Testimonials
Read what reviewers and top composers have to say about our products.
Top Reviews
Super Audio Cart 2 – Max Lombardo
“SAC2 is fantastic! I had a chance to use it on some arrangements and cues for the new Super Mario Galaxy movie, and it’s just perfect. I was able to get that 8-bit retro sound straight out of the box, the intuitive GUI and thorough presets made it incredibly easy to get it exactly where I wanted it to be, sound-wise. A life saver, especially on projects with tight deadlines and lots of moving pieces.”
Shreddage series – Josh Mobley
Shreddage changed my life. I was working on a hybrid metal trailer album for what would later be BMG production music. I’m a keyboard player, and I had never had a realistic playable metal guitar plugin because they just didn’t exist.
It… blew my mind man. Suddenly, I could play all of these riffs I had in my head. I completed the album and it did really well. I heard it in everything. Movie trailers, tv shows etc. [Shreddage] was the backbone of virtually every song on that album.
-Josh Mobley
Fredonia Grand Organ – ShadyCicada
“Fredonia Grand Organ sounds absolutely gigantic, and it’s been a perfect outlet for me to convey more intense emotions in my tracks (especially villain and boss battle themes)!”
Pearl Concert Grand – Mark Portmann
“Pearl Concert Grand has been a go-to for me. As a session musician in Los Angeles, I’ve spent years recording on real Yamaha C7s—one of the most frequently used pianos in major studios. Having that same iconic sound instantly available at home allows me to stay in the creative flow and focus entirely on performance. It’s helped me land placements with a range of artists and in film projects.”
Mark Portmann
(Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones)
“[ISW]’s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire.”
Brian Pickett
PAW Patrol, Lucas the Spider, Daniel Tiger
“I never would have thought that sampled guitars could sound as good as ISW’s do. The fact that I can use them to lay down a realistic solo is unprecedented. They’ve pushed the boundaries of realism.”
Tokyo Scoring Strings – Leo Brennaeur
“Tokyo Scoring Strings is probably the only library out there that you can just use without worrying about the articulations that you have to change. You can use the Zero Latency mode if you just want to play it, but if you really want to have the core of this library, use the Lookahead function and it will automatically look ahead of your composition and decide which articulations it will use next. When I found this the other day, I was blown away how good this works.”
Rosette Mandolin – Sound on Sound
“The sound of the library is very pleasing…the more I used the library the more I felt I was learning how to write idiomatically for the instrument.”
“Rosette Mandolin provides a good sound that could have many applications, with versatile input options that cater to writing realistic mandolin lines, impossible 5+ note chords and everything in between.”
Thomas Field, September 2024
GameVerb – Thought-Forms
“This is a VST that offers you the ability to run the actual algorithms in real time, with easy access to the algorithms’ parameters via a few dials. The core thing to get across here is that this is not just a bunch of static impulse responses, this is a true emulation.”
“I think this thing’s pretty cool. As you can tell, I gravitate more toward the PSX reverb and delays in here, but you may find the SNES or N64 options more compelling. I think having three consoles to choose from gives this a lot of utility, and the fact that they put so much work into emulating the actual algorithms from these machines into a modern package is outstanding.”
GameVerb – SoundFontGuy
“Faithful, authentic recreation of all three reverb algorithms, all bundled into one very lightweight plugin. There’s a wealth of presets, many of which are taken from the games we love. There’s near-infinite customizability. Low system requirements – I actually ran a benchmark where I had 20 instances of GameVerb open and running at the same time and I barely broke 2 gigs of RAM. Additional functions like sample rate and bit-rate reductions to really push your music closer to the realm of authenticity. … ultimately, this is getting two thumbs up.”
GameVerb – Emlyn in the Mix
“It really does give that video game vibe. … This is sick. It’s actually so cool. I can’t believe you can just get the coding from actual games.”
“Man, I love this plugin. This is nostalgic vibes all ’round. How did they do this?”
“Kudos to Impact Soundworks for this freakin’ amazing and nostalgic sounding reverb plugin. Who knew you could have so much fun with a reverb plugin?”
Altera Keys – Andre Louis
“…you kind of really design your sound in weird ways…you can really get that kind of sample sound, if you want to…you’re gonna have fun with this library if you get it. Because it’s quite different from anything else I’ve owned before, quite good…great for games and stuff, this product.”
Altera Keys – Simeon Amburgey
“…some of the really fun things I like are the pads, some of the pads in here are so beautiful, because they kind of evolve and…expand…that’s one of the things that I think this is great for, is being able to stack all all these sounds together…if you’re looking for something that gives you all of those classic tines and key sounds, and throws in just so many fun…ways to manipulate things…”
