Product Reviews by KVR Members

I played yesterday with WhispAir, and it is a very capable synth, mainly because all functions are on screen. So it is very intuitive and straightforward, recommended for a newcomer to wavetable synthesis. Although it ships with a limited number of wavetables, the ability to load custom ones takes it to the next level, almost in par with Pro synths (or even better, as f.ex. some commercial wavetable synths do not import custom wavetables). To my impression, the synth could have benefitted significantly by the existence of a second filter and/or a richer collection of filters (e.g. notch), but I understand that the developer aimed to keep things simple, closely resembling to what a hardware wavetable synth of $300-$400 would have offered. In general, WhispAir is a very decent synth, covering an area which had no similar ones (that of a hands-on wavetable synth, without blows and whistles), from the user perspective seen as kind of a hybrid between Odin2 and Vital, keeping good features from each of them, thus addressing the new user (who would likely opt for a freebie, but wouldn't feel comfortable with all the details in Vital, but looking for more than what Odin2 offers), while being much easier to learn (and focused for that reason) than equivalent commercial ones. The chorus fx that it comes with is very powerful, and in my testing I tried the synth with my preferred delay and reverb inserts, which complete, to my taste, adding character to the synth patches. An EQ before the rest effects was also added, which is another feature I'd like to see as a built-in fx in this synth, in a future version (the first feature being a bigger filter section). Overall, I would like to see it going well in the competition of the KVR, so as the developer gets compensated for their effort on this great synth idea. For me, it is a quick-and-easy sound setup synth, so it is definitely a keeper.

This is a comprehensive production package at an astonishingly low price. As I commonly work with vocals in my productions I was attracted by Nectar. Ozone and Neutron were the significant add ons. However the first plugin that took its place after a day of purchase was Trash 2 which beat my other amps when configuring my lead guitar. Overall this is a great package which, although it's supposed to be introductory, it provides an excellent and feature-rich gamut of production tools. At the KVR-offered price, this is a no-brainer. Get it now, you by no means regret it.

Very good synth, pretty close sound to the original Korg.

A few suggestions for further improvement: MIDI learn has been sadly left out for ADSRs, the modulation, the chorus and the phaser. Also, it would be good to provide MIDI learn on toggle buttons and on the wave shape fields (in Cubase that I'm using, it is possible to overcome this missing feature using generic remote setups, but this workaround poses still some restrictions, as compared to a straightforward MIDI learn functionality - I normally use up to 48 rotary/sliders and 32 buttons to map most of a synth).