Exacoustics GHOST v1.0.8 Incl Keygen READ NFO-R2R

Hi,
ESET Antivirus find a troyan in the Keygen.
Has it happened to anyone else?
Thanks!!!

no scalable GUI

My fav release this year. Thank you witches. Firm handshakes .

Look at the price of other synths. Compare them. This is priced very correctly.

I can authentically believe in the lines described that these guys, who have worked with THOUSANDS of plugins, finally recommend one. I haven't read anything like this for a long time. Just for R2R I will give it a try.

I had never heard of it before. It actually brings something fresh to FM, sounds really good. The GUI could IMHO, in some areas, be a bit clearer. To be successful in the plugin business you need to have a pristine GUI and something that it easy for the eyes (you will spend hours....).

- Really good FM engine.
- Lag free, great response of GUI and interactive elements
- CPU friendly (for what it does and how it sounds it is a real achievment)

$200 is way too much to ask for a new unknown company, doesn't matter how good the plugin is. Very few people will invest if they feel unsure if the company will even be active in the future. They haven't even updated the YEAR on the website. We have no idea if it will be updated or how long they will live.
No information on their website about the company. People like me enjoy reading about background of the devs to get some feel for how much work has gone into it. Peoples wallets opens up more easily when they feel like they have a more personal relationship with the devs/company and that they can trust their best intentions.
Some legit programmers behind this, they must have released something else before this under different names. I'll have to dig.
Maybe they are looking to sell their company to one of the big ones. Or get jobs? Why would anyone start a business, built a really good synth and then not even have demo videos on the site. In the hands of a good FM sound designer this is gold.

This plugin is the anti-thesis of shit from Acoustica btw. ;)

What makes GHOST interesting?

GHOST is somewhat of a hybrid between FM8 and serum, you have the classic fm matrix, but also the addition of wavetables, per osc filter/ distortion, and other osc effects.
GHOST supports user wavetables, the same .wav format available in most synths that allow import, meaning you can use it as a 6 osc wavetable synth if you want.
Each osc can work as an operator or carrier, and also has the ability to do fm feedback.
per osc you get unison, osc warps, a filter, and a distortion.

OSC WARPS: Below the oscillator display are the phase and spectral warps, what’s really interesting here is that the phase warps can be stacked.
While you can only see one control at a time, the 4 parameters (bend +-, asym +-, sync, & window) can all be adjusted to different values simultaneously.
The same can not be said about the spectral warps (hp,lp, shift, stretch), which are fairly simple, and mostly a way to sonically shift your waveform
Shift and stretch are interesting as they spectrally move waveform harmonics.

FILTER: having a filter per oscillator is really quite incredible, it means you can play with various tonal areas and layer things up into a more complex arrangement.
There’s lots of cool filter shapes to explore here as well, you get the classic HP, LP, and BP filters, a notch, an arrangement of phaser shapes, a really cool all pass, and a few combs as well
filters can be keytracked, and even audio rate modulated via the LFOs.

DISTORTION: The filter and distortion order can be swapped if you want pre or post distortion. GHOST offers 11 distortion shapes:
Soft Clip, Hard Clip, Arctangent, Hard Skew, Spaghetti, Hour Glass, Exponent, Linear Fold, Sine Fold 1/2, and Bitcrush.
These distortions add a wide range of shaping per oscillator, making this a great bass machine

EFFECTS: GHOST has a pretty cool fx section, similar to serum/ vital’s layout, except you can stack a total of 6 of each effect, meaning you can layer EQs filters, distortions basically to your hearts content. All of the distortion modes and filter modes are available here, and the EQ has a total of 4 bands, all able to be modulated.

MODULATION: Modulation is done via drag and drop, and seems to cap off at 64 total destination. you get 6 total envelopes and LFOs, but in their current state, things are pretty simple in terms of modulation. The LFOs can also be key tracked into the audio range, which is a pleasant addition as well

if I were the developer, I'd legit put that R2R info into references section on the website

that said, I hope R2R keep their standards high and won't misuse such high level praise for too many releases

Is there anyone who uses this to freeze DAW?

Crashes both latest Cakewalk by BandLab (Free and Sonar) on a work in progress song
I could add the synth and edit the settings the regular way, but once I wanted to freeze the track to save resources, it crashed the app. Same thing happened when trying to remove it, it inevitably shuts the app down too

EDiT : Issue was fixed by simply uninstalling the synth. It allowed me to get rid of it in my Cakewalk session. Everything's back to normal now.
Too bad, it sounds good, indeed

thanks for the release. everything working without a problem on win10 + live 12.

that said, does anyone else have the feeling that ghost sounds super harsh and is often not very pleasent to the ears? i started with an init patch and just played around a bit and multiple times i jumpscared lol because some very slight change of some parameter made it suddenly super load and harsh. user error i thought and tried out some presets next but then i noticed that even many of the presets had this super harsh character....
i personally did not enjoy it. to be fair, i did not spend much time with it.

Nice FM Synth thanks 4 the Release R2R and for the Nice Info.

After testing the Synth for some time what i noticed that it is not as CPU friendly as discribed.

For me more CPU usage than the Montage M Vst which is called out beeing heavy on CPU.