In my view, Urs' work revolutionised and set a new standard for soft synths. He's my soft synth hero. I've been using soft synth plugins since late 90s and I still remember what kind of a joke those sounded like. U-he changed the name of the game and IMHO everybody is trying to make their soft synths sound as good as u-he's. Since I'm using Linux, I feel extremely happy that the best soft synth developer out there has decided that making Linux versions of his plugins is worth it. Thank you Urs! My decision also annihilated all the noise from other developers so I can concentrate on music. Having less plugins but top-notch has a tendency to do that. I don't think about what to use these days and that makes me highly productive. Anyways, if I met Urs on the street I would ask for an autograph for sure! :)
Great interview. His software is bonzer, and I'm surprised his company is as small as it is. It's too bad his company isn't large enough (yet) to handle hardware manufacture, because I'd be all over that, and probably many others.
very clever guy. I'm a big fan of A.C.E. and Bazille, and the whole drive to make things sound as analogue as they can, digitally. Interesting to see how he collects many different chips and components, and wants to build that uniqueness, just as every moog or jupiter 8 sounds unique, because of heat, age etc....He's definitely at the forefront of digital analogue. Bazille, in particular sounds great....its phat, it bites and snarls, but can be smooth as butter at the same time, and the modulations are some of the most authentic out there. If you're reading, Keep doing what you're doing Urs !!
legend! the days when people start makin controllers for his plugins will be glorious (like soundforce.nl for TAL). would love to see some drum synth stuff from him in the future maybe or more distortion fx plugins.
cresshead There was a reverb prototype than ran on old nvidia cards, ten years ago I'd say.. Don't know why it didn't move forward, but afaik the bus speed meant latency was high. Its a wide, slow bus, rather than a narrower, quicker bus.. Like a river analogy.. And I'm guessing that you can't play what's in vram without moving it into main memory too... It's designed to output from vram to the hdmi or displayport interfaces. Still, with PCIe speeds increasing, and the vast parallel compute capability of modern video cards, yeah I'd say it'd surely be worth returning to the question..
Using general purpose controllers to drive software instruments is such a poor alternative to a designed-from-day-one hardware synth. Urs: look at Arturia.. just go for it !
+Laurence Vanhelsuwe I have a Spark controller which is collecting dust. Buggy, clunky and very very controversial. I'd rather not see U-he "go for it". General purpose controllers are fine, by the way. I am loving my Novation controllers and been using them with VIs for years.
