FAC Chorus Reviews – Page 2

Preset trouble

mrdogheadSHoGoAT

The Chorus does its job solidly and well, like all the FAC apps I have do. We do not stray away from traditional, usable interpretations of of their types, so there are no major surprises, but that is no bad thing here. FAC apps behave the way one expects, they sound good, and I have enjoyed using them - aside from one not-so-small complaint. Why no in-app preset saving? Why this asterisk business? Someone writes in a review (for another app) FAC understands this platform. Well then why must we have presets dispersed among different AU3 hosts? This is just inefficient and unnecessary. For people wedded to one host it is no hardship not to have central preset storage. For those of us spreading the love, opening these plugs and finding no or few presets from the many we’ve already made just deflates the spirit to no good end. If one can save settings in the app (this one or the others in the bundle) already, please enlighten. I see no way to do it after hunting around several times. Oh, one other, smaller complaint comes to mind, and though it is not special to FAC, it is noticeable here. The controls in some cases seem to have too coarse a grain. In some instances there are places where I wish we had the possibility to set a control between two settings, but the controls - numerically and sonically - do not allow it. I would specify better what I mean, but I did not intend to go to this place until right this minute. As I say, this is not FAC-particular - it’s partly MIDI and partly the platform, and it is not an issue in most instances - but some developers have managed to finesse these limitations. I’m sure FAC will eventually smooth things out a bit more as well. Anyway, very good apps here, ones I would use more but for the preset concern. They’re all worth a look.

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