Has a step sequencer, not really a song arranger thoughlayering in it will be pretty dope for sure, has some other cool stuff too, realtime quantize is nice, so instead of quantizing as you record and waiting to hear it back, you will hear your quantized music in time, realtime, could be useful for building complex grooves in realtime since you'll hear the quantize happening immediatelysample chopping, sample auto pitch across the pads, etcwill be a good tool for t hose that need it in their dawBUT.it's not Maschine though it doesn't aim to be. Click to expand.no, it's not real time, it's normal quantize that will put your stuff on the grid as you play it, you will hear it on the next time the pattern loopspulse is sorta like a 'gate' where the notes only sound according to the quantize, so you hear it exactly as it will be quantized as you play it, meaning you can't have any overlapping notes or notes off the grid when you have the real time quantize turned on, it's a lil different than normal quantize, good for live creationit's not that big of a deal but some may like it, so I thought it was a cool feature. Let me remind you that the Sonivox Playa, Sampla, and presummably the Pulse have a feature that neither BPM, Maschine, or GURU have that I had requested for years. The ability to map any keys from your keyboard samples to any pads, and the ability to select a chord of keys and assign that chord to one pad.This is particularly cool for cases when you get those sample libraries that have the whole keyboard mapped with samples, only to realize that they put all of the kicks back to back, followed by the snares back to back, hats, etc. Making it impossible to drum out from a keyboard in realtime. By being able to map and pick/choose which keys from the keyboard are assigned to which pads, AND I MIGHT ADD, being able to select multiple (layer) samples from that keymapping to one single pad is HUGE!
Think about those organ and chord samples you can drop down now!This combined with the Maschine controller is deadly. I personally use GURU 70%, Maschine 30% now, but will probably go 33% across the board after adding Pulse.I may be get BPM eventually to rip out the sounds and use them in GURU, Maschine, or Pulse too.
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