Producing With Pro Tools

I’m sold. I’m a fan of Transfuser. I took it for a test drive over the past few days. I listened to almost all of the sampled sounds and loops and played with a lot of the buttons and features. Personally, for the music that I’m making now, I don’t know that I’ll use all of the beat cutting tools, but I was digging on everything else.

I think what I liked best was how easy and intuitive it was for me to use. I was playing with it and making music within the first minute of putting it on a stereo instrument track in PT. That said, its also a deep instrument with loads of parameters to play with… many of which I haven’t even tried yet, but I know they’re there if I want them.

As is, the library of sounds in this preview version is pretty small (just over 200MB). But, the full release promises over 2GB of sounds and loops. I like what I’ve heard already, so I can’t wait to hear what else they give us. I think I will probably use this instrument in a LOT of tracks that I produce in the near future.

Here’s a portion of a downtempo track that I came up with using only Transfuser loops and sounds. Enjoy.

Franzfuser MP3

Hi Folks. Digidesign has announced a new virtual instrument that looks totally cool… Transfuser. It’s a “real-time loop, phrase, and groove creation workstation” and looks like an awesome tool for working on electronic, dance, and hiphop music. Digi’s got a free trial download of it with 200MB of sounds available now (the full product will have over 2GB of sounds/loops).

There are a couple of demo videos on Digi’s site… check them out here:

LINK TO TRANSFUSER

From the looks of it, Transfuser might be really easy to integrate into some of the M-audio MIDI instruments, such as the Axiom line, Trigger Finger, and even the Xponent with Torq because of its ability to map effects to knobs and samples to pads. As I’m on vacation at the moment, I have yet to download and play with it, but if any of you do, please feel free to post your comments here to this blog. I’d certainly be curious here what you think. And if you have some suggestions on things to fix, I can pass those along to Digidesign too.