KVR Audio

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:12 pm

https://www.uvi.net/uvx80.html

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:45 pm

Cool. But UVI products require iLok right?

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:49 pm

From link:

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Runs in UVI Workstation version 2.6.11+, and Falcon version 1.3.1+
iLok account (free, dongle not required)
Internet connection for the license activation
Supported Operating Systems:
- Mac OS X 10.7 or higher (32 and 64-bit)
- Windows 7 or higher (32 and 64-bit)
3GB of disk space
Hard Drive: 7,200 rpm recommended or Solid State Drive (SSD)
4GB RAM (8 GB+ highly recommended for large UVI Soundbanks)

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 3:12 pm

Ah thanks.

woodsdenis · Post by **woodsdenis** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 7:20 pm

Love the UVI stuff in general but why this ? Hardly a sought after or particularly nice sounding original synth. What am I missing here?

Bump1 · Post by **Bump1** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 6:29 am

woodsdenis wrote:Love the UVI stuff in general but why this ? Hardly a sought after or particularly nice sounding original synth. What am I missing here?

I take it you've never played an AX80...

They sound amazing and it has one of the most insane filters ever

..2 Osc synth with dedicated LFO for pitch, amplitude and filter....can you tell me one vintage Roland that can do that?

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 6:50 am

Ist it a Filly featured synth or a rompler?

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 6:56 am

Caine123 wrote:Ist it a Filly featured synth or a rompler?

Rompler.

Kumi_27 · Post by **Kumi_27** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:08 am

Caine123 wrote:Ist it a Filly featured synth or a rompler?

Anything that runs in UVI Workstation is a sample-based instrument.
I think that except Falcon, UVI doesn't have any "synth" as such, only sampled libraries.

Bump1 · Post by **Bump1** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:16 am

It's still a synth. ESQ-1 uses wavebased ROMs and nobody calls it a rompler. That's because it has a complete synthesis engine despite not having true oscillators.

On another note...kind of disappointing there's no key tracking for the filter. And I suspect the filter is probably the Rez module from the Falcon engine. Which would make the filter very much unlike the AX80...which is a big part of it's sound.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:20 am

Never used one but FWIW the AKAI AX80 included the CEM3372 Filter/Mix/VCA chip that was also used with e.g. Oberheim Matrix-12, Oberheim Xpander, SCI Prophet 600 and Rhodes Chroma Polaris.

The CEM3379 filter/VCA/mixer chips used in Ensoniq ESQ-1 (i still got one here...) and Ensoniq SQ-80 seemed to contain a comparable or even similar filter.

Bump1 · Post by **Bump1** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:26 am

Ingonator wrote:Never used one but FWIW the AKAI AX80 included the CEM3372 Filter/Mix/VCA chip that was also used with e.g. Oberheim Matrix-12, Oberheim Xpander, SCI Prophet 600 and Rhodes Chroma Polaris.

The CEM3379 filter/VCA/mixer chips used in Ensoniq ESQ-1 (i still got one here...) and Ensoniq SQ-80 seemed to contain a comparable or even similar filter.

I own both the ESQ-1 and the AX80 and the difference between the filter is night and day.

I don't think there is anything special regarding those Curtis chips...they are pretty overrated IMO. I don't know about the 3379, the 3372 does pole switching.

But as far as filters go...the ESQ/SQ and AX80 are polar opposites. I think the ESQ/SQ filter is a bit boring, the AX80 is very aggressive and unique sounding. The resonance on the AX80 is extreme.

I dont believe the filters on the ESQ/SQ can even be pushed to self oscillation

See Jexus demo of the AX80...it's a perfect example

Kumi_27 · Post by **Kumi_27** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:30 am

Bump1 wrote:It's still a synth. ESQ-1 uses wavebased ROMs and nobody calls it a rompler. That's because it has a complete synthesis engine despite not having true oscillators.

But UVI Workstation is not a synth, it's a sampler workstation, with skins, scripts etc. (like Kontakt)
So while AX80 might be a synth, UVI's UVX80 isn't. It doesn't have the synthesis engine.

The question was - I think - if the UVX80 is a rompler or a synth modeled after AX80. So it's a rompler like everything UVI

Bump1 · Post by **Bump1** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:36 am

Kumi_27 wrote:
Bump1 wrote:It's still a synth. ESQ-1 uses wavebased ROMs and nobody calls it a rompler. That's because it has a complete synthesis engine despite not having true oscillators.
But UVI Workstation is not a synth, it's a sampler workstation, with skins, scripts etc. (like Kontakt)
So while AX80 might be a synth, UVI's UVX80 isn't. It doesn't have the synthesis engine.

The question was - I think - if the UVX80 is a rompler or a synth modeled after AX80. So it's a rompler like everything UVI

Right, but I hate the splitting of hairs.

What is a subtractive synth??

A waveform generator, rich in harmonic content, which is carved away by the use of tuning, filters and envelopes..

The UVX80 fits all of these criteria.

So even with a sampler engine as it's container....it's a synth!

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:06 am

thanks guys, ok so as far as it has all basic waveforms etc. then i consider it also a digital synth, so it's possible to make your own sounds from scratch then i dont count it as a rompler

, nice so for 50 bucks a synth like this is not expensive.

New from UVI: UVX80 (AKAI AX80 re-imagining)