Run the following from the command line:
sudo gem install beats
This will download BEATS from rubygems.org and add a beats command to your path.
The current version of BEATS is 1.2.0. If you have an older version, you can update with this:
sudo gem update beats
Not sure what version you have? Run beats -v.
BEATS is not terribly useful unless you have drum sounds to use with it. To get you started, here are 20 high-quality drum sounds sampled from a Casio SA-20 keyboard that the author got when he was 8 years old: casio_sa20_drum_sounds.zip
It’s hosted at GitHub.
Copyright © 2010 Joel Strait
