Yay! But when chopping beats using the slicer, you can't limit the number of pads used. So many bad design decisions in the thing.įor starters, you now get 64 pads. Sure, they've crammed a lot more features in there, some of them quite useful, but they have screwed up the GUI and the workflow so badly that I find it a real PITA to use. Geist 2 is a huge step down from Geist 1 in terms of design and usability.
I'm still not using the thing in my projects, and I find myself going back to Geist 1 for all my drum sequencing needs.
Naturally, when it was released, I yelled "TAKE MY MONEY" and got the thing installed ASAP. Took part in the threads on the fxpansion forum, soaked up every last snippet of information and preview screenshot until I was almost bursting with excitement.
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But for putting beats and samples together in a drum machine type workflow, no other software beats it.Īnd so like many others I waited for Geist 2 with baited breath. It's not a perfect plugin - small interface, fiddly browser, certain limitations etc. I barely needed to read the manual, although I did anyway (and it's top notch). For years I've been trying to build a Reaper workflow completely away from the mouse and it's finally becoming a reality.I fell in love with Geist 1 almost straight away because of its logical, intuitive workflow. If that makes sense.Īlready the advantages weigh out the disadvantages. Problem is that propagating the new takes also changes the selected take for the other items, messing up sections I might have already chosen take combinations for. You can just cycle takes in each section to form various combinations. Play the overdub till I get it right and then it auto adds the variation as a new take in all instances of the item. So I can overdub loops using the take system without getting overlapping notes each pass like normal overdub. I worked up a cycle action for overdubbing patterns and generating pattern variations by duplicating sections and propagating new takes to other copies of the same item in previous sections. Reaper can only quantize the playback cursor to whole bars, so you would have to multiply your bpm to allow for smooth seeking Regions (like switching scenes Scenes) on beats, for instance. Still can't find a way to delete notes without the mouse though. I can have all of the actions I need right there in a way that is fast and makes sense and I'm able to remember. I use the center row of buttons as "context modifiers." Each one changes the MIDI channel while I hold it, so every pad and transport button can have 8 different functions, depending on which button I hold, just like on Maschine, but even more decked out. After you assign MIDI commands to a plugin, you can store them to reuse by saving an FX Chain instead of just a preset.Įssentially I've used MIDI-Ox to multiply the number of MIDI CC coming out of Maschine by about 8x. With well timed beats, you won't even have to adjust the length that much. Helps to have an action assigned on the keyboard to play from start of time selection, so you can just drag it with the mouse and audition hits. You can also assign knobs on your MIDI controller to the parameters and all you have to do is hit the note on your drumpad/keyboard to switch which sound they modify. So it's a simple process of loading Grace, inserting an audio item into the Arrange view, moving the time selection around and dragging sections out onto the note I want to play it with (need to use mouse modifiers). This way, I can simply drag sections of an item from the timeline using Time Selection onto any of the existing samples to change it (it's a bit more tedious from scratch, wit no samples loaded). I pre-loaded a generic kit of samples into Grace, one for each note on my Maschine. I think it might even have a function to auto split samples into even sections, but I'm not sure. My workflow for chopping samples is this: I first built a preset inside of Grace, which is a more well featured sampler than RSM5k, and you can load all of your samples quickly into one instance of it, instead of one for each key as you would with Reaper's sampler. Hope you don't mind.įirst I wanna suggest using a different sampler.
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That's the Maschine-style workflow I'm currently perfecting at the moment using my actual Maschine as a MIDI controller for Reaper to simulate a Maschine-style workflow but with the advantages of a full blown DAW, such as recording multiple takes etc. Sorry for the length, I realized after typing the second half of this, that I had not actually read the OP and was assuming from the subject that you wanted a quick way to sketch out songs as in Maschine, by duplicating and altering patterns and then flipping between organized scenes (like I do).
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