

For example: if you think your track might need a thin, glassy lead sound, you can simply load the “Waverunner” or “Vector Pro” instrument and try out the separate instruments inside. Rather than choosing a specific synth by a specific developer within your DAW, you can now load an “Instrument” into the UVI Workstation that offers a specific sonic spectrum or character that you want to add to your production. The way UVI has organized the patches and modules offers a certain flexibility in your working process. Many of these products encompass several separate modules, such as the “Waverunner” instrument-a retrospective on German wavetable synths such as the Waldorf Microwave-or the “Beatbox Anthology,” which combines the sounds from 111 classic drum machines in a single interface. The products each cover a certain form of synthesis (FM, Wavetable etc.), instrument group, or period that is significant to the history of synthesis. To bring some much-needed structure into this vast collection of software instruments, UVI has categorized and grouped the separate modules into 20 products. You can run as many UVI instruments as you want, on different channels-or as many as your computer will allow. The workstation is designed to create a simple and familiar interface through which all the UVI soundbanks can be accessed, avoiding a list of 20 separate “plugins” in the plugin-window of your DAW. Following a simple installation, this workstation shows up in your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) as a virtual instrument plugin (AU, VST, …). UVI offers a free workstation-”UVI Workstation”-in which the instruments can be loaded and tweaked.

This impressive collection is enough to keep you busy for a while-and your neighbors from sleeping! The package covers well-known classic machines as well as obscure synths and rhythm boxes, all of which are cleverly grouped into 20 products, each focusing on a specific instrument group or form of synthesis. 2, PX Apollo, UVS-3200, UVX80, and OB Legacy.

This new version sees the addition of 15 instruments and over 3,000 patches from seven new products, including BeatBox Anthology 2, Cameo, Digital Synsations Vol. Paris-based software developer UVI recently released Vintage Vault 2, a massive update to their premier vintage synth collection that now includes 50 instruments, 111 drum machines, over 7,000 presets, and 300,000+ samples.
