GURU's architecture is perfect for anything from straight-up breaks and stomping floor-fillers to complex polyrhythmic, multi-layered grooves. The powerful built-in FX and graphical parameter automation allow you to mutate your beats into new, unheard forms, or create subtle variations. Mash up your sounds with pitch modulation, repeat triggers, start-point and timing manipulation, resonant filters and much more.
Everything from precision funk to disturbing sonic mangling and glitch beatscapes is at your fingertips.
Feature highlights include:
- 8 Engines, each comprising:
- 16 MIDI-triggered Sample Pads.
- Powerful step-sequencer with 24 MIDI-triggered Patterns of up to 128 steps.
- Three Aux effect slots.
- Insert effects slot.
- Comprehensive Sample Pad Editor offering individual control of the following for each Pad:
- Gain, pan, tuning, resonant filtering (blendable between LP/BP/HP), start/end points.
- Amp/FX envelopes.
- 8 layers (with optional velocity split and crossfades).
- Cut groups (choke groups).
- 3 Aux sends and an effect slot.
- Advanced Step Sequencer:
- 128 steps.
- 16 channels.
- 24 Pattern memories per engine.
- Graphical automation.
- MIDI remote control.
- Independent tempo multipliers.
- Real-time recording with undo.
- Flexible groove/shuffle control.
- Automated sample slicing, classification and pad mapping (kick, snare, hat, percussion) with manual slice-tuning capability and optional MIDI score extraction.
- Can load audio loops (WAV/AIFF/REX), MIDI loops, single-hits, complete kits, pattern banks.
- Includes library of over 2GB of sample content, featuring material by Yellow Tools, Wizoo, Gearshift and others.
- Eight stereo outputs, flexible routing.
- On board effects: - Delay, Flanger, Chorus, Reverb, Phaser, Compressor, EQ, Multimode Filter (ENV & LFO), Comb Filter, Bit Crusher, Distortion, Ring Mod, Trance Gate, Freeze, pitched and noise oscillators.
- Built in MIDI mapping allows you to quickly setup GURU to work with your hardware MIDI controller / groove box / drum triggers (Such as Akai MPC/MPD series, Alternate Mode DrumKat, Korg MicroKontrol, M-Audio Trigger Finger etc.).
GURU is available as a stand-alone application, ReWire device, and in VSTi, DXi, AudioUnit and RTAS plug-in formats for Windows 2000/XP and Mac OS X.
GURU is available now direct from FXpansion's online store for US$249 / EU€199 / GB£129 (excluding local taxes where applicable). GURU will also be available in stores in some countries. For details please see FXpansion's distributor listings.
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