Hey Everyone,
 
I just did a review (along with a new piece of music) of u-He's amazing new synth, Hive, over at my blog:
 
http://www.bydavidrosen.com/2015/05/25/this-thing-rules-u-he-hive/
 
Check it out :-)

David

Ah.. Must be because you're a paying member of SoundCloud, that you can order your tracks as you like. I literally checked your site about an hour ago to see if you had fixed your computer. This caught me out because the demo (Infiltrate) is six tracks down.
 
Nice demo... I'll certainly be checking out Hive some time this year.
 
cheers
 
andy
 
Edit: Oh well... Looks like I have it now 

Thanks Andy. Yea computer is finally fixed haha. I am back in business... Finishing up a short film score tonight and then I get started on my 2nd ever feature. Excited to be back to work.
 
Glad you liked the demo. Hive is really cool. I'm excited to continue digging into it :-)
 
Oh and yea that Soundcloud Pro feature is called Spotlight I think? Lets you keep your 5 favorite tracks pinned at the top and all new tracks go after it. It's kind of confusing to be honest, but it's also cool because I don't necessarily want  "Infiltrate" or some of the other tracks on my Soundcloud to be the very first thing someone hears if they just stumbled upon my profile.

David, nice review... I love Hive too... got in with the survey gift plus early price... yummy.
 
In visiting your website I found the deep blue links to be very challenging to read... just thought I'd pass it along.  Some sites do this and seems to defeat the purpose of quickly communicating something...

Thanks. Isn't it fun? :-)
 
And thanks for the feedback on my website. I've had a few other people say that too... I just like that dark theme to it, but one of these days I am gonna try to at least make the links a slightly lighter shade to make it stand out more. Just gotta pull myself away from music for an hour to figure out how haha.

Yep... Started a "Test" project with Hive being the only instrument I will use. Still early days but once I have something worthwhile posting on my SoundCloud site I'll say so here.
 
Things I like so far: Using the mouse scroll wheel to fine tune values; Everything is virtually on one page (well, the main synth is on one page but the effects shares the view in the middle with the built-in sequencer section). So many routing options... I'm just going to have to dig out the manual...
 
I'll be making heavy use of envelopes to sweep the usual cutoff and resonance settings, amongst other things, so this will be one of those "evolving" things.
 
I'm opting to use Sonar's Step Sequencer for now, because I'm not up to speed with the built in one, so it's easier to stick with what I know.
 
I'm turning off all the Hive on-board effects, for now anyway. I need to look into that further. May be I just turn off the reverb and delay and still use the flanger/chorus/phaser type effects. Need to play more, and read that manual.
 
Still, if you are familiar with analogue synths, Hive is still intuitive and easy to use...

Thanks for the review, PB. Love Hive, although I'm not into EDM.
Some amazing patches. Met Howard (HS) at Musikmesse, wonderful guy.

Change of plan...
 
I said I'd turn off Hive's on-board effects. I've changed my mind on this, as it will give a false impression of Hive's capabilities. So, it's back to Hive's on-board effects, all the way. I may use my favourite limiter on the Master Bus and that's it...
 

Fleer
although I'm not into EDM

I didn't think I was to be honest. Tangerine Dream, JMJ, Kraftwerk (early) etc. but it appears that those bands sometimes get mentioned in the same sentence...

Tangerine Dream, Jarre, early Kraftwerk, nice, nice. I find that Howard's patches show Hive to be much more than an EDM synth.

Oh much more than just EDM definitely. That's actually a constant struggle with my career haha, defining my music. Not that I NEED to define it... I'm happy with creating music that's at times ambient, at times electronic, at times alternative, at times film score, at times (rarely) EDM... But sometimes you have to check a box on a website or something, and my sometimes I'm forced into this "EDM" ghetto where everything is hard core dance music, and my track just happens to have a lot of synths in it but is totally chill and meant to be beautiful haha. EDM is actually one of my weakest points as a composer. I can fake jazz better than I can fake EDM... And I'm doing it all with synths haha :-)
 
But anyway, back on track, Hive has so much available for all different kinds of music. There's so many possiblities, and synkotron, I agree, leave the effects on. You can always add some external effects after too, but its cool to play around with what it can do internally as well. Use it to its potential :-)