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Richman

Synth (Hybrid) Plugin by Krakli
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Richman
Richman by Krakli is a Virtual Instrument Audio Plugin for Windows. It functions as a VST Plugin.
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Using a hybrid of Physical Modelling and FM synthesis, Richman2 is designed to be an expressive plug-in, which in the right hands can make real sounding and organic sounds.

Specializing in plucked or struck tones Richman2 can also turn its hand to a great many other types of sounds. It comes complete with 100 preset to demonstrate its capabilities.

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Average user rating of 4.50 from 2 reviews
Richman

Reviewed By Jace-BeOS [all]
November 9th, 2006
Version reviewed: 2 on Windows

This is my favourite Krakli VST to date! (reviewing Richman-2)

Richman has all the best parts of FM without the bad part (a mind bending UI).

The presets offered here to demonstrate the capabilities of Richman do a great job; even better, they sound wonderful! The presets are very expressive, responsive to velocity and make brilliant use of some of my favourite FM synth attributes (such as the harsh harmonic distortion).

Not only does Richman give you those harsh distortion sounds, it also provides a lovely and soft harp sound, as well as other plucked string sounds. FM has long been known for its bells and pluck sounds, and Richman is no slouch in that department.

As mentioned above, the UI is rather comfortable and simple. Something not often found with FM synths. Maybe this means there is less "programmability" but for my taste, it is far more sensible, exposing the important features to the user instead of exposing everything. Sort of like Native Instrument's "easy edit" page on FM7 which gives you access to more "analog-like" controls to shape the sounds instead of dealing with the operators and algorhythms directly.

i highly recommend Richman for anyone who has ever liked FM sounds and anyone who would like to see FM done well. The fact that this is a free VST only drives home my point: try it out; you've nothing to lose except the opportunity to check out this great VSTi!!

KVR Reviews ought to allow us to do n/a for certain categories such as documentation and customer support. Neither applies in this review. The best way i can think of to give ratings on these two is to go middle-ground and give a 5. It doesn't make sense to me to give 10 points for a manual that does not exist, but i don't want to make the rating suffer for lack of a manual when none is really needed by giving it a 1. So...
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Richman

Reviewed By nuisance sonore [all]
January 6th, 2006
Version reviewed: 2 on Windows

This synth is a nice little surprise from krakli.
I've been looking for a long time for a synth with which I could practice piano using different sounds than the getting to be boring piano/rhode/wurly sound, and while this might seem like a simple task, in reality it isn't. Most synth can make beatifull sounds as long as you play one or two key at a time, but when you play complex chord, the sound tend to break down and distort; even very expensive synth tend do that and it can be a lot of work to get them to do the clean sound you want.
Not this one, you can play the most complex chord and it will still sound clean (if that's what you want, it can get gritty too but it's your own choice) while behing very expressive at the same time. A really nice player instrument, comes with a hundred very useable presets to get you started and it's real easy to tweak on the fly, interface is clean, just like the sound, with just the right amount of control. No documentation is really necessary, everything you need to know is right in front of you.
I was demoing complex FM/hybrid synth costing well above the $100.00 mark when I stumbled upon this one, and to my surprise, it's all I really needed regardless of the price (but it turns out to be free! can't beat that).
I know I should put "cons" in my review, but I really can't find any in the context of the use I put the synth through; it does what I want smartly and efficiently, cpu useage is quite low, it looks good and all the control I need for what I want this for are there with none of the bloat that would only be a distraction from my playing. Well, maybe midi learn would be a feature I would like as to control vibrato and filters from the keyboard directly.
The KVR rating is a bitch to do thought, like the documentation I don't even know if there's any as I didn't need and didn't look. Support? It works, I don't need support. So I put ten everywhere but I think rating shouldn't be mandatory, or be more flexible.
This one's a keeper, way to go Krakli.
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Discussion: Active
BlackWinny
BlackWinny
17 August 2013 at 4:00pm

The demo file offered by Krakli in his page (Richman-2 is in the middle of the height of the page) is a wonderful imitation of the medieval Lute. I love it! The choice to reproduce an extract from this very known piece of Dowland was really an excellent idea. Perhaps too much brilliance, I should have set a little less harmonics (the lute was not an instrument having a so very brilliant timbre, it had a softer tone, reason why this instrument has never been included in orchestras other than as a solist instrument).

For those who discover this instrument which was very popular during the Renaissance, there were two grand masters, one was english (Dowland) and the other was french (Gaultier). Both composed a lot of chef-d'oeuvre! We can find very easily the tabs and scores of both, for example by the links at the bottom of these two pages above from Wikipedia. A must have for those who love peaceful music and try to play or compose modern music inspired by these wondeful styles...

BlackWinny
BlackWinny
15 May 2017 at 5:58pm

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