VPS Avenger : Huge instrument!

VPS Avenger has become one of my basic virtual instruments for writing and arranging music. My DAW is Ableton. My field of music is between electronic and live music and Avenger is an excellent tool for both.

PRO's:

- Sound - is huge!!! I achieved mild and mellow sounds when I needed or rough and aggressive when wanted those.

- Massive architecture for sound design and wave shaping: plenty of oscillators, modulation, envelope units etc - I'd recommend to watch their youtube channel for the main features overview.

- Wave representation screen which shows what's going on in the real time.

- Lots of presets - "factory" presets you get with the purchase of the Avenger - they help to learn sound shaping and matrix module organisation. I prefer creating my own sound preset but learning from other people presets is helpful.

For those who prefer using "ready sounds" there are plenty of them at Vengeance site.

- easy midi mapping - I use a Twister controller while tweaking the sound - very comfortable and inspiring to tweak something physical instead of moving the mouse. Two knobs at a time - no problem! Midi learn can be done within Avenger itself or through DAW's midi mapping! Very cool!

- constant upgrading - Vengeance constantly improves their products, it's clear from their pdf manual.

- tutorials at their youtube channel - PDF Manual - there are tutorials for every section of the instrument.

CON's:

- CPU usage - the complex modulation chain may boost CPU - but yet I've always found the ways to simplify it without drastically loosing the idea. Most of the time it was me who overcomplicated the chain...

- Requires time and some efforts to learn from tutorials or manual .

The bottomline is that Avenger is an inspiring instrument I'd recommend you to try.

PS: to activate your license you'd need to install a CodeMeter app -

it worth to mention - works seamless on my MBPro.