


Refining the workflow and functionality established by the preceding iterations, Battery 4 is a deceptively deep, beautifully stratified virtual drum and percussion system that’s an absolute pleasure to work with. Individual Cells can output to any of four group busses or 32 direct outs for collective processing, and send to global reverb and delay effects and a variety of MIDI processors enable tweaking of velocity response, automatic triggering of drum rudiments and other articulations, humanising and more. Each one of up to 128 colourable ‘Cells’ (pads) houses one or more velocity-layered samples, and affords access to a plethora of editing and processing parameters, including timestretching, saturation and vintage sampler emulation, compression, transient shaping, EQ and filtering, tuning, panning and modulation. Export creations as audio clips or load sessions back into the plugin to resample, reslice, remix, rearrange and transform your beats even further.The original ‘serious’ sample-based software drum instrument and still very much one of the best, Battery 4 is our only list entrant that doesn’t include any form of onboard sequencing – it’s all about racking up, processing and mixing samples for MIDI triggering standalone or in-DAW.

Geist runs as a plugin and as a standalone application, perfect for laptop beatmaking. Geist makes fiddly tasks with multiple apps a thing of the past. Browse through sounds with lightning speed, slice and assign loops to pads with a single click sample, resample and build beats in a slick unified environment. Geist fuses creative sample-sculpting tools with fast pattern step-sequencing and arrangement. Geist is FXpansion's next-generation sampling drum machine, designed to create evolved, custom beats and grooves, freeing you from the limits of pre-packaged loops and over-complicated DAWs. Sample, slice, sequence, mix, arrange, effect, resample. Product information**** Activation Serial Code will be emailed to customers within 24 hours of placing their order ****
