AIR Music Technology

I have been using this amazing Rompler for over a year now. I am moving to a Linux OS and was wondering if the Devs are planning to release a Linux version for us? Pretty please?

It is actually a very sound creation once you get to the 2nd and 3rd Page you will get the hang of this full sounding beast.

The best tool for working with *.rx2 loops to date, in my opinion. There were some issues with audio dropping out when more than one instance was loaded in a DAW project, but these seem to have been resolved in version 2.2 this year.

It could be interesting small bass synth, but is not. You can craft pretty nice sounds here, but it's very buggy and annoying. First of all - version I have (latest while I write this post) do not store proper its own settings with DAW project. It somehow rely on preset names (and do not update them even proper), not on synth data itself. So after I save project - it reopens wrong, with different sound. Second - one oscillator synth with 4 effects (plus drive in osc section) is not something people expect from paid product. And third - annoying activation (before update it asks for activation frequently, we will see if this is fixed with new version). I like AIR products, they're not great, but pretty good. Except this one.

TL;DR / Disclaimer: This absolutely deserves a 5/5 rating.... IF it was a usable product. Right now, buying this product is the equivalent of buying air (Air Music technology, get it?).

The Good: One of the top 3 staples of all additive synths, contesting with Harmor and Razor. Beautiful and simple synthesis, everything is pretty much on 1 tab/screen. When this synth isn't constantly crashing, it sounds amazing. This would be one of the greatest VSTs one can purchase and own... if it weren't for the cons.


The Bad: Do not waste your money on this bag of Air. You can breathe oxygen, but you can't use this software. Loom is unusable abandonware that Air Technology has no right to make money off of. Not only does this thing crash every 2 seconds for random reasons, but the GUI is completely messed up on every computer I've used it on. Granted, I don't use the standard 1080 resolution, but I have never had any other VST synth with a completely messed up GUI. The knobs are out of resolution, I can't even tell what I'm doing because some knobs are hidden and blocked by the GUI.

Honestly I don't have anything else to say, it is unacceptable for a company to SELL a product that is this broken/ abandoned. Do not be fooled by the 75% off sales that Air is spamming on all of their software.

Another great addition to the VST arsenal and the sounds are of the highest quality. Great product Air Music and thanks for another great release. Look forward to dropping some great music! I'm using on PC. I'm not sure if I should have the regular Fabric also but I did get the Fabric XL. Maybe reg Fabric is only for Akai users, but it sounds Amazing. Thanks to KVR also for great deal.

Just OK and not really worth getting if you have the air flavour pro already. There is already plug ins on MPC to degrade bit rate and frequency.

Very capable on paper.
But the interface is very bad. Cumbersome layout makes it very tedious to program sounds. This gets worse on Hadware (Force / MPC).
The humongous but very unpracticable modulation matrix even has errors in it. The unipolar and bipolar modes for modulation slots do not yield the expected results. very strange labellings.

I work in Music-tech I know my way around synths. This is the most disappointing 150€ bucks I spent on a synth.

This plugin like all the Air Plugins for MPC / FORCE inherits the limitations of the Hardware to make it compatible:

- Preset not being arranged the MIDI way with banks of 128 slots, but ALPHABETICALLY (yes you read right). This mean this will never accept Program changes to swap presets on a per clip basis. Very bad for Live sets.

- No value snapping with modifier keys (Very annoying for Operator ratios / FM modulation amount.)

- Strange routing concept with two busses and dedicated FX paths. Why?

Very Sad to leave such a promising product in such a construction site state.