Facts

Developer:
SNAKE Productions

Location:
Amsterdam, Holland

Release Dates:
MSI VR Jam version
December 15, 2016
Steam Early Access
June 30, 2017

Press / Business contact:
hello@blockrockingbeats.com

Website:
blockrockingbeats.com

Social Media:
https://twitter.com/blockrbeats
https://www.facebook.com/blockrockingbeatsvr/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/

Updates

• Freestyle mode moved to 3D space
• Multiplayer voice chat
• Shape sound by moving VR controllers
• Each controller represents an oscillator which you can configure
• Horizontal distance between controllers determines note
• Rotation left controller determines resonance effect
• Rotation right controller determines cutoff effect
• Vertical distance between controllers determines LFO
• Configure Oscillator type (Sine, Square, Sawtooth, Triangle) per controller
• Adjust base octave per controller
• Adjust note offset per controller
• Overall performance optimization
• Increased intensity audio reactive visualizers

Features

• Platform independent: Oculus Touch, HTC Vive
• Multiplayer, up to 3 players
• 3 sample based instruments, updated monthly
• Samples royalty free
• 1 freestyle instrument with real-time audio synthesis
• Interactive VJ mode with audio reactive visualizer
• Voice chat
• Timeline for building your track
• Tutorial mode with B-Rock, your personal assistant
• Live streaming on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch
• Save locally or in the cloud (coming soon)
• Share tracks via cloud platform (coming soon)
• 360 streaming on Facebook (coming soon)
• Mobile version (coming soon)
• Language: English (Chinese, Spanish, Japanese coming soon)

Company

SNAKE Productions is a creative digital agency hailing from Amsterdam, Holland. We love creating virtual and augmented reality applications and taking care of the creative production of awesome virtual experiences at real life events.

All of our team members share a passion for creating electronic music. Already some 25 years ago we did exactly that, using tools like Fasttracker 2, Cubase, Rebirth, Reason and Ableton Live.

In 2014, we created Soundscape for Samsung Gear VR. This was rewarded with the Silver Price in the Oculus Mobile VR Jam. With our learnings in mind we created Block Rocking Beats for current VR systems, which was rewarded with the first prize in the MSI VR Jam.

While technology continues to develop at breakneck speed, we keep up with state of the art technology to develop applications that fit our common goal: connect people in virtual worlds and enable them to enjoy making music together in a seriously playful way.

We also do other stuff. Check out other VR applications of SNAKE Productions, which include Soundscape, Hoverboard VR, Tennis VR, ICK Uitmarkt, Dawn: Redemption and Life in 360: A Tribute to Ludovico Einaudi.

Video

Steam Early Access Trailer

Images

Logo

Awards

Block Rocking Beats
First Price – MSI VR Jam, December 2016

Soundscape
Finalist – Leap Motion 3D Jam - Jan 2015
Silver Price – Oculus Mobile VR Jam – May 2015
Nominee – Best Music Experience - Proto Awards – Oct 2016

50 Years Of Paradiso
Third Price – VRBASE AR Content Jam – April 2017

Press

Here’s what others have to say about us

"Now You Can Make Beats in Virtual Reality" - The Creators Project
"CGI Robots Dance on an Alien Planet in a 360 Video" - The Creators Project
"Enter a Futuristic Utopia in D∆WN’s New 360 Video" - The Creators Project
"Winners of MSI’s Global VR Jam" - Upload VR
"What building a hoverboard in VR looks like" - VR Scout
"New Soundscape VR Update" - Road To VR
"IndieCade announces Top 20 Semi-Finalists" - Road To VR
"Music Production VR Experience" - Future music industry

Team

Sander Sneek
Creator

Jochem de Klerk
3D / UI Design

John Doe
Audio Design