VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave App Reviews

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Fantastic. Great presets, thanx.

My New Favorite!!. A history of great sounding apps has just gotten better! I’ve only had a few hours to play with this, but I’ve contemplated calling off from work the entire time! Absolutely love it!! For those of you thinking you’re not really into Synthwave, this app is for so much more than just one genre. Don’t be afraid to buy this!

Incredibly unique and warm sounding!. This is truly a treasure trove of very usable sounds and samples! Grab it now while you can. I’m still going through the many many sounds, but keep getting sidetracked and inspired. Thanks for all the hard work and collaboration.

Very usable retro sounds. Layers!. Clean, intuitive interface - typical of Audiokit. Plus the sounds are great. Also fun and quick to layer and edit.

Another Audiokit banger. Tons of sounds in this thing.

Velocity settings when?. Digitalism 2000 has velocity settings, why not this one? Ive been waiting patiently for velocity setting since the app came out. This thing is not fun to play when you have to smash a key to get sound going.

Please more backwards compatibility. Great synth app on my iPhone, but would love to be able if i could use this on my iPad Pro with iOS13. Compatibility with iOS 13 or even 12 would be very welcome for lots of slightly older devices that still run very stable on a bit older systems, without the ability to upgrade to the higher systems to run this app.

This thing is fantastic!. I almost wanna give it a bad rating and review just so nobody else will find it. But I can’t do that. That would be like hiding the Bible. This app is that good. For the money, it’s as good if not better than the VERY BEST synth apps on App Store. Un-be-lievable!!!

I love AudioKit. So this was buy-on-sight item, just as a matter of supporting the cause(s). Low-fidelity digital synths do little for me, as a matter of taste. I have no nostalgia for crappy recordings on bad equipment (not to say this synth is about such things - I’m talking about the recent fad for noisy, wobbly, otherwise-simple sounds with unnatural-sounding harmonics. Where do people go next from a fad for cheap, poorly made knock-offs of once innovative analogue synths? “Synthwave”, it appears), so it isn’t as though another taped-sound digital ROMpler. I mean, I get the way some bit-crushed and/or noisy, glitchy sounds can find evocative, beautiful and pleasingly ugly textures, but as a category it’s a lot more miss than hit. VHS Synth follows the lineage of the Digital D1, so users will find familiar features and quirks. As usual from AudioKit, the sound, grungy as it can be in this case, is vivid and well-realized. There is no unintended brittleness or artificiality. If you like the sound of purposely distorted tape recordings, especially of synthesized sounds, this product gives you what you’re after in a juicy, easily manipulated form. In fact, the simplicity of the dual-sample/source engine and interface is a great strength of VHS Synth. The source samples come with plenty of atmosphere and overtones built in (thanks to Brian Funk and the original equipment), which allows the developers to minimize the sound-design toolkit without wrecking the range of the instrument. Users can get interesting, usable results in a hurry. As for quirks, AudioKit synths retain a few after many releases and revisions. Some are more obvious than others, and none are major issues. In saying this, I admit my vulnerability to nits, but it does infuriate me to see MIDI values translated to “intuitive” percentage figures, which are then presented as a percentage-balance knob for this or that where the total of the balance DOES NOT ADD UP TO 100%. In modern computing, both systems and app developers operate on some sort of numerology according to which some numbers are frowned upon as user-setting values and others are promoted as desirable. There are several reasons this happens - none of them good. Whatever the reason, I do not want to see balance knobs showing percentage values for dividing a signal where left+right does not add up to 100%. Call me old-fashioned, but percentages are percentages of, um, 100. Left+right adding up to 200 or -200 is not attractive either. Just saying. Anyway, little quirks aside, I love AudioKit and wish I could be healthy enough to help. If you’re not thrilled with the sound of old synths noisily recorded, buy VHS Synth anyway, for the cause(s), and surprise yourself with your sound-exploration results.

Awesome Synth and Nostalgic. I was going through the presets and favoriting (starring) the ones I liked a lot and realized I was choosing almost all of them! Wow! So many great sounds! Typical of the apps from this group. I pretty much just buy whatever they put out since they are all varying degrees of excellent!

Sounds are inconsistent in GarageBand. There’s a sale going on right now, but be warned that while it IS less expensive, it’s still broken. Just checked again on the latest OS just in case it was an OS problem and not an app problem. —— For example, if one creates a new song in GB. Choose a preset. Play it. Sounds good. Record it. Sounds good. Create a NEW track by duplicating the first one. (This works for EVERY other plugin) The first track now no longer sounds the same. (It doesn’t affect all instruments, if you want to hear what I’m talking about, try Jamie Mallender’s “Impending Doom”). Of all the AUV3’s I use the AudioKit ones are the most inconsistent. I understand what they’re trying to do and I commend them for it, but the results on my iPad Pro tend to be very flaky for this. Update: Just to see what would happen, I exported the GB file. That’s not what I expected to start OR the way it sounded when I closed the file. I can’t recommend this at all. Down to 1 star.

Audiobus/iaa. Is there anyway to make this available to route directly to iaa output to FL studio Mobile like you can with Synth One? That one connects perfectly but this one doesn’t show up on my Audiobus list :(

MIDI FX support. Can’t really get it Toruń with Riffer stand alone but in an iPad daw it works

Inconsistent sound quality. Character and quality of many sounds are inconsistent from higher to lower registers. Makes app largely unusable. Please fix this.

Awful UI but I see (mostly unused) potential.. My biggest gripe with this app is this: the interface doesn’t make much sense. There is a lot of wasted space in the UI, the keyboard takes way too much space for what it is - a generic IOS keyboard without any expression. The Output and Layer meters in the middle of the main page are primarily an eye candy, not very useful, waste of UI space. The knobs and buttons are unnecessarily large and spaced out too much. If organized better, everything could fit on just one page. This is in reference to the standalone version, meanwhile as an AUV3 it is beyond nonsensical, as half of the space of the UI is literally just blank and unused. All three pages can easily fit into just one in the AUV3 for sure. Speaking of pages, I don’t understand the labels, for example, there are effects (reverb, vintage, tremolo, auto pan, etc) on the “main” page, yet there is an “fx” page with more effects. It simply does not make the navigation intuitive. Now the most important stuff. Some sounds are interesting but once you realize that this is in big part a sample player and you can’t craft the sound as you normally would because you have no access to the original synth’s parameters, you’ll be frustrated. You won’t be able to change the tempo of the modulation baked into the sample for example. The controls shaping the sound on top of it are not so great (I will say that the reverb is very good though, I also really like the “heat” setting). The whole VHS thing is a bit of a baloney. I don’t buy the whole idea of recording to VHS and then resampling. This however is definitely a catchy sales feature…

Charged me twice. Charged the intro price of $3.99 and the regular price of $9.99. Smh robbed me .

Amazing!. A very unique set of controls built in and great presets. Sounds amazing. Secret weapon material for sure.

Excellent Synth With One Big Issue. Love the vibe of this synth! Nice library of preset sounds that work really well for my style. Price is exceptionally good even at the full cost is still totally worth it. Docked one star for not being able to run it on my M1 Mac Studio. Would love to have this in my list of synths in Logic but unfortunately there’s no Mac version (would buy it if there was) and the iOS version is blocked from the Mac in the app store. I’d be willing to risk running it uncertified for Mac if it was an option 😔

Fantastic Lo-Fi Goodness. Niche sounds that nail the nostalgic buttons of the 1980’s.

Top shelf.. Jeez this is so good. Well done.

Bizarre and Amazing. This is a whole Brave New World for a subtraction synthesis! Developer stays with reported issues till fixed. Now I can save Presets and am having a ‘sonic’ of a good time now!

Killer!. The AudioKit folks have built such a great community over the years and their apps are so killer; this is no exception! I’ve been perusing the presets and there are so many to choose from. The VHS settings are super cool - nostalgia in a box! Keep up the awesome work ya’ll, the $4 price tag is a no brainer for how cool this synth app sounds.

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Wow!. This price in unbelievable for the amount of sounds you get. You could use this as your main auv3 and be set for a long time. 👏🏻

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Many possibilities for a great price. Once I figured out how to record using this as an AU instrument I have really liked it. I find it hard to scroll between the different settings without moving the sliders but that's my only complaint

Very Useful. Great pads, atmospheres and sound effects.

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