Cakewalk® Announces Martin Atkins' Beat Fetish
(Martin | Posted 2007-10-16)
Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces Martin Atkins' Beat Fetish Volume 1, the hardest hitting drum library ever released. Beat Fetish provides the actual drums and grooves that were programmed, designed, and recorded during recording sessions spanning over 25 years with some of the biggest names in Industrial and Post Punk music using some of world's most highly-regarded engineers.
Produced by Martin Atkins, Beat Fetish Volume 1 captures an exciting essence of sound design which is often out of reach of inspired musicians and producers. It is the first in a series of extensive sound libraries that combine the fidelity of the world's top studios with the coolest in gritty ear prickling sounds. Beat Fetish is the culmination of over 25 years of recording and includes some of the best material, cherry picked from sessions with Pigface, The Damage Manual, Killing Joke, and other artists. Recording engineers for this material include Atkins himself, along with Steve Albini, Flood, Mark Walk, Keith "Fluffy" Auerbach and others.
Highlights
- Nearly 3 GB of royalty-free drum content
- Includes drum sessions, stem mixes, loops, grooves, and hits
- ACID® WAV, Apple Loops, and REX formats
9 drum kits compatible with Dimension Pro™, Battery™, Reason™, Live™ Logic™, and other popular instruments and hosts
- Includes stories behind the content from sessions with Pigface, The Damage Manual, Killing Joke, Nine Inch Nails and many others.
Pricing and Availability
Martin Atkins' Beat Fetish - Volume 1 has a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $99. In the United States, registered Cakewalk customers can purchase Beat Fetish - Volume 1 at music retailers worldwide or directly from Cakewalk. Visit Cakewalk.com for details. Available early November 2007.
International pricing
Martin Atkins' Beat Fetish - Volume 1 is available through Roland and Edirol distribution partners. Europe's suggested street price for Martin Atkins' Beat Fetish - Volume 1 is €94 RRP inc VAT; U.K. pricing is £59 RRP inc VAT; and will be available early November 2007. Existing Cakewalk customers outside the US can purchase direct from Cakewalk or from Edirol and Roland distribution partners around the world.
For localized pricing and availability visit:
Edirol Europe (United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Austria)
Intelliware Australia
Roland Brazil
Roland Canada
Roland Central Europe (Belgium, France, Netherlands & Luxembourg)
Roland Eastern Europe
Roland Switzerland
Roland Iberia (Portugal, Spain)
Roland Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Russia, and Iceland)
About Martin Atkins
Drummer, producer, label owner, and entrepreneur, Martin Atkins is one of the central figures in the evolution of post-punk and industrial music. Highly regarded for his drumming, beat programming, sound design, and production skills, Martin was a member of Public Image Ltd and Killing Joke, the founder of Pigface, Murder Inc, and The Damage Manual; and a contributor with Ministry and Nine Inch Nails (including drums on the Grammy-winning Wish).
Atkins has been teaching at Columbia College in Chicago for the past four years and is currently instructing the course The Business of Touring. He is also an active guest lecturer, speaking at such institutions as the University of Southern California and the MIDI School in Beijing, China. Atkins has written Tour:Smart, which he calls the "first real book on touring" and features contributions from Henry Rollins, Cynthia Plastercaster, The Enigma, the Suicide Girls, Zim Zum (formerly of Marilyn Manson), Kevin Lyman, and various other managers, journalists, agents, sponsors, radio personalities, and venues. He is currently in the studio working on Pigface's sixth studio album as well as lending his hand to various other projects.
About Cakewalk
Cakewalk is the world's leading developer of powerful, yet easy to use products for music creation and recording:
Award-winning Digital Audio Workstations and Sequencers
Integrated Music Hardware and Software Solutions
Innovative Virtual Instruments and Effects
Entry-level Consumer Products
Millions of musicians around the world choose Cakewalk products to produce audio for the professional music, film, broadcast, and video game industries. These customers include Grammy® and Emmy®-winning producers, composers, sound designers, and engineers. We invite you to learn more about our company and products by visiting www.cakewalk.com.
Cakewalk is a registered trademark and Beat Fetish, Dimension, and the Cakewalk logo are trademarks of Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. Beat Fetish is a trademark of Underground, Inc. Reason and REX are trademarks of Propellerhead Software. Apple Loops and Logic are trademarks of Apple. Other trademarks mentioned are held by their respective owners.
