What is GeoShred Studio?

[bizdev@moforte.com]

What is GeoShred Studio?

GeoShred is a new kind of musical instrument that runs on iOS/iPad OS devices. it's fluidly expressive, it has a performance surface with almost magic pitch rounding, and it's coupled with physics based models of effects and musical instruments.

But what if GeoShred could be a plug-in for your desktop DAW, and what if you could still use GeoShred on your iPad or iPhone to seamlessly perform GeoShred-Mac as a part of your desktop production workflow.

GeoShred Studio, is an Auv3 plugin that runs on MacOS. It's a part of your normal production workflow you can use GeoShred's expressive multi-dimensional control from your iOS/iPadOS device to record your tracks as MIDI/MPE, which can be edited as a part of your production process.

GeoShred Connect is used to create a midi MPE connection between GeoShred on your iOS/iPadOS device device and GeoShred-Mac.

iCloud is used to synchronize preset edits between the iOS/iPadOS and MacOS versions of GeoShred. In this example the preset is saved on the iOS/iPadOS version of GeoShred and synchronizes to GeoShred-Mac

GeoShred-Mac is best performed, expressively, from GeoShred's isomorphic keyboard on an iOS/iPadOS device. That being said you can perform GeoShred-Mac with an MPE controller, from a conventional MIDI controller or from a breath controller.

And if you don't own GeoShred for iPad or iPhone you can download the free GeoShred control MPE Controller to use with GeoShred Studio. Optionally use MIDI/MPE and you can perform GeoShred Studio using an MPE controller, MIDI keyboard or wind controller.

[paulhepker]

Just remember though- if you have been a long-time and loyal user of GeoShred, and purchased the NAADA or GEO instruments on the iPAD - then moForte is going to not only make you pay again for GeoShred Studio - but it issuing to charge you premium to replicate the instruments you have paid for and collected on the iPad.

Not sure why... greed perhaps? Bad business model? Both?

What seems particularly troublesome is that (I may be wrong) they have disabled the basic functionality of GeoShred when being used as an External Instrument in Logic Pro: I can't figure out how to send and receive MIDI at the same time on iPad.

I'd love @bizdev to explain their reasoning. I thought that GeoShred was made by a musician for musicians. There seems to be a total lack of consideration for the pocketbook of the working musician.

[guapolator]

Just remember though- if you have been a long-time and loyal user of GeoShred, and purchased the NAADA or GEO instruments on the iPAD - then moForte is going to not only make you pay again for GeoShred Studio - but it issuing to charge you premium to replicate the instruments you have paid for and collected on the iPad.

Not sure why... greed perhaps? Bad business model? Both?

What seems particularly troublesome is that (I may be wrong) they have disabled the basic functionality of GeoShred when being used as an External Instrument in Logic Pro: I can't figure out how to send and receive MIDI at the same time on iPad.

I'd love @bizdev to explain their reasoning. I thought that GeoShred was made by a musician for musicians. There seems to be a total lack of consideration for the pocketbook of the working musician.

And some of the collections are as much as $400.

[bizdev@moforte.com]

I understand why this may feel frustrating, especially if you already own GeoShred on iOS or iPadOS and are looking at GeoShred Studio as a desktop version of the same product.

GeoShred Studio is related to GeoShred, but it is a distinct desktop product with its own instrument set, development requirements, and pricing model. The desktop music-production market is also quite different from the mobile app market, particularly for DAW plug-ins and physically modeled instruments. When we compare GeoShred Studio, including the Naada and GeoSWAM instruments, with other desktop instruments and plug-ins, we believe the pricing is competitive for what it provides.

The products are also designed around different workflows. GeoShred on iOS and iPadOS is especially focused on live performance and expressive touch control. GeoShred Studio is designed for desktop scoring, composition, and DAW production, where you can run multiple VST3, AUv3, or AU instances in a session. In the “Introducing GeoShred Studio” video, the ensemble performance at the end uses 11 separate GeoShred Studio instances, all physically modeled instruments.

One of the key benefits of GeoShred Studio is that it allows GeoShred performances to become editable MIDI/MPE data directly inside your DAW. That means you can record a performance, edit the notes and expression data, and then re-render the result as part of your normal desktop production workflow. You can still use the iOS/iPadOS version to record audio into a desktop DAW, but that workflow does not provide the same flexibility for editing and re-rendering the performance after the fact.

We also recognize that price matters, and we don’t take that lightly. This technology represents many decades of combined work, starting with foundational research at Stanford/CCRMA in the 1990s and continuing through the development of GeoShred, Naada, GeoSWAM, and GeoShred Studio. Bringing advanced physical modeling instruments to a commercial desktop environment has been a large and ongoing investment.

That said, we do understand that GeoShred Studio may not be the right purchase for every user, especially if their primary use case is live iPad performance. For users who want deep DAW integration, multi-instance desktop composition, editable MIDI/MPE workflows, and access to these physically modeled instruments inside a desktop production environment, we believe GeoShred Studio offers strong value.