Well, 1000 hit...  I'm with you bitflipper, no need for decimort, but what the heck...

Here's an audio snippit that demonstrates Redopter and Toraverb on the lead guitar (Orange Tree Samples' Evolution Electric Guitar) and Fazortan on the rhythm guitar (from SampleTank).

Redopter has turned out to be a needed solution for light distortion, where the amp sims I have are all too heavy-handed.

(This project was kind of a testbed for a number of new plugin acquisitions. The piano is the recently-acquired Old Lady from SampleTekk.)

Excellent use of both the plugs and the samples there Bit, ol pal!!  Killer Diller.

Hmm, playing with Syntorus presets over lead lines I've had Sonar (X1) go off into the weeds - locked up and hourglassed, meters stuck and no more sound.  If I close the plugin window I get the "Sonar is not responding" windows message and I can close Sonar down that way.

Anybody else having weird stuff happen?

No problems here with either mono or stereo tracks.

My only complaints so far are mostly minor and mostly cosmetic. No hangs or crashes.

I'm getting lots of mileage out of them already. Obtaining them one at a time as the group buy count went up meant that I could devote attention to each one individually. As each plugin came available I'd add it to my current project and experiment.

I used Redoptor and Toraverb on snare and toms to good effect. I ran a send to a bus so I could mix the effect in under the dry sound and automate it so it only came in on the verse.

The distortion gave them a sound reminiscent of those bamboo sticks they use in the traditional Filipino dance called Tinikling (you know, the one that looks like a particularly hazardous form of hopscotch). A Toraverb patch tweaked from the Crystal Cave preset gave a delayed reverb burst like an echo in a concrete alleyway. The result is an effect that sounds as if an entirely different set of percussion samples had been crossfaded in, but still very organic-sounding.

I am a fan of parallel distortion on vocals, so I went back to an old project where I'd used Guitar Rig for that purpose and replaced it with Redoptor. I was able to get a smoother, less crunchy effect that blended better with the dry vocal, and with the added benefit of lower CPU usage.

I just wish they'd re-skin those plugins with a larger UI! And give us direct data entry while they're at it. It's nearly impossible to give the output a 1db nudge.

bitflipper
 

I just wish they'd re-skin those plugins with a larger UI! And give us direct data entry while they're at it. It's nearly impossible to give the output a 1db nudge.

+1
 
I was also expecting the presets to be in a drop down list rather than having to push a button to get to the next preset.....but, these are just small inconveniences to deal with when considering the overall quality of these plugs.

Hey Mesh...if you'll click the Browse button you'll see a drop down with all the different presets to choose from.