Charlie Clouser, Nine Inch Nails:

"On my hard drive, crowded with plug-ins, SFX Machine really stands out. It's one of the most versatile sonic mutilators I've ever used. It will take years to poke my nose into all of the dark corners hidden in this program."

Jay Rose, Emmy/Clio winning sound designer and creative director of The Digital Playroom, talked about digital audio tools at MacWorld expo.

You can play a RealAudio excerpt in which he compares SFX Machine to a $4500 hardware effects processor.

George Black, producer/programmer for Madonna, Prince, Stevie Nicks and Billy Idol, and session musician for Stevie Wonder, Boy George, Beach Boys, and others:

"They say word of mouth is the best advertising and I want you to know that I think I've told maybe 20 of my peers about my new "secret weapon" (SFX) and at least ten of them have bought it. GREAT JOB!!!! SFX is the most exciting thing that's happened to desktop music this year. It makes the long awaited promise of desktop DSP finally a reality."

Stewart Winter and Joseph Saba, owners of VideoHelper Inc., NY:

"We are a music production company that does music for ABC News, NBC News & Entertainment (ER regularly uses our stuff), etc. And you have no idea how great your program is. From twisting drum loops until they're these little pulsing things that sound like a chicken with polio doing the lambada -- to taking vocal lines and making them sound like -- well, different... We love this program! We have TONS of plug-ins for our DSP ProTools setup -- and we use SFX as much if not more."

Alistair Hirst, Senior Audio Specialist, Electronic Arts (speaking strictly for himself, not his employer):

"I just got [the] SFX Machine Premiere plug-in for my composition studio, and it's amazing; blows [competitor's product] out of the water. The amount of things you can do to sounds, from the normal effects of chorusing, flanger etc., to all out complete warping of sounds is staggering. I'm currently working on an industrial/techno type tune, and have had huge fun taking straight rock guitar chugs and warping them into hideous clanking sounds."

Peter Wetherbee, audio engineer and record producer:

"I am constantly astounded by the sounds and effects the SFX Machine comes up with! When I'm looking for something extra weird, cool, impossible, and magical, I go straight to the SFX Machine! There's so much power and possibility to be explored, and the random factors make it a "strange attractor" to sonic beauty and complexity. This is the kind of tool that makes life worth living!"

Darren Cottingham, Composer / Sound Designer:

"Just got my brand new copy of SFX Machine, and narrowly avoided dribbling over the disk. I think it has to be the most useful plug-in available and I'm sure most of your karmic debt will have been erased for creating it."

Derek Sivers, record producer, Hit Media Inc.:

"SFX is everything I've wanted in digital audio since day one! Finally someone acknowledges how much you can twist these digital files into anything you want them to be! Thank you for going beyond boring flangers and reverbs, and letting warped minds (like mine) create bajillions of infinitely creative sounds."

Chris Rossow:

"Your software is incredible. I am a past user of TurboSynth and when I got SFX home and fired it up I was jumping up and down."

Heather Perkins, Sound Designer / Composer:

"The SFX Machine is killer -- rocks my world. What a great collection of sound tools, and a nice interface."

Remy Pelleschi, sound designer, Millenium Studio:

"We've bought your software SFX Machine today and we are really happy to use it with PEAK 2.55 and Digital Performer.

It's a really good software to create textures or abnormal sounds. You have made an excellent software, and the quality is very, very good !!!

We have a digital workstation Protools 24 core system, and the sound is excellent !

A good surprise for us because we realize neuronal, experimental and industrial music and it's very difficult to find some excellent software to create all that. With the products of Native instrument and Propellerhead, you are the best sofware on G4 Macintosh !!! Really !!! Congratulations again for your work !"

Christopher Stevens, CS Productions, Inc.

"I have found SFX Machine to be indispensable in processing large quantities of dialog for games. Radio effects, strange pitch shift effects, monsters, etc., are routinely needed for gameplay dialogue. Most recently, I used SFX Machine for all of the radio and 'outdoor' voices in the highly publicized 'Tribes 2' (Sierra Online), which contained more than 4000 combat voice files. With SFX Machine's powerful algorithmic architecture, it is possible to arrive at almost any sound you are looking for with a little bit of patience and understanding of signal processing."

Ray Brunelle, Sound Designer:

SFX Machine is an absolute "must have" for anyone doing any serious sound design work. It's simple to use and comes with an abundant number of cool user tweekable presets. And if you don't like the ones supplied, you can create totally unique ones from scratch with a minimum of effort by learning how to patch the modules together. It will even generate random patches for you.

It's so mesmerizing and fun to play with that I often lose track of time just exploring the bizarre effects it's capable of producing. The way I use it most of the time is by starting with an unprocessed sound, then creating several varying degrees of an effect, so I end up with a sound that evolves from something very subtle to totally warped out. I even won a sound effect contest with a simple drum loop I processed with sfx machine. It's my "secret weapon" and the first thing I reach for when I need to warp a sound or create an unusual effect.

Paul Chauncy, sound designer:

Earl - maaaaaate,

'Ere I am - sittin' in Soho, bored out of me flippin' mind transferrin' a crappy kung fu film to DVD an' I just 'eard you've gotta new SFX machine out for only fifty quid - well, can't say fairer than that can ya. So, strainght off the bat i got me plastic out an'ordered it and then I checked out the cockney translation, an' bleedin' 'ell if you 'aven't made my bloomin' day! I was tickled pink. You're a sound geezer, mr sound guy - no question abart it!

I bloody love the software - it's the first plug in I've used where it's like playing wiv an instrument. If it was in a silver plastic box with flashing lights right, people would be queing up the Tottenham Court Road and emptying their wallets to get their grubby little hands on 'em, d'you know what I mean? You'd be a rich geezer. Rest assured as soon as I'm ready I'll be sending you some Cockney presets - oh cor blimey yes!

Keep up the good work, and fanks again for putting a smile on me face.

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