#FXPANSION GEIST 2 REVIEW GENERATOR#
#FXPANSION GEIST 2 REVIEW SOFTWARE#

To further shape the sounds you get pre- and post-drive with various modes, a multi-mode filter featuring clean and fat models with various response modes, (G)LFO’s with sync options, S+H, three envelopes, and a comprehensive modulation system named “TransMod”.

The sub osc control with three octaves is also available from the mixer panel.

#FXPANSION GEIST 2 REVIEW GENERATOR#

The details of what exactly goes on in this section gets a bit technical but basically you get the drumskin vibration emulation in “Membrane” mode, while the “Harmonics” mode resembles a regular synth.Ī bandpass filtered white noise generator can be mixed with the oscillator to create snare, hihat, and clap type sounds, or sound fx type things like noise sweeps. The Harmonics section has only four knobs and a single switch for controlling the oscillator partials, but much of what sound you will end up with is determined here. The specialized oscillator in each module has controls for pitch (and fine), shape to morph the osc waveshape from saw to square to triangle, PWM which sets the pulsewidth for the square waveshape, FM for pitch modulation with speeds up to 1024 Hz (allowing audio rate modulation), and a sync control for adding harmonics by increasing the oscillator frequency while syncing it to the sub oscillator. Sporting a total of 8 individual – and identical – synthesizer modules, Tremor allows you to build your drum kits within a single instance. Deep, intuitive TransMod modulation system.Filtering and drive with multiple responses.Specialised oscillator with drumskin vibration partials.Lovely workflow and ditto looks!Īs the above screenshot hints, Tremor is a full-featured drum synthesizer instrument. Tremor’s main screen with the step sequencer in the top part, mixer slots and the synth fx panel for the selected synth module in the bottom. Who knows, in the future FXpansion might combine the two into something new or provide some add-on type thing, but for now these are totally separate products. FXpansion’s drum sampler instrument Geist (the successor to Guru) already covers this base. Just to make sure we’re on the same page, Tremor is all about drum synthesis. Tremor’s dance drums, funky beatscapes, abstract machines and undiscovered sonic terrain are suited to all kinds of electronic, urban and experimental music. DCAM circuit-modelled sound generation is fused with new ideas to produce original sounds with the punch and extreme sound pressure of old-school analogue.

#FXPANSION GEIST 2 REVIEW SOFTWARE#

Tremor is a software drum machine with powerful synthesis, effects, modulation and step-sequencing. Much in the same way, Tremor takes drum synthesis to a new level. The modelling of individual circuit components enabled FXpansion to put some of that vintage analog flavor in its digital products. As someone who prefers to work “inside the box” I was pleased to see FXpansion introduce its DCAM: Discrete Component Analogue Modelling sound generation technology with the release of Synth Squad.

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