Magic Vox review on SOS magazine

  

What do you get if you play harmonics on two guitars simultaneously, and then add a battery of creative effects to the combination? The answer is Magic Vox from Musicrow, creators of the well known freeware Preamp Emulator plug-in (www.mcrow.net). It's a PC-only VST instrument that features recorded harmonics from 12 guitars covering acoustic, 12-string, semi-acoustic, resonator, electric and electric bass. You can select any two as the basis of your instrument, as well as tuning them in octaves or fifths apart, and detuning them.

   You also get individual control over attack and release time, relative levels and high-pass filtering, plus global envelope-driven resonant filtering and saturation, while the attractive graphic interface hides lots of extra controls for the raft of special effects, including rotary speaker, phasing, pitch-shift, chorus, distortion, delay and reverb, as well as more sophisticated stuff such as granular synthesis and ring modulation.

   The well-programmed presets are surprisingly varied, ranging from classic harmonics to softly swelling distortion, gritty organs, growling leads, electric pianos and digital keyboard sounds, while the effect section adds lots of pleasing and unusual flavourings, with underpinnings of strangeness. Magic Vox is most definitely a one-off, and highly recommended to anyone on the look-out for new 'organic' sounds. It's also good value, at $99.
 

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