SynthMakerchironex ·
With so many great free VSTs out there these days, it can be hard to make a VST that's actually worth a price. What are people looking for in commercial VSTs?
What makes a VST worth buying?
From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.
Nu Audio Science ·
Find a niche and fill it
NAS
infuzion ·
Killer presets, lower CPU, easy & fun to use, good value (think Audio Damage), good support edit: NO drama (crashes, issues, quirks, etc)
digitalbass ·
Sound and how much resources it uses.
Dave ·
as said before:
1) many good presets 2) lower cpu usage
Saiera ·
Definitely the sound for me even at the cost of CPU.
NekroDisko ·
I´m with you ,Saiera. However I also find a nice look inspiring, where all controls are easily understood and some good presets (they dont have to be so many, AFAIC) to get me going. And, of course, the prize... Free is always nice (or at least a great time-limited Demo, without them "hizzes", to give a taste of what you´ll be paying for)...
Acrobat ·
I've seen recently some "direct" requests of plugins. A guy needs a frequency splitter with MIDI input, he knows that there are several apps to do the job, he does not own any of them so he simply put an ad on KVR hoping someone will answer. Obviously it's quite simple task for any SM programmer: lets put together recent Aliasant's Pitch to frequency code with Exonerate's frequency band splitter and the job is done. So it's no more a question of "find a niche and fill it", people seem to just appreciate products based directly on their specific needs. Unfortunately this tendency totally cuts out the interest of the programmer, which may bring on some projects because he loves them and uses himself in his musical production... strange times....
ScottKane ·
Sound, Functions like LFOs controling crazy stuff, Cool presets, easy Midi learn, many options not few, and the cpu at the end not first
keha76 ·
I totally agree with most of the replies above. But imho it's an extra plus if it also looks good and is easy to use, a good synth with a useless GUI is not that fun to use!
MegaHurtz ·
Yes, Though sound and portability are at the top of my list.
infuzion ·
keha76 wrote: I totally agree with most of the replies above...
Welcome to SM keha! (We try to stay on topic here, but we are friendly)
Dell ·
A lower CPU is the only reason I have other plug-ins other than my own in my host.
Fortunately, Sythnmaker eliminated a lot of plug-ins. 🙂
Unfortunately, making plug-ins is quite addictive and, I’ve lost sleep staring at the monitor dialling figures in floats. 🙁
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