into my studio one by one. Not this time. Nevertheless, those five minutes were enough for me to realise that Geist could easily be every producer's wet dream. The whole universe of the time So, let's explore what we get that we haven't had or haven't seen before. Biggest news is a new stretching algorithm which allows you to choose the way the loop will be recognized, one slice per one note or slices arranged by frequency range. This way or another, now it really works. Changing, adding or moving the slice points is as easy as can be, same for rearranging your loops. I used to spend too much time extracting things out of loops or extracting just a hi-hat pattern, but now all I need to
do is to copy a loop into another pattern and than just to erase kicks in a piano roll like window substituting it with included hats. Before you could say: "Kick, snare and hat" I've got three versions of the chosen loop. One with kick pattern, second with snare and third with hats. Second big news is the Sampler. Now you can record external audio sounds on the fly, arranging it to the various pads. A nice playground for doing loops from all of your misbehaving moments in a Bart Simpson style. Also you can rerecord internal sounds, a cool solution for saving already processed or newly arranged loops or sounds. Third
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really welcome news, is a redesigned browser which is now much bigger and much more user friendly with plenty of new additions, for example, a row for saving the shortcuts for your favorite directories. There is also a new scene and song mode, the latter is some sort of internal sequencer window where you can record all combinations of the patterns, loops or midi in various engines which are triggered through the so called scene mode. That is aimed mainly for live situations, but it could be pretty handy if you want to make a complete background for a song inside Geist.
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