Pulsonix has updated BeatForge, the drum machine, step sequencer and REX loop player plugin, to version 4.1.5.
The headline change is a reworked antialiasing approach for the 31 circuit-modeled drum synths. Instead of running every engine through blanket 8× oversampling, each engine was measured individually with an offline FFT analysis harness and now uses exactly the antialiasing it needs: most engines run at 1× with source-level techniques, while a few that genuinely require oversampling keep it (FM kick and snare at 4×, Reese bass and the tanh-based lead engines at 2×). Distortion modes now use first-order ADAA with 4× oversampling. The measured result: alias floors around −90 dB through the mids, matching or beating the previous approach — at noticeably lower CPU, with the biggest gains on older machines.
Beyond the drum synths, BeatForge doubles as a REX remixing environment: it plays .rx2 files natively (via the official Reason Studios SDK) and treats every slice as a fully editable voice. Slices take per-slice parameter locks — pitch, filter, envelope, drive locked to individual hits — can be tagged into color-coded link groups for editing whole hit types at once, and can each be routed to their own plugin output. In practice that means taking one REX loop, sending its kicks, snares and hats to separate DAW channels, and remixing a twenty-year-old loop with modern processing per element. The built-in slicer does the same for WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 and OGG — and with ReCycle recently made free by Reason Studios, creating and playing REX files is now a complete workflow for the price of BeatForge alone.
Also new in 4.1.5:
- Tracks can be reordered by dragging, with auto-scrolling at the edges.
- A sequencer on/off button per track, for driving BeatForge purely from DAW MIDI.
- MIDI export improvement.
Pricing & Availability
Version 4.1.5 is a free update for all owners, as always. BeatForge started life in 2025 as a simple €10 sample player and has grown weekly since — developed by a solo developer, largely from user requests.
BeatForge is available for macOS and Windows (VST3/AU/Standalone) for €25, with an unrestricted 14-day trial.
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