FXPansion has released this teaser video for “something special”, Geist.
There’s a lot of speculation that it could be a sequel to Guru, FXPansion’s MPC-style beatmaking workstation. Others think it may be a hardware controller for Guru, to compete with NI’s Maschine.
At this point, though, FXPansion isn’t spilling the beans.
“Geist” is a German word, meaning, roughly, “spirit-mind” – as in zeitgeist (the spirit of the times).
Can you guess what Geist is?
You can let us know with the poll above – or leave a comment with your thoughts below.
It's seems to me like a promo of a new hardware/software controller like Maschine. If is that, it sounds interesting, time will tell.
Hardware strikes me as out of fxpansion's reach… I imagine developing hardware is incredibly expensive, and doubt they have the clout to go head-to-head with Maschine.
Given the logo looks like Guru's, but with two razor-edges, I would imagine it's a Guru update.
…which, I might add, had me yawning. Not that I didn't like Guru back in the day, but… well… [shrug]
…Personally, I would much (!!!) rather see a really solid software alternative to MachineDrum, with remarkable drum synthesis, classy effects, and the ability to drop VSTs into its slots and trigger them from the drum-sequencer. (I assume this would take a company who's already developed and licensed a host application, so that limits the suspects.)
MachineDrum strikes me as one of the most worthwhile pieces of hardware out there. …coming from a software guy, there's nothing out there to match it other than using a bunch of synths to model individual parts (I use Massive, FM8, mainly)… which is kind of a pain.
(Errr… I should add that I own, use and love uTonic, too… but it's no MD.)
Maybe Geist is software . . . but there will be a hardware controller named Zeit . . . !!! 🙂
Geist is something that I can wait to find out about, and don't need to waste my time playing guessing games over. It is almost also somethg I don't want or need.
Geist is something that I can wait to find out about, and don't need to waste my time playing guessing games over. It is almost certainly also something I don't want or need.
Geist Revealed!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&ob…
Oh, you were meant to watch the video before taking the poll? 😉
I stated that geist is basically a German word for Ghost 🙂
Looks like it could be pretty cool 🙂