KVR Audio

Protocol_b · Post by **Protocol_b** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:21 pm

Omnisphere (gasp!). They promoted the arpeggiator hugely but it was actually one of the most limited arp's around. Every sound loaded up with countless effects I had to painfully remove in order to hear what I was actually working with in the mix, and then they still didn't play well with others. Yes, now with Omni 2 I can turn off all effects more easily and apparently the arpeggiator is improved, but there is no demo and no way I'm going to throw several hundred more dollars away after that first over-priced go-round. Major let-down.

Synthmaster. The arp/step-seq is virtually unusable due to general weirdness and for me that is an important feature.

Alchemy. I bought it, and thanks to Apple I could still use it but it's a grotesque resource hog. Poor sample import.

HALion5. I DO use Sonic though. Turns out HALion5 actually sucks at importing SFZ, and also is extremely buggy/crash-prone. I should have just bought Sonic and saved a few dollars.

Some Kontakt instruments like Mutate and Sequi2R - fabulous toys if you have a supercomputer. I'm thinking KSP is not a very efficient language to be coding large clock-based instruments in - MASSIVE resource usage.

(I guess it's apparent I'm oriented towards plugs with step sequencers - obviously you all may have completely different needs & likes.)

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:36 pm

robotmonkey wrote:Harmor.

Can't even say why. Maybe it's the GUI, don't know. There's just always other synths that I go for first.

very same thing here. I've even forgot that I have it

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:43 pm

Nothing ive bought, but i have a lot of NFR's i never use....

classic · Post by **classic** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:48 pm

Vacuum pro. Making new sounds is a pain in the a....
The Gui is terrible you cant see what you are tweaking, so a waste of money.
Hybride 3. Lots os nice sounds but designing own sounds takes endless time couse it sounds
so thin somehow.

Synthmaster sounds always the same somehow. Very modern music needs this synth. For my soundtracks it is useless. Best for this task is Elektra2, really true.

Lejurai · Post by **Lejurai** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 8:09 pm

Few imageline synths. For some reason I HAD to buy them but have I used them? No.

Then I've sold those that I don't use..

Circle2 sold
Cubase sold
U-He Bazille sold
LittleOne sold
Xils Lab Xils3 LE 2.0 and Mini Syn'x
Xils Lab Oxium sold
Superwave Ultimate sold
Ableton sold
TAL U-NO-LX-V2 sold
Adam Szabo jp6k sold
Sampletank sold
Synthblitz Audio
Nitroflex
Deep One sold
Korg Legacy Collection sold
TAL Bassline101 sold
D16 Nepheton sold
D16 Drumazon sold
Audio Damage Tattoo sold
Photosounder Spline-EQ sold
Sugarbytes Turnado sold
Kirnu Cream sold
Tek-it audio Genobazz Pro
Tek-it audio Badass2 15€ together sold

Only ones that I miss are Bazille and Oxium.

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 7:02 am

Korg Legacy MS-20 and Wavestation. And probably MonoPoly too (can't remember that well).

On the other hand, I definitely used Polysix...

Optical Fingerprint · Post by **Optical Fingerprint** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 2:17 pm

Poly-Ana
DCAM cypher
DCAM amber
Massive
Imposcar 1
Oddity 1
Razor
Korg Legacy Collection

sfd · Post by **sfd** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 2:24 pm

Optical Fingerprint wrote:Poly-Ana
DCAM cypher
DCAM amber
Massive
Imposcar 1
Oddity 1
Razor
Korg Legacy Collection

Why don't you use them?

robotmonkey · Post by **robotmonkey** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 5:51 pm

sfd wrote:
Optical Fingerprint wrote:Poly-Ana
DCAM cypher
DCAM amber
Massive
Imposcar 1
Oddity 1
Razor
Korg Legacy Collection
Why don't you use them?

Imposcar? I must say that's interesting as this is alongside Waldorf synths one of the best VST instruments ever made.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:17 pm

Hello!?

A user must be able to say that s/he is not using particular stuff s/he bought, without having to go through some third degree interogation why not. That is beyond the scope of this thread.

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:24 pm

Numanoid wrote:Hello!?

A user must be able to say that s/he is not using particular stuff s/he bought, without having to go through some third degree interogation why not. That is beyond the scope of this thread.

Only that the OP created this thread for exactly asking this question.

sfd wrote:What's the main reason why you don't use it/them?

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:34 pm

Wait, you're supposed to use them?

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:36 pm

incubus wrote:Wait, you're supposed to use them?

Nah, the receipts are just needed to write off on the tax

sfd · Post by **sfd** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:41 pm

Numanoid wrote:
incubus wrote:Wait, you're supposed to use them?
Nah, the receipts are just needed to write off on the tax

+1 lol

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:51 pm

Protocol_b wrote:Omnisphere (gasp!)

Omnisphere is the single biggest waste of money in "vst's" ever for me. Nearly 500 bucks, and though there were some good sounds, I just didn't jive with it.

VSTi you bought but never really used