gforce VSM plus expansion pack 66% off

[Vernon Barnes]

Well I went ahead and bought it. I have been curious for a while but held off on price.

I like it. I have some other options like Arturia's Solina V, Hollow Sun's Prog Pack and Soniccouture's " The Attic 2" 

The Attic 2 is probably closest in range of sounds available. I think the VSM has a certain immediacy that makes it easier to layer different sources together and shape the results. The filter and envelope options for each layer give a lot of scope for editing.  Being able to control the filters with after touch is useful too.

That said The Attic, being a Kontakt (player) library does leave you the option of building layered multis far beyond the two sources available in VSM and It has non- string machine instruments. VSM has way more presets.

I am pretty happy with the purchase even though it was a non essential for me given my other options. 

These things take me back to the days when as a spotty student oik I got to try a Solina in a local music shop. They had the amp up loud as all it took was for me to play a few block chords to bl-ow me away with the power.

Edited March 5, 2020 by Vernon Barnes
(had to use the hyphen due to forum censor)

[Zo]

8 minutes ago, Vernon Barnes said:

Well I went ahead and bought it. I have been curious for a while but held off on price.

I like it. I have some other options like Arturia's Solina V, Hollow Sun's Prog Pack and Soniccouture's " The Attic 2" 

The Attic 2 is probably closest in range of sounds available. I think the VSM has a certain immediacy that makes it easier to layer different sources together and shape the results. The filter and envelope options for each layer give a lot of scope for editing.  Being able to control the filters with after touch is useful too.

That said The Attic, being a Kontakt (player) library does leave you the option of building layered multis far beyond the two sources available in VSM and It has non- string machine instruments. VSM has way more presets.

I am pretty happy with the purchase even though it was a non essential for me given my other options. 

These things take me back to the days when as a spotty student oik I got to try a Solina in a local music shop. They had the amp up loud as all it took was for me to play a few block chords to bl-ow me away with the power.

The big difference for me is Fx , the flanger , chorus , ensemble ect in geforce stuff are just authentic versus uvi arturia and Ni stuff 

[BassDaddy]

I picked it up too. I love my MTron Pro so not hard to do. I think the original Mtron was the first software instrument I ever bought. The Yamaha's in the VSM are wonderful.

[Fleer]

Okay. Guess I’d better get it tew. 

[Zo]

Guyz i noticed that Mtron Pro new version whe n you click on the browser there's easy 2 sec before it opens list , is it the same pain on the VSM update ?

[Zo]

All good here , seems i have this issue with Mtron pro only ...gonna redo an install .... so love the new stuff added guyz !!

[ZincT]

Done! Couldn't resist any longer at that price  

[simon]

22 minutes ago, ZincT said:

Done! Couldn't resist any longer at that price  

FWIW it's been on my hit list for a while and I've never seen it this cheap

[Fleer]

Dang. Some people being very negative about VSM (but not about MTron Pro):

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=420750&start=45

[simon]

4 hours ago, Fleer said:

Dang. Some people being very negative about VSM (but not about MTron Pro):

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=420750&start=45

also some people saying they love it.  Personally I wouldn't let that put you off.

Any criticism I have are down to the GUI/interface which is fairly prehistoric.  This is true of ALL the gforce stuff IMO.  The sound is first rate (to my ears) and the price is pretty good too.