I have not seen anything earth-shattering thus far with G2's DEMO, and ironically AudioDeluxe's CC script bellied up last weekend when I went to buy it outright. I really hope they get their act together in future updates, but for the time being I'm going back to Geist 1 and putting the $99 update price down to experience. It took them so long to make this program, and there was so much hype and anticipation and I was expecting the Geist of my dreams, but what they released was something which feels like it should have stayed in development another 6 months. Like the FX chains and how they've gotten rid of that neat little drag and drop effect arranger that Geist had. And there are loads of little things about the GUI design where they've obviously thought "well we'd better make an update here as well" but in the end you get the feeling they've just changed things for the sake of it, often for the worse. Who in the hell really wants to use a pattern editor with 64 rows? It's just not conducive to beat making and the kind of fast-paced experimentation that makes Geist 1 such a joy to use. When you slice beats, it puts slices across all 64 pads instead of layering them on 16 pads. I just can't ever imagine myself needing that many, and if I did, then Battery does the mega pad layout a lot better.
Geist 2 seems like they've tried to hard to make "OMG the most awesomest most powerful drum machine ever" but in the process they've crammed far too much into the program whilst paying less attention to usability and workflow. It's slicker, it's better designed, it has a better workflow, it feels less cramped (even with the smaller window) and it just does what it does extremely well.
I have to admit that after a few weeks of owning Geist 2 I'm beginning to think that I wasted $99 and have found myself reverting back to Geist 1 - which, although it has fewer bells and whistles and is stuck in a small GUI, just seems to work a lot better than Geist 2. Any other Geist 2 owners reverted back to using Geist 1?
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