Product Reviews by KVR Members

Beat Scholar completely changed my experience working with drums in my music. Building out drums has admittingly always been a difficult part of my music-making process. In the past, I found making original drums to be extremely difficult with other VSTs. But with Beat Scholar, I've been able to make drum patterns I never thought I could.


The main thing I love is the UI. It's hard to express how much I love working with it. Even if you have no experience working with drum VSTs or know much about music theory, the UI makes creating oriental drum patterns a breeze. It's all just circles with colors that represent different sounds. Also, being able to have full control of each drum sound (pitch, damp, drive, distortion, etc) helps me make my drum beats sound unique to make my specific style of music.

I can't express how much I love this VST. I had high hopes for it because it was made by the same people who made Beat Scholar, but it still blew my expectations out of the water. It's been one of the most helpful tools I've used when I'm hit with writer's block.

Features:

Built-in synth: I love that there are various synth sounds built into the VST that I can play with, but personally, I don't use them and normally just use Vital or some other synth VST to arpeggiate them. But it's nice that they have it as an option.

UI: The UI for swapping and manipulating the Arp is very straightforward. Sometimes I'm happy with the sequence presets, but I normally like to chop them up a bit to try and make something more unique.