Suggestion for your effects plugin collection!

[FreakshowDJ]

Good morning everyone,

two days ago, I've read Audiofreqs post in the "Software/Plugins you can't live without" topic.

There he said he uses U-He Uhbik. Yesterday I downloaded the software (Illegally) because I wanted to try it because on the website it looked quite promising. I tried it, and, for real, it was super awesome! The plugins look really good, nice and clear interface, but most of all, the plugins do their work quite well!

The Uhbik Bundle contains:

Uhbik-A
ambience / reverb, a very unusual combination of early reflections with different plate algorithms.

While most of the other effects in the Uhbik family are geared towards the more synthetic, radical effects, Uhbik-A is the master of understatement. Great reverb is seldom conspicuous, but if itʼs not there, something is missing from the sound. With its independant control over high and low-frequency decays, diffusion and modulation, Uhbik-A delivers the kind of reverberations that can turn a flat sound into a warm space, or evoke the widest of landscapes! - This one is quite nice, personally I prefer Lexicon PCM, but this plugin does the job well too.

Uhbik-D
delay/echo with 5 'tape heads', LFO or flutter modulation, low/high cut filters, soft-clipping, per-tap feedback and multi-channel pan.

Imagine an echo that repeats every quarter note, although precise quarters are not part of the echo signal? Or ping-pong delay (no central tap) that applies the Haas effect for extra movement? Or 7.1 surround delays… Uhbik can do all this and more – once again, the simplicity of the GUI belies its power. Uhbik-D is the perfect playground for creative delays without the overt complexity of MFM2 (see there!) - Very nice plugin, awesome delay plugin that sounds really great! You can make some good delay sounds with this one!

Uhbik-F
flanger, from through-zero tape flanging (dramatic jet-effect!) to classic stomp-box type chorus, with LFO modulation and feedback / resonance

Uhbik-F simulates two tape machines per audio channel, with recording and playback heads that can even occupy the same position if you want – impossible in the real world! Bass frequencies can bypass the effect ('bass sanctuary') to ensure LF-stability while the rest of the sound is swept around. Turn up the drive (2nd harmonic distortion), and your lead line will scorch its way through any mix! - A Flanger. I tried it, but I don't use a phaser mostly in my productions, although I heard it can be a powerfull tool if used well.

Uhbik-G
granular pitch-shifter / phase vocoder (via fast Fourier anaysis) delivers a wide range of dramatic contemporary effects. Whole grain goodness...

Effectively cuts audio material into snippets ('grains'), then plays them back at a variable rate – even backwards. In the original tape devices, the radius of a rotating cylindrical tape-head determined grain size and the length of tape in contact with the cylinder determined the overlap between grains. But Uhbik-G is not bound by the physical limitations of rotating cylinders – you can make it huge or impossibly small! - This is why I checked out the bundle. Very awesome granular plugin. You can make things very interesting with this plug-in!

Uhbik-P
phaser set to stun, with up to 42 allpass filters in series delivering the deepest, richest phasing available. But is it an angel or a metal monster?

Again, bass frequencies can bypass the effect ('bass sanctuary') to ensure LF-stability. Again, resonance accentuates the comb filter effect, but unlike Uhbik-F the distance between peaks is kept fairly constant. As the signal is phase-shifted each time it is fed back, frequencies are created that were not present in the original signal – the main reason why Uhbik-P is also great for wild metallic effects! - Nice phaser, I did not yet use it, but in my new track i'm gonna try to ad some phaser effect to my pads.

Uhbik-Q
equalizer, the perfect balance between simplicity and flexibility required a unique approach… Uhbik-Q is a revelation!

Maximum flexibility from a minimum of controls, low CPU without compromising transparency. Uhbik-Q combines freely tunable frequency bands (4-pole filters, not the usual 2-pole!) with presets for other options. Q-factors automatically adjust to gain, an optional 'mid' bell curve filter adjusts to the two main bands… judging by the simple GUI, you would never guess just how much this EQ can do! - VERY VERY nice EQ! I never tried a EQ with knobs, but this one does his work really good and the sound coming from it is very nice and clear.

Runciter
filter with parallel lowpass, bandpass and highpass outputs, resonance, controllable input overdrive and brick-wall fuzz.

Filters were always dramatic sound-shaping tools, one reason why they’re still so popular. But users today expect more than a simple resonant lowpass, so here's RUNCITER! For classic wah-wah, add low- and highpass together then control cutoff from a MIDI pedal. Or max out the resonance and drive the input from -48db to 48dB for a vast range of effects... instant glittering sweeps or absolute filter mayhem! - Not sure if this one was in the package I downloaded, but the description looks promising!

Uhbik-S
frequency shifter / sideband filter with exceptional frequency response and low latency, can create anything from serene barber-pole waves to metallic FFF (full frequency freakout) effects!

Movement in frequency shifters (no LFO required) is constantly downwards or upwards. In Uhbik-S, the barber-pole effect can even rise in one channel while falling in the other. Clever routines prevent otherwise inaudible sidebands from folding back into the audio range – Uhbik-S never compromises audio quality. - You can use this for changing the "sound" of your sound.


Uhbik-T
tremolo – but if you think that just means 'volume wobble' you haven't tried the mother of all tremolos yet: Uhbik-T!

Our tremolo unit Uhbik-T is a general-purpose 'rhythmicizer' featuring linear or exponential (with 3 different strengths) gain modulation. But there's much more: You can morph between user-defined patterns in the 11 x 16 grid, apply rhythmic lowpass filtering, add vibrato or Haas-delay spatial effects. In either of the pattern modes, the LFO wave knob selects a position between 11 user-defined patterns, and the LFO scale knob determines precisely how 'choppy' the effect is... tremolo redefined! - Very powerfull tool. You can make your screeches sound very interesting with this plug-in!

The overall sound of the plugins is very good, exceptionally good. It looks slick, it does what it says it does and even more. The possibilities with these plugins are endless! You should defo try it!

Ordered the package from U-he today, hopa it comes in my mailbox soon!

[Greenkillah]

I'll have a look at them, I want to try out some new plugins besides the Classic Effects/KarmaFX Effects and I really like Zebra2 from them

[FreakshowDJ]

Defo try them out! I was overwhelmed by it's power and quality

[TheRavestyler]

i never was a fan of this U-He plugins but well i will try them out.

[Markove]

I'll have to give these plug-ins a look!

[FreakshowDJ]

Defo do it! It's friggin awesome! Really nice and easy to use, and the presets in it can learn you a lot! And i'll give you a tip: Try experimenting with da phaser on a dist square lead or a nice raw screech, if you like I can send you my preset for the phaser, sounds pretty awesome!