. Furthermore you can integrate entire Loops into the B.Box Grooves. B.Box offers the best Sounds of the following Drum Machines in a sample library for creative Groove Design: EMU SP 12, Linn 9000, Roland CR78, R 8, TR 707, TR 808, TR 909, Simmons SDS 5, Yamaha RY 30, Casio VL 1 and much more.

To finetune and fineshape the grooves B.Box offers a distortion effect and a shuffle slider which guarantees non-static groove and if you tweak the distortion you can imagine what turns on The Prodigy. Grooves can take up as many bars as you like and the stream to disk functions renders the entire measures onto the hard drive as a 44.1 kHz WAV-File. The tempo-settings match to the tick the Cubase settings which makes B.Box another perfect tool for Loop-Creation.

BBox will be available during the second quarter 1998 for approx. $99.

For more information, visit their web site at www.steinberg.net.