After the first few notes played on this VSTi I knew I had to take my hadphones off and hear in through speakers. The sounds are simply unbeatable, some great presets included. If you don't like to tweak too much, presets are a good way to derive new things from, but if you know your synthesis basics, you can get pretty much any sound you want out of it. The sound can have a lot of punch and be subtle at the same time.
The graphics are good, the fact that you can edit graphically formant and spectrum made me work a little differently and look for more detail in sound. That actually made me wish for a separate extension that would let me draw faster - but that's because I'm performance oriented and I thought having a projection of what I'm drawing, changing the sound at the same time would be interesting. I know there are other things that do that, but the sound is nowhere near to Additive's. First analogy was with Wavestation, although they're different types of synthesis.
It's a great synth, one of the best out. I've used it in pretty much everything I've worked on since I got it. If you read the technical specs you'll notice the few other additive synths out so far do not come close to it. Definitely not sound-wise. Just try the demo...
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