Can somebody tell what is so great about uhbik ?

[giorgiomartini]

I know these plugs may be great.

But everytme i ask people say , just try them or they are more versatile, but i have tried them and they sound to me like regular effects, i have tweaked the knobs, tried the presets and i wasnt amazed.


the only one i digged a bit more was the tape delay.


So what parameters or specific things make uhbik so cool so i can try those? and if it then impresses me buy it ?


Thanx.

[Download SOphist]

not of much help, i'm afraid, but for me it's the consistent high quality and tweakability that make the uhbiks unique. All subjective things and all that, but runciter is unlike any other filter i have heard and uhbik-A is a extremely silky and subtle reverb. the envelopes in the uhbiks make them stand out too, IMVHO.
Cheers!

[Desdicado]

it's the sound quality,if you want an effect that amazes you,I'd say go for warbler from expert sleepers

[Urs]

it's the sound quality,if you want an effect that amazes you,I'd say go for warbler from expert sleepers

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[djsubject]

"So great"?

well for there price they are GREAT! the reverb is verry good quality & the delay is more than useful, the flange & phaser are very high quality IMO & Runciter is the gem of the pack!! thats the one to play with if you want something that stands out every plugin is good in this pack (IMO way better than freeware or anything else in its price range!)

but like all U-He stuff the demo is unrestricted enough for you to test & see if it is what you need?

[Urs]

So what parameters or specific things make uhbik so cool so i can try those? and if it then impresses me buy it ?

Where to start?

Runciter is the most brutal digital filter on the market. No equivalent anywhere.

Uhbik-S has an equivalent in Logic's "RingShifter", but that isn't available for other platforms and has a limited frequency response (check your scopes!). Uhbik-S is also the only frequency shifter I've heard of that shifts in sync to host tempo.

Uhbik-T is the only tremolo hardware or software I know that combines tremolo in different scales (linear gain, exp gain) with filtering and haas delay for stereo effects. It's also the only trance gate I know that lets you seamlessly crossfade between patterns and have seemless pattern offsets between channels.

All of them work in multichannel and surround modes, not just "multi-mono" as pretty much all equivalents out there. There is no competition anywhere in that respect - as far as I know.

The phaser is insane. You just need to learn to use *small* amounts of modulation with 42 stages. There are equivalents, but they don't have as comprehensive control over timing etc. There's simply no other phaser/flanger/tremolo that has manual control over the LFO phase so that you can automate things at any speed you like.

The flanger has equivalents, but hardly any does have the same amount of control while pertaining the same thickness of the through-zero-flanging.

The delay may be awkward at first, but it's the only delay of its kind that has such an easy surround panning for each tap.

The reverb is good for short reverbs. Most reverbs suck at that. You can dial in a really, really good plate reverb that could be a fourth preset to the three presets that the best plate reverb on the market has to offer. IMHO.

The eq - while highly underrated in reviews - is not based on 2-pole filters as most other equivalents, it's based on 4-pole and 6-pole filters. This way it can create steeper slopes with less ringing than pretty much anything else on the market, except for something I analysed that comes with an expensive piece of hardware.

Need more?

[losan]

Yes we want more, we want more... more Uhbik !
(Sorry, waiting impatiently for the updates)

[mcnoone]

But everytme i ask people say , just try them or they are more versatile, but i have tried them and they sound to me like regular effects, i have tweaked the knobs, tried the presets and i wasnt amazed.
the only one i digged a bit more was the tape delay.
So what parameters or specific things make uhbik so cool so i can try those? and if it then impresses me buy it ?
Thanx.

What is a great sounding effect plug in to you? What's the best one you heard?
In order to judge the quality of an effect, you must have a standard to go by.

What is the standard by which you judge the quality of effects?

[jensa]

There's simply no other phaser/flanger/tremolo that has manual control over the LFO phase so that you can automate things at any speed you like.

There's simply no other Urs.

[ThomasKoot]

One thing I really like about the Uhbiks is that you can manually sweep the phase of a lot of the modulation effects. This works really cool when you want to automate the phase parameter from your host, but you can also just use it as a static effect for mixing purposes for example. Fixing a frequency clash between two instruments by using a static phaser or flanger can give very transparant (or bizarre) results.

[zerocrossing]

The eq - while highly underrated in reviews - is not based on 2-pole filters as most other equivalents, it's based on 4-pole and 6-pole filters. This way it can create steeper slopes with less ringing than pretty much anything else on the market, except for something I analysed that comes with an expensive piece of hardware.

Who reviewed it poorly? I remember distinctly thinking it was nearly impossible to get a sound that wasn't great out of it when I first tried the demo. It's become the only eq I use.

[Urs]

The eq - while highly underrated in reviews - is not based on 2-pole filters as most other equivalents, it's based on 4-pole and 6-pole filters. This way it can create steeper slopes with less ringing than pretty much anything else on the market, except for something I analysed that comes with an expensive piece of hardware.

Who reviewed it poorly? I remember distinctly thinking it was nearly impossible to get a sound that wasn't great out of it when I first tried the demo. It's become the only eq I use.

Well, I guess I have disappointed some reviewers by prematurely saying it's "an eq conceptually between a Pultec and a 1084". Where I meant the flexibility of the 1084 with the stronger attenuation/boost impact of the Pultec. I did not mean the actual sound - which is pretty neutral in Uhbik-Q.

[BERFAB]

First of all, the bang for the buck is huge. There's a lot here, with more coming. The presets are often inspiring and take you to some very unusual places.

If you are looking for a chorus/delay/reverb chain, there's a lot of that available elsewhere, clearly marked as such. Uhbik can do that too, but also gives you infinite alternate options.

The most fun I have with Uhbik (so far) is the trance gate. I don't do trance music (or anything even close) but I've lost myself for long stretches playing with this in pads, leads and layering rhythmic beds. Very useful and versatile.

Cheers
-B

[streifentier]

So what parameters or specific things make uhbik so cool so i can try those? and if it then impresses me buy it ?

Where to start?

(scribbles down enlightening excerpt within 2 minutes and then most probably continues coding, bugfixing, outlining new ideas and doing other ingenious things normal people don't understand)

Might be worth to add that the developer of the "Uhbiks" is quite a unique and helpful guy.

[Urs]