I've been playing with Revalver 4 and it has very little system resource usage compared to Guitar Rig 5.  You should check that out.
 
I also brought in 3rd party VST's today and have been building custom presets.  Very cool.

Rim,

Yeah, the ability to use 3rd party VST's is quite handy...especially in stand alone...

I've heard mixed opinions on the sound.
How are the "crunch" to "heavy crunch" sounds?
How is response to playing dynamics and rolling off guitar volume?

As always, it still has the "digital edge"...but, it's still software so that's to be expected...

But, to me, it sounds like a Mic in front of an amp.  It seems to respond well to playing dynamics...
I have all of the amp sims except S-Gear..because he RARELY, if EVER has a sale...

To me, it's quite realistic (for a piece of software) but that is my "subjective opinion" and,
having only played with it a few hours...there's much yet to learn about it.

Had thrown out the box for the MF no brainer and sent a request to support for the free upgrade that seems to have been on the shrink wrap.
 
Got an email back from Jose at support asking for proof of purchase to get the upgrade to III.V.
 
Sent the PayPal receipt from MF per request. Srangely, they can't connect you with an account and your serial number, which was required in order to register and authorize to begin with.
 
Will let you all know how this comes down. Quick response so far.
 
John

"How are the "crunch" to "heavy crunch" sounds?
How is response to playing dynamics and rolling off guitar volume?"

Bingo......that there is the true test and what I am interested in as well. I will be curious to know what people think about those qualities once they really give this a work out.

Mike,
 
Cardinal question...
 
From the perspective of III.V, the fuzz is generic marginal as good as most synthetic digital attempts get, if you don't need subtle gradients of something like Scuffham or HeadCase. Revalver delivers generic impressive fuzz if you need balls to the wall volume with no dynamics. Nice program.
 
Where the program falls apart is in the ability to breathe increments of overdrive.
 
Back off on the input and it reduces the fuzz, but just a recessed mix of dry and the hard wall square wave. As much as I can hear.
 
 
John
 
 
 
edited to take out my brainless alcoholic rant against whatever I was ranting about......

John I got a email from Jose too. He wanted to know if I still had the box. And he wants a copy of receipt to be emailed to him. Will do first thing in the morning. Will let ya know how it goes.

I've noticed I'm Revalver 3. Oh well, back to Scuffham, Amplitube, TH 2, Guitar Rig......

Friends,
 
Had to edit out my soapbox against activation. Jose emailed on the weekend that he was fixing the problem, so sorry about getting unhinged at Peavey. Don't know if I'll actually upgrade to 4 yet, but would be nice to have ver III.V.
 
Anyone who purchased ver III thru MF can easily go into your account there and click on the details of the purchase, which does say free upgrade to III.V if the upgrade was offered during the specific sale.
 
Hope this helps,
 
John