Product Reviews by KVR Members

This plugin is incredible.
It does one thing, and it does it so, so well.

Highly recommended.

My compliments and "complaints" about Harmonia are the same as those I made on the new Pro Soloist by Cherry Audio, so I'll just copy/paste them here:

Sounds lovely. Well done. And the presets are great.
BUT!
there is so much interface space given over to the keyboard and the wooden ears...this [overly] wide interface is a problem.
I can see, just at a quick glance, how the main panel controls could be divided into two rows, ...and it would be a more compact, screen-friendly design that would also allow for larger knobs and labels (always a complaint I see about Cherry Audio synths are the size and readability of knob/slider position).

the knobs and sliders, in Harmonia's case, are a big problem. So much so that I initially passed on buying this (and I like to support Cherry Audio when I can!) synth because of it. Since I was offered such a good deal on Synth Stack 4, to fill in my collection, well, I'll take it. But I predict I won't spend a lot of time tweaking or creating with Harmonia as-is. A great collection of presets, for now.
HTH,

Keep up the good work.

Sounds lovely. Well done. And the presets are great.
BUT!
there is so much interface space given over to the keyboard and the wooden ears, and even a view of the space around and behind the synth. I get that the idea is verisimilitude to the original device, as far as can be done while adding the extra features, but this insanely wide interface is a problem.
I can see, just at a quick glance, how the main panel controls could be divided into two rows, and the left-hand slider bank and octave switch could be placed below that, and it would be a more compact, screen-friendly design that would also allow for larger knobs and labels (always a complaint I see about Cherry Audio synths are the size and readability of knob/slider position).
HTH.
Keep up the good work.

Gorgeous. Just plain gorgeous. Overtones, ringing, glitching, aliasing...so tasty and lovely. Did I mention gorgeous?

This is a very generous pack of presets!
There're plenty of bread-and-butter presets, to be sure, but some of them really shine (and wobble, buzz, and thump!). Some of the percussives are really good, like some of the kicks.
Well done, OCTO8R.

I'm still previewing the demo, but I wanted to say:

It sounds great. There are plenty of ways to mangle your audio. It's relatively straight-forward to use.

HOWEVER, that interface is butt-ugly. It looks like an unrefined Synthedit plug from 2006.
Some of the design choices make usage opaque: the "assign" switch for mod sources is invisible until you hover (not always a bad thing, of course, but not intuitive here). Where are the great mod source assignments from Pigments? Or the matrix from Filter M12?
Arturia, please have a re-think about some of these choices. I love Arturia, and I'll probably buy it soon enough, but some improvements would be appreciated. ✌️

[reviewed in REAPER, Windows 10, 64-bit].

Just a short review:
This synth is bangin'. Really, really great sounding. The bass notes can vibrate the walls and floor with impunity. The variety of oscillators and fact that you get four of them in two-by-two-pairs means you can sculpt a variety of great subtractive sounds. And the inclusion of a Formant filter along with the typical on-board FX (chorus, delay, reverb, distortion & bitcrush) adds some spice to the mix.
For the price, and the promise of free upgrades through v2, you can do a lot worse than this synth.
Did I mention it sounds great?

(for those who test drove it under a previous version, I recommend trying it again: the UI changed dramatically from 1.0.1 to 1.0.3 (at least in Windows), and it improved things a lot. I expect to see further refinements and changes as the synth develops.).

Gorgeous preset pack. Certainly not every patch is going to sound like the actual instrument, but it's astonishing the variety of sounds and variations Cipryan Bot has summoned from what is, essentially, a two-timbre subtractive synth! And even the patches that aren't as realistic, they're inspiring and playable in their own right.

nice, compact little plugin that does one thing and does it well.
during my brief time testing this plug, I found putting a curve on your pitchbender's response is a quick and easy way to add so some interesting variation to bends. You could do some arbitrarily odd curves to really mess with your bend, or some simple quadratic curves to change the amount of bend applied to make the bender less effective at minimal deviation from center, or the other way around and make the bender taper off in effectiveness as you reach maximum throw.
neat.

A very nice little filter plugin. Sounds great, and the added ability to "play" the filter's center freq by MIDI notes is very cool. I'm looking forward to the full version coming soon.