Dallas Austin's Got That Beat Thang (PHOTOS)

How heavy is the device? It looks big!

It's pretty heavy. It looks light, but it's heavy. We didn’t want to make it huge. We wanted to keep it fresh and portable. I’m spoiled, I walk around with it all the time. 

Beat Thang looks like it was pulled from Star Trek!

I’m a space head so when we were making it, I was thinking about Tron.

What artist did you make tracks for using Beat Thang?

I made tracks for Chris Brown, Gaga, Leona [Lewis]. The Gaga record is probably the best registration of it.

Talk about the price point. $1500 is a little expensive.

It’s a limited edition and I didn’t want to devalue it. One of the things about the machine is that you have sounds by producers. We have sound packages because it's high quality. This is not a toy, this is 4x more powerful than MPC-60. The real secret to production is the sound. There are so many secrets to this box.