Dedicated Hive feature request thread.

[Xenos]

Like many others, I'm really impressed with Hive. However, I'm sure many of us have ideas for making it even better. Maybe it'd be a good idea to have a dedicated thread to organize all user feature requests and make things easier for Urs. Then, he can just look in one place and get ideas instead of hunting around all the different threads. I'll start, and other can add their ideas here.

1. Ability to change filter mode and unison modes INDEPENDENTLY. I want to be able to use "Normal" mode's unison with "Dirty" mode's filters, for example, or use "Dirty" mode's unison with "Normal" mode's filters to get sounds even closer to what you get with Sylenth.

2. Comb filter and other additional new filter options.

3. Simple Oscillator FM. Even just a sine wave operator with +/- 24 semitones will do perfectly for getting more digital tones that are popular nowadays.

4. Filter FM. I'd except this as an alternative choice to #3. The user can do a lot with just this if they want rougher, edgier tones. Just set the oscillator pitch really high and the FM pitch into the bass range. Set filter FM to "off" on the other filter, and explore from there to hone your tone color to taste.

I think those FM options could fit nicely in that WIP hexagon, along with whatever else.

[ariston]

1. I second the above.
2. Vowel filter, plus the ability to chain the two filters (you already have the "chain" symbol in there!)
3. Separate FX routing for the two voices.

Things that can stay the way they are: the lush sound, and the GUI, which I think is just gorgeous and a joy to work with.

[Tricky-Loops]

More filters (comb filter, formant/vowel filter etc.) and independent unisono detune modes and envelope curves is what I requested already quite a few times...

PM or FM would be nice to have!

But most important are more - creative - waveforms, not only the usual suspects. Because if the basic oscillator waveform isn't good, you can modulate the hell out of it and it won't sound much better.

PWM should appear in the oscillator section (when pulse waves are used), not only in the modulation matrix.

Furthermore, more distortion modes would be great, as well as splitting the "Corrode" into Bitcrusher etc.

What I do NOT need is an oscilloscope because the space is too small for it and it needs CPU power that can be used for more important things. When I really need an oscilloscope, I can use another VST oscilloscope.

[mcnoone]

I'd like sync, and an FM knob that feeds into the oscillators.
That's it.
I'm not exaggerated when I say that the Hive is my favorite synth ever, even without all the extra features of other synths.
It's because it's resonance, and most importantly its envelopes.
It can do both great digital type sounds, and analogish things.
The 3 different engine modes are also great.
Thanks a lot Urs and u-he team.

[Arrested Developer]

2. Vowel filter

+1

[Shiek927]

More shaper/distortion choices: I love Diva's rotary-distortion.

More unique wave-forms would be swell .

Getting into more ambitious requests that I wrote before on Hive's preview page: PWM, hard/soft-sync, ring-mod, feedback...barring it's semi-modular nature and keeping everything on a single page, Diva is a much better place to look for inspiration rather than Zebra. I can't, nor do I really want, to see MSEG's, mod-mappers, XMF filters, or the more advanced features of Zebra inside of Hive.

[Xenos]

I can't, nor do I really want, to see MSEG's, mod-mappers, XMF filters, or the more advanced features of Zebra inside of Hive.

Agreed . The feature requests I had in mind are all pretty much just tone shaping/timbre stuff.

[ariston]

Maybe the ability to design your own waveform? That would look great in the empty WIP window.

[Xenos]

Maybe the ability to design your own waveform? That would look great in the empty WIP window.

HELL F---ING YEAH!! I didn't think of that, and someone already mentioned this earlier, too. I'd gladly sacrifice the FM stuff for this. You'd get almost the same kinds of sounds by drawing the right waves or entering the right combination of additive partials.

[ariston]

I can imagine that this particular request is too far out of Hive's intended scope... but hey, we can wish for anything, right?

[Tricky-Loops]

Maybe the ability to design your own waveform? That would look great in the empty WIP window.

If you want to design your own waveforms, why not use Curve by CableGuys?

I only suggested loading custom waves, and even that was too much for Urs (regarding Hive). He said that Diva 3 will be the first U-He synth which loads custom waves...

[mcnoone]

Maybe just mix the Hive into Zebra, and call it Zebra 3.

[ariston]

Maybe the ability to design your own waveform? That would look great in the empty WIP window.

If you want to design your own waveforms, why not use Curve by CableGuys?

Hm.... mainly because Curve isn't Hive?

[2ZrgE]

Maybe just mix the Hive into Zebra, and call it Zebra 3.

Or maybe putting a Hive skin on Zebra2?

[Parduz]

Copy/paste from the Hive thread, plus some other things that i thought about while using it.

1. Effect colors: i see how you want to stay monochrome, but in the effect panel i tweaked too much times the wrong knob. Assigning a color for each effect (say: red for the distortion, green for the reverb, etc) will make everything more clear and immediate.
2. Visualize the mods: a thin line on the envelop sliders, or an added line on the knob that shows were the control will go when modulated will help a lot to see what's going on and how much you're modding the parameter. I don't say that it needs to be dynamic... just to show the range of the maximum values it could reach.
3. Key mapping: I'd liked to split the keyboard in two parts, one for each osc... seems that it can't be done? It could be useful if one have to limit the instances of Hive. Also "crossfading" the two osc in a particular key range could be useful. There's some empty space in the UI, over the keyboard that could be filled with some control about this... [;)]
4. Osc and effects stack: it could be nice to have, say, OSC1 going thru the whole effect stack, and OSC2 going thru the last one (the reverb, as example). So, having the two OSC as "blocks" like the effects, and being able to move them up and down in the stack could be a nice feature.
5. Waveforms variations: more waveforms is even a plus, but also simple changes on the existing ones are useful: i mean things like "reversed saw" (is it called "ramp"? dunno), or only-positive sine, etc.
6. Advanced ADSR envelopes: i mean the ability to set the Level and Time for the four ADSR points, by adding 4 knobs to the 4 sliders. This will result in envelopes working something like this:
   (the proposed new knobs)
   1. Init: Determines the level at which the envelope will start when a key is depressed.
   2. Peak: Determines the level the envelope will reach at the end of the time defined by Attack
   3. Break: Determines the level the envelope will reach at the end of Decay
   4. Sust: Determines the level the envelope will reach at the end of Sustain and retain as long as the key is held down.
   (the already existing sliders)
   1. Attack: The amount of time it takes for the envelope level to travel from the Init level to the Peak level. (This doesn't necessarily have to be an "attack" in the usual sense - the Init level could be set higher than the Peak level, in which case this would become another decay stage).
   2. Decay: The time it takes the envelope to go from Peak to Break
   3. Sustain: The time it takes the envelope to go from Break to Sust
   4. Release: The time it will take the envelope to return to zero after the key has been released.
   (this all shamelessy stealed from the old Ensoniq SQn(+) manual).
   I really don't know how hard it could be to implement a thing like that, but i always missed the flexibilty of that ENVs.