GEIST 2 is here

yeh...I've been waiting for this one for ages. I love Geist 1, but the fact that the GUI couldn't be resized was annoying. New version looks slick. Had a play with the quick sampling stuff (based on threshold)....works a treat and great fun! So many things to explore. 

The "use layer" button does actually work, but maybe not how you expect.  Geist 2 allows up to 64 slices (which from a KVR answer can't seem to be reduced).  So, you have to have a sample that has more than 64 slices before the layering begins.
 
You can test it by changing the Detection Mode to "Divide" and run the number of divisions above 64.

A couple of people on KVR have mentioned to an FXpansion rep that they'd like to limit the slice number so perhaps it'll come in an update.

Too many forums to keep up with!  

Works for upgrades too!  I got the last two I hadn't yet bought.
 
Tip:   Dark Matter or the Analogue Mayhem are my least favorite packs.

Stinks they limited the expansion pack options.  I own all of the expansions offered with this deal except for two, and I don't want those.  That means I'm screwed. Makes me hesitate on upgrading until a sale occurs.
 
Demo is nice, though.

anxiousmofo
Stinks they limited the expansion pack options.  I own all of the expansions offered with this deal except for two, and I don't want those.  That means I'm screwed. Makes me hesitate on upgrading until a sale occurs.
 
Demo is nice, though.

cinematic drums... hope that's available.  makes it almost a no brainer as I've never been able to get into using my geist due to the dinky ui...
 
I assume new packs will be forthcoming.  As I understand it, you can sit on your "free" packs until something comes out you want...
 
The question for me is do I upgrade now or later??? money is tight at the moment and I'm well stocked with drummyness... overloaded, to be honest!  Would much rather use my limited funds on the forever core platinum deal and the new super deal on the one year subscription to Groove3...
 
 I do want to upgrade eventually and IF the free add ons are not part of the normal upgrade price or future BF/Xmas deals, I'd want to do it now... but prefer to wait.  Any thoughts from those who follow this kinda stuff?
 
arrrrg!  looks nice though!

No on the cinematic drums.

Late to the party on this one. Although I did go in to AudioDeluxe initially to purchase Geist2 outright (rare for me), their CC processing is glitched so I am messing with the demo this weekend. The above comment about Cinematic Percussion concerned me, and as clarification, I already own that, and it loaded into G2 without an issue; but seems that it may not be part of the offered add-ons (for folks who do not already own it)? I assume that is "the issue," but since they load in the demo, I *assume* they also load into the purchased version.
 
That said, the Cinematic Percussion presets have been the playground for the demo thus far (one of the more complex setups). I few minor niggles still came to light, but I got so caught up in the Transmod that I forgot about them while messing around. I immediately dove into the most unconventional use of them, and since all of the Global FX parameters are exposed to Transmod, I began to add swing on the parameters normally "locked down" in conventional usage (compressor and EQ settings specifically). Very interesting creative effects to "pump" feedback, frequencies, Q-values, thresholds, ratios, releases, etc. At a global level they are quite dramatic, but a better application would be at a pad level... but since the Cinematic Percussion is "paired" the niggle of mapping/mirroring those left/right pairs has not yet been touched (this would be a huge nicety, especially for Cinematic Percussion).
 
Also, I have not read a single word of the manual (yet), so a big OP-test for me is that I can get around the GUI and cannot "belly it up"... so far both passed. Even with the expanded UI, more parameters are exposed... so the followup I must read is the "control key" to choose between the initial and upper bound on each Transmod parameter setting, e.g., if I want to swing the pan on the left kick, the click to grab the initial setting versus the upper pan boundary is only a few pixels (so it is still very easy to have click errors working "mouse only" even with the UI fully expanded).
 
That said... G2 is still a very impressive overhaul and worth the wait (and I only nicked the surface thus far with it)!