Tone2 Electra3

This synthesizer sounds better than synthesizers that cost 5 times more and I can get huge sounds better than from a Yamaha Montage or a Korg Kronos that you can barely visualize the display and navigating between editing pages is terribly difficult. With Electra v2.7 everything is on the plate served in front of me.

Impressive editing menu designed with criteria and knowledge of what the modern musician needs from a great synthesizer.

Version 2.7 has greatly improved the quality and audio of this great synthesizer. The four independent layers that can be grouped together creating warm and analogous sounds is impressive.

Hopefully they can improve somewhat the process of uploading samples and edit it with some window that can be detached from the original interface, and also improve the process of saving sounds as I have lost many that once saved when you 'upload' do not sound, simply dumb/silent/no sound, I think it must be a glitch or bug somewhere in the chain of saving under Windows 10.

Everything is on one page making sound creation simple and fast. It has a taste of analog but also a professional polished sound that makes it unique. Highly recommended.

Best damn synth plugin out there, and I have tried a whole lot of them.

First of all (and most important) sounds frigging GREAT.

Did I say it sounds.....GREAT?

For analog emulation--great. Old Moog? Yes. Old Arp? Yes. Old Roland? You bet.

For digital/dance--GREAT.

For hip hop, single Osc, grunge, GREAT.

For Kraftwerk sequence/arpeggio, GREAT.

Even the Vocoder sounds GREAT.

When was the last time a synth plug in did that for you?

And it takes almost no CPU. How did they do it?

And it's very well and thoughtfully laid out.

Run don't walk and buy this VST. Borrow the money from your mom. Steal it from the donation plate at your church. God will understand! From the blind guy down the street. No I don't work for Tone2, I don't know any of them and have no affiliation, but I think these guys ought to win the Nobel prize. It's that damn good.

This synth looks like normal subtractive synthsizer. But it doesn't.

It has many option for synthesis, like FM, Subtractive, Waverables, Supersaws, Sampleplayback...etc.

And It has 4 layers. So you can layer FM Pad and Subtractive Pad and Wave-sequence in one patch.

That's incredible.

OK, it has many functions, but how about the sounds?

That's my main reason for choice VSTi.

The sounds... FM engine sounds like YAMAHA's DX series, its envelope is fast enough to create FM bass sound.

On Virtual Analog mode, oscillator is fat, and you can choise 18dB/Oct filters and its resonance can oscillate very smoothly like Roland's.

And the Wavetable synthesis sounds like PPG wave.

It seems the developer has huge love for synthsizer music!.

Adding above, you can make cutting edge bass sounds of dubstep or complextro.

Their official soundset ComplexDroids have one finger complextro patch.

4 layers, BPM syncable LFOs and many synthesis methods can do that .

The better you get to know synthsizer, the more you'll love Electra X.

I'm not review synthsizer usually, and not native English speaker so forgive my broken English.

I think this plugin is very underrated, the developer should have more attention.

That's why I wrote this.

I recommend ElectraX for everyone who love electronic sound..

Jap.... Endless row of possibilities to create any imaginable (and unimaginable) sound. In fact this is a 4-synth-unit, a really big machine. Running a single Osc and comparing it to.. let's say Sylenth I noticed that this one has a real digital sound which does not really change running several more Osc all on analog mode. But it has so much creative possibilities. I don'T know how much Waveforms any Osc provides, 40 ? 50 ? Countless ways of modulation, 3 LFO's, Insert FXs for all 4 Stages and a Master-FX... this is a true digital beast, a real king of class, I recommend it as must-have.

One of favorite VST synth I have in my arsenal!! Sounds incredable, easy to understand and use.

In March this year I published a review of ElectraX on my website. You can read the full review here:

http://maakdigitalemuziek.nl/en/reviews/review-tone2-electrax

Conclusion:
With ElectraX Tone2 again delivers a great product. The synth sounds great and offers lots of possibilities with a user-friendly interface. The Init-like patches work very well as a starting sound for your own sound. Every synthesizer should have them. ElectraX suits every music production which needs a synthesizer sound, but it would not surprise us if this VST-plug-in will be very popular among dance music producers.

Score: 9/10

+ Pros:

• Fantastic sound;
• Many synthesis options;
• Clear, user friendly interface;
• Relatively low CPU usage.

- Cons:

• Interface features blooming effects one must love;
• Limited number of effects you can use simultaneously.