Image Line Virtual Instruments

BioHazard was a vst that I thought had a lot of potential to be great, it runs smoothly and gives you all of the options to edit and transform your sounds right on one screen, there are no menu’s or other screens you will have to worry about or navigate through. Its all right there on the main vst screen which makes it easy but still difficult at the same time if you don’t know what everything means. The program was easy to install, the demo version was already installed on my copy of Image Lines Fl Studio. I did need to hit the fl studio message boards for a lot of my questions with BioHazard when I first started using it. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE If you are into making trance music, or maybe even some spacey music then I think Bio Hazard is perfect for you. Most all of the sounds are really trancy like though and that’s one thing that I didn’t like about it. I do make Trance and progressive house music from time to time but I don’t think the sounds were versatile enough for me. I wanted to hear some thicker sounds and less spacey ones. that’s where BioHazard fails to me. OVERALL OPINION Overall, it’s a solid vst that will give you no computer problems or any issues using it. But the sounds selection was a problem for my style of producing. I felt like BioHazard kept me in a box, the way that I know if a vst is good for me or not is if I can complete a whole song right in that 1 vst. BioHazard just wouldn’t be able to do that for me because I like to mix different types of sounds together when I create. But it seems like it would be a great vst for someone who is into trance and hard style music 24/ 7.

Image Line’s Sytrus is a pretty cool vst. After purchasing Fl Studio many years ago I was very curious on how some of the built in synths and plug ins would sound. So I started digging through them, come to find out I got Sytrus free in FL Studio. I though that it actually came with the software normally but it didn’t. I purchased some sort of a bundle from FL Studio and didn’t even know that I did it and got a few vst plug ins with the program itself. I am not sure if you can use Sytrus as a stand alone but I don’t think so and im not even sure if it can be used in any other software besides Fl Studio. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE It can start to cause some problems if your ram and cpu arent up to par. I have used it a few times a several different machines and some of them just cant handle the plug in, it will start to lag and cause problems with Asio sound drivers. Also, im not sure how long the program actually takes to load because it loaded with fl studio and not separate so I only know the load time of the whole fl studio . But when loading sytrus into a channel its pretty quick and instant no matter what machine you are on. OVERALL OPINION Sytrus is worth the buy if you are looking for some good sounds, Sytrus comes with a lot of presets which is why I like it a lot. But once it gets into editing those sounds I run away. I can only edit sounds in certain vst set ups. Sytrus’s set up was pretty different and the layout was confusing. Overall, not a bad vst. I think it would be better for me if it could be used in many other programs or as a stand alone.

I have been using Poizone 2 since I discovered it was in my version of FL Studio automatically. After just looking for new sounds scrolling through all of the vst’s I saw this one and opened it up. It was only DEMO mode though but I was still able to mess around with it then it would go silent (because it was demo). But just after messing around with it for about a hour and knew that I was going purchase it sooner or later . So as soon as I had the money I went to image lines website logged into my account and purchased Poizone 2. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE After purchasing there was no installation because I already had the software installed it just needed to register so I had to do that and it only took a few seconds and it was out of demo mode. Demo mode and full mode are pretty much the same difference is that you can save your work with the full mode. Demo mode you cant save and it will go silent on you every minute or so. But getting use to Poizone wasn’t too hard it was a lot like Biohazard. OVERALL OPINION Sounds are really ambient and clean. Some of the basses arent that good to me. I wish they had some more saw type basses and less wobbly basses. But the Syths leads arps and sound effects are great. You can had so many different effects to everything right on board. Plus it has a built in arp panel so you can arp pretty much anything right in Poizone 2 and you don’t have to do it from the channel in Fl Studio. I am anxious for PoiZone 3 to come out so hopefully its soon. The price is affordable , so if you are looking for something clean to start using that will give you some good synths this is the way to go. Keep in mind it has been out for a while though .

The DrumSynth Live by Image Line is a plug in that came with my version of fl studio. I hardly ever use it and it just doesn’t seem good enough to me. It seems like vst that they through together as fast as possible and didn’t even try to make it look attractive. Its very dull and old looking. I am not sure when it came out but it looks like it could have came out with the original version of fl studio when it came out. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE There are far too many good vst’s for drums that you can purchase to day that are way better than DrumSynth Live. I am not sure if they are still actually trying to sell Drum Synth live but if they are do not buy it. Look around for some other drum and percussion synths. There are some really good ones like addictive drums or toontrack or a bunch of other ones that you can get for free from KVR audio and they will be way better than drumSyth live. Fl Studio and ImageLine dropped the ball with this one. But its kind of confusing to use. Its too much work just to get it to do what you want it to do. OVERALL OPINION I am someone who takes the drum parts of my tracks serious and I do a lot of eq ing ad changing my drums a lot but trying to do everything with DrumSynth Live was horrible to me. This program will not get used again and will just sit on my hard drive. I would un install it if I could figure out how. Do not buy it, there are far to many other programs that are out that are way better. Save your money and get one that will last you for a long time.