I've been having an absolute ball tonight with the sample slicer in Geist. It's so easy to split a drum loop and play with it. In fact the default automatic slicing settings are so good you can have endless fun going through a folder full of loops and seeing what comes out. Back in the early 90's I used to dabble with drum & bass styles by splitting drum loops on my Amiga and putting them back together in different orders in OctaMED. I'd split loops into 8 parts by literally typing in the start and end numbers, in bytes, of the segments I wished to slice. It took so freakin' long. I like to think back to those days when I'm doing the same with one click in Geist.
The effects are really cool as well, as dubdisciple says. It has some really gritty distortions which, placed on the whole kit, make any drums sound instantly awesome, especially if you're into electronic styles. It's also great fun to put one of the low pass filters on a bus and tweak the cutoff. I really love Geist, you can have so much fun just playing with it before you even start a project.
Another bonus is that the manual is superb, in fact one of the best I've read. There is a LOT to learn with Geist if you want to use its full potential, but luckily the manual is extremely clear, accurate and very well organized. It's a joy to read, especially if you've just been trying to read something like the Kontakt manual
