Product Reviews by KVR Members

This plugin proposes some interesting ideas, exploration of which is halted by an unwieldy interface with unpredictable behavior. Would be a nice idea to at least add the ability to drag-n-drop audio files, preferably directly, not through "window inside of a window" kind of fashion.

This, along with the others in the SWAM series, is probably the most accurate emulation of the physical instrument, double bass in this case, available on the market. The overall tone is very convincing and it has numerous articulation controls (dynamic, bow/pizz. position, bow pressure, vibrato, tremolo styles, harmonics and others) to make it indistinguishable from the real thing. And it is quite light on the CPU. Running ~10 instances with full automation is no problem and I have a laptop.

The thing is pricey but is worth every penny.

A very realistic emulation of numerous bass guitars, but is plagued with so many issues rendering it useless.

Sometimes it ignores the notes played in piano roll. E F F# G and G# played as E; A#, B, C and C# played as A. And so on. It plays whatever, but not the notes you write in piano roll.

Other times it plays ringing B2 notes when pressing everything above C5 (C3 in Plugin's internal keyboard).

Some key switches and CCs just don't work. Hammer-ons and slides are impossible to make work.

The saddest part is that you can find the posts about these very same issues I described on various forums dated at 5 years ago.

And these issues appear in Both VST2 and VST3 versions. I highly discourage anyone thinking about purchasing this plugin from making a purchase. It's not worth $300.

This is must-have utility for every FL Studio user who uses instruments like Kontakt, Sforzando, UVI and any other instrument that uses key-switches. Once you set it up, for the instrument/library you want it reduces the hassle significantly: instead of looking for key switches every single time, you just switch the MIDI channels.

Surprisingly realistic acoustic drum emulation. Perfect for imitating acoustic kick and snare. After mixing and mastering even experienced listener much not notice the difference from the real drums. Presets are very good and can be used with little to no additional tweaking.

Verry accurate and versatile cymbal/hat sound emulation. Presets can be used out of the box, without any additional tweaking. Overall, the plugin provides much more liveness and variability than using samples. A must have on par with sibling plugins such as GenericDrum.

For sheer amount of amp/pedal models this thing has, it's a must have.

I'd go as far to say, that with this installed, you probably won't need any other guitar amp and pedal emulation.

I tried a dozen or so models and all of them sounded good and quite close to the physical stuff it's been modeled after.

Also big kudos to the author for taking extra effort putting up a Linux versions and tackling all of the most popular plugin formats.

For what it offers: a simple stereo widener, there are alternatives listed in KVR which do exactly the same but with more controls to fine tune, and without quirky installation and whacky activation procedures.

Reading the product description I thought it is going to be a MIDI signal transformer, i.e. it get's one MIDI note as an input and spews out several MIDI notes (a chord) which you can then send to any instrument in your collection. Note-to-chord MIDI assistant basically.

But what this product actually is: a ROMpler with the 5GB library of pre-recorded chords from various synths. That is kind of disappointing.

Unusable, since it only plays automatically when the host is set to play.

There is no option to toggle playback on and off via MIDI signal.