

Each engine can hold up to 64 pads of sounds which each pad can have up to 8 layers – great for creating round robins for a drum kit that you can record straight into Geist 2 or load in samples that you have lying around on your drive somewhere. In Geist 2 you are going to find 8 engines each of these engines is basically one full version of the Geist 2 environment. Geist 2 come packed with 8 sound engines under the hood, each being able to hold full drum kits or 64 multi-layered slots of sampled sounds that you can then modify and add FX to on multiple levels then take all of that and sequence it into 24 different iterations and arrange it into a full song… and all of that in one plugin and that is pretty damn awesome. I guess, it is not that easy to make a “good” dithering option, on the otherside, even FL Studio has it as well as Reason/Record and nearly every other DAW/ Sequencer out there, so perhaps Fritz can tell us more on this subject.In this review we are going to be going over Geist 2 the new and improved advanced step sequencer and sample based drum machine by FXpansion.

not only offering normalization but dithering as well, I don´t know how hard it is to programm such a feature. If your post is about, if it makes sense to offer dithering options in Podium, i.e. In theory it´s there, but you cannot here it. In a modern dance track, hiphop or rock it doesn´t make any difference, it is simple not noticeable.

classic, where the quantization errors are really noticeable in the very quiet section. It is more related to music with a very high dynamic, i.e. Even Normalization applied afterwards will not change the dither result in a noticeable way, expect if it has to raise the final audio by 10db.īut…it is overrated by using it in modern music style with a very low dynamic. Just add the plugin as the last instance in the master, export to soundfile as i.e. So dithering in Podium should be always applied, if you use “Export to soundfile” with a lower resolution than 32bit floating point.Īnd if it is the last plugin in the master chain, Podium will not change the audio afterwards, so there is no need for a special or additional communication between the dither plugin and the host. The dither option in such plugins doesn´t do anything but adding a noise to the audiosignal to mask quantization errors, which arise out of the conversion from higher resolutions to lower.

Again, afaik, any plugin offering dithering options doesn´t do (and I think cannot do) any bit conversion on it´s own.
