energyXT

This is not going to be an in-depth review so much as a response to the previous review which presents an entirely different experience to my own.

User Interface - Absolutely superb! After all, I made it myself. eXT has a fully customisable GUI that is easy and fun to work on. You can easily make simple tweaks to colours or go in deep and completely rebuild it from the ground up. I have no problem at all resizing the window inside ORION and all window positions are saved with my ORION songs.

Sound - The included sampler sounds good and everything I put into it sounds just like it would anywhere else.

Features - Its got tons and new stuff is constantly being added. It also offers plenty of flexibility and accommodates many different workflows. I could easily use this as my only host if I really wanted to but its real strength for me is in using it inside ORION Platinum to extend my boundaries.

Documentation - Great! There are tons of resources kindly provided by the community from in-depth Flash tutorials to WiKi's to a comprehensive manual project that is underway.

Presets - Not really applicable but I've made a few useful ones for my own needs. I particularly like the way it saves window positions with all presets/projects.

Customer Support - Jorgen does a great job.

Value For Money - Through the roof. It is easily worth 4 or 5 times more than the asking price if you compare it to a lot of other products.

Stability - I cannot recall ever having a crash either as stand-alone or VSTi which is very good considering I use the curreent public beta version most of the time.

Overall I think EnergyXT is about the best 40 euros I have ever spent. It provides me with a stable and complementary application to use for sketching out ideas or cleaning up a project with no fuss. It seems very efficient, CPU wise and allows me to attack problems from several different angles at once. It will revolutionise the way we perform live and finally give us the freedom to do everything we've wanted to do on stage without having to go through the tedious process of having to completely re-do all our songs for another host. In a word - brilliant!Read Review