A double whammy from UVI
It’s been a slow news period but luckily UVI have saved the day…
They say that summer is a slow time for news in the world of music production and that you can very possibly you can blame the Europeans for taking most of August off for their holidays (the lucky things).
This year has been no exception as our news inbox has slowed to such a crawl that we actually welcomed the regular essay of a press release from Spitfire – more on that later. It’s not been an entirely news-less period though and, luckily, our favourite Parisian software developers UVI managed to release not one but two products before packing the budgy smugglers away for their annual holiday shindig.
First up is their PX Sunbox, which is a recreation of the 1999 SunSyn, a hardware synth that was made by the German company, JoMoX. This was an an 8-voice polyphonic analogue/digital hybrid synth with a morphable 4-pole true analogue filter. Its distinctive design included a groundbreaking modulation matrix which, get this, allowed for 4096 possible routings – which is pretty impressive given its hardware physical limitations.
UVI’s take on it involves over 30,000 samples to create 450 presets but with a fully editable architecture to allow you to create your own sounds as well. Features include ADSR amp envelopes, multimode filters, pitch shifting and advanced stereo modes, LFO and step modulators, two arpeggiators, and effects.
“PX SunBox delivers what we think represent the most unique, charactered, and sometimes epic sounds,” UVI explain. It will set you back a very reasonable €79, is available now and it runs in UVI’s Workstation and Falcon.
Asteroid is UVI’s second offering, what they call a “cinematic rhythm and effect designer”. It features seven “deeplytweakable” layers that can either be individual percussive voices or stacked together to create huge and dramatic hits. Sounds come by way of a library containing acoustic and electronic drums, orchestral percussion, special effects, foley, and found sounds. There’s a lot of processing on hand “for incredible sound design potential” plus a 128-step sequencer with performance controls. Asteroid is, they say “an endless source of inspiration for music, film, games and more”. It is €149 and available now. We’ll get them both in for review asap.
And thanks for rescuing our news UVI.
uvi.net