FXPANSION GEIST 2 PROBLEMS PRO
Think SH101, OB1 or Pro One - your classic single‑oscillator monophonic synths. Strobe is the simplest of the three DCAM instruments. The central display screen gives live feedback on the status of waveforms, LFOs, filter and more. StrobeĬypher: the yellow areas represent the modulation amounts displayed for TransMod slot six. (FXpansion have elected to call their modulation system 'TransMod', and details of how it works can be found in the 'Mod Squad' box.) Let's kick off with a broad overview of each DCAM synth. Extensive modulation facilities are the order of the day in all cases. The synths are engineered to offer greater flexibility than the models that originally inspired them, whilst maintaining a consistency of design and operation across the whole suite. The three DCAM instruments are each designed to model different types of analogue synth, and although FXpansion say no specific models are represented, certain influences are fairly clear, especially in Strobe and Amber. However, since none of the synths have their own built‑in effects such as reverb or delay (Fusor provides these and many more, as will be explained in a moment), you would need to apply effects via plug-ins of your own. Each of the three synths can also be run as individual plug‑in instruments without having to be hosted within Fusor, if you wish.
FXPANSION GEIST 2 PROBLEMS SOFTWARE
If you think along the lines of Korg's Legacy software environment, which hosts a combination of their virtual Wavestation, Polysix and MS20 synths, you'll get some idea of how the three DCAM synths relate to Fusor. Fusor acts as a semi‑modular 'host environment' for the three synths, allowing them to be combined as a complete performance instrument, with its own suite of effects, key mappings, arpeggiators, step sequencer and more. The DCAM (Discrete Component Analogue Modelling) package comprises not one, but three different synth instruments, called Strobe, Cypher and Amber, and a fourth component, Fusor. Widely known for their acclaimed BFD sampled drum software, FXpansion bring us DCAM Synth Squad, their first commercial virtual synth product. Strobe: the simplest of the DCAM synths, but possessing more power under its hood than its single‑oscillator structure would suggest. FXpansion's first foray into the soft-synth world yields some unexpected but welcome results.