Vaporizer 2...WTF????

[wagtunes]

So I'm on Facebook and recently joined Free VST Plugins because there was something I wanted to respond to that was in my feed. Guy was looking for a free plugin to do something. Don't remember what but I know I helped him with it.

Anyway, so now I'm getting all these Free VST Plugin group feeds. In fact, I am being inundated with them. Well, one of them had the headline...

"The Free Serum After You Get It You Can't Use It"

I was curious. So I checked it out. It was Vaporizer 2. Now I had the original but it stopped working at some point because of all my updates. So I downloaded version 2 and fired it up.

How do they give something like this away for free? I mean have you seen this thing? For a paid synth it would be amazing. But free?

My best purchase of the year.

So what do you guys think of Vaporizer 2?

[TechHaus]

Facebook really is like catnip to boomers.

[Korg Supporter]

So I'm on Facebook and recently joined Free VST Plugins because there was something I wanted to respond to that was in my feed. Guy was looking for a free plugin to do something. Don't remember what but I know I helped him with it.

Anyway, so now I'm getting all these Free VST Plugin group feeds. In fact, I am being inundated with them. Well, one of them had the headline...

"The Free Serum After You Get It You Can't Use It"

I was curious. So I checked it out. It was Vaporizer 2. Now I had the original but it stopped working at some point because of all my updates. So I downloaded version 2 and fired it up.

How do they give something like this away for free? I mean have you seen this thing? For a paid synth it would be amazing. But free?

My best purchase of the year.

So what do you guys think of Vaporizer 2?

There was a One Synth Challenge that involved it viewtopic.php?t=604469

My biggest gripe with it is that it doesn't have ring modulation between oscillators. I think Vital can still do a lot of things it can't. But both are good.

[starflakeprj]

How do they give something like this away for free? I mean have you seen this thing? For a paid synth it would be amazing. But free?

I guess the developer felt the competition among wavetable synths and decided they had better things to do, so they stopped active development and "unleashed" it (their own word) as open source. I don't think it sold as well as it deserved to, to be honest. Serum and Vital got most of the spotlight, and then we have ANA 2, Avenger 2, RAPID, Icarus 3, and Sektor as well . The latter also seems to have stalled in development (not released as open source, but sold very cheap onec in a while), even though I really liked it. And then there are obviously many more wavetable synths that deserves more attention than they get.

I remember liking Vaporizer (I upgraded to version 2 not too long before they released it as open source), but while it sounded great, it wasn't quite as polished as the "big guns".

It doesn't look like it's getting much active development these days, even as an open-source project. Surge XT has had way more success in that regard.

Thanks for the reminder though! I think I'll download it again and give it another spin.