Leave a Review VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave
Something special
This synth really hits a note with me - no cringy pun intended of course. I could rant on for far too long so I’ll keep it short. The preset “Psycho 78” is worth the price alone. Excellent jobMrGoozy
Awful UI but I see (mostly unused) potential.
My biggest gripe with this app is this: the interface doesn’t make much sense. There is a lot of wasted space in the UI, the keyboard takes way too much space for what it is - a generic IOS keyboard without any expression. The Output and Layer meters in the middle of the main page are primarily an eye candy, not very useful, waste of UI space. The knobs and buttons are unnecessarily large and spaced out too much. If organized better, everything could fit on just one page. This is in reference to the standalone version, meanwhile as an AUV3 it is beyond nonsensical, as half of the space of the UI is literally just blank and unused. All three pages can easily fit into just one in the AUV3 for sure. Speaking of pages, I don’t understand the labels, for example, there are effects (reverb, vintage, tremolo, auto pan, etc) on the “main” page, yet there is an “fx” page with more effects. It simply does not make the navigation intuitive.
Now the most important stuff. Some sounds are interesting but once you realize that this is in big part a sample player and you can’t craft the sound as you normally would because you have no access to the original synth’s parameters, you’ll be frustrated. You won’t be able to change the tempo of the modulation baked into the sample for example. The controls shaping the sound on top of it are not so great (I will say that the reverb is very good though, I also really like the “heat” setting). The whole VHS thing is a bit of a baloney. I don’t buy the whole idea of recording to VHS and then resampling. This however is definitely a catchy sales feature…Show lessMatreve
Fun, but frustrating keyboard
It another fun set of sounds but I do wish the Audiokit gang would invest a bit more effort into the touch keyboards. This one is the worst so far, with the black keys extra thin and much more difficult to hit than in apps like GarageBand or the Korg and Moog apps. There’s no pitch or mod wheels this time, and for some reason the top C key is missing. Most mini keyboards are 37 keys, guys, not 36.Show lessMaWo360
Bizarre and Amazing
This is a whole Brave New World for a subtraction synthesis!
Developer stays with reported issues till fixed.
Now I can save Presets and am having a ‘sonic’ of a good time now!Eriptron
Fantastic
Great presets, thanx.Bb be
Wow!
This price in unbelievable for the amount of sounds you get. You could use this as your main auv3 and be set for a long time. 👏🏻Jsosncuencl
Inconsistent sound quality
Character and quality of many sounds are inconsistent from higher to lower registers. Makes app largely unusable. Please fix this.Jackster847
This thing is fantastic!
I almost wanna give it a bad rating and review just so nobody else will find it. But I can’t do that. That would be like hiding the Bible.
This app is that good. For the money, it’s as good if not better than the VERY BEST synth apps on App Store.
Un-be-lievable!!!Dr. Sidney Gottlieb
Awesome Synth and Nostalgic
I was going through the presets and favoriting (starring) the ones I liked a lot and realized I was choosing almost all of them! Wow! So many great sounds! Typical of the apps from this group. I pretty much just buy whatever they put out since they are all varying degrees of excellent!JBChristian
Very Useful
Great pads, atmospheres and sound effects.Looped Boy
