￥Hive: lightweight synth, heavyweight sound
Sleek, streamlined and super fast. Hive was built for speed. An effortless workflow, low cpu use and a single page interface means you can build your tracks in no time. Being ‘fast and simple’ does not mean sacrificing sound quality or creative control. Hive is packed with features, controls and enough flexibility to deliver stunning sounds. A lightweight synth with a heavyweight sound.

 

• cpu-friendly va synthesizer
• Single page design
• Each panel offers presets in a drop-down menu
• Solo buttons for each oscillator and filter panel
• Skinnable ui
• Over 2700 factory presets
• 3 different synth engine characters
• 2 pairs of stereo oscillators and sub-oscillators with 9 different waveforms each
• Polyphonic (up to 16 voices), duophonic, mono and legato modes
• Up to 16× unison per oscillator
• 2 multimode filters: lowpass, highpass, bandpass, bandreject or peaking
• Flexible oscillator and filter routing
• Common clock for arpeggiator and sequencer, with strict host-sync option
• 2 lfos with various shapes, sync options and unipolar switch
• Extra vibrato oscillator
• 2 pairs of adsr envelopes, each stage can be individually modulated
• Glide control, constant rate or constant time mode
• 12-slot modulation matrix with 2 targets per slot, countless targets including all fx parameters
• Drag and drop modulation assignment
• 7 quality effects on board: distortion, chorus, delay, phaser, EQ, plate reverb, compressor
• On-screen keyboard
• Resizable ui from 70% to 200%
• Arpeggiator with direction, order, octave and frame/restart controls
• 16-step sequencer to drive notes or modulation
• midi learn page and editable list
• Global preferences page

 

Changes in version 1.2

 

• 2D wavetables implemented, .wav or .uhm (scripts)
• added 4 X/Y controls with automapping of macros
• added mod matrix modifiers (curve, quantize, rectify, slew)
• smoother ‘Wet’ modulation for the Chorus and Phaser
• replaced previous init sound
• fixed various minor bugs