Lunatic Audio

The plugin isn't bad but it has a lot of crashes and problems lately. Asked for support but got 0 reply. get Infiltrator instead, more value, less money:-).

It also has only two activations without the possibility to reset them if You change your pc.

Very cool thing is that. A video game plugin in the DAW for times when you need a break from producing or should pause from mixing to get back some subjective hearing. It also is a Rompler for Retro video game sounds for one octave below the playable note area. So you can use 12 unique game sounds for sound design and your projects.

Pros:

- Playable with mouse or MIDI notes.
- You can play against the computer or another player (that is possible due to you move the top and bottom lines by C and D notes, player 1 is one octave below player 2, with a decent MIDI routing you can set up a nice game for both, yikes!).

- 3 different levels playable (Easy, Medium and Lunatic - yeah you guess where this is coming from).

- You can use it as VSTi Rompler for 12 arcade game sounds.

- very good arcade game feeling.

- Available in VST2, VST3 and AAX; 32- and 64-bit.

- Despite not being resizable (at least not in the VST2 version I tested), GUI is fairly big enough to handle the game.

Cons:

- Handling with MIDI notes is sometimes a bit laggy or does not work (At least at my tests with VST2 in Live 9). The binding to game are overridden my the mouse although not active in GUI anymore.

- They want your email-address to send the activation code.

- Initiate the game for the first time after opening your DAW and putting in a MIDI/Instrument track takes quite some time (about a minute).

- Finding the plugin one the webpage is a little tricky. Developer imposes their flagship product.

But the cons don't do much to my opinion. I simply love it. Great.
P.S. You can also make a donation on developer's website (but it needs to be least 5$).

Narcotic is one of the best creative effects plugins out there, right up there with Tantra and Tantra 2. It does require some CPU but not an excessive amount. You can interact with the results in some expressive ways too, its not just a matter of canned presets - if I'm going for a particular sound that I have in my head I can totally get involved in shooting for that using the decent selection of controls in the interface. The choices all make sense, and the LFO and sequencing works flawlessly. I got it on sale for $99 and wasn't disappointed in the least.