if im not mistaken, i believe the crystal method use geist for various things, despite the lack of material coming from them in the past few years.
what i meant to ask is that when you said "those are buffer effects" , you were referring to effectrix, dblue, and other glitch fx, right?
I think im gonna stick with abletons slice to midi function for drum samples for now though. It works well enough for now.
for future reference, between dblue and geist though, which would be more useful for the money? dblue is cheaper, but if geist is more powerful(?) then i may as well just save up and grab that one instead.