UGO has released Ironhead, a morphing percussion synth, which comes bundled with Tunguska, a morphing multi effect.
Ironhead‘s morphing allows you morph, or switch, between two different control states for each instrument. It aslo has a variance feature which allows you to set an adjustable degree of random variation in the sound.
Ironhead features
- Fast, fun, and easy interface
- 15 unique sounding percussion instruments
- Morphing (controled by LFO, VST automation, MIDI)
- Variance
- Dual delay (BPM sync with dotted notes)
- Kit randomizer
- 172 preset kits
Tunguska‘s two key components are its granulator and filter, both of which can be morphed between two states, allowing you to bring additional movement to your grooves.
Features
- Fast and fun interface style of Ironhead
- Pitch shifting granulator (morphable)
- Resonant filter (morphable)
- Distortion
- Downsampling
- Dual delay (BPM sync with dotted notes)
- Morphing (controled by LFO, VST automation, MIDI)
- Envelope follower
- Stereo signal path
- 32 presets
Ironhead and Tunguska are bundled for a price of $40. For only $10 you can add Metallurgy to this bundle and for registered Metallurgy users the Ironhead/Tunguska bundle is offered at $30 (valid through 10/31/06).
Sounds like a superb deal to me, so head over to UGO’s website for more information and a link to download the demo and listen to sound clips.
UGO has released Rez v2.0, a freeware virtual analog monosynth, with a highly resonant low pass filter, that is capable of a wide range of sounds, from funky squishes, beastly basses and screaming leads, to tight arpeggiations, atmospheres, bells, and interesting effects.
Specs
- Virtual analog
- Phrase arpeggiator
- Sub oscillator
- Detune (modulateable via aftertouch)
- Highly resonant low pass filter
- Pulse width modulation
- Overdrive
- Dual Delay
- Phaser (with velocity modulation)
- 3 LFOs
- Host BPM Sync
- MIDI CC control over most presets
- 256 presets
Visit UGO’s website for more information and a link to download Rez v2.0
UGO has released Metallurgy, a multi effect that is capable of providing sounds ranging from basic, subtle, filter tweaks to twisted, complex, walls of sound that bare virtually no resemblance to the original audio.
Metallurgy’s Specs
- Metal effect
- used for metallic sounds, flanging, and sequenced notes
- 16 step pitch sequencer with a 5 octave note range, portamento, and sequence length
- LFO
- Filters
- low pass, band pass, and high pass
- all 3 filters can function at the same time, running in parallel
- each filter has it’s own LFO
- 16 step sequencer with mod amount control for each filter, glide, and sequence length
- each filter has its own volume control
- Filth 1 and 2…each includes:
- downsampler
- distortion with 3 modes
- LFO controls the downsamplers (8 modes, including positive and negative options)
- Filth 1 = pre filter, Filth 2 = post filter
- Gate sequencer
- 16 steps
- gate length control
- mix control
- Dual Delay
- each has its own time controls
- stereo width adjustment
- Envelope follower
- modulate any/all of the 3 filter cutoffs
- modulate Metal time + the Metal’s all pass filter
- amount, attack and decay controls
- 417 patches
- Randomizers are provided for most sections
- Midi CC control over nearly all parameters
- Host BPM sync for LFO’s and sequencers
- Mono signal path
A Demo version is available with only 64 patches and occasional volume dropout as limitations. Metallurgy costs $20 (USD), payable through PayPal. Check UGO’s site for more information.
