Category:	Music
Price:	Free
Popularity:	Low
Version String:	3.1.7 (9379)
Release Date:	2024-01-10
Architecture:	Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS:	macOS 10.11
Vendor Name:	Roland Corporation
Homepage:	www.roland.com

Description:

Music Creation App


Find Your Creative Flow

Roland Zenbeats is a music creation app that keeps you in an effortless artistic flow. Get started on any device or platform. With its collection of both modern and legendary sounds, Zenbeats brings Roland’s history of innovation into a new, accessible format.


Music Shouldn’t Feel Like Work—It Should Feel Like Play

Whether you’re an emerging musician or an established producer, Zenbeats makes music creation easy. Make beats, take lessons, and sample the world around you. Wherever you are, no matter what platform or device you use, capture your creative spark with Zenbeats.


The Next Generation of Sound

ZC1 is a new plug-in synthesizer using Roland’s ZEN-Core Synthesis System. Available in Zenbeats as a free instrument, ZC1 has 60 presets and a sleek touch-based interface. Use the XY pad for Resonance and Cutoff or other parameters. Plus, unlock ZC1 to share sounds with ZENOLOGY and ZEN-Core-compatible hardware and get around 900 additional preset tones and 90 built-in MFX effects. These sounds cover a wide range from acoustic and electronic to ethnic instruments.

*ZC1 is compatible with devices running 64-bit processors and operating systems.


Finish Music Faster with VERSELAB and Zenbeats

With Zenbeats, you can now connect Roland VERSELAB to your computer, tablet, or smartphone for quick and easy song production. Using hardware and software integration, enhance your workflow with full touch capabilities on mobile, graphical organization of VERSELAB clips and sections, easy tone editing, full mixing capabilities, mastering FX editing, and stem export support to any DAW right inside of Zenbeats.


Fresh Sounds—Fresh Ideas

The Zenbeats Store is packed with sounds, loops, and creative tools to expand your musical palette. Pick up hip-hop packs like “Trill and Chill” and “Crunch Boom.” Explore “Ambient Dreamscaper,” “Pathways,” and other electronic collections. Whatever mood you’re after, the choices are there. Sort by genre or dial in a hyper-specific style to find your sound.


Manage the Magic in the Cloud

With Zenbeats, your sound is always with you thanks to cloud-based integrations like Google Drive and OneDrive. No matter when inspiration strikes, capture your latest ideas. Start to collaborate with partners.

Streamline your creative process by loading song templates from a single dashboard interface. With Zenbeats, you can open, search, rename, and even add personalized art to your songs. Save your work to Google Drive and OneDrive via smooth stem and loop exporting for other DAWs. When the time is right, show your work off online via SoundCloud.


Beginner’s Mind Meets Professional Power

If you’re new to producing or beat-making, you’ll love the intuitive workflow features like beat-sync and key-lock. They let you quickly capture ideas, regardless of skill level. And the in-app lessons help you hit the ground running and steadily gain confidence.

If you’re experienced in music production, you’ll appreciate the multi-platform plugin support and professional tools like SampleVerse, Loopbuilder, ZC1, and more. There’s even a mixer view featuring a master channel with global options to view your track's volume, effects and sends.


Touch the Future

Roland Zenbeats’ elegant interface places you in a tactile music-making zone. Optimized for touch, Zenbeats arrives pre-loaded with on-screen controllers, instruments, and effects. Tap, swipe, modulate, and pitch bend sounds using gestures with on-screen instruments including drum pads, keys, and ultra-flexible note grid.


Sample the Universe

SampleVerse is a powerful tool to play, edit, and capture sounds from your world, including acoustic instruments and live vocals. With its phrase arpeggiator, multiple oscillators, note expression (MPE), and extensive filters, SampleVerse makes musical possibilities infinite.


Pure Polyphony

With MIDI Polyphonic Expression, Zenbeats gives you detailed control of each note’s parameters. MPE, paired with the intuitive touchscreen interface, makes working in Zenbeats a uniquely expressive experience. Users can now build and edit patterns faster than ever with note editing tools such as step input, note divide, and an enhanced MIDI inspector.


Beatmaking Bliss

Roland Zenbeats provides access to extensive beatmaking tools and comes stocked with a collection of kits and pattern presets. Craft powerful rhythms with classic Roland sounds, studio kits, and grooves. Audition and sequence drum sounds, then swipe from left to right to create fills, double-time hits, and ratchet effects. Adjust your pattern’s length and time signatures to create highly unique grooves.