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Synth-Werk by A. Arsov
Let's make it clear. I have never been a fan of Kraftwerk. No, I wasn't "rock" back then. I was electro even before electro came out. I listened to Can far before Kraftwerk popped out, same goes for Tangerine Dream, I adored DAF but was never so keen on… Kraftwerk. Model is an uber great song, but Autobahn and Man Machine were a bit boring for me. Nothing personal - it is just a matter of taste they were a great band, but not my cup of coffee.
types of library. So, when you order such a library, you know exactly what you will get, and when you finally get it, you realize that it is even better than you expected. As soon as I started to play with the presets I knew it would be one of my future weapons of choice. The reason is fairly simple – Music is an emotion. Any emotion. Rational
So, what do we get for our money? And if we talk about money, price of And now I'm a bit in doubt, having Synth-Werk was recently reduced to one more problem because I don't 149 Euros. A more than fair price for know how I should start writing about such a buffed sound library. 1300 this product, because as you maybe electronic sounds or presets which will already noticed, I always praise the eat 8GB of your valuable disk space products I write about. The reason is and thanks to Engine 2 – the software simple, I never get anything for that runs the library – you can even review that I haven't asked for in the edit all those sounds beyond the usual first place. I'm a bit lazy and therefore sampler tweaking ability, but it would I ask only for things that I really like. be fair to say that that is slowly If I praise this product too much my becoming the standard nowadays. You credibility will be on pretty thin ice. can't survive in this competitive Usually it is not a problem. I'm mister market if you don't offer something Complain-man. The super hero that more. kills friends and enemies with the power of his complaints. That's me. We always start our sound "survey" The main problem with this damn with basses. This collection contains a Synth-Werk product is that there isn't large number of great, memorable much to complain about. It is a non-standard basses. You will not find specific, high profile library with genre, any jazz bass, Precision Fender sort of or maybe we should say, sound real basses, neither will you find the predefined content, definitely not one classic collection of synth basses that of those "everything for everyone" you get along with many libraries or Irrational
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synths. The "Blip", "Plink" and "Boom Chack" are the name of the game, but this is such a good collection of Blips, Plinks and Boom Chacks that is really hard to beat . Even more, included are also some of the best arpeggio basses that I've heard up until now. To be honest, before I tried SynthWerk, I thought that arpeggio basses were mostly useless, but I found these to be really appealing and unbeatable for building a memorable down-tempo atmosphere. Chords are also a category that I couldn't imagine that I would ever use, but they are so floaty and pneumatic (Musician) that it would be a real sin not to use them. Computer Sounds are those that can make you feel like a robot. Useful for spicing up almost anything. The Synthesizer Sounds directory brings us all sorts of unusual synth leads that you can't find in any other library nor in any virtual synth. They are simply Synth-Werk synthesizer sounds, the closest description would be "Analog on LSD" The next sound category is Voices Choirs Vocoders. If it had happened that they sampled the creature from the Alien quadrilogy, then this name is suitable, otherwise I can't find the real connection between human voices and the end result. Anyway, no matter the name of the category, as we also get Stacked Sounds, Melody Sounds, Pad Sounds, Organik (yes, sure...) Effect