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After 10 years on KVR, my first plugin review.
About me: 15 years producing music, last 8 years professionally, and in that time, I've tried pretty much every softsynth ever made :)
Now on to the review... I'm gonna try to keep things simple: This thing sounds great. It's one of those plugins that you just have to try for yourself, preferably on high quality studio monitors.
User Interface:
Nice design, easy on the eyes, single page interface. I'd go with skins support, but that's just me. 10/10
Features:
All the basic features of a VA synth are here, plus some exotic ones like sub/modulator/distortion/filter PER oscillator (so one for each oscillators), 2 multimode master filters, FM/ringmod, effects (delay, chorus. reverb, etc.), arp/trance gate, integrated 2x oversampling that goes up to 8x, true unison mode, oscilator character selector, LFO's, ADSR/multipoint envelopes, modmatrix and more.....
Documentation:
Detailed pdf describes everything in detail, but honestly, if you need a manual for this thing, you're prolly very new to VA synths in general.
Presets:
200 presets, which in not a lot, but they sound great. The programmer is also a sound designer, so I'm expecting more sounds coming in the near future. And most importantly, making your own sounds is a breeze.
Customer Support:
No experience with it directly, but the plugin developer is very friendly and listening to user's feature requests/ bug reports, so I'm gonna assume the support is good.
Value For Money:
At 150$ on the discount now, and 200$ usual price, it's not cheap. But then again, I'd rather have 1-2 quality VA synths, than 10 average ones.
Stability:
Few small insignificant bugs, most of which are being fixed for next update. Nothing major. All in all, very stable so far (no problems in cubase 6 and FL 10). Keep in mind, though: It's a bit of a CPU hog. I suggest at least a dual core for it, quad core recommended for a healthy number of instances (personally running a max of around 24 of them on an i7 930@3.6GHz).
SOUND:
I've saved this for last, because this is the main thing that made me fall in love with this thing and actually write a review.
The high frequencies are amazingly smooth and crystal clear, something I've never found in a VST until now. It has punch, bite and character. It kind of reminds me of my virus Ti in a way that, whatever I tweak, I get good sounds from it.
In case you missed it, this is one of my new favorite VA softsynths. 9.5/10Read Review
About me: 15 years producing music, last 8 years professionally, and in that time, I've tried pretty much every softsynth ever made :)
Now on to the review... I'm gonna try to keep things simple: This thing sounds great. It's one of those plugins that you just have to try for yourself, preferably on high quality studio monitors.
User Interface:
Nice design, easy on the eyes, single page interface. I'd go with skins support, but that's just me. 10/10
Features:
All the basic features of a VA synth are here, plus some exotic ones like sub/modulator/distortion/filter PER oscillator (so one for each oscillators), 2 multimode master filters, FM/ringmod, effects (delay, chorus. reverb, etc.), arp/trance gate, integrated 2x oversampling that goes up to 8x, true unison mode, oscilator character selector, LFO's, ADSR/multipoint envelopes, modmatrix and more.....
Documentation:
Detailed pdf describes everything in detail, but honestly, if you need a manual for this thing, you're prolly very new to VA synths in general.
Presets:
200 presets, which in not a lot, but they sound great. The programmer is also a sound designer, so I'm expecting more sounds coming in the near future. And most importantly, making your own sounds is a breeze.
Customer Support:
No experience with it directly, but the plugin developer is very friendly and listening to user's feature requests/ bug reports, so I'm gonna assume the support is good.
Value For Money:
At 150$ on the discount now, and 200$ usual price, it's not cheap. But then again, I'd rather have 1-2 quality VA synths, than 10 average ones.
Stability:
Few small insignificant bugs, most of which are being fixed for next update. Nothing major. All in all, very stable so far (no problems in cubase 6 and FL 10). Keep in mind, though: It's a bit of a CPU hog. I suggest at least a dual core for it, quad core recommended for a healthy number of instances (personally running a max of around 24 of them on an i7 930@3.6GHz).
SOUND:
I've saved this for last, because this is the main thing that made me fall in love with this thing and actually write a review.
The high frequencies are amazingly smooth and crystal clear, something I've never found in a VST until now. It has punch, bite and character. It kind of reminds me of my virus Ti in a way that, whatever I tweak, I get good sounds from it.
In case you missed it, this is one of my new favorite VA softsynths. 9.5/10Read Review
