SuperQuartet

Edirol SuperQuartet is a fundamental foundation of my softsynth rack. My main use of SuperQuartet is for the electric piano sounds. I evaluated nearly all the electric piano softsynths out there (except Lounge Lizard - for some reason they don't offer a demo version) and found I liked this one the best. So I bought it!

Obviously, I'm very happy with the electric piano sounds generated. The acoustic piano sounds are pretty decent, too, although I hardly ever use them. And, ironically, 3/4 of the functionality of this program - the guitars, basses, and drums - is totally wasted on me. That's right - I felt it was worth the money just for the Rhodes imitation.

Two words of caution. First, every once in a while, SuperQuartet demands that you insert the setup CD into your CD drive. Boy, I really hate copy protection. It's very irritating to be rehearsing (or worse, playing a gig in front of a thousand people) and have to stop and put a CD in your PC. Second, the DXi version saves a huge amount of performance data to its host application - something like 200 kB. I can't imagine what it's saving, but it means my forte rack files are several megabytes, since there's one save for each song my band plays.

Note, these annoyances are in version 1.00, which is what I've been using. I just now found out there's a version 1.5 update available. The single output limitation mentioned by Midiworks2 in his review has been removed in version 1.5, according to Edirol's readme file.