Reveal Sound 6-In-1 EDM Bundle Review: Buy on Sale Only

The Reveal Sound 6-In-1 EDM Bundle packs 650+ Spire presets across six genre-targeted soundsets, and it’s worth buying only if you already own Spire and catch it on sale.

We loaded the bundle on a Thursday afternoon, working on a Progressive House track that needed a lead synth with some motion to it. We scrolled through Spire EDM Essentials Vol.3 first. Preset 47, a plucked supersawtype lead, had a slow attack that sat around 80ms. We dialled it back to 20ms, bumped the filter cutoff from around 60% to 75%, and the thing locked into the drop like it had been written for the track. That was the high point.

The lows came later. But we’ll get to those.

This bundle is for producers who live in Spire and want to skip the blank canvas. If that’s not you, read on for the full picture.

Six Packs, One Hard Truth

This is a Spire-only soundset collection. Six packs, 650+ presets, plus bonus content. That bonus content matters more than the marketing suggests: Vol.3 includes 200 WAV samples and drum loops, Vol.4 includes construction kits, and Trance Essentials Vol.1 ships with 8 construction kits. That’s not filler.

What it’s not: a synthesizer, a multi-format library, or anything you can open in Serum, Sylenth1, or anything else. If you don’t own Spire running version 1.1.16 or higher, this purchase is zero dollars of value to you. No exceptions.

It’s also not a sound design course. The presets are built for producers who want to load, tweak, and move on. If you want to understand how each sound was built from scratch, you’ll need to reverse-engineer that yourself inside Spire.

Living With Six Hundred Presets

Setup is clean. Download, install, and the presets appear inside Spire’s browser, sorted by pack name. No activation drama beyond what Spire itself requires. That part we appreciated.

We spent about three sessions working through the library systematically. Vol.1 and Vol.2, totalling 230 presets, cover the broadest ground: leads, pads, basslines, plucks, arps. A lot of them sound like the EDM you heard in 2018 to 2022, which is either exactly what you want or a dealbreaker depending on your current project.

Vol.3 and Vol.4 are stronger. The 128 presets in each feel more intentional. We found a rolling Electro House bassline in Vol.4 that needed exactly one filter sweep adjustment before it sat perfectly in a rough mix. One adjustment. That’s a well-built preset.

The annoying part came with Into The Deep. Only 72 presets, and the quality drops. Several sounds felt half-finished. A few pad presets had modulation rates that clashed badly with anything below 128 BPM. We’d skip that pack if it were sold separately.

Trance Essentials Vol.1 is the sleeper. Over 100 presets plus 8 construction kits. The trance leads have proper detune spread and the supersaw width sounds dialled in at the source rather than patched with chorus. Vullcan’s contribution here is the best work in the bundle.

Where It Gets Complicated

The frustrating thing about a bundle this size is that quality variance gets buried under quantity. You can’t feel the dip from Vol.2 to Into The Deep unless you actually sit with both for an hour. Most producers won’t. They’ll load a few presets, hit something they like, and call it done. That’s fine. But it means you’re paying for 72 presets you’ll probably ignore.

The construction kits in Trance Essentials Vol.1 are a different conversation. Eight full kits with arranged MIDI and audio stems teach you something about structure that a preset browser can’t. We ran one kit into a session and used the drum loop from kit 3 as a reference groove. It clocked at 138 BPM, tight hat pattern, clean transients on the kick. We kept it.

The royalty-free licensing is clean and unconditional. Use these presets on commercial releases, sync placements, client work. No registration, no per-track fees. That matters if you’re producing for other artists.

Against any other Spire library sold individually, this bundle makes financial sense at sale price. At full price ($191.50 regular list), we’d hesitate. At $99.99, it’s reasonable. At $45 when it hits that sale tier, it’s a clear buy for any active Spire user. Check the Reveal Sound site for current pricing before you commit.

Against the Field

The honest comparison is against other Spire soundsets, not cross-synth libraries. Individual Spire packs from W.A. Production or Cymatics run $20 to $40 each. Buying six co

mparable packs separately would cost you $120 to $240. This bundle undercuts that significantly at sale price.

If you’re considering a switch to Serum presets and soundsets instead, that’s a different workflow entirely. Serum’s wavetable architecture gives you more visible sound design depth, but the presets themselves don’t transfer. Pick your synth first, then buy sounds for it.

For producers who want sound design tools rather than presets, something like the Distinct Pro sits in a different category entirely. That’s processing, not sound generation. Worth knowing the difference before you spend.

The Real Verdict

Buy this if you own Spire, produce in EDM subgenres, and catch it at $45 to $99. The construction kits and WAV content push the value past a pure-preset purchase. Into The Deep is the weak link, and you should go in knowing that.

Skip it if you don’t own Spire. Skip it if you’re producing mostly lo-fi, hip-hop, or any genre outside the Big Room to Trance spectrum. The genre coverage here is specific. It doesn’t pretend otherwise, and neither will we.

Score Breakdown

Category	Score	Notes
Sound Quality	3.8/5	Strong in Vols.3, 4, and Trance Essentials; Into The Deep drags the average down
Value for Money	4.3/5	Excellent at sale price; borderline at full list price
Ease of Use	4.5/5	Installs directly into Spire with zero friction
Features	3.5/5	Bonus WAV and construction kits are a genuine add; no cross-synth compatibility
CPU Efficiency	N/A	CPU load is a Spire variable, not a preset variable
Overall	3.8/5	Solid Spire-specific library with one weak pack and strong sale-price value

Alternatives to Consider

If you want to stay inside the Spire world but focus on deeper sound design flexibility, look at individual packs from established designers rather than bundles. The volume here can work against you if browsing 650 presets kills your session momentum.

For producers who are considering a different signal chain approach altogether, the Loot Audio DS-2500 covers sound design from a completely different angle. It’s processing-focused rather than preset-focused, and the two approaches solve different problems.

If you’re building out a full production toolkit and want to understand where synth presets fit against hardware and processing, our Rhodes Vari-Amp review is a useful reference point for how different tools serve different roles in a modern ITB setup.

The one thing we’d say clearly: don’t buy this as a first step into EDM production. Buy Spire first. Spend a month learning its architecture. Then come back to this bundle when you know what gaps you’re filling.

If you catch this at $45, buy it without overthinking. At full price, think harder.