Sawer is a vintage modeling synthesizer that cuts through the mix to deliver precisely articulated and punchy sounds.
Sawer pays homage to the envelopes and filters of a rare 1980's Soviet analog synthesizer, Polivoks. Maxx (Claster) has devoted meticulous attention to the detail of Sawer's filter and envelope designs, ensuring Sawer delivers a unique sonic character reminiscent of the Polivoks hardware. But Polivoks, like all analog synthesizers, wasn't without its problems. Keeping the oscillators stable and in tune has been likened to 'moving a pile of live frogs, by wheelbarrow', impossible. As Sawer is algorithmic, this solves the problems of tuning and stability, however, in the same way electrical component instability makes analog gear unique (if not cranky), Sawer benefits from the 21st century equivalent, a coding error.
While programming the SAW oscillator, Maxx accidentally set some incorrect variables and immediately the sound gained bass, acquired some light but pleasing noise on the attack and an overall richer sonic spectra. Maxx realized this was no mistake but a discovery and built on this, adding some frequency modulation to give it a touch of analog authenticity and so 'Sawer' was born.
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A very nice example of serendipity...
And the page doesn't tell it but it is 64-bit.
It's a shame that now in 2017 it is so overpriced.
On MacOS using it in FL Studio it's a really nice synth. Great sound and 'OK' CPU usage.
Using it out side of FL Studio it's absolute crap. However they wrap their dynalib for external VST / AU is as bad as I have ever seen.
The only reason I grabbed it was 40% off black Friday. I did think it might work in other DAWs since it actually has VST AU etc. NOT SO. :-(.
If it doesn't cause exceptions, it max's out performance like running 5 Divas at full tilt.
I used the Pad Iron Moog as a std patch.
It failed in spectacularly in Cubase 7 & 9.5, Reaper 5.9x, Sawer Standalone, Garage Band, MULAB 7, AU LAB, Hosting AU, MiniHost Modular, My own Hosting app.
How it performs on Wintel I haven't tested.
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