Evans
Senior Member
The mention of the annual update video brings up a good point. Different reviewer styles are valuable for different reasons based on how long a product has been in market.
If something is new and still on an introductory sale, I of course like Daniel James's 'Avin a Look style as well as Pete Checkley's content. Just to get a sense of what it offers and try to cover enough patches in enough different uses to see if there are any major warts.
For products that have been in market longer, AKD's are great. I also like super deep project walkthroughs (especially, when the file is made available) like Ben Botkin or Jdiggity's "Aunt Marge's Waltz" walkthrough on the synthestration channel, going so deep as to cover needing to change the envelope in certain patches in certain use cases. It can really help get over the wall when some products are a bit more complicated to use (see: OPUS, due to its wild variety of patches and naming convention...though not as odd as the old version was).
If something is new and still on an introductory sale, I of course like Daniel James's 'Avin a Look style as well as Pete Checkley's content. Just to get a sense of what it offers and try to cover enough patches in enough different uses to see if there are any major warts.
For products that have been in market longer, AKD's are great. I also like super deep project walkthroughs (especially, when the file is made available) like Ben Botkin or Jdiggity's "Aunt Marge's Waltz" walkthrough on the synthestration channel, going so deep as to cover needing to change the envelope in certain patches in certain use cases. It can really help get over the wall when some products are a bit more complicated to use (see: OPUS, due to its wild variety of patches and naming convention...though not as odd as the old version was).
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