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.

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There were some interesting sounds that could form useful pad layer elements as well as a couple of things that sounded a bit like cows, but maybe that’s just me. The modulation section looks a little daunting but seems quite versatile judging by the bend or portamento effects I could hear, even when auto bend was turned right down. If I make a “first patch” video then I might find out how it works.

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Having run through the presets of the Essence Plus trance synthesiser, I thought i would attempt to make a sort of trance pluck patch from scratch. Queue lots of faffing. As a heads up, my PC was on the verge of crashing so any issues with the responsiveness of the VST controls should not be placed at the feet of the VST itself. I also apologise for lopping off the left part of the screen. Something odd happened during the video export.

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Based on the presets, Essence Plus positions itself in the “trance synthesiser” camp and the preset sounds, on the whole, not only provides suitable sounds and demonstrates a really usable arpeggiator/chord tool but ends up being rather inspiring. You know that a synth is going to be useful when you instantly enjoy playing with the sounds and want to start creating a track using them then and there.

You may also watch this video on youTube where the description has time-stamps for the different preset types (such as plucks, pads, etc).

After running through the presets I decided to try making a patch of my own. See Essence Plus – Part 2.

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