Is Beatport about to launch a DAW with Plugin Boutique and Loopmasters?Loopcloud, a music technology company within the Beatport Group, has teased Beatport Studio on its Instagram, touting it as a “new music production experience.” Could it be a new DAW, building on some of the key concepts of the Beatport DJ App? Probably.
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Plugin Boutique, Loopmasters, Loopcloud and Beatport are all part of the Beatport Group and are all named in the teaser video published on Instagram. The brands really haven’t shared much info, but there are a few clues we can extrapolate from their promotional clip.
What is Beatport Studio?
Loopcloud’s video says that Beatport Studio gives you “everything you need to make music”. But what does that mean?

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With a full announcement coming on 2 November 2023, we presume that Beatport Studio is set to be a cloud-based DAW and/or music production suite that will be integrated with Loopmasters and Loopcloud’s sample library. That might mean that, much like current online music-making platforms such as BandLab, Soundtrap and Splice, you’ll be able to import samples and sound packs directly from Loopmasters’ catalogue into a production project while you’re working on it.
Given that it’s set to give you “everything you need” to make music, we can also see a suite of effects, instruments and plugins to be available within the platform. Who better to provide pro-grade plugins than Plugin Boutique, one of the industry’s major plugin retailer sites? Of course, at this stage, we imagine that any plugins available will be PB’s own-brand variety, rather than third-party software like Serum, XLN Audio’s RC-20 or Arturia’s V Collection. So, we’re probably looking at plugins such as Scaler 2 and Carbon Electra, along with some new stock plugins.
In addition, we imagine Beatport Studio is set to be an online affair following the innovations in Beatport’s DJ App Party Mode. Currently, this allows you to perform back-to-back with up to three other DJs (four in total) anywhere in the world, with up to 100 live listeners available to join. The Beatport Group likely want to extract this principle, much like BandLab, and offer some kind of online, real-time collaboration for music making.
Of course, we could also be completely wrong and it’ll just be some new kind of subscription-based plugin service. Let’s hope not.
Beatport Studio is set to be revealed tomorrow (2 November 2023).  
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