It was highly popular, and rightly so, as it delivered an efficient way to get a variety of ready polished sounds into a mix, in a day and age where we didn't have quad and octa core i7 processors. But overall, this is quality stuff.Īs far as I understand, the team behind this are the one behind the first VSTI rompler many years ago, called Steinberg Hypersonic. There are some exceptions which I will go into detail about as the review progresses. Fortunately with Xpand 2, there is an abundance of high quality sounds ready to use in any mix. I know they sometimes don't fall into favour with those that are into tweaking their own unique sounds endlessly, but for those of us who just want to pick a sound and press record, play away at our keyboard, and have a polished sound ready to use in the mix without any need to touch a single knob, or at most just make a few minor adjustments, they are a Godsend.Īs with any instrument of this type, they are are only as good as their included sound library.

I must admit, I am a huge fan of romplers ever since I had my Korg 05RW and Roland JV2080 modules.

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