Hive 2.1: new sonic territory
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- KVRist
- 61 posts since 3 Sep, 2005 from Venezuela
Big news for who own this amazing synth! one of my faves u-he synths along Zebra (first!) and Diva. All in a place of honor in my wish list.
I am in love with u-he synthesizers from some years ago a musician friend sent me a personalized demo version of some songs from Weather Report, one jazz fusion band that exerted a terrific influence on me.
The synths he used sounded exactly the same as the originals from ARP2600 and Oberheim. I asked him about that especially for "Havona" and "Palladium" WR songs. He simply told me, "I used u-he synthesizers" .My inmediate thought...Wow!..how are those plugins sounding like that??? the amazement still going!
I am in love with u-he synthesizers from some years ago a musician friend sent me a personalized demo version of some songs from Weather Report, one jazz fusion band that exerted a terrific influence on me.
The synths he used sounded exactly the same as the originals from ARP2600 and Oberheim. I asked him about that especially for "Havona" and "Palladium" WR songs. He simply told me, "I used u-he synthesizers" .My inmediate thought...Wow!..how are those plugins sounding like that??? the amazement still going!
- KVRAF
- 1756 posts since 11 Oct, 2007
Yes, yes we can.

One tiny-tiny odd thing I have noticed using it this past week - some values go by 1 full unit, and some go by 0.5 units. Would be nice to have them all just go the same amount some day, in the future, and not really that important, just a minor OCD kind of thing that bugs me ha-ha.
- KVRAF
- 18493 posts since 3 Feb, 2005 from in the wilds
Thanks! Maybe about 40% of the time I save presets... usually when I have a specific and short term use in mind. Otherwise I always feel both confident and enthused by starting from init. I'll start saving more patches and make them available sometime (no promises when)... over the past couple updates, Hive has really reached the point where I love the sound and I make presets where I sit there playing them for a long time.Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:40 amPdxindy, do you save these patches and/or sell them? You're doing some really great stuff with Hive these days.
https://dandelionaudio.com/sound/Hive21-PL5.mp3
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- KVRAF
- 8285 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
Lately, I find the synths I'm most inspired by are the ones I'm least productive on. I just spend so much d*cking around because it sounds cool that I never get anything done.
- KVRAF
- 18493 posts since 3 Feb, 2005 from in the wilds
Just turn on recording when you do that... then you will have lots of useful material to work withFunkybot's Evil Twin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:29 pmLately, I find the synths I'm most inspired by are the ones I'm least productive on. I just spend so much d*cking around because it sounds cool that I never get anything done.

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- KVRAF
- 8285 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
It's a good tip!pdxindy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:36 pmJust turn on recording when you do that... then you will have lots of useful material to work withFunkybot's Evil Twin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:29 pmLately, I find the synths I'm most inspired by are the ones I'm least productive on. I just spend so much d*cking around because it sounds cool that I never get anything done.![]()
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- KVRAF
- 8285 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
I'm not sure if it would be feasible in terms of the back-end structure, but kind of like how we have quantizers/rectifiers/slew limiters, it might be cool to have clock multipliers/dividers built into the matrix slots for any time-based modulators. Example: Select LFO1 to modulate the parameter X, but then use LFO1 x2 or /2 to modulate parameter Y. Not just for Hive but across the line. If that could be done, it would be particularly cool for RePro where it could essentially allow users to turn a single LFO into multiple.
- u-he
- 25500 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Topic Starter
It should actually use less CPU than the previous version, particularly with the UI open. How did you measure that?
Anyhow, pretty much all versions of everything up to now are available for download here:
https://dl.u-he.com/release-archive/
- u-he
- 25500 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Topic Starter
That's kind of, you know, *very* difficult to do and possibly very confusing.Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:01 amI'm not sure if it would be feasible in terms of the back-end structure, but kind of like how we have quantizers/rectifiers/slew limiters, it might be cool to have clock multipliers/dividers built into the matrix slots for any time-based modulators. Example: Select LFO1 to modulate the parameter X, but then use LFO1 x2 or /2 to modulate parameter Y. Not just for Hive but across the line. If that could be done, it would be particularly cool for RePro where it could essentially allow users to turn a single LFO into multiple.
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- KVRAF
- 8285 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
Yeah, was just tossing it out there to see if it stuck. Was thinking something like this:Urs wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:20 amThat's kind of, you know, *very* difficult to do and possibly very confusing.Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:01 amI'm not sure if it would be feasible in terms of the back-end structure, but kind of like how we have quantizers/rectifiers/slew limiters, it might be cool to have clock multipliers/dividers built into the matrix slots for any time-based modulators. Example: Select LFO1 to modulate the parameter X, but then use LFO1 x2 or /2 to modulate parameter Y. Not just for Hive but across the line. If that could be done, it would be particularly cool for RePro where it could essentially allow users to turn a single LFO into multiple.
https://www.abstractdata.biz/products/e ... /3x/ade32/
...which as I understand it, can allow for different clock divisions on each output. But obviously, that's the modular world and I don't expect Hive and RePro's LFOs have multiple outputs and I didn't imagine that building it wouldn't be trivial. But I can, and will, accept no for an answer.

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- KVRAF
- 2881 posts since 25 Mar, 2016 from Seattle
Thanks Urs,Urs wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:19 amIt should actually use less CPU than the previous version, particularly with the UI open. How did you measure that?
Anyhow, pretty much all versions of everything up to now are available for download here:
https://dl.u-he.com/release-archive/
I was really excited but it uses more cpu than most of my plugins now.
- u-he
- 25500 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Topic Starter
Ok, weird. So how do you measure CPU usage? - Asking because, we would like to try ourselves, but we won't know where too start if we don't know how you got there.simmo75 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:41 amThanks Urs,Urs wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:19 amIt should actually use less CPU than the previous version, particularly with the UI open. How did you measure that?
Anyhow, pretty much all versions of everything up to now are available for download here:
https://dl.u-he.com/release-archive/
I was really excited but it uses more cpu than most of my plugins now.