These days you don’t have to sit behind an acoustic drum kit to play acoustic drums. I know, I know… I’ve been a skeptic of “virtual drums” for a long time but it is truly amazing how far the technology has come to blur the lines between electronic drum pads Read more...
Alto Music NYC will be hosting a free, highly informative seminar dedicated to exploring Geist, the next-generation sampling instrument from FXpansion.
According to Shane Koss of Alto Music NYC, “Already Geist has radically changed my workflow and brings the best of a MPC, Live, and a whole bunch of other Read more...
Flatiron District, Manhattan: Driving into the city with my writing partner Erik, speeding through tons of traffic, I first laid my hands on Geist, the new drum machine sampler by FXpansion.
Sitting in the passenger seat, I loaded Geist onto my MacBook Pro and started playing with every single Read more...
Geist is FXpansion’s new sampling drum machine designed “to create evolved, custom beats and grooves, freeing you from the limits of pre-packaged loops and over-complicated DAWs.” FXpansion defines Geist as “a complete, integrated rhythm production sandbox for the studio, the tour bus or the stage.”
Geist fuses creative sample-sculpting tools Read more...
