According to the following criteria, what companies have you run into that are scoring a full 10 on the following scale:
- 1. Sound
- Stellar sound. If the intention is transparency it's transparent, if the intention is analogue it is accurately analogue, if the intention is dirty it's really dirty.
- Numbers actually reflect reality.
- You can resize it. It's aesthetically pleasing. It's a pleasure to use. It's clear and intuitive.
- Non-existent or little latency in both sound and the interface. Acceptable CPU/memory usage for the function it performs. Rarely if ever crashes.
- Robust features. Progresses the field or contains all of the necessary and relevant features one would expect.
- Presets that sound great and work in production with minimal or no tweaking.
- Their product is maintained (Updates). They respond within a day or two during the week. They read what you've written and respond with intelligent answers and solutions. Or you never need to contact customer service.
- Their website has sound samples, downloadable demos, tutorials, a place to ask questions, and a knowledge-base or manual that contains most of what a user would need to know about their software.
- They don't pester you. They offer discounts regularly. Their promotions make sense. They appear to have an accurate sense of their value and don't create a list price of $1000 and offer 99% discounts every other week.
- They don't punish the user who buys their product with labyrinthine hell-hole licensing situations because they are paranoid that their software will be pirated and can't develop a user-friendly solution that doesn't condemn their paying users to regular torture.
Because this is the effects thread please only post companies that produce effects (or both if they also produce effects).
I may add to this list, but off the top of my head companies that score a 10 for me:
FabFilter
So...who gets a 10/10 for you
::: KVR Member 10/10 List - Effects :::
Valhalla DSP (12)
Klanghelm (11)
Fab Filter (10)
Soundtoys (9)
Sonic Charge (6)
Tokyo Dawn (6)
Toneboosters (6)
U-he (6)
Cytomic (5)
2C-Audio (4)
Kush (3)
Melda (3)
PSP (3)
Sugar Bytes (3)
AudioThing (2)
Audiority (2)
DMG (2)
DS Audio Tantra (2)
Kazrog (2)
Sonimus (2)
Unfiltered Audio (2)
Zynaptic (2)
Airwindows (1)
Applied Acoustics (1)
Cryosonic (1)
Blue Cat Audio (1)
BRA (1)
Brainworx (1)
Eventide (1)
HY (1)
Kilohearts (1)
Klevgrand (1)
Native Instruments (1)
None (1)
Softube (1)
Tone2 (1)
Tritik (1)
Unfiltered Audio (1)
UVI (1)
Voxengo (1)
Xfer (1)
Yooz (1)
::: Honorable Mentions :::
Lexicon
Exponential Audio
