FXpansion – Geist – slice tool and sequencer

FXpansion – Geist. to me the best instant slice tool ever, it’s as fast as dragging the loop to it’s „input“, it analyses the sounds and assigns them to the pads, finds out doubled types of drums and stacks them up on one pad for variation – this is really the best and fastest way, even on stage, to handle slices/drumloops – i checked a real complicated jazz loops, no big thing, 2 clicks and it was ready to play ALL sounds cut at the right place.. Sample, slice, sequence,…

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Java saved on OS X – maintainance via Oracle (previously: Sun) – MIDI Editors saved on Macs?

To all, who try to make MIDI and other Editors on and in Java like JSynthLib or the Electribe Organizer may be happier now to hear, that apples announcement to drop development of their Java SDK is given back to the hands of the original company, who will continue to keep it up and fresh on OS X – as they did and do for Windows, Linux etc.. Apple will help them (documentation etc). Hope the MIDI Libs will work flawlessly in the future (with Core MIDI/Audio). non functional editors…

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Korg iMS20 with 16step sequencer + 6 track drums for iPad

Korg iMS-20 Turns Your iPad Into A Vintage Synthesizer » so there is an MS20 now, this time it looks like one, here’s how it sounds – and you don’t have to limit to 12 steps and forced to „reggae“ all your songs, it has a 16step sequencer. the demo sounds more clean compared to the original, but this is just one demo with just one sound. and it doesn’t sound bad at least. can some1 confirm this? 16€ with TR 16step sequencer. nice! at least maybe the one that…

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