Product Reviews by KVR Members

We don't have much free tuner plugins. This one is new addition to the free VST family. It can reliably tune guitar, but that it. It should be marked as guitar tuner.

Its not suitable for more complicated tasks like tuning synth with 2 VCO in different octaves and chorus on. This is needed in serious production because synth sounds often have some VCO detuned to get musical effect and it shifts resulting sound slightly, so you need to tune synth using master tune knob. Tuner able to do this must listen for longer period then basic guitar tuner just chasing string sine wave.

If all you need is guitar tuner then why not. It will do the work.

Every sound developer has its unique style. Fanan team develops software sounding like late 90s small boxes such as like Yamaha sound modules and effects sounds like played outdoor through common PA system on live events. This fits very well into Solina2K, Gala is not that good fit, but this style do not fits with organ. Its simply not smooth enough and effects make it worse instead of improving.

From technical stand point organs are impressive. They have 2 sets of drawbars and lot of switchable organ types.

I take Scandi Clavia 2 as an experiment.

Author should focus programming stuff matching his sound style. Drum machine from 90s will be good, general MIDI sound module would be good, after listening to his effects - tube resonator effect would be good, it sounds very close to his style, reverb and delays sounds like live event PA systems - so why not to rework it into PA system emulator? I don't remember we have any outdoor PA system emulator. Also author sound is similar to dry recording with cheap condenser microphone. This can be reworked into unique effect VST as well. Extending Solina2K can be an option, just drawbar organs are good fit for Fanan sound.

It's somewhat useful if your DAW doesn't have MIDI inspectors. It's not super useful because time resolution is just one second. It has to be MIDI tick - about 1/1000 s to debug some MIDI problems.

This can be easily improved in later version. Let's hope it will be.

Small Hammond organ VST with draw bars and one manual without bass pedals. UI needs work, especially missing presets.

Since organs can sound very differently based on leakage and amp used, it's best to check sound yourself.

Idea behind this is good and samples style fits the same style as solina2k. Sound quality, especially effects are pretty low fi. While I would stay away from effects, samples are as in cheap 90s sound module style. This makes them unique and worth keeping.

execution of idea needs some work, plugin is occasionally crashing.

Collection of 21 effects and over 100 presets for them from famous KORG Triton workstation. They are not all effects KORG Triton has. List of effects its not on KORG web site, you need to get demo.

Effects are very good smooth sounding for a very good price.

Included are 4 Band EQ, P6 Ensemble, Tape delay with 4 configurable heads and standard digital delay. It has usable mastering limiter, better then stock one in most DAWs. Multiband limiter is there as well. Compressor is quite basic but has side chain with filter and will do the job. Feedback reverb is there but no gated reverb. Phaser is self resonating and can do interesting effects. Exciter is good, it is used in Triton presets a lot. Included is basic guitar Amp sim with 3 way EQ.

I recommend this to buy as your first cheap effect package if you like smooth sounding effects. Its $25 dollars for 21 effects.

Really good sounding super saw wave (JP-8000 like) synth. Its use is situational because you would probably already have another more complex synth with famous super saw wave.

It is cheap and simple. It can do 2x super saw OSC, some filter, basic EQ and delay and 3 LFO for pitch, volume and filter. No 32 step ARP hurts, it would be much more fun with it.

It sounds better then its free competition Surge and Vital, but if you already have one of these $200 top soft synths - Serum, Pigments, Dune, Hive, Ana, .. then there is nothing you can't already do.

It has nice retro sound similar to synths from early 90s. Easy to use.

Similar to Cheese Machine 2 but it sounds more realistic (like sample based string boxes), while Cheese machine emulates SAW based string hardware.

I am keeping it.

Its simple analog style synth. Sound is warm and fat. Use it if you want warm bass fast, there are not much buttons around. Supports tuning of each note.

If you are person liking simple, one purpose synths then get it.

Its broken. While it loads and doesn't crash it do not generate any sound in Studio One and Cubase. Some bugfixing is needed.

It looks good, it has presets and decent functions for free synth.