HG Fortune

HG Fortune STS - 26 is a very in depth virtual hybrid synth and I have enjoyed every minute of using since I purchased it about 3 years ago. The ability to do all my editing and shaping the sounds the way that I want them makes it so easy with HG Fortune STS - 26. I love the layout of it so much, that’s probably what keeps me hooked on it, the layout makes everything so easy. There are few software vst’s that I can say make it easy for me to edit my sounds and have total control over everything with ease and HG Fortune STS - 26 happens to be one of those vst plug ins that allows me to do so. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE Setting it up was pretty quick and easy. The load time was minimal and its very light on my cpu on all of my machines. The more that I use this plug in the more that I end up finding out about it. You can really do anything you can imagine with STS - 26. It may take some time to understand how to get into depth with it if you are new to programming and working with vst’s. but you will be able to starting using it right away and playing around with the presets and start turning knobs and sliders to get some cool effects and sounds. OVERALL OPINION The sound and preset selection is pretty solid, I do wish they had some more presets though. I think the Bass presets could be a little deeper. They could have created some more pads as well too, but since I know how to program on this vst pretty good, its easy for me to create almost whatever I want now. Overall, its great if your into tweaking presets and molding sounds and programming sounds the way that you want. If you are into just using presets, then I think you will get pretty bored pretty quickly and you will run out of sounds in no time.

HG Fortune's ProtoPlasm Synth is an "Athmo, Soundscape, Pad & Texture Synthesizer", featuring one dedicated Attack Oscillator with 50 waveforms controllable by adjustable velocity amount, Super Modulation Morphing via Mod Wheel at selectable rows for the Mod Matrix, Modulation Matrix for LFOs with positive and negative inputs, LKO system for delay with four key-dependant modes, Three digital PCM-wave oscillators powered by 128 different waveforms, One LP filter (24db Lowpass) with ADSR EG, Filter FM and keytracking, One HP filter (12db Hipass) with ADSR EG, Filter FM and keytracking, Two shapeable LFO with pattern-like waveforms, One LFO with 21 complex waveforms and free speed adjustment, One shapeable Sample & Hold with pattern, Stereo-delay and many more little goodies. The synth is feature packed, and is SO cool! It's great for pads and textures, and packed with odd samples and waveforms. The combinations are literally endless with this synth, and this is one of the best in it's kind, and there's a free version, which offers 4 oscillators instead of 8. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE The plugin is as easy to set up as placing a .dll file in your chosen plugin directory and opening your DAW. There's no installation, authorizations or anything of that sort. Protoplasm's performance is perfect, there are no bugs or crashing, even on my rather old computer. It's very plug and play, while staying very full featured which is awesome. The synth isn't very tricky to operate, it only took me a few minutes to get up and running and programming my own patches. I don't use this on every song per se, but it sees plenty of action. OVERALL OPINION Overall the synth is great for the price. There is a paid version which costs about 30 dollars, and a free version. There are only minor differences between the two however, and I'm willing to sacrifice only having 4 oscillators for 30 bucks. If you need a good pad synth, I highly recommend this, as it's simply innovative and original, offering a plethora of great sounds.