At least once a year, I apologise for a lack of activity and here’s the first such apology for 2013! Last year I took on a new day job and things have ramped up of late, the upshot of which has seen me flying here, there and everywhere. America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. [...]

Hot on the heels of their fabulous Vintage Legends collection, UVI officially released the latest in their ever increasing line of superbly recreated classic synths, this time taking a veritable gem of a keyboard and giving it the UVI treatment. The keyboard in question is a Roland JX-3P, considered by many to be an analogue [...]

In what is an unprecedented, yet completely welcome, move by our friends across the English Channel, UVI have released their first ever “Try Before You Buy” version of one of their major product lines. And it’s their latest and greatest one too, Vintage Legends. This 233MB download contains a .ufs file that you can use [...]

Here’s a very quick demo I did of the UVI CS-M, available as part of their new Vintage Legends collection, just before I went to bed and just before Santa arrived! I couldn’t resist recreating one of my favourite pieces with this classic synth line… Full video reviews will follow in the coming days. I [...]

The old saying goes, “There you are, waiting for a bus, nothing for ages then two come along at once”. Well, it should be brought up to date… “There you are, waiting for some new content from UVI, nothing for ages, then SIX come along at once! Oh, and an update to their UVI Workstation [...]

Right now, I am snowed under with reviewing UVI‘s latest library, ‘Vintage Legends‘ but I just got an email from another developer, AcousticSamples, who also compile libraries for the UVI engine which also includes MOTU‘s MachFive3 sampler as well as UVI’s own Workstation host. This little, and I use that word deliberately, gem is called [...]

Those crazy French sample library creators, UVI, have been letting slip a few teaser images over on their Facebook page. Judging by the wording, more is to come but this is what we have so far… First up, a Rhodes Chroma clone… Then we have something clearly inspired by Yamaha’s CS-M (20/40/70) range of analogue [...]

I suppose it has to be said that the piano is a bit of a one trick pony. I mean, it has one sound set whose sounds can only be affected by the velocity with which you strike the keys, and the level of sustain you apply using the pedals. Maybe opening the lid has [...]

I think it’s fair to say that, of all the digital, sampling behemoths of the late 70s and early 80s, the New England Digital Synclavier was probably the biggest, most expensive, most desirable of all. Why? Well, it was, arguably, far superior sonically than its competitors and had a far higher level of specification in [...]

This lunchtime, whilst I was tucking in to a bowl of Mrs Muso’s yummy homemade Tom Yum Gai, the postman delivered something equally lovely, courtesy of my friends at UVI. MOTU’s MachFive 3 Sampler. Have to say, it’s really nice to get a software package in a proper box for a change! And with a [...]