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V-Station

Synth (Analogue / Subtractive) Plugin by Novation
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Free (development ceased)

V-Station has an average user rating of 4.29 from 14 reviews

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V-Station

Reviewed By Shuzhen [all]
May 16th, 2005
Version reviewed: 1.4 on Windows

GUI:
Looks amazing and has been very intuitive for me. 10/10 for sheer simplicity and friendliness. This is probably the interface/VSTi that has helped me the most when it comes to wrapping my head around some the more complicated synths/effects. Everything is well dimensioned, all the labels and data is very readable, and the dials, faders and toggle switches are easy to work with.

Sound:
It's warm. Though you can get some hard, crunching sounds out of V-Station, it's the pristine, luscious pads and clear arpeggiated harp-like sounds that keeps me turning to it when I need that type of sound. The effects section is probably beat for most stuff by a few higher end VST plugins, but I use them quite happily, hearing a superb flair to some of the presets that comes from using the effects to their full potential.

Features:
While it doesn't advance any new features compared to it's hardware predecessors, what it does have works exceptionally well. Even if there is a limit to what sounds you can get with it, if you're looking for something within the spectre of pads, leads, etc, and with huge tweak effectiveness, V-Station is it.
Even with all the new VSTi's that are embarking on finding new forms of synthesis, processing and whatnot, V-Station will never grow stale.

Documentation:
Haven't looked too much at it, but it is fairly detailed in explaining what every function is used for, with illustrations for most, and it's well layed out. There's also a very neat Getting Started guide.

Presets:
There aren't that many I agree, and they have generic names, but among these, you'll find a few gems that sound plain fantastic, and are very versatile. With the ease of tweaking sounds in V-Station, that I feels surpasses most, if not every VSTi I've tried to date, I'm not finding it at all hard to get the sounds I want to achieve.

Customer Support:
Never needed any. That's a 10 in my book. Well, not really, but not knowing them, I'd feel bad giving anything less than a 10.

Value for Money:
Best value ever.

Stability:
Never had a crash.


Recommending this to any person who wants to learn more about synthesis.
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Discussion: Active
Vospi
Vospi
5 December 2015 at 1:13am

X Station Factory Bank (from Banks and Patches tab above) is amazing.

If you love signature V-Station sound, grab it immediately. It's full of amazing squelchy and soft digital goodness.

sunfrostice
sunfrostice
11 July 2022 at 5:44pm

imho sad news, its now discontinued, the good news its now free, a noble move.

linus_369
linus_369
11 December 2023 at 7:36pm

Tried to install the v-station today - seems it is no longer available via the novation homepage (link in KVR descriptions did not work for me and also nothing to be found on the novation page itself).

So I got an installer from plugins4free (https://plugins4free.com/plugin/3883/). Used the "activate" button of the plugin after installation, safed the request file (html with a link to www.focusrite-estore.com) - also this side is not available.

Does anybody know if this plugin is dead at all or what happened there? BTW: had the same problem with the B-Station vst.

Thanks,

Andreas.

SuperJeff
SuperJeff
9 January 2024 at 10:27pm

I was able to find it and download it else ware, but I can't activate it, a real bummer!.

GeekPR1977
GeekPR1977
29 January 2024 at 2:40am

Can't download!!! so sad :-(I love to try all kinds of synths.

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