Product Reviews by KVR Members

I can't believe this is free. Not only free as in cost but also free as in open source and licensed with GPLv3.

Intuitive and easy to use. I tried many DAWs trying to find something that didn't instantly kill all inspiration. Bespoke Synth was the unicorn I was looking for and now, I'm happy.

Thank you to the dev for this incredible gift.

I haven't even had a chance to use this plugin yet, but had to comment on the incredible customer service I recently received from MIDI agent. In 20+ years of working in the audio business, I have NEVER received such good service. I was having trouble opening the plugin, emailed the developer, and in about 1 minute had a response. Over the next few days, the very kind gentleman form MIDI agent continued to email me with updates until the solution was found. After 35(!) emails back and forth, it turned out it was my own user error all along--something was amiss in my own DAW that this developer spotted and helped fix. All throughout this process, I was treated incredibly well and never made to feel anything but a priority from MIDI agent-even when it turned out to be my fault. Unbelievable. To say this was going above and beyond is a huge understatement.

Now--onto playing with this very interesting plugin. Thank you MIDI agent.

one of the creativest stutters i ever played with.

the upper grain part is a bit hard to understand/tame, but i think it is highly worth attention.

The only downside (as for me) is the color palette. i'm always on nightmode and reduced light to the minimum, so the grey on grey is kinda hard to diffenciate. But it's still clear, because modules gets brighter when turned on.

This is a consolidated interface for all of the Airwindows plugins. That is the good part.

Unfortunately the plugins feel and sound like physics experiments. there is not clear direction what each one does, and there are multiple plugins that do the same thing in a slightly different way, most of them are really gentle to the sound, so you don't get a vibe of what they are doing, there are explanatory videos on the official airwindows you tube channel, which will only confuse you even more. plus they are demoed on some really bad recording/production of a rock piece. it's basically the author probably doodling around with recording some default guitar tone. You can see there is passion behind the plugins, looking at the face of the author showcasing them, but they really sound like a software engineer playing around with different audio processing ideas on his free time.

This is such an awesome little plugin. It sounds great and it can push a track backwards to the mix, without making it sound reverberated. Jaycen Joshua would love this one, it is the closest thing to the True Verb trick, but this is better!
You have control over the early reflections sound so you can really make this plugin disappear, and just feel the instrument taking steps behind other instruments. So do you want to push some annoying hi hats behind the vocal? Easy.
Awesome plugin.

This is a pleasant sounding multiband compressor (xovers are set at 6db, which makes the response really smooth) with up to 4 bands, which is all you will probably need ever.

The interface is a bit quirky, because it does not allow you to set numbers by typing them, you have to turn the knobs.
It seems to have either a very soft knee, or some processing is always on, because as you play around with the crossovers before you even bring the threshold down, the sound changes.
As with all compressors the peak level of the signal will change (usually upwards) and there is no expansion setting, so you cant really use this plugin for mastering.

Apart from that, start with the default setting, bring the threshold down till you feel you are changing the tonal balance of the part, stop and add back level to each band to keep the compression control.

That is it. It is good and you can dial a great sound fast. I believe it works great on instruments, it is a bit too aggressive on buses.

This is a fully functional non expiring demo, so if you like it please support the developer.

this website needs to make a correction - Saint Mike DSP is still promoting his Ceiling Fan plug-in as "free" not 24.95.

Hello! I highly appreciate you providing such a gem for FREE! With so many in-depth control, it does wonders, as well as your EQ and Splitter! It even outclasses most paid plugins! IMO, its only competitors are MTurboComp and pajSoil EiS (and its paid version but it has gone missing). If possible, I'd like you to enrich this Comp. even more! What I guess would be great additions are.

• "Preparation", gradual gain reduction before attack (like release function on the other side), another type of lookahead without need for adjusting peak-hold. It's implemented in aforementioned pajSoil and Kilohearts Compactor.

• Delay option for sidechain signal.

•"Step-hold", peak-hold that doesn't preserve falling edge of signals creating sharp cliffs, in addition to the current "True-hold".

• Inifinite to 1 ratio and negative ratio up to -0.01 : 1, an option to fold signals beyond the threshold (I've never seen this implemented intuitively except in Eventide Omnipressor and pajSoil), featured here: Negative Ratio Compression.

• Extreme parameter range e.g. infinite range, -144dB knee, 10000s RMS length...

• S-shaped reduction stage (intermediate character between exponential and linear).

• Magnitude analyser for sidechained signal.

If ZLComp. currently didn't have FIR filter, I think it would also be an improvement.

Again, your Comp. is magnificent! Thank you for your plugins and constant updates.

Bitwig is a breath of fresh air for a unique creative focused DAW that truly empowers you to focus on creating music.

This instrument shows promise. It includes a good amount of sounds that, despite the other reviews, I actually think sound good or could be made more useful with enough external processing. However this plugin seems to be much more unstable then the other plugins I have used from Stagecraft. Normally bridging would help with performance issues like with other Stagecraft plugins, however in this case it seems to break the plugin occasionally. Switching between sounds, which is the most important part of an instrument like this, is also very sluggish and makes it much less fun to browse.