Strings at the ready, the Studio Essentials Update, OFFBEAT’s first major Early Access update, is OUT NOW! To celebrate, we’ve released a new music video for ‘Pepperoni Pizzicato’, composed entirely in OFFBEAT. Please stand, if you’re able, for the national anthem and watch it below:
Now, onto the update: It's a doozy, we've added strings, reverb, EQ, effect buses, 11 peculiar new jobs and somewhere to hide all the stuff cluttering up your desk. Most importantly, you can now express your deepest sorrows using the World’s Tiniest Violin. 🎻 make a sad song, add some reverb and If it all gets too much, that’s okay, just take everything and hide it in a box under your desk! Just like real life!
Full feature list:
Three new musical objects!
Meet the latest additions to your increasingly unconventional studio:
The World’s Tiniest Violin - Add strings to your songs and upgrade the violin to unlock an even wider range of sounds.
Reverb Pedal - Add space, atmosphere and cavernous echoes to your creations.
EQ - Shape your sound by boosting, cutting and balancing different frequencies.
Together, these new tools give you even more ways to add depth and character to your tracks.
Eleven new jobs!
Your clients have returned with another collection of completely reasonable musical requests.
Take on 11 new jobs, including:
Cave People Techno
The Museum of Orbs
A Self-Hypnosis Tape
Complete briefs, earn money and continue transforming your tiny studio into an increasingly elaborate musical contraption.
Desk inventory!
Is your workspace becoming a little difficult to navigate?
You can now keep musical objects and equipment in a handy box underneath your desk. Store the things you aren’t currently using, tidy up your workspace and retrieve them whenever inspiration strikes.
Effect buses!
Send audio from multiple sources into the same effect chain to create more experimental mixes.
Effect buses open up new possibilities for processing several instruments together and for making your studio even more unnecessarily complicated.
Song editing improvements!
We’ve added new options to the custom song editor, making it simpler to add repeats and create variations of different sections.
Building longer and more elaborate arrangements should now be much easier.
Dorian mode!
Unlock the strange and beautiful Dorian mode and introduce some new musical flavours to your compositions.
Notebook updates!
New notebook entries will teach you about:
Effect buses
Reverb techniques
A little bit of music theory
Very educational. Probably.
The Studio Essentials Update also includes a collection of fixes and improvements to make life behind the desk a little smoother. Tiny desk - we're coming for you.
As always, every track you create in OFFBEAT can be exported as a .wav file and shared however you like, including commercially. The music you make belongs to you.
Thank you to everyone who has played OFFBEAT, shared their creations and sent us feedback since the Early Access launch. This is the first of several major updates planned for the game, and we can’t wait to hear what you make with all the new toys.
Now please play the world’s tiniest violin for us. 🎻