Stuart Pryer

I have been a KVR member since it's early days and i have never been inspired to write a review on a plugin until i bought the SP1000 from Stuart Pryer and i have got to say that i did not want to write this review because i wanted this synth to be my secret weapon as a source for bass after i tried the demo version, my word! for bass this synth is LETHAL!!!!! it has raw powerful oscillators and filter with character, with a little tweaking my basslines are now like an axe chopping through the mix as opposed to hollow, sterile bass sounds that i was getting from other vst's, if the SP1000 can deliver good basses i am sure that it is also capable of some good strong leads as well, Stuart Pryer and his SP1000 creation has taught me a valuable lesson in VST analogue emulation that i will cherish for the rest of my life, thank you very much Stuart.

Pros: - For such a high quality and well coded VST (Very low CPU consumption) this is £20 well spent, a very solid investment, i love the vintage GUI, i use this for bass only so if you are looking for a bass solution to up your game, buy this VST and spend a little time (Like i did) tweaking the oscillators and adjusting the filter to your taste, learn this VST and you have bass for life.

Cons: - The only con (If you are fussy) is that it is 32-bit only, at the end of the day it' all about the sound and for me this VST plugin delivers proper bass! you can use jbridge if your DAW setup is 64-bit, i use Reaper which has it's own 32-bit bridging, there are no other cons.

As i have mentioned before, i did not want to share this information but the bottom line is i have a conscience, we are on this planet to help each other and i hope that this review will help you in the low frequency department on your musical journey.

Fractal Sequencer is a Windows application that uses fractal images or calculations to generate MIDI note sequences. It is possible to end up with endless variations of themes. You can let it play the General MIDI synth of your sound card or use virtual MIDI cables to connect it to your favorite VSTi and DAW.

Features are added regularly, users' feature requests are taken into consideration. The program can be used to create beautiful fractal images as well as melodies for which there are a good number of user-selectable scales if you want to confine the musical notes to a certain scale.

Don't be scared off by the Windows 95 look of the GUI, it's the musical output (and to a degree the images) that make this software what it is - a nice inspirational tool for melodies and riffs you might not have thought of yourself.

But not only that, you can have it do variations of melodies that you did in fact come up with yourself. The user manual is updated regularly, also at the request of users, which is a big plus in my book.

If I have to nitpick then I have to say that I miss the ability to create multiple melodies at once on different MIDI channels. So far it only outputs one MIDI channel, but multiple instances of the program can be run to circumvent this. And a VST version would have been nice, but virtual MIDI cables, as mentioned above, work just fine.

In the end at its price point you can't really go wrong if you are into non-conventional ways or conventional ways of creating MIDI melodies.