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Speaking of the Slicer, while it's not seen much change beyond a UI redesign, it's worth noting that it can, of course, distribute its slices across four times as many pads now, making those enormous sliced kits much easier to play and sequence than before.īy far the most significant addition to the Pattern Sequencer is the same independent pattern lane length adjustment that we dug so much in FXpansion's Tremor drum machine. Indeed, it's actually gained a choice of Assign modes for capturing each take to the next Layer, Pad or both, or sending it to the Slicer, which makes the process of on-the-fly kit creation faster and more fun than ever. More importantly, the Sampler has been greatly reduced in size and prominence from its previous dedicated panel to a pop-out extension of the pad section, with no loss in functionality. The Engine and Global Mixers are now unified, and the previously oversized pattern keys section has been shrunk and moved to the top of the Pattern panel, for example. It's wonderfully liberating and a vast improvement over the previous setup, but we're surprised there's no option to save workspaces for instant recall - big pads for performance, fullscreen sequencer for sequencing, huge mixer for mixing, and so on.Ī few specific elements have been sensibly relocated, too. Not only is the whole window now freely resizable with no effect on graphical fidelity, but every panel within it can also be stretched vertically and horizontally (to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the individual pane), with pads reshaping to fit, scrollbars appearing as required, and multiple automation lanes now viewable for each pad in the Sequencer. While the latter hasn't been lessened (nor should it be!) for Geist2, the GUI has been utterly transformed by the transition to vector graphics and Retina/HiDPI compatibility, and the introduction of a muted, more contemporary new look. The original Geist could be undeniably fiddly at times, due to the awkward disconnect between its inflexible interface and the multi-layered complexity of its architecture. Patterns can be arranged into Scenes, and strung together as arrangements manually or in real time, making Geist2 a full-on production environment in its own right - albeit one that still can't host other plugins. Guru was the biggest waste of money ever for me.Sequencing of pads is done using a familiar pattern sequencer that stores up to 24 patterns of 1024 steps each and features automation lanes for Volume, Pan, tuning, timing Shift, effects sends and much more. So like simpler in ableton but with all of battery's effects like stretching, looping etc. I just wish they'd release a version of battery that was just one cell. I personally think battery is too complex. or make some of the buttons more than a couple pix wide Oh also I hope they make guru's user interface a little bigger. Maybe do the same for Ableton drum rack.hrmmmm Lol I sometimes use fruity loops in Rewire, just for drums. I use logic with Battery and miss my ableton days sometimes.ĭrum rack is awesome but for alternatives recent Xfer Records Nerve VSTi prolly times better than GURU/Battery/Drum Rack combined but if geist has some good onboard effects, i might use it along with its sequencer to quickly come up with an effected or obscure drum loop and then bounce it down to a file. I think they have such a good idea but they just try to pack too much in. Also, if I wanted to pattern edit I'd use FL studio or my drum machine. I want to sequence, mix and effect my drums in my daw, so all that extra crap just gets in the way. I wish they would just do something simple like battery. They better have a update/crossover price from the original guru! See Angus' post in the following GURU 2 thread:
FXPANSION GEIST 2 FUSION DRUMS ARCHIVE
TranceAddict Forums Archive > DJing / Production / Promotion > Production StudioĬould this be the long-awaited Guru successor?ĮDIT: Well, it looks like Geist is indeed the long-awaited GURU 2. FXpansion Geist (GURU 2) - Teaser Video - TranceAddict Forums - Production Studio