A 64 row step sequencer is just horrible to work with.īut it's just so many other little things as well - for instance the way they've organized the mixing screens, not having a global swing control, moving FX around in the FX slots - all of it is a step down from Geist 1 in terms of usability. In Geist 1, if you copied a pattern from one slot to another, the new one would be named something like 'Copy of Pattern 1.' In Geist 2, if you move pattern 1 to slot 2 then it's named 'Pattern 1' exactly as the first one.

So in terms of names, you have nothing to differentiate the 2 unless you manually rename them (a pain). In the song editor, this becomes a nightmare as both the original pattern and its copy (which you probably modified) will have the exact same name in the song arranger. Geist 1 just used the pattern number in the song editor, regardless of its name. It's like almost every 'improvement' was decided upon by people who don't use the program. When I first complained about this stuff, people said 'give it time, you just have to get used to it.' And believe me, I've tried.

Every new project I start I think 'OK so let's get some Geist 2 going here.' Every time I end up thinking 'well this sucks' because of so many annoying little issues that really shouldn't have been issues. Did you find you had to compromise your workflow somewhat? Do you find it irritating to use as compared to Geist 1? I'd love to hear how others are getting along with it. While I don't deny that the workflow stinks it really loved the potentially wild things I could do with the first iteration.

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