Vengeance-Sound VPS Avenger

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.

I use Avenger in every project. It sounds really great.

PROs:
1) Synth engine with different types of synthesis (Virtual Analog, FM, Wavetable). You can drag and drop your own samples and tweak it however you wish.
2) 30 built-in high quality effects (7 of them from ArtsAcoustic). There are no other synths with such a big pack of built-in effects.
3) Visual representation on almost every module of the synth makes it very comfortable to use.
4) Presets everywhere. You can save the presets for effects, FX chains, modulation envelope, pitch envelope, step sequencer, arpeggiator and etc.

CONs:
1) Maybe too complicated GUI for beginners. But I'm not the beginner)) And there are video tutorials on the manufacturer's official YouTube channel. So it's not a big problem. The one can't create such a powerful synth with a simple minimalistic interface.

The product is 100% worth the money. I recommend it!

I'm using VPS Avenger to produce electronic based songs. After purchasing it, the company gives you around 5 GB of sound bank. It's a quite good sound bank and you don't really need to buy extra sound banks till you discover the basic one. You can purchase additional banks on the company's website.
What I like most about it, the sounds being clear and hi-res. Actually, you may produce a song just by using it. The synths are very cool and the software design is user friendly. But still, there are a few things I cannot figure out how to do; such as some effects like reverb or delay adding on the tracks and I cannot remove them. It's been months since I'm using it and I should have figured them out so far. Another thing is, it really uses the CPU. I usually put just 1 VPS Avenger on 1 Midi track, and working by printing the sounds I'd use. This way, it doesn't use a lot of CPU. But still, this is a great producer plug-in for the price. If you're a producer working on electronic style music, you should add this plug-in to your pocket.