new software drum machine: fxpansion tremor

[methodamericon]

Could be good....

http://m.musicradar.com/news/tech/namm- ... ced-522680

Thoughts?

[tone61]

> thoughts?

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=335751

[noland]

FXpansions Guru/Geist Sequencer is one of the best i know. It would be perfect if This tremor could be integrated in Geist

[jer_mcclain]

I tried it and while it has some interesting sound design options, not sure that i like it enough to buy it though. I think I am going to wait to see what U-he comes up with:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=338325

Note that Tremor is pretty rough on the CPU. I have an i5 and it was hitting 25% at times in the Live meter.

[icedsushi]

Note that Tremor is pretty rough on the CPU. I have an i5 and it was hitting 25% at times in the Live meter.

Yeah I think I might have been tempted were it not for the CPU usage. That and the inability to drag/drop midi patterns like you are able to do with Geist.

I loaded Tremor into a Live set at 123bpm & made a quick 4/4 pattern using all 8 drum voices. I turned off the pre, filter, and the post sections for every drum voice. I removed all FX & completely disabled the FX section of each voice & the master by turning off the active switch. No graphs used, no modulation, no filters, no FX and I was getting CPU peaks about 24% on a 2.66Ghz i7. I removed Tremor from the track, then loaded an instance of Microtonic which also used all 8 voices & came up with about 3% (steady, no peaks) on the Live's CPU meter.

I like both plugins in their own right, but I'm left trying to figure out why Tremor should be worth almost 8 times the CPU hit. There are more synth parameters & modulation control with Tremor & it has sub oscs. I realize Microtonic is a more simple, older design & could be considered unusually efficient. But still, there's quite a big difference remaining. I don't necessarily think it sounds better or worse than Microtonic, just a different variety of tonal pallette to add to the mix. It's capable of and tends towards slightly edgier, more metallic, hard hitting industrial type sounds.