Klevgrand

Incredible sampling done here by novation + Klevgr. I hope to see more expansion soundpacks for these for purchase ! THESE SOUND ALOT CLOSER to the hardware then most vsts that I've seen or heard trying to emulate this hardware.. I'd love to see more companies go this route when actually trying to emulate hardware.

This synth is free (if you make a Klevgrand account), which is a very compelling price indeed.

The idea behind this synth is simple, and I really love it! The idea is all your presets are inside a 360 rotating sphere, and you rotate that sphere to blend and mix different presets together. You can visually see how the presets are related to each other (ie: what % of each signal is being mixed), and the simple interface is instantly understandable and functional.

I give this 3 stars because ultimately many of the preset sounds are fairly similar, which doesnt quite create the desired effect -- or does not create a STRONG enough morphing transition between different sounds. Its hard to tell where all the presets are (its an endless sphere lol), and the only mixing options between presets are limited to what is currently visible inside the sphere. So, like 4-6, depending. Most of these sounds actually sound like the same preset or the same oscillator with "morphing" happening between parameters on that same sound.

This could be SO MUCH better, in my opinion, with more oscillators and sound sources so that the morphing is more effective. I love the idea of rotating the knob and mixing presets, but it would be great to be able to create my own mix of presets to morph into one another. If Klevgrand updates this, Im sure some of those things could be possible.

Absolutely brilliant control. The precision that I can design percussion tracks with this instrument is definitely unmatched. It's fast and sounds great. Highly recommended.

If you like the FM sound but get overwhelmed tweaking many carriers and modulators, you will enjoy exploring the pure tone of this one carrier/one modulator synth with many quite clever controls:

The CARRIER has an XY pad with PWM x sine-square wave shape; an envelope with an attack modulated by velocity; and feedback to control how much the Carrier is modulated by the Modulator, and optionally by MIDI velocity.

The MODULATOR has the same XY pad but you can multiply the frequency value of the note played from 0.5 to 4x, and you can set the ADSR so each value can be higher or lower relative to the CARRIER.

EFFECTS include a pitch/amplitude wobble with control on frequency and depth; a LP resonating filter based on the Carrier or MIDI velocity; a delay with BPM and note length, feedback, HP/LP and dry/wet mix; and a chorus. Full featured demo available, $25 but can be bundled and goes on sale.

This synth has been around for several years, so there are good youtube tuts by various folk.

Nice, simple, but quite good sounding and working analog / tube saturator.

More American than British voiced in my opinion. I mostly use it with guitar, there you get some nice "Fenderish" tones with some good, sparkling, transparent treble and also some nice vintage overdrive.

In case you look for a "hotter" sound, stacking two instances also works well and can sound good.

Just add a good cabinet IR and you get some comparably transparent, but not digital sounding (tube amp) tones.

A lot of different analog sound simulations in a single plugin, from cassette and tape to various sorts of tube saturation and overdrive.

Works well in principle, adds some nice colorization, saturation or overdrive to your tone.

The dual four band controls are useful, but also may need some time for tweaking, but on the other hand allow much better control than a single knob plus a typical tone stack.

Can be used for mastering but also for guitar, bass or other instrument amplification. Tube bass amp is my favorite guitar tube sound, as it sounds beefier, fuller bodied, but the two guitar tube presets also sound nice, if properly adjusted.

I decided for Reamp against Stark, on which the different amp characteristics did not convince me so much, I also do not like built-in effects, as usually I prefer different ones or different sounding ones, but most of all I prefer using my own cabinet IR's.

But Reamp does a good job, also sounds good stacked with Freeamp in front and is sonically very flexible if you take some time for tweaking. Also works well with pedals and other effects.

Also can be used for some additional saturation or overdrive in front of a (more) typical guitar tube amp simulation plugin.

Switchable Harmonics intensity also is a good idea.

Maybe usable for bass and synthesizers, but for guitar this is not really my idea of a convincingly sounding distortion. Even if I changed the three bands, I did not really get any convincing tones, but this experience I also made with some other multiband distortion plugins.

A classic pedal distortion like a RAT or DS-1 still is a different league, although they also are far away from being perfect. But - at least for guitar - they are rather my idea of distortion.

I like it but hate the GUI, a scaleable interface and darker colours would be appreciated, with that said, I think it's a very useful EQ.