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Wusik EVE 2 (Win/MAC VST/AU)

 

What’s EVE?

 

EVE stands for Electronic Vintage Ensemble, which suggests the design philosophy behind the instrument. EVE was made to recreate in the virtual world of softsynths the exciting and immediate experience of the early age of electronics in pop, rock and jazz music from the 1960’s and 1970’s.

 

During this creative period in music history, many musicians started to employ the innovative sounds of the ‘electric keyboards’ which were newly available for use on stage and in the studio: Rhodes electric pianos, Hammond and Vox organs, Hohner clavinets, strings machines such as the Arp Solina string ensemble, Moog synthesizers, and all those that are now considered ‘classics’.

 

It was not only keyboards that were a part of this revolution in popular music: the use of effects and recording techniques for layering, blending and manipulating sounds transformed the way music was produced and conceptualized. Tape based delay lines, rotating speaker cabinets, guitar distortion pedals, wah wah, phasing, flanging and other effects became an integral part of the process of sound design.

 

EVE takes these vintage sounds and this early approach to ‘electronic’ music production as a starting point, bringing this general philosophy and sound into the modern virtual environment with an intuitive and powerful interface. At the core of the EVE approach to sound design is the basic structure of 3 sample-playing layers, 2 multi-effect racks, and a selected library of multisampled ‘electric keyboards’.

This enables the blending of several waveforms and instruments into a vintage wall of sound, or alternatively, the use of the 3 layers multi-timbrally as a vintage workstation. These layers can then be further processed through EVE’s powerful multi-effect racks.

 

EVE features a well designed system of parameters for tweaking instruments and effects towards musical results, with all parameters accessible on a single page for easy and intuitive sound design.

Using EVE 2 is just like having the vintage boxes at your fingertips.

 

If only it was this easy back in the day!

 

EVE 2 Feature List

 

3 wave player sections with:

 

ADSR envelope

Velocity sens

Double KeyTrack scaling

LP, HP, BP, and BR filters with resonance and env. amount

3 band equalizer

Pitch, Amp and Pan LFOs

Pitch envelope enable

Semitone transpose

Fine pitch

Send to FX 1

Send to FX 2

Volume

Mute switch

VU meter

Velocity Zone: min and max

Key Zone : high and low

Polytimbric over 3 parts

3 modes for each LFO: Free, Sync, Inv.

'Fractal' randomisation for filter modulation

FM and AM per oscillator

 

Master controls:

Glide

mono mode

LFO masters

fine tuning

Velocity sens.

Two DSP sections:

Echo (true stereo vintage tape delay emulation, with Sync Chorus)

Modulator (Leslie, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Wha Filter, OverDrive)

MIDI Learn: More than 100 parameters remotely controllable by Midi Control Changes

 

300+ high quality presets.

 

Download MP3 Audio Examples

List of some of the many multisamples bundled with EVE 2

 

CP 70B

D6 Clavinet

Rhodes 73 MK I

Suitcase 88

Mellotron Strings

PE2000 Strings

Solina

Trident String Brass Combi

Vintage Strings O3

B3 Percussive Dry

CX Drawbar Set (4 versions)

Vox Continental C

Several analog waveforms

A complete Electro Drum Set

Minimoog

PolySix

Wurlitzer EP

Zvon Prepared Rhodes

Fairlight

Ethnic sounds

 

Plus, the extra Mellotronix Soundset:

 

“Magnetic tape forever! A meticulously detailed Mellotron sound library”

 

Click HERE more information about this set.

 

Note: EVE and Mellotronix were recently licensed from: http://nusofting.com