Alternative to Transfuser (Air Technology)?

[zzz00m]

The free amplesound guitar comes with a strummer. Fun to play around with! The free P-Bass sounds great, but you have to actually play it!

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Xpand!2 is about as dead simple as you'll find, just learn to use the arp and you can have instant results with minimal knowledge or effort. If that is too complex for you, everything is.

Yes, I did playing/trying around also with the arp.

Transfuser delivers for me personally much more opportunities and sounds in using phrases, basslines, drum beats better than Xpand!2. Especially the guitar riffs/phrases are really great in Transfuser.

Xpand!2 has some really great and outstanding pad patches.

Xpand!2 is really intended to just be a virtual Rompler workstation. Never implied it was actually a groove machine. But you can be a bit creative with the arps and rhythmic patches.

Transfuser is the only virtual groove box that I am aware of with the real-time controls. Everything else I have seen requires you to at least preset a combination of loops or one-shots that you can trigger with pads or keys.

Might be worth investing a bit of time to create a few new Transfuser presets with the type of samples you prefer. Realize that the factory preset content that was included was most likely intended to 'sell' the product to the target audience. The beats crowd, obviously. Your intended use is probably an outlier to their marketing team.

[dpolcino]

I'm a little (a lot!) late to the conversation, but this is one of my fav topics. I've had Transfuser for some years now and never took the time to use it, though I loved the concept. It's really powerful, I'm just playing with it now.
Others that are similar, and great for idea-creating, the Motif as mentioned earlier. That was a super fun synth to play with. And a classic that is unfortunately no longer made (but you can find it) is Xphraze, that's the most fun one to play. I'm always looking for new phrase plugins so keep 'em coming if anybody knows of more.

[Bladerunner1962]

I have 2 hardware synthesizers: Yamaha Motif XS8 and Yamaha Montage 8.
Yes, this both synthesizers are great on auto accompanient patches, there everything is ready-to-play (beats, grooves, chords and so on) for live improvising.
But the thing is e.g. with Yamaha, that over the years they didn't onboarded new sound/patch designers. So the ready-to-play patches of the Yamaha Montage sounds nearly like the Motif sounds. Obvousily the "EasySounds" company provides Yamaha since many years with the patches. The disavantage: you can hear the "DNA" and often the patches sounds the same.
There a no alternatives belongs to "EasySounds" on the market, which produces libraries with ready-to-play-patches.
This is the reason, why I reserach again and again for software VST, which provides nearly the auto accompanient functions of hardware synthesizers.
E.g. Nexus, Omnisphere, Unify, Transfuser, Vengeance Avenger comes very near to my expectations.
BUT, I don't know why: the most ready-to-play patches/libraries belongs mostly to DJ music genres like EDM, trap, rave, techno.
Things I don't need

I love also the before named Xphraze. I have all available libraries, but they are real old and no new libraries coming up.

[dpolcino]

Yup, that's why I sold my Motif, but very fun for the instant creativity. Playing with Xpand and Transfuser right now, lot of learning curve, but there's some good power hidden in there (in Xpand, set all the parts to ch. 1 and set different arps, pretty cool)

[zzz00m]

Since this is an old thread, there are a few new alternative options...

UJAM: https://www.ujam.com/ Virtual guitars, basses, and drums.
https://youtu.be/Wt2YmUyp5Ww
https://youtu.be/ts8_cyQfDLI

Unify by PluginGuru: https://www.pluginguru.com/products/unify-standard/

Say hello to a NEW WAY of working with Plug-ins of all types! Unify can work with MIDI Effects, Instruments and Audio Effects in super creative fun ways. Unify Comes in VST (technically known as VST2), VST3 and Standalone for PC and Mac (Mac version also includes an Audio Unit version of Unify).
https://youtu.be/bMgrxJm8db0