Betelgeuse
Welcome to Betelgeuse, the first semi-modular arranger keyboard plugin that brings professional-grade entertainment capabilities to your fingertips. This revolutionary virtual instrument emulates high-end hardware arrangers and workstations, offering more then 430 (and growing!) free loadable and shareable styles from any music genre for dynamic, live-oriented performances and instant, high-quality backing tracks.
Betelgeuse is a powerful MIDI engine designed to seamlessly integrate with your Digital Audio
Workstation (DAW). While it doesn't generate sound on its own, it orchestrates your favorite virtual
instruments (VSTis) by routing MIDI sequences through various channels, mimicking the functionality
of a hardware arranger with enhanced flexibility.
Highlight enefits:
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1. Authentic hardware arranger experience with the advantages of software flexibility
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2. Vast library of loadable - shareable styles for creating professional backing tracks in any genre
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3. Perfect for live performances, jam sessions, studio production, and on-the-fly accompaniment
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4. Exceptional sound quality that rivals $5000+ hardware arrangers when paired with modern VSTis
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5. Full DAW integration for recording, mixing, and mastering your backing tracks and performances
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6. Integration with GM compliant VSTis for robust controling and syncronization
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Betelgeuse combines the best of both worlds: the intuitive interface of a hardware arranger with the
power and versatility of modern DAW software. This synergy, coupled with today's advanced audio equipment, opens up new horizons in music production, composing and live performance backing.
Whether you're a:
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Songwriter looking for instant, professional-grade backing tracks
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Composer seeking efficient workflow tools for arrangement and composition
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Music student exploring arrangement techniques and style creation
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Dedicated hobbyist aiming to elevate your craft with pro-level accompaniment
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PRO arranger performer accompanying vocalists on live stages
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Betelgeuse is designed to take your creativity and enjoyment to new heights. Experience the future of
musical arrangement and performance – let Betelgeuse be your gateway to unlimited musical
possibilities and effortless backing track creation.
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Versions - Betelgeuse comes in 2 versions:
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Betelgeuse - Full featured VSTi plugin for windows OS only (no demo mode) - 55$ (no refunds after providing a serial) as a part of Mad Midi Machines pack
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Betelgeues Free editions - Totally free 6 variations VSTi plugin that lacks some of extra features compared to the paid edition
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Both versions are included in the same downloadable winzip file
**Special thanks to our friend Dave Loftus (DaveyBoy) for his mighty contribution to this project and especially for the positive vibes**
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Key Features
Dynamic tempo - use style's original tempo, your on defeined tempo, double \ half tempo or tap tempo
Arranger \ piano modes - perform in arranger mode when the midi keyboard is splited and defined for classic left hand - right hand performance (style chords and solos)
Single \ multi modes for solos - play right hand solo instruments one by one or combine up to 6 instruments opened in your DAW together
Dynamic transitions - define the 1 bar \ 1/2 bar respond times for tansitions between variations
Global semitone - transpose the global semitone of both right \ left hands role
Save \ load sets - save and load sets (combination of style + it's unique settings) to a preset file
Midi learn \ keyboard key controlling - diverse controling possibilities by using midi learning (right click on any significant button \ knob) or midi keyboard keys (notes 1- 35)
Comments - add text comments to each set to share any critical information about it with others who use it
DAW start - starts playing session of the style whenver the DAW starts playing
Route midi sessions to up to 12 VSTis opened in your DAW - 6 right hand slots + 6 left hand slots can be sent internally in the DAW to any desired instruments to create a full arranger experience. GM compliant instruments are supported and can recieve program change messages from Betelgeuse + controlled by the internal mixer via midi CC messages
Variations - up to 16 variations per style, including intros, main variations, fills, ends and brake
Synced play - prepare playing when any pressed chord is detected
Onpress - Play only when chord keys are pressed
Manual crash - trigger style drumkit's crash cymbal hit manually
Fingered \ one finger modes - switch chords using 3 notes chord or a single note. use single note mode to achieve both major and minor chords by double-clicking the chord's key
Restart - instantly restart the played style's variation from possition 0
Styles menu- 500 world class inspiring styles divided into 10 categories, covering a vast of musical genres (rock, pop, dance, swing-jazz, R&B, country, latin, ballroom, world). Including "search" feature for finding styles by name
Sounds menu - allows selecting sounds from target VSTi's by program change messages and also indicate which instruments are most recommended for a spacific loaded style (which then can by opened manually by the user according to his taste)
Mixer - controls volumes, octaves and pitch scales of playing instruments, ballance between style's volume and solos volume and controls the master volume (whenever a GM compiliant VSTi is targeted).
Favorite sets menu - allows storing favorite sets in a bank file for instantly reloading them by a single button press. Easy sets loading by clicking on the text label under each button. Save \ load menu buttons are included in the menu stage
Jumps menu - defines the destination of each jumping variation (intros, fills, brake) after they finish their loop cycle
Crash menu - defines the cymbal crash hit's characters; selects which drum element plays the crash's role, it's length and velocity as well as in how many variation cycles the auto crash will hit.
Settings - divided into 3 menus: registration, GUI and outdoor loopMIDI inputs selection:
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Registarion is based on ID number. Each user is allocated unique ID that shown in the registration cubical. Use the ID number in our site to generate your matching serial number after purchasing. Betelgeuse will .Once you got a serial inserted and confirmed, Betelgeuse will be ready for use in "registered" state. There is no "DEMO" mode in the paid version and the plugin will not perform until registered
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GUI - allows changing UI size
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outdoor loopMIDI inputs selection - allows connecting to Betelgeuse 3 additional midi controllers externally (since this option is not allowed by most DAWs). The connection is done by using "looMIDI", free virtual midi cable which can be downloaded from their site. The user then routes his midi gear to an opened midi cable and then routes the midi cable's output directly to Betelgeuse by "outdoor loopMIDI" menu