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Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 11:48 pm

thanks for illumination
That kind of information might have been shared by UVI in the first place.
If it was, I missed it.
Ethno World II might have been more appropriate/accurate rather than naming it something that appeared to be brand new.

Ben H · Post by **Ben H** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 12:27 am

Musical Gym wrote:Ethno World II might have been more appropriate/accurate rather than naming it something that appeared to be brand new.

There is already an Ethno World II by Best Service.

Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 12:41 am

I forgot about their Ethno World series.

Armadillo · Post by **Armadillo** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 10:38 am

Musical Gym wrote:I forgot about their Ethno World series.

I think you might have meant Ethno 3 - as it's essentially an update of Ethno 2 by MOTU.

http://motu.com/products/software/ethno

Ben H · Post by **Ben H** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:41 am

Armadillo wrote:
Musical Gym wrote:I forgot about their Ethno World series.
I think you might have meant Ethno 3 - as it's essentially an update of Ethno 2 by MOTU.
http://motu.com/products/software/ethno

I think they are trying to distance themselves from MOTU in their marketing, since it is really no longer a MOTU product.

EDIT: Although it includes all the old content from Ethno 2, it's not just a re-branded Ethno 2, I don't think. World Suite is 42GB (or 28GB compressed) vs. Ethno 2 which is 21GB (uncompressed). So it has doubled in size.

Ben H · Post by **Ben H** » Sun Feb 12, 2017 3:46 am

FYI: you can still get the $199 upgrade deal from UVI if you email them and ask them.
I've just done it myself.

djshire · Post by **djshire** » Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:58 pm

For any of the Traditions users: how does it stack up against Garritan World Instruments?

djshire · Post by **djshire** » Thu May 24, 2018 2:17 pm

So, World Suite is on sale for $179. Worth it?

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Thu May 24, 2018 11:47 pm

well it is funny as an Australian to see their version of Australian instruments - of the 14 listed only one is Australian

the rest are from New Guinea and some near-ish Pacific island communities eg New Caledonia.

menthol · Post by **menthol** » Sat May 26, 2018 3:13 pm

djshire wrote:So, World Suite is on sale for $179. Worth it?

I am interested in opinions on this as well. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

ATN69 · Post by **ATN69** » Sat May 26, 2018 3:46 pm

Just to make things clear. Opinions are not facts and opinions are personal. I just bought the World Suite and on a scale from 1 to 10, where 10 is outstanding, I give it a 7. It's pretty good and the samples have good quality. I mostly focused on the Asian instruments so far. I live in Hong Kong and I do know how a real erhu, pipa and some other Chinese instruments sound in real life. I still have much to discover on how to use and play the different instruments in the best way. There are some different articulations for a number of the instruments and you can tweak certain parameters as well.

$179 is a bit steep and I would certainly not have paid any $299 for it. I been looking around for alternatives and especially with focus on Asian instruments. So far I didn't find anything on the market that blew me away. When I look at the market as a whole for Asian instruments I believe that UVI World Suite is one of the better out there. I will not swear on it, but I don't think UVI will sell World Suite at a cheaper price any time soon.

menthol · Post by **menthol** » Sat May 26, 2018 11:12 pm

ATN69 wrote:Just to make things clear. Opinions are not facts and opinions are personal. I just bought the World Suite and on a scale from 1 to 10, where 10 is outstanding, I give it a 7. It's pretty good and the samples have good quality. I mostly focused on the Asian instruments so far. I live in Hong Kong and I do know how a real erhu, pipa and some other Chinese instruments sound in real life. I still have much to discover on how to use and play the different instruments in the best way. There are some different articulations for a number of the instruments and you can tweak certain parameters as well.

$179 is a bit steep and I would certainly not have paid any $299 for it. I been looking around for alternatives and especially with focus on Asian instruments. So far I didn't find anything on the market that blew me away. When I look at the market as a whole for Asian instruments I believe that UVI World Suite is one of the better out there. I will not swear on it, but I don't think UVI will sell World Suite at a cheaper price any time soon.

Thanks for the honest assessment. Much appreciated.

Try-Harder · Post by **Try-Harder** » Mon May 28, 2018 4:59 pm

I also got it with the sale. The quality of instruments is surprisingly good, considering the number of instruments available. There's also a ton of loops and the Travelers multis. Overall, I'm pretty pleased.

djshire · Post by **djshire** » Mon Jun 04, 2018 3:23 am

I bought it. Yet to try it out, since I haven't gotten a chance to set up my new computer. Will report back once I do.

djshire · Post by **djshire** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:58 pm

So when I went to download it, it looked like it was going to take a very long time, so I just left my computer on overnight.

Woke up to "network error". I may try again sometime.

Any Opinions on UVI World Suite?