UVI effects good?

[martinjuenke]

What does the swarm intelligence think:
Are UVI effects better, worse or same level as other established dev collections like Arturia, Eventide and Softube?

[Dirk Diggler]

Get the free Spark Verb.
I'd put them at the same level with the others, pro all the way.

[Cuauhtli]

I have Shade, Relayer, and Sparkverb. I have no complaints.

[osiris]

Relayer is one of the better delays. So many things you can control on it. Shade is also great. I use Thorus all the time also. Also Opal is very underrated. I did not take to Dual Delay or Drum Designer and I haven't made up my mind on Bloom yet.

[Download SOphist]

have opal, plate, relayer and spark verb. I´d say opal, relayer and plate are "best on class", or at least very strong contenders. something in sparkverb doesn´t jive with me, but you know how reverbs go.

[Dexter US]

Relayer was a slam dunk when they offered it free last year at plugin botique.. can't say bad things about thier stuff..

[VariKusBrainZ]

Whats Opal like for CPU?
Is it on the same quality level as Relab 176?

It never gets mentioned in compressor shoot outs and I hate demoing compress

[VariKusBrainZ]

UVI verbs are top notch

[woodsdenis]

Whats Opal like for CPU?
Is it on the same quality level as Relab 176?

It never gets mentioned in compressor shoot outs and I hate demoing compress

Very good comp, La2a style,heavier CPU than most. Relab 176 is in a league of its own.

[osiris]

I was going to add that. Opal is a little heavier on CPU than most compressors, but put it on a snare and you won't take it off.

[Trancit]

I was going to add that. Opal is a little heavier on CPU than most compressors, but put it on a snare and you won't take it off.

A little heavier??

On my system most compressor plugins take about 3-5% of a single core at max while I am not using fancy stuff...maybe there are more CPU hogs out there I do not have...
Opal is taking a whooping 20% ...4 times more than others... that´s for me a bit more than a "little heavy"...
For 20% on a Ryzen 9 core it should not just be good sounding ...it should be more in the range "sh*t to gold converter" ...

If I compare my other plugins: I don´t have any other FX plugin that takes that amount of CPU for a single instance ...mostly I avoid using it (got it for free) because of that CPU hunger...

I just have thrown (for testing and to make it more visible for 1 core usage) 3 instances of Opal on a simple Kickdrum...
This is the CPU Meter of Bitwig which is dancing up and down like crazy ... 1 Peak = Kick hit ...
I guess because of the huge CPU hit they take the CPU just when it´s actual processing audio... this is the way to let your CPU meter dance to the rhythm...
I would never pay any money for it...

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With the other UVI plugins (I think I have them all except Plate) I don´t have any problems though...

[concealed identity]

Dual Delay X is great, it gives you a lot of ways to get creative with it but has a really intuitive UI. One of the best all-rounder delays out there imo

[osiris]

I don't get 20% from Opal, but I also think I turned off the waveform display at the bottom. That always helps.

[Funky40]

Shade is a great tool ! But they should do an MK2....and make it even greater

[sandandpaint]

Shade is a great tool ! But they should do an MK2....and make it even greater

If Shade had parallel processing it would be one of the best FX around