WhispAir

I played yesterday with WhispAir, and it is a very capable synth, mainly because all functions are on screen. So it is very intuitive and straightforward, recommended for a newcomer to wavetable synthesis. Although it ships with a limited number of wavetables, the ability to load custom ones takes it to the next level, almost in par with Pro synths (or even better, as f.ex. some commercial wavetable synths do not import custom wavetables). To my impression, the synth could have benefitted significantly by the existence of a second filter and/or a richer collection of filters (e.g. notch), but I understand that the developer aimed to keep things simple, closely resembling to what a hardware wavetable synth of $300-$400 would have offered. In general, WhispAir is a very decent synth, covering an area which had no similar ones (that of a hands-on wavetable synth, without blows and whistles), from the user perspective seen as kind of a hybrid between Odin2 and Vital, keeping good features from each of them, thus addressing the new user (who would likely opt for a freebie, but wouldn't feel comfortable with all the details in Vital, but looking for more than what Odin2 offers), while being much easier to learn (and focused for that reason) than equivalent commercial ones. The chorus fx that it comes with is very powerful, and in my testing I tried the synth with my preferred delay and reverb inserts, which complete, to my taste, adding character to the synth patches. An EQ before the rest effects was also added, which is another feature I'd like to see as a built-in fx in this synth, in a future version (the first feature being a bigger filter section). Overall, I would like to see it going well in the competition of the KVR, so as the developer gets compensated for their effort on this great synth idea. For me, it is a quick-and-easy sound setup synth, so it is definitely a keeper.