Jeff McClintock

It's a really fun program, especially for people with little to no coding experience. You can create just about anything with it.

Synthedit has a huge potential. If you accept all its storic bugs and limitations, you can do unbelievable things with it.

The only major drawback with it is the scarce support you get from its author. Despite being a commercial product (very honest price and policy without burdens I must say), the author always manifested little to no intentions to fix well known bugs or to introduce important missing features which have been reported and requested since its infancy.

The most serious limitations are: usage of a 5MB internal queue for transmitting data from the GUI to the DSP thread and vice-versa; the way embedded resources are handled, which at present is quite irrational; the fact you can't export your plugin as a single dll with all resources embedded but as many separate files anybody can rip or modify; being stuck with an antiquate and pointless 'skin' concept since infancy.

Therefore, if you are gifted with the patience of a saint, better if you are also a coder, Synthedit will be a gold mine for you. Otherwise, you should rather look elsewhere.

The 'bad stigma' around it is imho just caused by the issues above, and by the fact not all plugin makers have the required coding or technical skills to exploit its potential fully.

So, 5 stars for its potential, but 1 for user support.

SynthEdit puts meaning into my life!

The more you learn about SynthEdit the deeper you can dive. There's no end to what SE is capable of.

Thank you, Jeff.

I'd love to give this 10 stars out of 5 if I could.

It's amazing. And most of the cool free synths I like are made with it.

There's a little bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out, you're golden.

I recommend to start, you look at the YouTube tuts.

Keep up the good work and Thank you for your service, Jef.