Product Reviews by KVR Members

I like this plugin! It is good for creating reverse delay effects and features a nice interface! The issue with the framerate appears to have been fixed, so the plugin now runs very well.

I had fun trying these plugins. A few I wasn't the audience for, but the synth and drum sampler were wonderful! My rating comes from the fact that the logo that shows up when pressing the "Info" or "?" appears to be AI generated. I would love to be proven wrong, but there are some weird things about the logo that makes me feel that it is. It may be a small thing to complain about to some, but it's an issue that is pretty big to me personally. I cannot knowingly use plugins that use AI generated images in any way. It's really unfortunate because other then that these would be fun plugins to add to my collection, and I would have rated this as one of my top five for DC2026.

I received this plugin for free from the developer, however I will still try my best to be honest about my opinion with this plugin.

This is a really fun plugin! It's about what you would expect out of an analog synth, just pure fun retro sound design. Of course, the interface is also wonderful to look at. The small number of presets may be a bit disappointing for those who use them, and as this is an analog synth, there isn't anything in particular that is groundbreaking about it. If you want something that's cheaper then much of the competition and sounds good, this is far from a bad choice.

I received this plugin for free from the developer, however I will still try my best to be honest about my opinion with this plugin.

This is a fun, easy to use plugin with a good looking UI that reminds me of older plugins. It features pretty much everything you would expect to see in a granular synth, and it comes with extra powerful modulation capability for good measure. I do believe that often times the modulation capabilities this plugin has out preforms the overall feature set of the synth, leaving me to not use them as much as I would hope to. The small number of presets showcases the features well, however the number may be disappointing for those who use them. The effects are also a bit lacking, so bringing your own is a must.

Overall I think Phonon is a fun, easy to use granular addition to my collection, and I am happy that I spent time creating with it.

I enjoy this synth quite a lot! It has a great looking interface, and it is rather powerful! The closest comparison I can make to this is Cobalt, as they sound similar though not the same. Overall great synth.

I love FM synths, and this one is no exception. You may have a difficult time figuring it out because this synth lacks labels and the controls in the white boxes are weird to use, however once you do figure it out you are left with a fun FM synth with an equally fun looking UI.

Very fun plugin in it's current state! It is very simple and easy to use. It does only have one wavetable, and the UI isn't my absolute favorite (but far from bad), however neither of those things stopped me from enjoying this plugin. I will definitely be keeping an eye out for future updates.

I received this plugin for free from the developer, however I will still try my best to be honest about my opinion with this plugin.

This plugin is very fun to use. I am very bad at math, and because of that I feel like I am not really qualified to get the fullest potential out of it, however putting random equations into it led to some very interesting results. It is very simple otherwise, which is never a bad thing, and I very much so enjoy it here. Oh, and the interface is very well made!

Overall I love it, and if you are good at math you can take it very far.

This sampler is by far the most infuriating thing I have ever used. I really wish I liked this more then I do, and even despite the issues I have it is still the most powerful free sampler I know of.

The good part of this plugin is that it can do just about anything. It is a fully featured sampler which allows you to not only map each key to individual samples, but also map samples to different velocities, with the full version allowing you to round-robin samples. It comes with an extremely versatile set of modulation options, and is also a fully featured synthesizer, allowing you to map subtractive oscillators like samples to individual keys, as well as load full wavetables into the sampler part to do wavetable synthesis. The wavetable synthesis part surprised me, because it is only talked about in the manual, so unless you read it, you may never actually know it exists. Lastly, you can take the project files and use a program called "ConvertWithMoss" to create soundfonts, which I very much needed.

The bad part about this plugin is the UI and it's somewhat unstable nature. Despite the other reviews, the UI, while visually very nice, is one of the most difficult to understand of any plugin I have ever used. It has caused me immense levels of physical and mental suffering. I am not entirely sure why I seemed to struggle with it so much while everyone else didn't, and why I had a significantly easier time using other notoriously difficult to learn plugins like Dexed or Sytrus. The subtractive and wavetable synthesis options I mentioned took way longer to find then I would have liked, and I even had to write notes down so I don't forget where they are (which you can see below in case you have trouble finding them). This plugin is also somewhat unstable, frequently giving error messages which can optionally be logged into gigantic debug files around three hundred megabytes each. It rarely fully crashes my DAW, so I can often just close them without issue, and I will likely report these bugs in the future.

Overall, this thing is incredible functionally, but that power is wrapped in one of the most horrible interfaces I have ever had to suffer using. Despite this, I might actually still buy the full version just because it is so powerful, and with enough pain I will eventually understand how this thing works.

Here are the notes I wrote about these that I mentioned earlier, in case you want to do synthesis in this plugin:
-To add an oscillator, go to the "Regions" tab, then right-click, then select "New region." Below that, click where it says "<none>" under "Sample/Matrix" and select one of the waveforms.

-To do wavetable synthesis, simply load a wavetable into the plugin and set it's note region like any other sample. Then, in the "Sounds" tab, use the "PW" knob to cycle through the wavetable. TX16Wx should automatically detect it as a wavetable when loading, which will tune it and set the mode to WT (this mode can be found in the "Regions" tab, next to the "Sample/Matrix" column).

This synth pretty much offers what Helm does, but with an expanded feature set. I think Helm is a great synth, and because of that this one is great too.