Re: UVI $99 Sale
2014/08/07 08:07:20
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Glyn
I've got quite a few of their Vintage Synth packs as I use Mach 5 more than Kontakt these days.
I got quite a bit of stuff when I changed to Mach 5 as I had been a long time pro sounds user, which got upgraded to the new format - so they did me a great deal - always found UVi brilliant to deal with, such a refreshing change from some Companies who only use two letters in their shorten names!!
Overall I like the synths and string packs - I looked at JJR and the only one that might be of interest to me is the Emulation pack - I have the Fairlight pack and I absolutely love that, already have that in a couple of songs!
I have always thought that the $149 price is too much and have told them so - $99 is worth it but I think that should be the standard price point.
If I was new to the UVi stuff and wanted to get into this, the Synths anthology or Emulator packs would be my choice.
With regard to Mello, I think they made a real error here - perhaps they were trying to put together a mellotron emulation, but it went horribly wrong - GForce and even the venerable IK products smash it out of the water.
However with a little bit of experiment, I have actually used this for creating some pretty decent sounds, albeit nothing like a Mellotron! They should have called it something else and sold it not as an emulation but a sound creation pack I think - then no one would immediately compare it to good Mellotron products and say it was totally crap!!
Nigel