Comments on: Helm Free VST/AU/AAX Synthesizer By Matt Tytel

By: Atme

Atme — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:22:17 +0000

This is a very good looking and sounding free synth! Thanks a lot! =)

By: frejus

frejus — Fri, 18 May 2018 10:45:58 +0000

c’est vraiment cool

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:52:10 +0000

In reply to lbalbo. A quote from the product page: "Helm is Free Software. This means you are free to run Helm anywhere without the pains of DRM, you can study and change the source code and redistribute exact or modified copies of Helm."

By: lbalbo

lbalbo — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:02:02 +0000

NOT FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 20:39:41 +0000

In reply to Swetshop. That's a great tip, thanks!

By: Swetshop

Swetshop — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:42:15 +0000

In reply to Frits. The helmets are a way to modify the sound. You can click the helmet on say one of those lfo's at the bottom, and change a parameter while the background lighting is different. The parameter will then change at the tempo of the "helmet" you attached it to. And you can do that in all sorts of combinations.

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:27:00 +0000

I have just tried it yesterday, and it looks great.
The GUI is very good, modern, simple, clear, great work for this.
I am not pro but the first sounds i got from it were interesting. I will now use it more intensively.
I use Win10 64 bit & Ableton, no problem.

By: Frits

Frits — Sun, 22 May 2016 22:14:00 +0000

Very nice, partly very intuitive. But I don’t get the LFO’s working, don’t understand the idea of apllying them. I still don’t understand the idea behind the helmets and subsequent background lighting ; what does green mean, what does blue mean, and what does the highlighting mean?

Like CYFE said and even worse in my opinion, the volume, especially of the (horrible) preset is almost ear-damaging. Be careful!

By: Thistlefarmer

Thistlefarmer — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:40:27 +0000

Despite indications on the download site, Helm is not currently (v0_6_0) available as AAX. Developer Matt Tytel hopes to have it ready for the “next” version.

By: Scarbro Eddie C.

Scarbro Eddie C. — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 15:58:45 +0000

I know what your thinking…. it’s Cpu intensive, won’t open in host DAW (MPC in my case), in fact it crashes my DAW everytime…

Lol its free. Free doesn’t equal perfect. I was initially upset as can be, but that didn’t last long. I look forward to learning how to code/program. It’s pretty cool when the developer encourages the community as a whole with the intention of building a better VST.

By: Cyfe

Cyfe — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:36:24 +0000

64bit win vst kills your host, os, and blow away speakers with awful loud noise. useless

By: Halon

Halon — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 12:45:42 +0000

There’s this strange ringing /distortion – ish artifact coming from the oscillators for some reason. Not sure what that could be. Other than that, its a pretty cool synth nonetheless. Love the waveform shapes aswell.