Digidesign Transfuser News: Transfuser is a brand new RTAS virtual instrument plug-in for Pro Tools from the Digidesign Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group.
Attend a FREE Digidesign Workshop at Digital Village and you could WIN a copy!
Transfuser Summer Tour hits Digital Village
Digidesign are on the road this month, visiting Digital Village stores exclusively to present the brand new ultimate groove creator for Pro Tools, Transfuser.
Register for your FREE Transfuser Session by e-mailing the store directly with with time slot you would prefer. The store manager will reply with confirmation of your place. Each session lasts 1 hour and there will be plenty of time after each session to ask questions and have a cold beer (or non-alcoholic beverage).
Adrian Hogg from Digidesign will be in store to demonstrate the power of Transfuser and answer any other questions you may have about the latest version of Pro Tools 7.4 which is now supported on Leopard. With fantastic reviews already received from members of the professional music industry, including Armand Van Helden, Junior Sanchez and The Crystal Method, Transfuser firmly places Pro Tools at the centre of your music creation studio.
Win a copy of Digidesign Transfuser
At the end of each day, an attendee's name will be randomly selected and we will suppply a full version of Digidesign Transfuser. All you have to do to enter is attend a session!
What is Digidesign Transfuser?
Transfuser is an innovative, real-time loop, phrase, and groove creation workstation that allows you to quickly and easily create, manipulate, and perform loop and rhythm based music on the fly.
Ideal for electronic, hip-hop, and dance music production, remixing, and anyone working with loops, Transfuser comes packed with a variety of loops and phrases to get you started creating right away. It also offers a great way to quickly and easily modify your existing loop libraries to breathe new life into your creations.
Drum loops, for example, can be loaded into Transfuser, where ‘musically intelligent’ variations can be created on the fly, thanks to MARIO, its built-in Musical Advanced Random Intelligence Operation. Pro Tools regions can be dragged and dropped into the Transfuser GUI, as can files from a Mac or PC’s browser.
A preview version of Transfuser is available for free download. It’s time-limited to three months and, although it’s not the final build of the plug-in, it will come with 200MB of audio content (the full release version will come with around 2GB of loops). As with Digidesign’s other virtual instruments, you’ll need an iLok, and it’ll work with Pro Tools HD, LE and M-Powered.
As you can see from the screen shot of the comprehensive GUI, Transfuser can process a number of loops (inside ‘tracks’) simultaneously. These are displayed at the top of the main window, while the bottom section gives focussed information on the selected module.
Each track has four main modules: Sequencer, Synth, Efx and Mix, which determine the processes applied to each loop. The Sequencer module can be set to operate in Drum, Slice or Phrase mode, with play and stop buttons and a groove control available in all three. The Sequencer modules control the Synth modules, which are available in Slicer, Phrase, Drums and Input flavours. Each of these features its own parameters, which can be assigned to hardware controllers, allowing for precise automation and live tweaking.
Slicer mode chops the imported loop at the transients, allowing individual drum hits to be detected for further processing. Phrase mode analyses the chosen loop and maps it to the tempo of the project, while Drums mode gives the user 12 sample pads, to which samples can be allocated. The Input mode is used to route audio from a Pro Tools track, or live audio input such as a microphone or turntable directly into Transfuser.
Digidesign say that instrument is ideal for dance and hip-hop producers and remixers, thanks to its focus on groove processing. But there’s no reason for it not to be used on other genres. It has real-time sequenced effects and features the ability to tag and slice files in real time, so users can trigger, re-trigger and loop rhythmic guitar parts, keyboard loops and vocals, for example.
Buy your full version of Digidesign Transfuser from Digital Village online, in-store or via telephone mail-order.
