Synapse Audio is a German software publisher known for publishing a couple of well thought out software synths in VST and AU format, and perhaps more notably, for the digital audio workstation Orion, which is the dark horse in the saturated pool of competing software solutions targeted at producers.
X-Poly is the reinvention of what used to be called Poly 850. Rather then aiming to be a do-it-all synthesizer like so many others, it takes the novel approach of focusing on generating a certain type of sound which falls outside of the norm. Gigabyte sample libraries abound these days, and quality instruments that go in the opposite direction are becoming less and less frequent.
Does this lightweight VSTi offer up something fresh and innovative? Continue to read our review of the X-Poly synthesizer after the jump. (more…)
