OSC 71: Hive

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Leap Into The Void : Enchantment Of Absynth Trilogy, Vol 1-3

Bluff Munkey - 2 soundsets of choice

Hive by u-he

Download, Serial, and Info: Here

Hive Official: Here

**NOTE: Beta Ends on January 31st**

Features:

    • Very low CPU usage

    • switch Hive’s engine to different basic characters, on the fly

    • (buzzword translation would be: Multi Synth Engine Technology™)

    • 1 to 16x unison for each of the 4 oscillators for “super” sounds

    • 2 main oscillators, 2 sub-oscillators

    • 2 multimode filters

    • Step sequencer & arpeggiator

    • 12 slot modulation matrix with 2 targets per slot, 4 envelopes (ADSR), 2 LFOs

    • 7 built in effects

    • Single screen interface

The Story of Hive in Urs's own words:

"Hive started out as my private weekend project. I was trying to figure out how to make the fastest possible supersaw algorithm. It turned out, it's a mixture of so called "mip mapping" and vector processing. This makes Hive a little bit slow when you don't use unison for the oscillators, but it makes Hive exceptionally fast when you do. Well, for the non-unison processing we might add another algorithm some time later

Anyhow, we've also always been bugged about two things: First of all, why don't you make a simple synth that's full fo sweet spots? Secondly, why do all your synths smoke CPUs? So we decided to piece those things together. Fast unison oscillators, a user interface that's "reduced to the max" and an efficient take on those zero delay feedback filters that I call "cheating". Latter are not realistic analogue models, but they sound particularly good with unison oscillators.

So this is how Hive came about.

Unfortunately it's nowhere near a ready state. We're still pondering about some features that we might add, we have a free hexagon to fill, we're discussing alternative UIs, colour schemes and visual feedback. However, we do think it's in a state that's ready for preset design. Whatever changes we'll make, you'll still recognize your preset, and we'll communicate all steps necessary to update them for the final version - if that will be necessary at all."