Still trying it out. I downloaded it to try it out. I like the fact that it deals well with incoming audio. The amps are ok, but nothing really strikes me as being good enough to warrant buying the full package. I’ll continue to fiddle, and perhaps it will win me over, but I suspect not.

Ah… That’s a showstopper then…

Looking at the Positive Grid Forum, your problem has already been reported but has no responses (Feb 27th)

https://forum.positivegrid.com/topic/6445/bias-fx-2-ui-cut-off-in-reaper

You may want to try bumping it. The Forums give the impression that PG are besieged – it isn’t a pretty site.

Settings is on the missing 1/3 view in Reaper I can only access that in Cakewalk. I’m not sure but I think the plugin is missing some Microsoft C++ Visual stuff to correctly show the GUI. I might need to contact support for this.

I’m on a Mac with Reaper 6.43 and I’m not seeing any issues. As per my post above – try changing the option under Settings for Window Size to Responsive.

I installed both the VST and stand alone app on my Mac yesterday and haven’t seen those problems. Regarding the window size, I just changed the option for Window size under ‘Settings’ to Responsive – that gave me an app window that covers more than half the screen. It’s very comfortable for text size.

On presets, I have (generally) 3-4 presets available for each style (pop, blues. Rock, etc). To my ears they’re good and easily better than the lite versions of Guitar Rig 6, or Amplitude. The 77 Silvertone amp is gorgeous with my Seymour Duncan P90’s… Easily the most realistic amp simulation I have used to date. But of course your mileage may vary!

I haven’t found making my own presets an issue – certainly easier than, say, Nembrini and Audio Assaults amp sims. (this may simply be, of course, because I changed that window option) I made several presents – basic clean, clean with light chorus, a few Edge-style delay presets and was part way through some lead presets when I closed the app. When I opened it today I was presented with exactly the spot I had left off – and I hadn’t saved my work.

Obviously the whole point of the product from Positive Grid’s perspective is a ‘sell-up’ platform and I get that. They just want us to buy more toys or upgrade to the full version – and this goes for all the companies that make lite versions available to the market. But, as provided, it does enough for me.

Awesome news! Thank you.

Then it turns out you don’t get access to any of the presets with the LE. But creating your own is made unappealing by shrinking the area where you chain together the components to the size of a stamp. It’s tiny and requires scrolling (using a scroll bar, not the mouse wheel) to use. Whichever genius at Positive Grid decided that they’d limit the window size to a quarter of the screen needs to go. Once again, the workflow/UX is so poor that I can’t actually see myself using this when I’ve to so many other options available.

I wonder if this one at least loads the previous settings when you reload a project; their older offerings didn’t, but I do believe that was fixed at some point. But if this was meant to entice people to spend more money on the paid offerings, it did the opposite for me.The default preset that loaded up sounded alright though, but it seems that they’ve still not learnt how to create software that actually makes you want to use it.

Waiting on Waves and Oveloud to do something real fast cause as it stands they are falling fast