KVR Audio

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 1:36 pm

Hi all,

We've produced and uploaded a comprehensive video tutorial series for Hive:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... pL7cE6jxMP

10 vids explaining all aspects of Hive in depth!

Also, if you haven't made up your mind yet and if you might change it, or if you just want to benefit from the introduction offer, or if you haven't received our newsletter of if you for what ever missed it but you didn't want to miss it, Hive for 99$ ends in about 18 hours, then becomes 149$ - because Hive will be officially released tomorrow noon Berlin time also through our resellers.

Enjoy,

- Urs

fluffy_little_something · Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:30 pm

Chrome has blocked it as malware, but I decided to keep this malware

Just curious if anything has changed since the last time I tried the demo months ago

The gloomy interface is still the same, obviously

From the manual: "Please note that PWM only works with the Pulse wave, and only for the entire oscillator i.e. not separately for the main and sub oscillators."

Does that mean that pulse is created like on Sylenth, where it also occupies an entire layer (i.e. two oscillators)?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:08 pm

No, you can still have a different waveform for the sub-oscillator.

You can also adjust the brightness of the GUI in the Preferences panel, as well as opt for an orange variant of the GUI instead of blue.

fluffy_little_something · Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:18 pm

Yes, just discovered that display option, the orange looks so much friendlier

Funny that the gammy thingy goes neutral -> dark -> darker. To me dark should be darker than darker, unless darker is called even darker

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:19 pm

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:22 pm

Is the version we got a few weeks ago going to be the FC/GM (in the old days

) or is there a new one expected today for last minute testing?
thanks
rsp

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:34 pm

zvenx wrote:Is the version we got a few weeks ago going to be the FC/GM (in the old days ) or is there a new one expected today for last minute testing?
thanks
rsp

No change since two weeks ago

fluffy_little_something · Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:36 pm

With those drop-down menus for envelopes, filters, lfo's etc. the currently chosen option is not checked, nor does is say the number in the value display when clicking on the drop-down arrow.

I miss an lfo (and vibrato) delay knob, I miss it in Sylenth as well.

But it is a great, very complete synth, by far my favorite one from U-he so far.

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 4:14 pm

Urs wrote:
zvenx wrote:Is the version we got a few weeks ago going to be the FC/GM (in the old days ) or is there a new one expected today for last minute testing?
thanks
rsp
No change since two weeks ago

Now that's some great software engineering

thanks.
rsp

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 4:31 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:With those drop-down menus for envelopes, filters, lfo's etc. the currently chosen option is not checked, nor does is say the number in the value display when clicking on the drop-down arrow.

On OS X, we're still building for 10.5, but pre-selected menu entries came to cocoa in 10.6 (I kid you not)

I miss an lfo (and vibrato) delay knob, I miss it in Sylenth as well.

Vibrato has delay - for the other LFOs we might add it later, it's been requested rather often.

But it is a great, very complete synth, by far my favorite one from U-he so far.

Thanks

fluffy_little_something · Mon Jun 01, 2015 4:52 pm

Urs wrote:
fluffy_little_something wrote:With those drop-down menus for envelopes, filters, lfo's etc. the currently chosen option is not checked, nor does is say the number in the value display when clicking on the drop-down arrow.
On OS X, we're still building for 10.5, but pre-selected menu entries came to cocoa in 10.6 (I kid you not)
I miss an lfo (and vibrato) delay knob, I miss it in Sylenth as well.
Vibrato has delay - for the other LFOs we might add it later, it's been requested rather often.
But it is a great, very complete synth, by far my favorite one from U-he so far.
Thanks

I'm on W7...

Seems the effects are not as economic as the synth as such, some of the presets using several effects cause quite some crackling on my computer

So Hive is not an alternative to Sylenth for me at the moment.
On lower octaves there there still is some blip kind of sound in mono mode when playing trills, regardless of attack and release time, it probably has to do with voice stealing (reduce cutoff to make it more audible, and use headphones). It is the same with Saurus and most other synths I know, except Sylenth.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 4:56 pm

Time to upgrade the computer, then?

Even with a bunch of FX Hive is very good on CPU over here.

fluffy_little_something · Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:13 pm

EvilDragon wrote:Time to upgrade the computer, then?

Even with a bunch of FX Hive is very good on CPU over here.

Nah, I certainly won't buy a new computer just because of music, I am not a professional, anyway...

fluffy_little_something · Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:30 pm

What I find strange is that when turning effects on (i.e. the circle symbol is lit), it says off in the value display, and vice versa...

The demo noise is pretty frequent and long, a bit irritating, frankly...

fisherKing · Post by **fisherKing** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 1:46 am

it's out...nice (i just realized it's june 2 in europe, still jun 1 in ny). dl'd, and exploring now, very cool...

EDIT: lol, too many sounds (never thought i'd say that). love that (as in zebra2) i can use up/down keys (and left/right) to scroll thru sounds.

the honeycomb skin is suitably terryfying/cool. and nice to be able to resize it (90% looks perfect on my 13" macbook pro).

great, great synth, and glad to see it out of beta.

Hive Video Tutorial + intro offer ends soon!