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Treeper · Post by **Treeper** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:35 pm

Forgive me if this is common knowledge, but can you copy sounds from the left panel to the right panel or between different sounds?

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:42 pm

mevla wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:03 pm In Howard's "Base 80" preset there's a mention, additional to the MW and AT, of a 'Ctrl A' and a 'Ctrl B' for cutoff and resonance. What are these and how to assign them ?

Cheers.

Ctrl A and Ctrl B is what used to be "BR Breath Control" and "XP Expression Pedal". You can now set those individually (per instance) on the MIDI assign page (the list view):

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But best is to set them globally to whatever you prefer in the preferences panel:

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Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:44 pm

Treeper wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:35 pm Forgive me if this is common knowledge, but can you copy sounds from the left panel to the right panel or between different sounds?

There's no "all in one go" I'm afraid. You can copy/paste each module.

There's also the link feature (a special UI mode) which lets one edit both sides at once on the left, and dial in offsets on the right.

tony10000 · Post by **tony10000** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:38 pm

Playing with the new wavetable functionality in u-he Hive 1.2.

Beamboom · Post by **Beamboom** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:58 pm

Oh. My. God. how good the new patches demoing the wavetable features are. Mouthwatering! And such a fantastic demo of the powers of this synth.

It truly deserves some massive attention from the electronica community out there.

mevla · Post by **mevla** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 11:45 pm

Beamboom wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:58 pm It truly deserves some massive attention from the electronica community out there.

And beyond.

aaron aardvark · Post by **aaron aardvark** » Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:25 am

tony10000,
Thank you for the video!

tony10000 · Post by **tony10000** » Fri Dec 14, 2018 6:21 am

aaron aardvark wrote: Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:25 am tony10000,
Thank you for the video!

Anytime!

rocolin · Post by **rocolin** » Fri Dec 14, 2018 5:41 pm

Preset browser- Is it possible to increase the contrast in the preset browser? I find the text in browser a little too dark, it's hard to read because I don't set my monitor super bright.

Cepheus · Post by **Cepheus** » Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:02 am

Not much of a poster myself but I enjoy reading stuff on this forum like Urs’s epiphany on the wavetable scripting. Now with Hive 1.2 out, I had to make some comments. Zebra2 is by far my favourite synth because of its organic sounding oscillators. Modulation of the oscillatorFX when playing largely contribute to that. With all great sounding but generic wavetable synths out there, one may overlook Hive for its uniqueness. Some synths like Dune3 or Serum can indeed convert a formula into a wavetable but the wavetable scripting language in Hive is way more evolved. It is the difference between the ability of saying one word and making a conversation. I am really curious to see what people with come up with and if this will have the impact on sound design as the mighty oscillators of Zebra. I really like the sound of the new wavetable oscillator. The obvious question is will this elegant scripting migrate to Zebra3? The parser in Hive interprets the script into a wavetable but how much flexibility is there in Hive to change the math in the fly. For instance, could a modulator like a modwheel be programmed into script as a handler? Coming from image analysis, I can see that math isn’t for everyone but programs like Cellprofiler use flow-based programming pipeline to help the non-programmers among us. I was wondering if the industrial designer in Urs would be inspired by such an visual approach. Anyway, congrats for Team U-he for releasing yet another fine synth.

TheSynthScientist · Post by **TheSynthScientist** » Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:19 am

Really nice update!

PieBerger · Post by **PieBerger** » Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:04 am

Fantastic update, the wavetable function has been implemented perfectly with all of the sonic variety and little to none of the overwhelm/distraction that often comes along for the ride in other wavetable synths. One thing I would like to see in v2 though is the option for Auto scanning to be free running, at the moment it's triggered for each note/arp/seq on.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:37 am

Cepheus wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:02 am Not much of a poster myself but I enjoy reading stuff on this forum like Urs’s epiphany on the wavetable scripting. Now with Hive 1.2 out, I had to make some comments. Zebra2 is by far my favourite synth because of its organic sounding oscillators. Modulation of the oscillatorFX when playing largely contribute to that. With all great sounding but generic wavetable synths out there, one may overlook Hive for its uniqueness. Some synths like Dune3 or Serum can indeed convert a formula into a wavetable but the wavetable scripting language in Hive is way more evolved. It is the difference between the ability of saying one word and making a conversation. I am really curious to see what people with come up with and if this will have the impact on sound design as the mighty oscillators of Zebra. I really like the sound of the new wavetable oscillator. The obvious question is will this elegant scripting migrate to Zebra3? The parser in Hive interprets the script into a wavetable but how much flexibility is there in Hive to change the math in the fly. For instance, could a modulator like a modwheel be programmed into script as a handler? Coming from image analysis, I can see that math isn’t for everyone but programs like Cellprofiler use flow-based programming pipeline to help the non-programmers among us. I was wondering if the industrial designer in Urs would be inspired by such an visual approach. Anyway, congrats for Team U-he for releasing yet another fine synth.

I am very curious about many of these questions myself.

Unfortunately the formula parser does not lend itself to realtime usage. It's very fast for what it does, but it's still very easy to write uhm scripts which take a few seconds to finish.

I'm quite sure that it'll have an impact on Z3, but I am not yet sure if it's going to have all parts of it, or a subset and/or a set of dedicated additions. I would very much like to keep Zebra's wavetable editing functionality at a manageable number of frames and maybe concentrate on creative and musical ways to interpolate between them.

btw · Post by **btw** » Sat Dec 15, 2018 2:36 pm

Cepheus wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:02 am The parser in Hive interprets the script into a wavetable but how much flexibility is there in Hive to change the math in the fly. For instance, could a modulator like a modwheel be programmed into script as a handler?

You’re probably aware of this, but the multitable concept introduces a second dimension of control within the static wavetables, which you can map to any modulator. It’s not the same as what you suggest, but there’s scope for much creative exploration there, changing the math along that second axis.

lengro · Post by **lengro** » Sat Dec 15, 2018 3:24 pm

I've wondered for a while - is there any difference in sound quality, between:
1) inbuilt basic waveforms
2) equivalent .umh script (for example: sin(2*pi*x) vs inbuilt sine)
3) imported wav (for example: full resolution perfect sine)

If not, why not just go full wavetable, so selecting inbuilt sine would draw a sine in first frame?

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