Unify by PluginGuru; The next big thing?

[tony10000]

For those not aware of John (Skippy) Lehmkuhl (co-developer of Unify and owner of PluginGuru), he is a world-class sound designer and has worked on voicing these products:

Korg M1 (PCM and Patch Sound Cards)
Korg M3R (factory voicing)
Korg O1W Series (factory voicing)
Korg Trinity Series (factory voicing)
Korg Triton Series (factory voicing and PCM Sound Cards)
Korg Wavestation (factory voicing, PCM and Sound Cards)
Korg Wavestation A/D (factory voicing)
Korg Wavestation WSSR (factory voicing and PCM Sound Cards)
Korg S-3 Component Drum Machine (factory voicing)
Roland JV-1080 (HipHop PCM Expansion card (created of the loops))
Korg KARMA Workstation (factory voicing)
Yamaha TX-16W (sample libraries)
Roland V-Synth V1 (factory voicing)
Roland XV-5080 (factory drum kits)
Alesis DM Pro (factory voicing of kits)
Korg Wavedrum (DSP algorithm design and factory voicing)
Korg Z-1 (factory voicing)
Korg OASYS (factory voicing)
Korg M50 (factory voicing)
Korg M3 (factory voicing)
Korg TR (factory voicing)
Spectrasonics Atmosphere Plug-In (beta testing & limited voicing)
Spectrasonics Trilogy Plug-In (beta testing & 200+ synth bass patches)
Spectrasonics Omnisphere (beta testing and limited voicing)
Camel Audio Alchemy (beta testing, factory and patch bank voicing)
Native Instruments Absynth (voicing on v1 of Absynth (pre-NI) & voicing for Absynth Sounds Vol. 1 )

As a result, the sounds alone in Unify are well worth the $59 intro price!

[tony10000]

John on live now:

[SciFiArtMan]

For those not aware of John (Skippy) Lehmkuhl (co-developer of Unify and owner of PluginGuru), he is a world-class sound designer and has worked on voicing these products:

Korg M1 (PCM and Patch Sound Cards)
Korg M3R (factory voicing)
Korg O1W Series (factory voicing)
Korg Trinity Series (factory voicing)
Korg Triton Series (factory voicing and PCM Sound Cards)
Korg Wavestation (factory voicing, PCM and Sound Cards)
Korg Wavestation A/D (factory voicing)
Korg Wavestation WSSR (factory voicing and PCM Sound Cards)
Korg S-3 Component Drum Machine (factory voicing)
Roland JV-1080 (HipHop PCM Expansion card (created of the loops))
Korg KARMA Workstation (factory voicing)
Yamaha TX-16W (sample libraries)
Roland V-Synth V1 (factory voicing)
Roland XV-5080 (factory drum kits)
Alesis DM Pro (factory voicing of kits)
Korg Wavedrum (DSP algorithm design and factory voicing)
Korg Z-1 (factory voicing)
Korg OASYS (factory voicing)
Korg M50 (factory voicing)
Korg M3 (factory voicing)
Korg TR (factory voicing)
Spectrasonics Atmosphere Plug-In (beta testing & limited voicing)
Spectrasonics Trilogy Plug-In (beta testing & 200+ synth bass patches)
Spectrasonics Omnisphere (beta testing and limited voicing)
Camel Audio Alchemy (beta testing, factory and patch bank voicing)
Native Instruments Absynth (voicing on v1 of Absynth (pre-NI) & voicing for Absynth Sounds Vol. 1 )

As a result, the sounds alone in Unify are well worth the $59 intro price!

"So what, I designed nearly 100 Synth1 patches!"

That IS an impressive listing and stunning resume! And the sounds in Unify reflect that level of quality and competence! Even the way he plays with the layers and effects in the videos show such an exuberance and love of craft! This affected my choice to support this effort - this is the kind of devs and ideas I want to associate with! So much so, I'm excited to see what banks and patches John creates for the future of Unify! And application updates appear to have a beautiful forward path as well!

[onerob]

Catalina is not supported it seems. Odd decision...

Not a decision, just a question of time. We'll have Catalina support just as soon as I can figure out the process.

I'm not a developer, but I believe this is a good place to get going with Catalina requirements.

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=531663

[getdunne]

Catalina is not supported it seems. Odd decision...

Not a decision, just a question of time. We'll have Catalina support just as soon as I can figure out the process.

I'm not a developer, but I believe this is a good place to get going with Catalina requirements.

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=531663

Thank you!
-shane

[SLiC]

Trying to buy (paypal crashing out)--- worth it just for the 2.5 gig of samples and presets!
Edit- Got it!

[WatchTheGuitar]

How does Unify handle a situation where you don't have one of the plugins used?

e.g. you load a 6 layer Unify patch, but one layer is a Serum patch and you don't own Serum.

Does the Unify patch still load, but with a layer missing or greyed out, or not load with/without an error?

Is it possible to make a Unify patch that names substitutes for missing plugins, like a web page stylesheet where a font tag can name a number of font faces so if you don't have Serum it could name a close match in Pigments 2 and finally a usable sound in the plugins that come with Unify itself? Obviously with some way of showing the user that they are seeing a substitute.

[SciFiArtMan]

I don't think any of the patches in Unify use any outside plugins. John demos a few in the videos to show how cool they can be, but I don't think any of the patches in Unify have that focus!? I could be wrong, of course. I think I've played all 400 patches, and I don't remember any missing parts.

[SLiC]

Yes, I bought it- there are no presets for anything other than the free internal content.

Reminds me a lot of Kore.

Has potential, no brainier for the price just as an instrument with internal content and VST host, but if it gets support it could be what everyone is imagining...pluginguru certainly haS enough presets for commercial VSTs to get things started...I was hoping they would have included a few, but I am sure this is coming.

[WatchTheGuitar]

I don't think any of the patches in Unify use any outside plugins. John demos a few in the videos to show how cool they can be, but I don't think any of the patches in Unify have that focus!? I could be wrong, of course. I think I've played all 400 patches, and I don't remember any missing parts.

Oh I know they said the initial release only has patches using the free plugins released that come with Unify, but was interested to know what happens in the scenario I asked about - further along the line when they start bringing out patch libraries that can utilise other plugins.

[dezma]

For those not aware of John (Skippy) Lehmkuhl (co-developer of Unify and owner of PluginGuru), he is a world-class sound designer and has worked on voicing these products:
As a result, the sounds alone in Unify are well worth the $59 intro price!

In addition to this, I see Laurent Verronéz aka Airwave also did patch design.

He is/was one of the most known Belgian producers in the once famous trance scene.
He's produced classics such as innerspace, save me, above the sky.

[tony10000]

How does Unify handle a situation where you don't have one of the plugins used?

e.g. you load a 6 layer Unify patch, but one layer is a Serum patch and you don't own Serum.

Does the Unify patch still load, but with a layer missing or greyed out, or not load with/without an error?

Is it possible to make a Unify patch that names substitutes for missing plugins, like a web page stylesheet where a font tag can name a number of font faces so if you don't have Serum it could name a close match in Pigments 2 and finally a usable sound in the plugins that come with Unify itself? Obviously with some way of showing the user that they are seeing a substitute.

I tested this. If the plugin isn't available, it generates an error message and the name of the plugin appears in red. It loads the patch and you can substitute it for another plugin once loaded.

[WatchTheGuitar]

How does Unify handle a situation where you don't have one of the plugins used?

e.g. you load a 6 layer Unify patch, but one layer is a Serum patch and you don't own Serum.

Does the Unify patch still load, but with a layer missing or greyed out, or not load with/without an error?

Is it possible to make a Unify patch that names substitutes for missing plugins, like a web page stylesheet where a font tag can name a number of font faces so if you don't have Serum it could name a close match in Pigments 2 and finally a usable sound in the plugins that come with Unify itself? Obviously with some way of showing the user that they are seeing a substitute.

I tested this. If the plugin isn't available, it generates an error message and the name of the plugin appears in red. It loads the patch and you can substitute it for another plugin once loaded.

Cheers for that. At least you can still open the patch, that was my fear that you could be locked out of old presets when you lost access to a particular plugin.

[SciFiArtMan]

I like your idea of suggesting a replacement patch from available plugins. At first mention, I thought this was a tall order, but by using patch tags it could be a possibility with reasonable success. Would be interesting to see the idea explored!

[JiggSaw]

I'm assuming I can use komplete kontrol, open and build a patch in Unify, save the preset in nks format, and then navigate to all my saved sounds using my kk midi controller? If so that is a true game changer and I will need to buy immediately.

I know kk is another layer on top of the layer Unify creates but it seems like it would be worth it if I can be hands on and just cycle through unique presets I created.