Product Reviews by KVR Members

Too bad there is no way to edit patches. A VST version should have included a panel for patch editing while this is entirely program and sysex driven, pretty just a VST wrapper of munt.

Edit: I contacted the author to discuss this, but he manifested no interest, despite it could have been the first programmable LA32 VST synth around. A real pity, but since it is free one can't insist.

EDIT: now (may 2026) thanks to my request, a volounteer made an editor dll which integrates transparently in Munt VST. I tried it and it does its job very well ! Now I can say we finally have a true LA32 VST synth, and is free ! Ok it may not be very CPU efficient because it is based on munt (any coder looking at the sources can say how inefficiently it was coded) but it definitely does its job !!! Now nostalgic musicians who want to recreate their old Roland D-10/20/110 or MT 32 sounds in a modern environment have a finally a solution. Requires Roland ROMs though, but they can be easy found online (I wonder, to which point Roland still bothers for ROMs used in instruments of the 80s/90s ??? Meh...

Synthedit has a huge potential. If you accept all its storic bugs and limitations, you can do unbelievable things with it.

The only major drawback with it is the scarce support you get from its author. Despite being a commercial product (very honest price and policy without burdens I must say), the author always manifested little to no intentions to fix well known bugs or to introduce important missing features which have been reported and requested since its infancy.

The most serious limitations are: usage of a 5MB internal queue for transmitting data from the GUI to the DSP thread and vice-versa; the way embedded resources are handled, which at present is quite irrational; the fact you can't export your plugin as a single dll with all resources embedded but as many separate files anybody can rip or modify; being stuck with an antiquate and pointless 'skin' concept since infancy.

Therefore, if you are gifted with the patience of a saint, better if you are also a coder, Synthedit will be a gold mine for you. Otherwise, you should rather look elsewhere.

The 'bad stigma' around it is imho just caused by the issues above, and by the fact not all plugin makers have the required coding or technical skills to exploit its potential fully.

So, 5 stars for its potential, but 1 for user support.

I can just repeat what others said already and agree with them: simple, no controls or bells & whistles either, but does the job it is intended to and does it wonderfully. Tested with Reaper x64 under win 7 /i7 8700K, automation works perfectly. 5 stars from me :)