This week, in my VST Mess About series, I take a look at Virt Vereor from Noise Engineering. It is a free VST for 64 bit (only) Mac and Windows systems. It seems to have three sound generation modes: Bass, Sawx, and Harm and has, to date, the craziest preset naming “scheme” I have ever seen. I mention it rather a lot in my video.

I only lightly scratched the surface of the presets on this synth as there is an incredible amount of them. Virt Vereor offers a mixture of interesting but not obviously useful presets, sounds interesting and possibly useful for soundscapes, presets not really useful for me at all, and perfectly useful and nice sounds too. It is a strange beast, whose presentation is one seemingly not designed to be an instant grab for most musicians. I need to spend more time with it but it certainly seems to have a strong bias towards making cool and interesting sounds rather than particularly musical ones, although it seems perfectly capable of doing so.

You may think I did it something of an injustice by testing the last bank/folder of presets available, missing out on the first couple of banks of corker leads, pads and stabs for EDM. Feeling a little bad, I have since had a quick check at the first folder of patches and it is seemingly more of the same.

As someone who makes computer game soundtracks, “board game night” atmospheres, and similar soundscapes, I think that Virt Vereor will find a home in my VST armoury for this type of production. For EDM, not so much.

Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think in the youTube comments.

Virt Vereor is now available as a bundle of free plugins from the Noise Engineering website. Check it out for yourself.