Big Leads 2 for ImPerfect Review: Worth $19.90?

Big Leads 2 for ImPerfect is a 60-preset expansion pack for W.A. Production's ImPerfect synthesizer, built for producers who want bold, upfront lead sounds dialed in fast for EDM, trance, and pop.

Quick verdict: At $19.90, this pack earns its place in an ImPerfect-owning producer's folder, but only just. The sounds are punchy and built to sit at the front of a mix. The preset browser is frustrating to navigate. If you already own ImPerfect and your lead patches feel thin or generic, this fills that gap without breaking the bank. If you don't own ImPerfect, there's nothing here for you at all.

So You've Hit The Blank Canvas Problem

You're four bars into a drop and the lead sounds like a warranty document. You've scrolled through your default patches three times. Nothing is cutting. You want something that sits forward in the mix, bright and thick, without you spending the next hour sound designing from scratch.

That's the exact moment Big Leads 2 for ImPerfect was built for. You load up ImPerfect, browse the pack, and you're supposed to find something that fits. Whether the browser lets you do that smoothly is a different story, and we'll get there.

This pack is for ImPerfect users already. That's the only door in.

What's In The Box

You get 60 presets. All royalty-free, which means you can release whatever you build with them without clearing anything.

The sounds are pitched at bold lead duties. The developer describes them as inspired by top-charting hits and festival anthems, designed to cut through a mix without heavy post-processing. The target genres are EDM, trance, and pop, with a claim to versatility beyond those.

That's it. There's no installer complexity here beyond loading the presets into ImPerfect. It's a simple content pack, not a new engine.

Where It Fits In Your Workflow

Your signal chain here is short: ImPerfect hosting the preset, your DAW handling everything downstream. You drop ImPerfect on a MIDI track, load a Big Leads 2 preset, and you're off.

Where it makes sense is at the arrangement and sound design stage, when your melodic skeleton is in place and you need a lead that cuts through kick and pad layers. These presets are described as expressive, so if you play in complex melodic runs with velocity variation, the leads should respond dynamically rather than sitting flat.

The limit that will slow you down: the browser. There's no way to sort by type, no way to mark favorites, no categories. You're scrolling a flat list. If you're mid-session and under pressure to find the right texture fast, that's annoying. Load a few candidates before your creative window opens, not during it.

This is not a general-purpose tool. It lives inside ImPerfect and nowhere else.

What It's Genuinely Good At

Sixty presets dedicated entirely to lead sounds is a focused proposition. You're not wading through pads, basses, and effects to find what you need. Every patch in here is designed to occupy the same real estate in your mix: upfront, melodic, present.

The royalty-free status is genuinely useful. Release your track, keep your money. No subscription, no licensing headache, no checking terms before you submit to a label or sync house.

The developer's claim about sounds inspired by festival anthems and charting hits suggests they've listened to where modern lead design lives, not where it was five years ago. Push the expression on one of these leads through a melodic line with dynamic velocity and the tonal shifts should reward the detail, rather than staying locked and lifeless.

For an ImPerfect owner who finds the synth's native presets thin on leads, this is a clever and direct fix at $19.90.

The Rough Edges

The preset browser is the honest conversation we need to have.

Owners report it as very basic. No categorization. No way to separate one character of lead from another. No favorites or bookmarking. That's a real workflow tax when you're browsing 60 patches trying to remember which one had the right character for your hook.

You'll end up doing what frustrated producers always do: renaming files or just memorizing patch positions. That's ugly in 2026.

The dependency on ImPerfect is also a hard ceiling. If you move away from that synth, this pack has zero transferable value. You can't export the sounds. They don't work in anything else. That's not a complaint about this pack specifically, but it's a real commitment to factor in before buying.

Sixty presets is workable, but if your entire lead palette lives here, you might wish there were more.

Who This Is Really For

• ✅ Buy if you own ImPerfect and want a dedicated lead library without building patches from scratch.
• ✅ Buy if you produce EDM, trance, or pop and need sounds that are already tuned to sit forward in a busy mix.
• ✅ Buy if royalty-free release rights matter to your workflow and you want clean commercial clearance at $19.90.
• ❌ Skip if you don't own W.A. Production ImPerfect. Full stop.
• ❌ Skip if you rely on a fast, organized preset browser mid-session. The navigation will drive you up the wall.
• ❌ Skip if you're looking for a diverse sound library covering multiple roles. This is leads only, one synth only.

Specs & Technical Details

Developer	W. A. Production
Price	$19.90
Plugin Format	N/A (preset pack for ImPerfect synth)
OS Support	N/A
Activation	N/A
CPU Usage	N/A
Trial Available	N/A
Version Reviewed	N/A

Score Breakdown

Category	Score	Notes
Sound Quality	4.0/5	Bold, forward-facing leads built for modern EDM and pop mix contexts
Value for Money	3.5/5	Fair at $19.90 for ImPerfect owners; worthless without the synth
Ease of Use	2.5/5	Flat preset browser with no categories or favorites is a real drag
Features	3.0/5	60 presets, all royalty-free; no organizational tools to speak of
CPU Efficiency	N/A	Depends entirely on ImPerfect host synth performance
Overall	3.5/5	Solid lead sounds let down by a browser that makes finding them annoying

Alternatives to Consider

If you're weighing your options inside the W.A. Production world, two names come up alongside Big Leads 2.

Union is a competing synthesizer in the same ImPerfect category. If your workflow is ready to look at a different engine entirely, Union is worth comparing before you commit deeper into the ImPerfect ecosystem.

Cheeze Pro is the other name that shows up in the same conversation. It sits in the same competitive space as ImPerfect. If your lead sound goals are broad and you haven't locked into a synth yet, checking Cheeze Pro before buying this pack makes sense.

Neither alternative is a direct swap for this content pack. But if you're buying ImPerfect and Big Leads 2 together for the first time, it's brilliant to at least know what else is in the room before you sign the lease.

The Honest Call

Big Leads 2 for ImPerfect is a focused, competent lead pack at a low price point. The sounds are built to cut, the royalty-free clearance is clean, and for the ImPerfect user who's been limping along on weak lead patches, this is a satisfying fix.

But the browser is the thorn. Scrolling a flat, unsorted list of 60 patches mid-session is the kind of small frustration that compounds every time you reach for this pack. It doesn't ruin it. It just means you'll be doing mental bookkeeping that the tool should handle for you.

Buy it if ImPerfect is already in your rack and your lead folder is thin. Skip it if you're not already in the ImPerfect world, or if you need a browser that respects your session time. At $19.90, it's a low-risk call for the right buyer and a pointless one for everyone else.