KVR Audio

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Mon May 08, 2017 5:55 am

AAS Ultra Analog Version 1. I don't want to regret this, so I'm hoping that it will someday pay off in terms of a useful discount. However, I bought it on the "no-brainer" recommendation of KVR. That's the last time that I generally trusted KVR enthusiasm for any product.

Some of you have too much wax in your ears.

JerGoertz · Post by **JerGoertz** » Mon May 08, 2017 6:37 am

Guess what they say about one man's trash being another man's treasure is true.

So many of the unrecommendations in this thread are directly contrary to my tastes and loves. (I won't say which ones in the interest of avoiding pointless flamewars.

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sugo · Post by **sugo** » Mon May 08, 2017 6:53 am

The only things i regret, are those which i couldnt resell, easily. All the ImageLine-, Cakewalkstuff, and those iloked plugs i didn`t need furthermore, because the fee eats the resell-price and you always need a creditcard to sell the fee.

simmo75 · Post by **simmo75** » Mon May 08, 2017 6:57 am

Spitfire BT Phobos.
It's never worked and one of my biggest wastes of money. No demo, trusted a brand by reputation ... Schoolboy error.

asi4 · Post by **asi4** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:07 am

ferranastals wrote:discoDSP Discovery

Why?

Armagibbon · Post by **Armagibbon** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:12 am

ghettosynth wrote:
nineofkings wrote:Absynth. Never use it. Its interface issues are not that it's too technical or anything, it's just a bad interface. Fiddly, tabby, inefficient
It's a little weird, but, I think that it's really fast for manipulating samples in something of an old school, i.e., not multisamples, kind of way. I agree that the interface is a bit fiddly. I don't think that it's necessarily all that inefficient though.

Yeah I love it. It's tabbed up, but still organized, makes sense and you can flip through the tabs from a persistent selector. One of my all-time favorites to program personally.

Chapelle · Post by **Chapelle** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:12 am

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:35 am

Chapelle wrote:All of them.

Joachim
PS I'm laughing at myself…

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:48 am

Linplug Spectral. Reminds me of one of the fat North Korean brat's missiles.

AAS Ultra Analog. Gladiator. PPG Wave Generator. A goodly number of Kontakt libraries. And the list goes on…

Caveat emptor is good advice.

/Joachim

JJBiener · Post by **JJBiener** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:51 am

I have no regrets because I don't look back. I take the attitude that at some point, all these useless plugins will have a purpose and I will be ecstatic that I bought them and kept them. It is an act of faith, just an act of not giving a damn about the past.

JerGoertz · Post by **JerGoertz** » Mon May 08, 2017 8:10 am

Armagibbon wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:
nineofkings wrote:Absynth. Never use it. Its interface issues are not that it's too technical or anything, it's just a bad interface. Fiddly, tabby, inefficient
It's a little weird, but, I think that it's really fast for manipulating samples in something of an old school, i.e., not multisamples, kind of way. I agree that the interface is a bit fiddly. I don't think that it's necessarily all that inefficient though.
Yeah I love it. It's tabbed up, but still organized, makes sense and you can flip through the tabs from a persistent selector. One of my all-time favorites to program personally.

Okay, yes, Absynth is one of my favorites as well... Version 2!

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Mon May 08, 2017 8:28 am

Don't actually regret anything, there are some synths which I bought and don't really use but if a couple of sounds here and there have made it into at least one finished track I think it was worth it.

Maybe the biggest dissapointment was Dune2, I really thought that it will become my main workhorse synth for anything but it turned to be not the case, but still, it has very nice FM engine capable of sounds I don't think I can get elsewhere. And then there will be Dune3.

bite_me · Post by **bite_me** » Mon May 08, 2017 8:42 am

Dagger

fgimian · Post by **fgimian** » Mon May 08, 2017 8:57 am

Please don't hate me, but my biggest regret was definitely the Virus TI (which I sold several years after I bought it). Its sound is truly overrated imho and Virus Control was a huge PITA to use.

I'm so much happier with Serum, HIVE, Sylenth1, Massive and Spire than I ever was with the Virus TI

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Mon May 08, 2017 9:03 am

fgimian wrote:Please don't hate me, but my biggest regret was definitely the Virus TI (which I sold several years after I bought it). Its sound is truly overrated imho and Virus Control was a huge PITA to use.

I'm so much happier with Serum, HIVE, Sylenth1, Massive and Spire than I ever was with the Virus TI

Fair enough, and the bold part is so very true.

These days I also use the synths you listed (except for Hive) more often than Virus. But still for certain kinds of sounds Virus is the king, i'm keeping mine and will unlikely ever sell.

Synths you regret buying