Product Reviews by KVR Members

I recently discovered Liftor and must say that i'm really impressed why nobody else had the idea for a tool like this before.

Liftor does an excellent job in providing pitchtransitions and uplifters. you have 50 waveforms to choose from and that alone is worth more than the asking price IMHO.

And for the price it's a steel, you can't go wrong. I am into pop and dance music and haven't touched my arsenal of uplifter loops for days now. Anyone who has kontakt and is into modern music production should definately check it out. This is an unbelievable timesaver.

I only wish there would be more control about the oscillator, to even add more variations. but for now i am more than happy. the randomization does amazing things too.

just my two cents :)

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Have been following the development of Phenome a while with anticipation and i must say that i haven´t been dissapointed.

I wonder why there isn´t a review here by now. It´s an amazing little (well "little") soundfont Player/VSTi with all the essential features one could need in their SF2-playing-needs.

User Interface:
In the latest Version 1.6 the built-in browser is by far the biggest addition and helps tremendous with browsing presets and soundfonts. I can easily browse my huge soundfont collection within seconds. I also love that you dont have to double-click a soundfont to load it. One click. Done. That´s the way it should be!

All the control are in a nice shape and layout, at least to me everything is clear upon the first start (well, okay i must admit i opened it several times by now ;-).

I personally don´t like the default orange colour much, but each to his own taste. Perhaps in one of the next updates Phenome might be even skinnable? Who knows.

Sound:
Phenomenal! Sorry, couldn´t resist. I´ve browsed and played now literary hundreds of my personal soundfonts and the quality vs CPU is fine. If i want to have that little extra bit of detail and crisp sound i can always set the Quality Mode to "High". But i´m fine with the default setting.

Didn´t had much time to check out the library, but what i hear so far is very nice for a freeware by an independet developer like Mr.Prodyon.

Features:
Once again for a freebie this thing does what it does very well. I love the possibility to easily layer soundfonts for big fullblown orchestrations and arrangements. One moaned that 8 parts wouldn´t be enough - well then just open another Instance and there you go! The CPU overhead is minimum when opening Phenome. Of course when playing hundreds of voices i can easily hit the 50% mark of my DAW. (Dualcore CPU 2GHz). But when i pay some attention i can live with that perfectly. (It´s time to upgrade my DAW anyway). The built-in arpeggiator is also cool since it is one thing that i´m often missing with various other plugins. I can add so much live to a performance. One wish i have: Any chance of getting a flanger or reverb in the future? :-)

Documentation:
At present there is none, so lets see when Mr.Prodyon comes up with a proper manual. (But for me it really doesn´t need one currently, most of the controls are self-explanary and there are also much helpful hints that pop up when you hover over a control).

Presets:
As i said previously, still have to proper check out the factory library! What i have heard so far is really excellent!!

Customer Support:
Never had any troubles with Prodyon so far.

Value For Money:
Excellent! Of course because it is free :-)

Stability:
Nothing bad experienced here so far, no crash, no problems. I hope it´ll stay that way.

So for a conclusion i can suggest Phenome to everyone who runs a Windows DAW and has a huge selection of Soundfonts and wants to browse and play them with a breeze. I have heard rumours that it won´t play some Soundfonts or something but until now i can´t confirm that. I had some Soundfonts where there was no sound at first but it was simply because those Instrument/Preset was located on different "Slots" than Number One. So i just clicked on the Preset and was able to choose the sounds afterwards.

Go and get it! :-)

PS: I apologize for any wrong sentences or mistakes, english isn´t my native language.Read Review

I just discovered this little GEM. Let me say that i was always in the search for good and smooth sounding vocal harmony processors, but always found that they´re either too expensive or don´t deliver the results that i´m after. That has changed.
Prodyon made a really nice sounding little harmonizer with some cool features that i never encountered in other harmonizers until today.

What counts for me the most is the ease of use with Enchoir. You just have some knobs here and there, a preset loader and there you go. I just sounds nice out of the box. All you have to do is sing into the microphone, play some notes on your MIDI keyboard and voilá - silk harmonies from behind.

I just truly discovered some of the other features after a little EMail conversation between me and Prodyon. Now i finally now how to make proper use of the Harmony Hold, Shift and Phrase recording functions.

The phrase recording does record what i sing in the background and then lets me play it back while playing notes on top of it - awesome! Exactly this is one of the things i was always missing in software harmonizers. They all have cool sounds, proper skins and stuff - but since i came from the H/W world - i was always wondering why no one thought of this before.

Prodoyn promised a documentation in the next release as well - i´m looking forward to it. So far it was rock solid, i never experienced a crash.

All i can say is: Be sure to check out the demo version and have a go - it´s definately worth it!!Read Review