Product Reviews by KVR Members

I've always really enjoyed Full Bucket's plugins- they booth look and sound great. Although I've never owned or used many of the vintage synths they emulate, I've compared a lot of the sounds to recordings of the originals and for my purposes they've always been fantastic. Some of the best free vintage synth plugins out there and it's a nice alternative to shelling out tens of thousands of dollars if you're on a budget like me.

Not a melodic or rhythmic instrument in the traditional sense but that's not the purpose of this plugin. It's pretty cool if you're looking to make some lo-fi stuff or need to recreate the imperfections of a VHS tape for sound design purposes. My only complaint is each preset has the same sound mapped to every key-it seems to me it might be useful in a future update to include a preset where every different sound is mapped to a different key so they can all be accessed simultaneously. There are 26 different presets so it should be possible- please make it happen SampleScience, you guys rule.

Very nice-sounding plate with a built-in EQ and spectrum analyzer; really useful for carving out unnecessary frequencies. Not a whole lot of good free plate reverbs out there so this is a nice option.

very cool little plugin with 4 one-knob effect modules- a lovely glittery bitcrusher/sample degradation; an effect that can only be described as a sort of lo-fi smeary reverb; a nice warm and gritty tape simulation with more warble and flutter the higher the knob goes; and a very nasty (in a good way) compressor with a ton of character for nice gluing together. Simple in concept but the execution is beautiful- all 4 effects sound great but the standout is probably the purple alien reverb(?) module, as it is very murky and unique- I think it will be getting a lot of use in my tracks.

Fantasic plugin- I paid for Baby Audios Super VHS but this is easily just as good, if not better because more tweakable parameters. Also a beautiful GUI that evokes old blank VHS tape packages from the 80s/early 90s. Another great freebie from BPB.