Beta Monkey drum loops featured on XM Radio Liquid Metal! So, we’re driving to a gig the other night and the old XM Radio unit is tuned in to the best metal station on the planet – XM Radio’s channel 42 LIQUID METAL. In between one of the songs, during the station ID, what do […]
Prepare to (Alt) Rock. Lucky #7 in the Drum Werks Series! As the seventh release in the ever-popular Drum Werks series, Beta Monkey Music’s Drum Werks VII offers over 900 powerful and versatile drum loops for multiple rock styles. Dig into this sample collection that is all about no nonsense rock feels and phrasings. A […]
Get Some of the Monkey…Free! Get some of our tastiest grooves from Double Bass Mania and Drum Werks V in the latest issue of Future Music Magazine. A great new magazine, worth every penny for the cover CD alone. Check out Future Music online or get some free Beta Monkey at your local book retailer. […]
Beta Monkey Music has released Odd Time Meltdown: Odd Time Drum Loop Library Some fresh odd meter drums for everyone! Our third Signature Series release, Odd Time Meltdown will definitely get you thinking differently about grooving! If you need some grooves that will push you and your music out of a rhythmic rut, then we […]
Rock Hard Funk: Live Drum Loops and Samples Library for Funk, Funk Rock, and Beyond Beta Monkey Music has released Rock Hard Funk, a two-CD collection of funk and funk-rock drum loops and samples with over a thousand acoustic grooves to inspire any serious “groove intensive” project. Mix the improvisational mentality of jazz, the groove […]
We have been so busy getting new releases done that we haven’t taken time to update the site. We promise to spend more time here to keep everyone up to date. As of October 2005, we now have eleven REX discs to chose from, having just added seven new ones. Pretty much everything will be […]
Drum Werks V Review from Sound on Sound Magazine Sample Libraries: On Test Published July 2005 By Dave Stewart, John Walden & Paul White Software > Sound Library Drum Werks Volume 5 ***** ACID Beta Monkey Music are a US-based company specialising in competitively priced drum loop collections. Their various titles are mostly aimed at […]
Beta Monkey Interview with Macworld Magazine! Look for the September 2005 issue of Macworld to have a nice interview and feature on Beta Monkey. It basically addresses the growing need for quality Apple Loops for GarageBand and how we are supplying the grooves that are sorely lacking in that format. It was great fun and […]
Beta Monkey Reviewed in April ’05 Recording Magazine! Check out what Recording Magazine had to say about our Drum Werks Vol. V: “These drums are all one kit, recorded very cleanly in a damped but not totally dead room. All the emphasis is on getting the sounds down as simply as possible, leaving sweetening […]