Personally I think the gems are worth it, others may not. Your going to find that you'll need to go through a lot of crap to find some gems. It has never crashed on me though, it's always been very stable. My computer has six cores and 6GB of RAM, so if you have a computer less suited for music than you may have some issues running Stylus RMX. I use a Dell XPS studio computer with Windows 7 running FL Studio 10. Not like an EWQL plugin, but I definitely can't be running 3 instances of it at the same time. The manual is nice and thorough, and the GUI is pretty easy to get the hang of, it just takes some experimenting because there are a lot of features. I can't remember off the top of my head but it's very common and simply googling is an easy way to find a solution. There is a little bug where the folder you put the files in has to be in the same folder as another particular file. Pop in the the first disc, then the second, install, and authorize. It's rather large compared to some simple synth plugins so it will take some time.

I have experienced no crashing or freezing while working with it on my PC. The sounds are very good as well and the performance of this software is great. I love the compressors, in fact the “vintage” compressors could be the reason that I feel that I got my money’s worth with this software. The price of this software is a little more than expected but after working with the effects racks I feel like I have gotten my money’s worth in no time at all. The interface is easy to use and understand though I am not a fan of the purple color of the interface, I am not sure if you can change it but I would if I knew how because the purple is more of an eye sore for me.

It is not hard to install it just takes a very long time to do so.

There are over 7 gigs of sounds that come with it, which is why it takes so long to load and install. It comes with 27 different effects like power filter, spring verb, gate expander, tube limiter, vintage compressors and many more. This software is expandable, allowing you to add more groves as needed.

It does take up a lot of disk space as well so before I purchased it I made sure that I waited until I got my new PC with a lot of disk space/CPU and RAM. Installing it takes a bit more time than I expected because it is a big file to have to install. This program does require a lot of patching though when working with sounds and VST’s it reminds me of how you have to patch a lot with Battery 3. I have been using Stylus RMX since about 2008, I use it frequently because of the sound quality and its abilities to work with VST’s.

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