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darsho · Post by **darsho** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:53 am

yesterday I installed Geist Lite from BEAT Magazine and while I can't say it totally clicked with me, I found it interesting.

Out of curiosity, can somebody elaborate what the differences are between Geist Lite and the Full Version of Geist ?
I did not find a chart of the FXpansion website showing the differences.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:56 am

Geist Lite is actually the full version and the grayed out boxes are the features you can't use with the Lite version. Also, you get a ton more kits loops and such. I think you even get Guru stuff for Geist. I'm loving GL.

gamecat666 · Post by **gamecat666** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:00 pm

off the top of my head

only one of the 8 'engines'
not as many FX, no high end reverb (Breverb?)
Only stereo Out to DAWS
No song/scene mode
smaller library

(edit)
heres a comparison between GeistCM and the full version, which is AFAIK identical.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... m&start=15

darsho · Post by **darsho** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:07 pm

thank you

What is meant by 'engines' ? I thought it can only do samples, have not looked into it much so far.

I only need it to make drumloops with samples of my own library and use the nice features to automate parameters within such a drumloop for each drumsample.

So I guess I really can do without the features of the full version it seems.

What I found not so clever is that one has to change to the eraser tool when erasing a step in the sequence ? is there a quicker way ? a special double-click-combination maybe or such ?

gamecat666 · Post by **gamecat666** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:20 pm

darsho wrote:thank you

What is meant by 'engines' ? I thought it can only do samples, have not looked into it much so far.

I only need it to make drumloops with samples of my own library and use the nice features to automate parameters within such a drumloop for each drumsample.

So I guess I really can do without the features of the full version it seems.

What I found not so clever is that one has to change to the rubber when erasing a step in the sequence ? is there a quciker way ? a special double-click-combination maybe or such ?

An engine is pretty much 1 'bank' of the 16 pads, with its own patterns + fx.

if its just simple loops you are after and not creating an entire 'song' you will be fine.

there is a specific Midi note key that you can hold that works as the eraser, and another for note repeat. Geist uses a specific Midi mapping that is described in detail in the manual (p10?), I highly recommend you to read this page. you can download it from the Fxpansion website if it isnt already installed.

darsho · Post by **darsho** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:21 pm

gamecat666 wrote:
there is a specific Midi note key that you can hold that works as the eraser, and another for note repeat. Geist uses a specific Midi mapping that is described in detail in the manual (p10?), I highly recommend you to read this page. you can download it from the Fxpansion website if it isnt already installed.

ok, thanks, I will do that

chokehold · Post by **chokehold** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:35 pm

Tried to use Geist Lite on a 10.7 Mac in Reaper x64.
Crashed all the time, unusable.

I see from the dates in the download section that Geist Lite is outdated, the 'full' Geist seems to get some serious attention though.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:35 pm

Yes, on FL piano roll the very top two notes are Repeat and Erase.

Differences between Geist and Geist Lite ?