Are you freakin' kidding me? Of all the lame, stupid, plain ol' dumbass reasons to stop using a software synth, this one takes the biscuit. Hive's GUI is one of the best I have ever encountered. It is ultra-intuitive - you never need to dive into menus and most things are exactly where you'd expect them to be. If you can't get what you want out of Hive, quickly and easily, you'll never find any synth you can use. For a reasonable complex instrument, it is stupidly easy to use.5Lives wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:48 pmI also sold my Hive license right before the wavetable update. Loved the sound but didn’t love the interface personally (couldn’t find a skin I liked). The hexagon also felt constraining for the stuff that you edit inside there (like the arp and FX). Looking forward to seeing what version 2 will bring.
You know, just last night I was marvelling at what a great job they've done utilising the hexagon to the fullest. Compare it to something like DUNE or Sylenth 1 and it's chalk and cheese. Where everything in those screens is tiny and everything outside the screens is huge, Hive strikes a really good balance - the controls inside the hexagon are slightly smaller than those outside but it's not at all jarring like DUNE or Sylenth 1.
If you look at all the different skins available for Hive, not just ones that recolour the original, they are all terrible; much, much worse in terms of usability. Even the mighty Satyatunes couldn't match the original, and he's had a couple of goes at it.
What's wrong with it? I think it's absolutely amazing.
This! It is also surprisingly versatile for something that, at first, seems pretty focussed.
What I find with Unison on most synths is that once you get past about 5 (I always do an odd number so one voice is dead-centre in the spread), the law of diminishing returns kicks in pretty hard. Sometimes I'll do 7 or 9 but in a mix it's hard to tell between those and 5 most of the time. Of course, there ar always exception but 16 per oscars, plus another 16 for the sub-osc, is plenty for any situation I've come up against.Elektronisch wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:31 pmI thought the same. I dont remember the case i actually really needed more then what virus has (which is 9).
The obvious solution, as it is for DUNE, would be to move the sequencer down to where the keyboard and Mod Matrix pages display. OK, you might want to use the keyboard to program the sequencer but they could keep a sliver of it at the top for that, with the sequencer below. The hex screen itself isn't a bad idea but putting the sequencer in there definitely was.
I prefer drawable LFO shapes to MSEGs, they are much more suited to rhythmic work.
That's interesting because my experience is the opposite. Because the ring showing the knob position stands out so much more than the knob itself, I find my eye drawn to the value, not the control itself. It's good thing because you can quickly see which parameters are in use and which are at their default values.vitocorleone123 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:52 pmThe controls draw the eye more than the status of the controls (i.e., the knobs are nice and visible so you see the knob first and then your eye determines where the knob is turned to).
