Product Reviews by KVR Members

In my opinion, all VST developers are heroes because if it was not for these people of deep technical knowledge and hard work, all of us music producers would not have certian tools to do our smithing with, one of the heroes i am highlighting here is Björn of Full Bucket Music and one of his great designs - WhispAir, i cannot beleive that this is free! 3 hard syncable Oscillators with multiple waveforms to choose from (And you can load your own wavetables), 24db (Especially high pass) filtering for the sub bass addict (Like myself) all coded in C++ making the tiniest footprint on my cpu, this is one tight synth!, it gave me great pleasure to give a donation to Full Bucket Music because i don't want these sort of vst's to stop coming forth from a gifted, natural talent.If the KVR rating system went up to 10 stars WhispAir would be the full 10 stars from me.

A few years ago in my quest for some heavy bassline i bought U-he's Diva after reading all the positive reviews, when i fired it up in my DAW and played some of the presets i thought wow! the sounds are trying to jump out of my speakers, this is one mad moogy! i was well hyped up! so i programmed a sub bass then selected a dream synth patch and a lead for a tune i was working on, my poor pc didn't know what hit it! instant 100% CPU useage and the DAW grinds to a halt, i have upgraded my pc since that time but somehow still struggle to comfortably get more than 3 instances of Diva running in my tunes (Unless the sounds are very simple) i really like Diva, there are plenty of flavours to be tasted with it's module swapping ability (Love that feature!) Diva is definitely a top draw VST no doubt and i fully understand Urs stance on keeping it real with no compromise on sparing the CPU cycles to deliver good quality sonics, i haven't made a tune with Diva since i bought it but i want to now, i think the only way i can wing it is to stream out the tracks as WAV files, the bottom line is Diva is a beefy synth! i give Diva 9 and a half out of 5 stars (With less CPU useage it would be 10 stars).

I picked up the Martinic AX73 with all the expansions in a recent sale, a lot of the sounds have an inspirational vibe to them that almost forces me to want to make music, also the library system is very good, a nice touch is the tag section for quickly finding the category and type of sound you are looking for, this plugin is going to get plenty of use :-) my full respects to the developer for this vibrant sound tool, i give it 6 out of 5 stars.

A quick Review:-

The name "WARRIOR" got my interest, so i downloaded it to hear if it was a sonic warrior. For a free synth it is not bad at all and with some tweaking (Holding the left mouse button over the oscillator waveform image then dragging up and down for wave selection, this can be automated as well) some nice modern sounds can be aquired, a user manual and a larger sound library would help to show it's real potential, if the developer reads this please optimize the CPU usage a bit more and if you are adventurous a randomizer to make presets would make this synth work wonders as sound design is not my expertise but there is an air to Warrior's character that makes me think that it can "spit" out many an interesting sound, thank you for this freebie and keep up the good work sir.

If you are looking for a VST instrument that can produce very playable and unique blown and plucked sounds but also had a low CPU hit Modelonia is the perfect instrument for the task. Modelonia has an orchestral/score vibe to it and it comes with a large library of sounds to get you started and there is plenty of control and modulation to play with to get even more interesting things happening, i found myself inspired and easily coming up with melodies with this plugin and i can see it playing a major part in a lot of my productions. For £53.00 Modelonia is worth every penny, a big plus for me is that there is none of this off putting intrusive jumping through hoops internet connection needed business before you start to use the software that you have just paid for (Some developers need to realize that the vast majority of us producers are good, honest hard working folk and keep their copy protection scheme simple and pain free - rant over!) the support from the NUSofting developer has been very responsive and helpful when i asked for advice and as long as NUSofting stays in business they will also have my support as a customer.

First of all i want send some love out to Studiolinked team for creating products that have helped me a lot in my music productions, i have bought CRANK, MODERNIZE and my last recent purchase was DRUMMA.

DRUMMA is an excellent drum machine with a vast amount of drum and percussion sounds, these sounds are FAT! also plenty of kits, you also have total control over each drum sound enabling you to filter, tune the sound, adjust the attackdecay, there are also on board effects which add even more dimension.

I would have given this plugin 5 stars but my only gripe is that DRUMMA does not have separate outputs for each pad (It would have been nice to have at least 6 outputs) for such a professional VST drum machine i am surprised that it does not have this feature so that we producers can do even more processing and control over each sound, yet i still bought it because it sounded TUFF! so i am now asking, no, i am begging the Studiolinked team for DRUMMA 2, this time with separate outputs then this will be the only drum machine that i will ever need! please Studiolinked team do the right thing :-) i have put cash aside for this.

I have been a KVR member since it's early days and i have never been inspired to write a review on a plugin until i bought the SP1000 from Stuart Pryer and i have got to say that i did not want to write this review because i wanted this synth to be my secret weapon as a source for bass after i tried the demo version, my word! for bass this synth is LETHAL!!!!! it has raw powerful oscillators and filter with character, with a little tweaking my basslines are now like an axe chopping through the mix as opposed to hollow, sterile bass sounds that i was getting from other vst's, if the SP1000 can deliver good basses i am sure that it is also capable of some good strong leads as well, Stuart Pryer and his SP1000 creation has taught me a valuable lesson in VST analogue emulation that i will cherish for the rest of my life, thank you very much Stuart.

Pros: - For such a high quality and well coded VST (Very low CPU consumption) this is £20 well spent, a very solid investment, i love the vintage GUI, i use this for bass only so if you are looking for a bass solution to up your game, buy this VST and spend a little time (Like i did) tweaking the oscillators and adjusting the filter to your taste, learn this VST and you have bass for life.

Cons: - The only con (If you are fussy) is that it is 32-bit only, at the end of the day it' all about the sound and for me this VST plugin delivers proper bass! you can use jbridge if your DAW setup is 64-bit, i use Reaper which has it's own 32-bit bridging, there are no other cons.

As i have mentioned before, i did not want to share this information but the bottom line is i have a conscience, we are on this planet to help each other and i hope that this review will help you in the low frequency department on your musical journey.