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Dasheesh wrote:
DPhil wrote:
Dasheesh wrote:Hive needs a better GUI as well. I like the set up, I really do, it's the color scheme that needs an update IMO.
When I first saw Hive as a screenshot I thought it has the best GUI of all u-He synths. I like the hexagon very much and the colors as well. To me the blue implies technology and a clean sound. It is modern and not cluttered. I can understand the u-He customer base doesn't like it that much. They probably got used to the "oldfashioned" hardware 3d style. I can tell you some of my friends discoverd u-He just because of Hive.

well, to me the electric blue looks old, dated, last decade, and cheap. I find it hard to look at. You can do better. Hive needs something more emotive and modern and creative color wise. It needs beauty. The orange is is just... blah..... stop the orange already, might as well just say flat out you give up.
I don't have much of a thought out opinion on whether the U/I is particularly bad, but I don't like it. It seems like it's trying a bit too hard to be cool to fifteen year olds. It kind of reminds me of a mechatronic version of a distant cousin to Toxic Biohazard.

I think that this could be a solid b-sci-fi movie, or at least a shitty comic book. The alien Toxic Biohazard with his cooling fin encrusted phallus encounters the lovely (to him, beauty is in the eye of the beerholder) Hive with her hexagonal orifice and the two synths travel the sonic universe making music babies. I think that this show has to star Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Carnage, and Thomas Dolby.

I don't know, this kind of creative work isn't my thing, maybe someone else could build on this?

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wagtunes wrote:To the OP, this may or may not help you in your decision. A short demo of Hive I just put together. No songs. Just individual sounds so you can hear them clearly. No FX added other than what's in Hive itself.

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... new-sounds
This sounds bad...Hive can sound and sounds much better than that.

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I don't hear what's wrong with the presets.
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HcDoom wrote:
wagtunes wrote:To the OP, this may or may not help you in your decision. A short demo of Hive I just put together. No songs. Just individual sounds so you can hear them clearly. No FX added other than what's in Hive itself.

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... new-sounds
This sounds bad...Hive can sound and sounds much better than that.
Dear lord... i have forgotten about those demo songs

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... sive-serum

This is so bad it actually puts a smile :D

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Elektronisch wrote:
HcDoom wrote:
wagtunes wrote:To the OP, this may or may not help you in your decision. A short demo of Hive I just put together. No songs. Just individual sounds so you can hear them clearly. No FX added other than what's in Hive itself.

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... new-sounds
This sounds bad...Hive can sound and sounds much better than that.
Dear lord... i have forgotten about those demo songs

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... sive-serum

This is so bad it actually puts a smile :D
This rapes ears...my God...

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You guys just dont get it. That's the new genre. Swagtunes.
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Seems like the Wags circus has arrived in town. :D
To be fair his Hive presets are respectable.
Like already mentioned presentation is part of the equation.
A good demo song also helps, I mean regardless of genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQB6qZDttoI

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Another good one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqQsSCrLhCg

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Elektronisch wrote:
HcDoom wrote:
wagtunes wrote:To the OP, this may or may not help you in your decision. A short demo of Hive I just put together. No songs. Just individual sounds so you can hear them clearly. No FX added other than what's in Hive itself.

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... new-sounds
This sounds bad...Hive can sound and sounds much better than that.
Dear lord... i have forgotten about those demo songs

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... sive-serum

This is so bad it actually puts a smile :D
That sounds like a Commodore 64 :lol:

It probably requires a lot of skill to make even the best synths sound cheap :hihi:

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Sound Design is all.

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let's get back on topic please
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After listening to the demos above from people who really know their way around Hive and a keyboard, I am tempted to throw my Push and my laptop into a river and start taking golf lessons.

Thet stuff form Kevin Schröder is really inspiring...

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ZaBong69 wrote:After listening to the demos above from people who really know their way around Hive and a keyboard, I am tempted to throw my Push and my laptop into a river and start taking golf lessons.
You have to embrace your weaknesses. Besides, somebody has to fill up the internet with bad music so that the good music is harder to find. It's a public service.

I particularly like taking short pieces and stretching them out into hours long pieces. It's like the opposite of file compression, it's anti-efficiency. Taking Y bits of information and filling up someone else's hard drive with a copy of someone else's sound that is 1000*Y in size. I'd love to be able to record the sound of someone else's hard drive dying a horrible death while hosting my works so I could stretch that sound out into another hour of un-information that could be put back onto that person's new hard drive.

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ZaBong69 wrote:After listening to the demos above from people who really know their way around Hive and a keyboard, I am tempted to throw my Push and my laptop into a river and start taking golf lessons.

Thet stuff form Kevin Schröder is really inspiring...

Everything changed for me after I heard the MC presets for Hive (included). I had never played presets before in my life, but I will never forget the night I discovered Hives MC presets. That guy/gal knows Hive better then anybody.

It suddenly hit to me. Everything you want to do with these software synths has already been done before you ever get a hold of them, and the only thing that makes you different is how you use them. The MC sound set for Hive is probably the best set of prepackaged sounds I ever heard out of a commercial softsynth. What's the difference between playing presets and playing samples in a rompler?

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