Product Reviews by KVR Members

For sheer amount of amp/pedal models this thing has, it's a must have.

I'd go as far to say, that with this installed, you probably won't need any other guitar amp and pedal emulation.

I tried a dozen or so models and all of them sounded good and quite close to the physical stuff it's been modeled after.

Also big kudos to the author for taking extra effort putting up a Linux versions and tackling all of the most popular plugin formats.

For what it offers: a simple stereo widener, there are alternatives listed in KVR which do exactly the same but with more controls to fine tune, and without quirky installation and whacky activation procedures.

Reading the product description I thought it is going to be a MIDI signal transformer, i.e. it get's one MIDI note as an input and spews out several MIDI notes (a chord) which you can then send to any instrument in your collection. Note-to-chord MIDI assistant basically.

But what this product actually is: a ROMpler with the 5GB library of pre-recorded chords from various synths. That is kind of disappointing.

Unusable, since it only plays automatically when the host is set to play.

There is no option to toggle playback on and off via MIDI signal.

This is a bad product.

Maybe it was a good (and better than all of it's competition) sometimes in the past, but not now. If you are about to purchase it, here's what to expect.

1. It's kind of heavy on resources. Some libraries can make my 2018 Hexacore Core i5 chug to the point of complete impossibility to work (and that's for 1 instance).

2. Expect locate samples manually all the time, because at least for 5th of libraries paths to samples won't work for some reason.

3. Expect to pay $100 on average per library.

4. Expect buyer's remorse. It's a bad value for the 50% Sale price, and terrible value for the fill price.

5. Expect to not being able to write your instrument as a markup file, and fiddling with the UI instead.

6. Expect to receive samples packed in a proprietary encrypted .ncw pseudo-format often with inability to unpack anything.

Kontakt is bad. And it's status quo is to blame.

This is top notch SFX synth with innovative algorithm. Absolute best for generating metallic creaky effects and absolute must have for experimental music and sound design. Quite a gem.

it does absolutely nothing, .

plugin is active or bypassed, tweaked all the sliders, monitored by ears or analyzer - no difference.