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Bloody marvelous

VSM is simply beautiful - detailed, accurate and very useful. All the classic instruments are here and all equally well performed. (Especially delighted to find my old Elka Rhapsody again, as well as the Solina). The lavish layering is simple, if you like it lush as Lynch.

All sounds are Accurately Artificial. Supplies all the proper synthetic spectrums of mood, through Delicate to Tingling, Creepy to Powerful. Martian Coctails to Noir Sexmelt.
Deeply enjoyed the way the strings decay and attack can be surreally
lengthened to create very subtle approaching and retreating horizons.

By the way, the phaser is a blinder - still have my vintage MXR and the SM
version can shape similar harmonic curves. That cascade interaction between electron strings and phaser has always been absolutely essential.

So this is Retro Repro at its best - informed, sensitive, detailed,
technologically extended - and best of all - a new, very useful electronic instrument in its own right.

Receiving the VSM coincided nicely with the start of my new album and I was looking forward to it because I thought it was a great idea to have all these instruments together. I also felt like working with just the piano and string synth for coming up with ideas. Something I used to do in the past, especially when working with a band.

It was amazing to hear the Elka Rhapsody again and the Yamaha SS-30 but it is also good to hear all the other ones that are in there. I always loved the Oberheim sound so I have utilised the Xpander sounds.

The Solina was an instrument I didn't really get on with in the seventies, too silky, but interesting to go back to now!

I do admit though that I did not have a great relationship with the Yamaha SS-30 initially. Yamaha gave the gear to Ultravox in 1979-80 so I didn't say "No thanks". I must admit it does sound flipping brilliant in the VSM though - Nice One!

It sounds great, and is really flexible. and its great to be able to
use it on the road or in sessions without having to lug all those
heavy bastards around!

I was able to use it on the first track I tried it on - impressive considering I threw-up over the original instruments back in my drinking days

its like being transported to to a room with all your favourite string sounds of yesteryear that you forgot or lost touch with

Once again the GForce team have created a synth that produces warm analogue sounds in a very classy bit of software. The VSM is a superb addition to their roster and one that I'll be reaching for on a regular basis.

Vintage funk sounds?, Roy Ayers, Stevie, Zawinul? Nothing else comes close!

As a producer who often uses string sounds it is very difficult to find samples that have their own identity. The G-force string machine, however, has exactly this.

At last I have a machine that has the capability to create the depth of this sound. The bottom end resonates, the mids can be warm and pulsating, and the top end both pure and piercing without sounding like a digital mess. There is also a unique eeriness about this machine.

All of the controllers, the filters etc are both subtle and effective, and add to the overall diversity of this machine. A true triumph in software.

Ken 'prof' Freeman has always been the Master of the Analog Strings Synthesizer. Unfortunately his creations, ephemeral by nature, all but disappeared when his own design gave up the ghost.

It is such a pleasure to find the original Ken Freeman String Machine sound as one of the presets of GForce's new VSM plugin.

Also totally amazing is its ability to layer two synth strings sounds, for a hybrid sound never heard before!

Add a powerful Phaser and - the essence of analog string synths - the detunable multi-voice Ensemble effect, as well as full-featured filtering, and you have the best String Machine synth ever made - the VSM.

If you don't know what the magic of a proper analog string machine sound is all about, just try this: in GForce's new VSM plugin, load the Freeman/Strings 2 sound in layer A, give it a bit of amplitude envelope attack and release, then set the Ensemble effect to 8 voices, mix to full and detune anywhere between 4 and 5pm.

Turn your speakers all the way up.

Play a couple of nice thick chords. If you didn't come in your pants yet you better go back to selling pancakes.

Got the VSM - BRILLIANT - finally got my OB8 strings and xpander sounds back!

If you want Funkadelic, Prince, Herbie Hancock, Roy Ayers and George Duke's sounds from their classic records you'll find them all with VSM.

These are the warmest pads I've heard on a virtual instrument!