Adventus

The main feature of this synthesizer is its sound: it has a VA sound that immediately gets your attention. Quality oscillators and filters and outstanding on-board effects combine to create a very nice-sounding synth.

User Interface:
Colorful and full of controls to play around with, the GUI is very nice. The knobs, for some reason, require you to make two revolutions with your mouse to get one revolution out of the knob. Aside from this minor issue, the interface is excellent.

Sound:
If you like fat analog sounds, you'll like Adventus. It is definitely best suited for dance music, but it has some very nice pads and strings, also. And there's no telling what you'll be able to get it to do if you're willing to learn how to operate it.

Features:
For less than thirty dollars, it's amazing how many features this thing has. Clicking on the buttons brings up five pages of controls for them all.

Documentation:
None, unfortunately, but the developer does have a forum in which you can ask for help.

Presets:
For such an excellent synthesizer, it's a shame that there aren't more presets available. It's capable of much more than what is represented in the default patches. These are very well-done, to be sure, but most are trance leads and basses. Including, say, 200 additional quality, varied presets would bring Adventus to an entirely new level; on par with some much more expensive synths.

Customer Support:
While not the greatest, customer support is available and your questions/concerns will be addressed.

Value For Money:
This is very well worth the cost.

Stability:
Takes a while to load, and, at least in my VST host, I need to access the GUI before I get any sound out of it (unlike other synths). The other problem is that, depending on the preset and the polyphony, this synth can easily overwhelm your CPU. With that said, it has never "crashed" on me.

I would highly recommend this synthesizer to 1) anyone who appreciates a good VA sound, who 2) has at least a moderately powerful CPU, 3) doesn't already own a commercial VA synth, and 4) doesn't want to spend a small fortune on one. If you meet these four criteria, the Adventus is definitely for you.Read Review