The one that was really fun was actually a hybrid called Spark. But if you know how to use Battery, why learn another workflow? I have tried most drum vsti's. They end up being left untouched for years, which is really disheartening! It's a real shame about the overall lack of updates, there's so much potential in the software but it just gets hobbled by bugs and unimplemented requests.

I've mentioned it to them 2-3 times on Facebook and they sort it out, but a couple of days laters the forum gets flooded again. And it obviously hasn't been working out.That spam keeps on coming back. They probably sold to ROLI as a last ditch attempt to become solvent, just like Cakewalk being sold to Gibson. I honestly think they're going the way of Cakewalk. The fxpansion forum seems to be dying too - the Geist forum is currently inundated with a stream of spam posts spanning 2 days which nobody from fxpansion appears to have seen. The last update for Geist 2 was in March, and no more updates in sight. I paid for the upgrade and have yet to use it in a project - I just go back to Geist 1. Since then they've been swamped with complaints about the software - it's buggy, it's badly designed, it's essentially crap. It was a complete turkey - rushed out before it was ready in order to make fxpansion some money before the sale to ROLI. I think Geist 2 is essentially dead at this point.

And it obviously hasn't been working out.

Otherwise the acquisition wouldn't make much sense.I think Geist 2 is essentially dead at this point. Roli is a hardware company and I doubt they would acquire FXPansion without Angus still coding the software. The website is still up and I still get email updates from them.

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