The “Transmod” section in Geist 2 is where you can really create an alive and evolving beat and is in my opinion the most fun thing in Geist 2 because being able to get 16 different slots of modulation going on all of the controls for each pad and multiple modulations for each control really makes Geist 2 come alive and allows you to pull of some pretty cool techniques to get not only drums to come alive but melodic samples as well. When you realize that all of these controls are for one pad in just one of the engines you can start to see just how powerful Geist 2 really is and we haven’t even gotten to the really fun part of Geist 2 yet. When you start to use the layer controls and change the tone of each layer in a pad you can say keep your snare sounding fresh on each hit or you could make one pad that has a melody all on its own which is really fun. This is made easy in Geist 2 with the Velocity split, Round Robin, Round Robin reset and random controls. This makes Geist 2 extremely flexible and powerful beat machine able to create or recreate any type of drum set you want.īut it doesn’t have to be all beats and drums as the pads also have an option to be put in chromatic mode so that you can throw in a piano sound or something and play it all across your keyboard or record any source with the sampler, like another soft synth you might have and then add some FX and mangle it up a bit and use that.Ĭontrolling the layers in your pads is really important when you want to be able to create music that doesn’t sound the same across every hit of the pad which keeps your music interesting – as there is nothing more boring than listening to the same snare each and every time.
FXPANSION GEIST 2 SLOTS FULL
…all for one sample makes sure that you have full and total control over each and every sample across all of the layers.
FXPANSION GEIST 2 SLOTS FREE
The pads themselves have a multitude of control options to play with allowing you to set a sample as a One-shot, Length bound, Gated or Looping and having mix control, Tuning, Filters, Looping, Time stretching, Amp and Free envelopes… Searching your own drives is a breeze as you can set your favorite folders so you don’t have to go through the whole C: or D: folders every time you want to dig in in your sample folders. If you do purchase Geist 2, you get to choose 2 free libraries on top of the factory content that comes with Geist 2.Īs you can see I chose BFD remix and Best of guru, both of which I really like especially the acoustic kits in “Best of guru” but to be honest they all sound really good and can be made to sound even better by adding the FX.
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This applies to each of the layers in the pads as well and if that was not enough FX for you can stack six more to the full engine as well.įinding kits and samples in Geist 2 is made nice and easy with the browser with the content that you get when you purchase Geist 2 right at the top for easy access.
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On each of these pads, you can put up to 6 different forms of FX like Distortion, Dynamics, EQ, Filters, Reverb, Delays, Flangers and FX of that nature. 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.
FXPANSION GEIST 2 SLOTS FULL VERSION
In Geist 2 you are going to find 8 engines each of these engines is basically one full version of the Geist 2 environment.
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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.
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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.