Ultra Audio - Ultra (A fancy Vital-style synth that popped up out of nowhere)

[Morty-C-137]

Just played with the demo for the first 20min and you can get some great sounds out of this. The layout and consequently UX is well done including the mod system/matrix.

Three things that I noticed right off the bat though:

- no mouse-wheel control?

- in the ultra oscillator we cant draw curves between 2 anchor points; only straight lines. Which for pitch envelopes are less than ideal;

- no dotted and triplet notes available in the delay unit?

- a modulation source like note random discrete would be very useful.

I see Skin folder on my system that is currently empty. I assume we can make our custom skins in time? Whilst the layout is logical and overall UX is good, I see where I would personally alter the color schemes of the default skin a bit to make it a tad less the same dark color for every section so they are a bit more distinct from each other. If I can squint my eyes at a GUI and still discern the different functional sections I am good to go

Overall I’d say congrats to Ultra Audio! I can tell a lot of work has gone into this en it is well thought out and executed overall.

[ultra_audio]

- no mouse-wheel control?

There's mouse wheel for various things... do you mean on knobs?

- in the ultra oscillator we cant draw curves between 2 anchor points; only straight lines. Which for pitch envelopes are less than ideal;

The solution currently is to draw more nodes but I think we could add a curve mode.

- no dotted and triplet notes available in the delay unit?

Yes you can, click the time button and you get these options.

- a modulation source like note random discrete would be very useful.

Do you mean random over time? LFO 4 is set up like this.

I see Skin folder on my system that is currently empty. I assume we can make our custom skins in time? Whilst the layout is logical and overall UX is good, I see where I would personally alter the color schemes of the default skin a bit to make it a tad less the same dark color for every section so they are a bit more distinct from each other. If I can squint my eyes at a GUI and still discern the different functional sections I am good to go

Overall I’d say congrats to Ultra Audio! I can tell a lot of work has gone into this en it is well thought out and executed overall.

Skins are half implemented... we will be adding this for sure

[zerocrossing]

I'm currently running the trial and note there are additional presets available in the store. Does the paid version give you more, or do you plan to include more from the store given the above?

The Trial mode gives you 100 free credits, which you can use in the store.

If you end up buying Ultra, you get another 100 credits.
The first 100 free credits convert over to paid credits, and the pack authors get paid at that time for anything you 'purchased' during the trial.

So that means that when buying the full version plus the trial "credits" we would get 2000 presets? Cool...

Not as far as I can tell — 1 preset is 3 credits.

Yeah, it was half joking.
A $250 synth shipping with 130 presets.
But you could buy some more via the built in store.
Don't forget to download the demo version first or you miss another whopping 30 presets that you could get.
I am not convinced yet that this synth is so awesome that despite of those facts I really want it.

It’s a very good synthesizer. Its only problem is that it’s late to the party that’s already full of very good synthesizers. There’s no one-to-one replacement for it, but if you’re already using Serum 2, Pigments, Currents, Dune 3, Zebra 3, etc, you can probably skip this one.

[SCprogfan]

I tried downloading the installer twice, and it was blocked by McAfee both times due to a "threat." I will assume this is a false positive but just making you aware.

[whassup]

It’s a very good synthesizer. Its only problem is that it’s late to the party that’s already full of very good synthesizers. There’s no one-to-one replacement for it, but if you’re already using Serum 2, Pigments, Currents, Dune 3, Zebra 3, etc, you can probably skip this one.

Thanx, I see your points.
I like the concept of the UltraOscilator.
The advantages of that are cool.
GAS is a thing and I am not short of good options.
No hurry. I keep this synth on my radar.

[ultra_audio]

I tried downloading the installer twice, and it was blocked by McAfee both times due to a "threat." I will assume this is a false positive but just making you aware.

We've looked into this, and have seen it once before. It does seem to be an issue, but further research is required.

The exe is signed, and doesn't trigger on any other virus scanner that we know of.

It also gets a clean bill of health for every virus scanner on virustotal.com - including for McAfee.

We will keep looking into it. In the meantime, you can ignore it and install it if you trust us

[Morty-C-137]

There's mouse wheel for various things... do you mean on knobs?

That’s right I meant control over knobs mainly but any basic synth operation parameter. But I am surprised you say mouse-wheel already operates various thing currently because here nothing responds to mouse-wheel (macOS 15.7.3 using Logic Pro)

Yes you can, click the time button and you get these options.

Ah thanks I missed that!

Do you mean random over time? LFO 4 is set up like this.

Yeah what I meant was a random modulation that triggers a new random value with every new note. But from further testing I have gathered that that is what the current random is already set up to do?

Skins are half implemented... we will be adding this for sure

Superb!

Thanks for your responses!

One last thing to add: A mod remap system added to the modulation matrix like Vital and Serum have would be very useful.

[ultra_audio]

That’s right I meant control over knobs mainly but any basic synth operation parameter. But I am surprised you say mouse-wheel already operates various thing currently because here nothing responds to mouse-wheel (macOS 15.7.3 using Logic Pro)

Can you try going to the sound edit page and wheeling over a pitch, amp or cycles graph? It should zoom in. Wheel is not connected to knobs but we could add this.

Yeah what I meant was a random modulation that triggers a new random value with every new note. But from further testing I have gathered that that is what the current random is already set up to do?

Yes, the random on the left is for note on. the noise / random LFO is random over time.

One last thing to add: A mod remap system added to the modulation matrix like Vital and Serum have would be very useful.

We are working on this idea

[Morty-C-137]

Can you try going to the sound edit page and wheeling over a pitch, amp or cycles graph? It should zoom in. Wheel is not connected to knobs but we could add this.

Ah, yes, that bit works.. but no controls. Mouse wheel on knobs and sliders (any control really) would absolutely add some quality of life for those of us making patches

We are working on this idea

That's great to hear!

[Sampleconstruct]

Can we expect an update soon fixing the LFO problem in Logic?

[Sampleconstruct]

Can we expect an update soon fixing the LFO problem in Logic?

Out of curiosity I just checked Ultra in Cubase 15 and the LFOs work as expected with transport running, so this might be a bug linked to the AU version of Ultra.

[Gamma-UT]

Can we expect an update soon fixing the LFO problem in Logic?

Out of curiosity I just checked Ultra in Cubase 15 and the LFOs work as expected with transport running, so this might be a bug linked to the AU version of Ultra.

I loaded the VST3 into Patchwork in Logic and get the same bug (and it happens for the AU whether it's in Patchwork or not).

However, in Live 12, the AU is fine.

[Sampleconstruct]

Can we expect an update soon fixing the LFO problem in Logic?

Out of curiosity I just checked Ultra in Cubase 15 and the LFOs work as expected with transport running, so this might be a bug linked to the AU version of Ultra.

I loaded the VST3 into Patchwork in Logic and get the same bug (and it happens for the AU whether it's in Patchwork or not).

However, in Live 12, the AU is fine.

Thanks for checking, so then it's clearly an Ultra-Logic bug.

[Super Piano Hater 64]

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[ultra_audio]

Can we expect an update soon fixing the LFO problem in Logic?

LFO fix and few other fixes are due to go out Monday NZ time... Sunday for the rest of you