My first impressions

Hi, first of all, I wish you all the best for your new company, and hope you will enjoy the world of softsynth making as much as I enjoy playing with them.

I’ve spent some little time with VAPORIZER and here are my first impressions

1- it’s very CPU heavy, with oversampling on, I can hardly get a medium thick pad alone on my i7. I use quite a few CPU heavy synth, but this one is too heavy for not freezing the track strait after usage.

2- Luckily there is the fine tuning (by writing decimals in the values) because I find most interesting things happen in the 1st tenth of the values. It really feels like it would do with some kind of exponential scaling faders instead of linear. (mainly for lfo speed, resonance and detune knobs)

3- When holding down a note, and switching octaves of the OSC, it goes up 8 semitones until a key is pressed again, then it goes to the octave.

4- I can’t seem to save any presets, using the latest version of Cubase 64bit windows 8.1 ?

5- It doesn’t seem to respond to aftertouch

6 - why does Random Retrig boost the signal so much

7- I can’t use automation in Cubase, on any knobs at all

8- I wouldn’t mind a midi learn function

9- I wouldn’t mind sample and hold on the lfo (and maybe an extra lfo some day)

Otherwise it’s very interesting, the eq and effect section are very effective, the multitude of detuning and multiplying oscillators as well as the different filters are very fun.
I’ll be playing around with it most of today, in between cutting wood (analog and chain saw) to keep myself warm, I’ll keep in touch

admin's picture

Thank you so much for that valuable profound feedback. Wow. That is exactly what we hoped for. I will directly add your topics to the backlog of the next versions.
I will not comment to the individual findings as I know exactly that all of them are valid and can be improved.

Best regards,
Tobias

mtyas's picture

Pleased I could be useful, but is there a way to save presets that I haven't found yet ?
I wouldn't mind saving/sharing a few