BF BeatForge

VST3 · AU · AAX · CLAP · StandalonemacOS, Windows & Linuxv5.0

The drum machine that keeps going deeper.

The 606, 808 and 909 rebuilt from Roland’s schematics. A parameter lock on every step. Your REX loops, still playing.

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14 days, full version, no card. €39 once, updates for life.

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01 Machines

606, 808, 909, Syncussion. Drawn, not sampled.

Each one rebuilt voice by voice from the maker’s own service drawings, then checked against hardware recordings.

TR-6067 voices

Bridged-T bodies, and the op-amp stage doing the saturating. Both hi-hats share one cell, like the hardware.

TR-80816 voices

One shared noise bus and trigger bus, so a dense accented bar sags the rail. Cymbal with its real swell.

TR-90911 voices

Seven analogue voices, plus the metals’ real PCM chain: six-bit ROM, R-2R ladder, analogue VCA.

SyncussionPearl SY-1

Pearl’s 1979 drum synth (Kitchen Sink in the engine list). One tune bus drives the oscillators, the filter and the decay, so a higher pitch dies faster. Hit harder and the sweep goes further.

No matching EQ anywhere in the plugin. Every filter and every time constant traces back to a component on a drawing, or it does not ship.

Tune a voice and the capacitors change in the model, so a pitched hat roll behaves like hardware being retuned. Every DECAY and RING knob is a real mod at a named point in the schematic, detented at stock.

02 Engines

Forty-plus engines. No sample library.

Every voice is generated as you hit it. New in 5.0: the Pearl Syncussion SY-1 as a circuit model. New in 5.0.2: Donk, the four-operator FM synth, runs like Yamaha’s YM2414 chip, with 128 factory voices and .syx import.

03 Inside

One window, six ways to work.

BeatForge step sequencer — Hold a step, turn a knob, it’s locked. Scroll a step to another of the track’s 32 edit groups.

BeatForge pattern bank and song chain — 16 slots, switching quantized to the bar, chained into a song and dragged out as one MIDI clip.

BeatForge pads dock — Arm REC and drum it in. Overdubs as it loops, hard hits become accents.

BeatForge slicer with transient markers — Native .rx2 plus a slicer for WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 and OGG. Lockable markers, per-slice outputs.

BeatForge mixer — A compressor on every strip, MIDI in or out per track, any track or slice to its own output pair.

BeatForge in the Deep Red theme — Five palettes, switched with one click on the logo.

04 Features

What you get.

Parameter locks

Pitch, filter, drive, bit depth, delay, macros — per step.

32 edit groups per track

One kick track, dozens of different kicks.

Accent row

The hardware accent bus, and it survives MIDI export.

Polymeter & swing

Per-track length and speed, 1/4× to 4×, triplets included.

Euclidean fills

GEN tab, seeded random, live preview before you commit.

Song mode

16 patterns, gapless switching, chained and exported whole.

FET compressor

A modelled 1176 on every channel and the master.

Tube saturation

Koren-modelled 12AX7, plus hardware-accurate lo-fi.

Sculptor EQ & delay

Five drum bands per track, and a synced delay with filtered feedback.

Plate reverb, per track

A Dattorro plate on every track, with a gate keyed to the hit for 80s drum verb.

10 LFOs, drawable

Node-based shapes, tension per segment, AHDSR envelopes.

Multi-output

Any track, slice or group to its own pair in your DAW.

MIDI everywhere

Learn on every control, per-track I/O, Launch Control XL with LEDs.

05 Proof

Built by one person.

BeatForge is written by one developer in Belgium. Mail beatforgehelp@gmail.com and you get him, usually the same day.

The claims here are checkable: the compressor’s signal path is on GitHub under MIT, derivation included, with an honest list of every approximation it makes.

Two documented hardware mods were built, measured, and thrown away because they did not do what their label claimed.

Read the DSP source

5.0.93 Nov 26Play / stop inside the plugin, at the DAW’s tempo without starting the DAW; TRIG keeps your edits when a MIDI note switches patterns
5.0.83 Nov 26ALL turns every edit group of a track at once, and edit groups get < > buttons, a draggable group number and a zoomable waveform
5.0.714 Oct 26Linked knobs turn one knob on every selected track, and the Gen tab places flams like a drummer
5.0.67 Oct 26Fixes a crash on project close, makes undo after Reorder and Load Kit restore the mixer, and lowers CPU with Flams plus LFOs
5.0.57 Oct 26The Flams knobs get undo, MIDI learn, automation and LFO; lower CPU on the 909 snare, rim and toms
5.0.47 Oct 26Flams from a stick-physics model, the ANALOG envelope, a built-in room reverb and the 606 mods
5.0.23 Oct 26Donk runs like the YM2414 chip, 128 factory voices, and activate-once licensing
5.0.029 Sep 26The Pearl Syncussion SY-1 as a circuit model
4.9.021 Sep 26Donk, a four-operator FM synth with .syx import, and a plate reverb on every track
4.8.017 Sep 26The whole 606 kit becomes the circuit
4.7.02 Sep 26The 909, analogue and PCM paths both
4.6.020 Aug 26The 808, all sixteen voices

Nu-Trix The Synth Guy — Mastering BeatForge

A walkthrough on YouTube. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. Watch on YouTube

“A complete beat-making laboratory packed with features producers have been asking for.” — Rekkerd.org · Walkthroughs on YouTube

06 Heard

Made with it.

Septic Underground — Synced

Written and produced in BeatForge, 136 BPM.

Septic Underground — PCP Junkies

A live acid house jam: BeatForge, ABL3 and a DP/4 Pro.

Shared with permission. Made something? Send it to beatforgehelp@gmail.com.

07 Get it

€39 once. 14 days free first.

The trial is the complete plugin, no card. When it ends, a licence unlocks it again — and keeps unlocking every update after.

macOS VST3 · AU · AAX · CLAP · Standalone
macOS 11+ · Apple Silicon & Intel Download DMG Windows VST3 · AAX · CLAP · Standalone (ASIO)
Windows 10+ · 64-bit Download installer Linux VST3 · CLAP · Standalone
64-bit · glibc 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04+) Download .tar.gz

€39 one-time · perpetual licence · free updates

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08 Free

FetComp — the compressor, on its own

The same modelled 1176 that sits on every BeatForge channel. No email, no account. VST3 and AU, signed.

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