fxpansion GURU

If you're looking for a truly killer software drum machine, fxpansion's GURU is your beatbox dream-come-true. Fxpansion has taken their experience with BFD and DR-008 and focused it on giving fxpansion GURU the kind of speedy programmability often found in hardware drum machines yet so often missing in the software world. Suitable for all dance, urban and electronic styles, fxpansion GURU puts advanced step sequencing, groove manipulation, sample editing, and beat slicing, in an inspirational, all-in-one workstation. Based on an enlightened approach to drum loop creation, fxpansion GURU makes building that perfect beat faster and easier than ever!

fxpansion GURU at a Glance:

• Drum sequencing, sampling and live performance capabilities.
• Built-in effects, time-stretch, and automation.
• Intelligent loop slicer.
• Complete sample workstation environment.
• Easy to use.
• Works in standalone, ReWire, and has extensive plug-in format and audio file support.
• Loop library player.
• Comes with 2GB of content.

fxpansion GURU - Fast, Musical Tool
Fxpansion GURU is the one for you if you're working with dance, urban or electronic styles of music, and want a tool that's fast, musical and has excellent sequencing and live jamming capabilities. Its sampling capabilities are broadly equivalent to those of DR-008, but it's the onboard sequencer that really takes it to the next level - fxpansion set out to make the best tool possible for building beats.

Fxpansion GURU is a drum sampler, and its voice architecture and kit browsing capabilites are equivalent to the best available. Whilst it has 128 multisample slots in total, these are allocated across the eight engines - unlike conventional drum samplers which offer 40+ on a single page.

fxpansion GURU - Create Complex Polyrhythmic, Multi-layered Grooves
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.

fxpansion GURU - Intelligent Loop Slicer
Breathe new life into your loops with GURU's unique intelligent loop slicer, which categorizes slices as kick, snare, hihat or percussion hits, and assigns them to the right pads! Fxpansion GURU lets you use any audio material effortlessly and in the context of your pattern, or extract individual hits and the timing feel from loops. The extensive editing and processing tools then allow you to tweak samples and slice points, or layer more sounds.

fxpansion GURU - Hands-on Feel
fxpansion GURU gives you back the hands-on feel which you crave... Record performances with the mouse or a MIDI controller, fire off sequences with a MIDI key, layer multiple engines, drop parts in and out and switch grooves on the fly. GURU is a complete sample workstation environment, ideally suited for live use or for intuitive composition in the studio.

fxpansion GURU - No Computer Science Degree Needed
fxpansion GURU is easy enough for almost anyone to grasp in minutes - Computer Science degree not required - yet powerful enough that few will feel limited or unsatisfied. fxpansion GURU is for those who want the convenience of loops without the inflexibility.

fxpansion GURU - What Plug-in Formats does GURU Come In?
fxpansion GURU comes as standalone, Audio Units, VST, RTAS, DXi and as a ReWire device. It's compatible with all major sound cards and host applications. fxpansion GURU can read WAV, AIFF, REX, and MIDI files (type 0 or 1, BFD or GM mapping).

fxpansion GURU - Loop Library Player
fxpansion GURU is a loop library player, it comes with a huge library of excellent-quality, ready-to-use audio loops covering a huge amount of musical ground, and a fast, integrated browser to give you quick and convenient access to the factory library and any other loops you might have; its system of Engines allows you to quickly build your own compositions by layering parts together. But there's more:- the intelligent hit-classification system means that you can, with just a couple of clicks, extract the sounds from one loop and apply them to the score of another, with the timing feel of a third. Plus, the matrix-based editing system makes it just as easy to customize imported loops and make them your own, without ever leaving the speed, convenience and cross-host compatibility of the fxpansion GURU environment.

fxpansion GURU - 2 Gigabyte Sample Library
Fxpansion GURU comes with over 2 Gigabytes of ready-to-use content -- drum kits, audio loops and pattern banks covering a wide variety of musical styles. GURU's content has been developed by some of the best in the business:- 8 Bit Audio, Gearshift, G-Force, Groove Criminals, Nu Skool Breakz, Q Up Arts, Set Creative, Wizoo, Yellow Tools. Fxpansion GURU also comes with a printed reference manual, and extensive tutorial videos will be made available.

fxpansion GURU Features:

• Advanced Step Sequencer - 128 steps, 16 channels, 24 memories per engine, full graphical automation, MIDI remote control, independent tempo multipliers, real-time and step recording with undo.
• Automated sample slicing, classification and pad mapping (kick, snare, hat, percussion) with manual slice-tuning capability.
• Can load audio loops (WAV/AIFF/REX), MIDI loops, single-hits, complete kits, pattern banks.
• 8 Engines, each comprising 16 MIDI-triggered sample pads, powerful step-sequencer with up to 128 steps, 24 MIDI-triggered patterns, three Aux effects units, and master effects unit.
• Intuitive mixer view offering a convenient overview of all 8 engines.
• Flexible groove/shuffle control for patterns - take the groove of one MIDI file and apply it in real-time to another.
• Comprehensive Pad Editor offering individual control of the following for each pad; gain, pan, coarse/fine tune - resonant filter blend between LP/BP/HP - 3 Aux sends and an insert effect slot - Start/end point adjust - Amp/FX envelope - 8 velocity cross-fade layers - Cut groups (choke groups).
• Includes library of over 2GB of professional sample content, featuring material by Yellow Tools, Wizoo, Gearshift and others.
• Eight stereo outputs, flexible routing.
• Built in midi mapping allows you to quickly setup GURU to work with your hardware groove box / drum triggers.
• Stand-alone application, ReWire device, and VST, DXi, AudioUnit, RTAS plug-in formats, available for Windows 2000/XP and Mac OS X.