SynthVR

Has lots of potential, very fun if you're a music nerd! Needs a LOT more modules though, as well as more compact & smaller modules, I find I don't have much room at all for anything even in the biggest racks.

Game is absolutely dead. Dev hasn't posted on their own discord in nearly 18 months. Game doesn't even detect my index knuckles and just sits there. Absolute abandonware.

WARNING! This is a time machine in software form. If you launch this app you will emerge from VR many hours into the future. Be cautious, it will suck you in and escape is not a simple task.

This is great music creation tool for those who are interested in experiencing modular synths but don't have the cash to shell out to buy actual synth modules. That being said there are some caveats when it comes to SynthVR that come blatantly obvious once you spend considerable amount time within this music play space. Pros: - It is incredible just how versatile in the sounds and patterns your able to produce with the modules that are provided. - you can just get lost in this music space for hours and lose track of time. - learning a new configuration is very satisfying and makes you want to delve deeper in self discovery. - moving modules and linking cables in Vr is very a intimate and tactile experience. Cons: -There are plenty of ease of life additions that would make it a more enjoyable to learn and understand how everything works within SynthVR and additionally make discovering patterns more rewarding and exciting such as being able to save groups of modules together with cables and settings intact and import them into your current session to use for later. This would speed up creativity and you'd be able use what you've learned in the past and build upon it since I find myself making the same groups of modules over and over which gets tedious after awhile. - Being able to COPY and PASTE selected module groups so you can duplicate them and create more complex synth patterns. - Having a wider selection of cable colors for organizing and visual way finding helping you differentiate the flow and hierarchy of cables from module to module. - Being able to change the color of the modules allowing you to color sections of the composition. Have locomotion settings since teleporting is jarring, id rather use the joystick to move around. - It also would be nice if the number of the current discovered session stayed visible somewhere because after it shows up it disappears and then oops you forgot the number. - Having the name of the particular connector show up when you highlight it since looking back into the menu to find what it is becomes tedious. - Having a wireless cable to make connections neat and tidy. SynthVr is fun but these are just a few ease of life game mechanics that would bring SynthVR into a whole other level. all in all its worth checking out and Im excited to see where Synthvr goes next

Out of the 100 or so VR titles I own I consider this some of the best money I have spent in VR to date. As a hobbyist musician this has been a great way to learn modular synthesis very cheap. Fun, relaxing and a nice UI for arranging hardware in any way you can imagine. Setting up hardware freely in the space around you is a liberating feeling. It's just fun putting the hardware together. It has options to export your creations to mono stems you can import into your DAW as well. Only two suggestions for future versions: 1. Multiplayer to bring friends into your session so you can collaborate, it would also be a great way for advanced users to teach newer users 2. More modules and effects (duh)

i wanted to get into modular synthesizers, but i GREATLY lack the thousands of dollars it takes to actually do that. this program is pretty fun, and taught me that i don't really know anything lol. what you get is a full set of modules that you can wire together to get some pretty cool sounds (or HORRENDOUS if you do it wrong). the usage of vr for designing and actually controlling a modular synthesizer is a GREAT use of the technology. being able to place and interact with things in a 3D space is a game changer. it may not seem like there is much there to play with when you start up the program for the first time, but for 25 dollars, this is well worth the price. think about it, you are getting a full virtual instrument for 25 dollars. that's a pretty good deal. i was messing around for an hour, and didn't realize just how much time had past (that's synthesizers for you lol). i will most likely be putting a lot of hours into this. oh, and you might want to have some prior knowledge about synthesizers before you buy this program, or you will most likely be pretty lost and confused, or even cause some nice loud high pitch screeching lol.

I'm here for the knobs.