UVI has announced the release of an extended chorus designer and a new take on its best-selling chorus plugin. Advanced DSP drives a morphable eight-voice architecture, joined by a second engine that faithfully models the analog bucket-brigade circuits that chorus was born on. Two worlds, one plugin, from brilliant digital shimmer to grainy vintage movement and everywhere in between.
Thorus XT delivers a variable chorus architecture with continuous and morphable voice control; sweeping voices results in the last voice fading in and out smoothly, with no stepping. Fewer voices give pronounced, identifiable modulation; more voices blur the line into a thick, immersive wash.
The digital engine is the Thorus you already know, refined: clean, precise, and prized for its clarity, with every voice reading a single shared delay line at interpolated positions for a crystalline, detailed sound. When clean isn’t the objective, Quality becomes a band-limited sample-rate reducer with a downsampled, lo-fi edge. It widens vocals, keys, and layered synths without clouding a modern mix.
A faithful bucket-brigade chip emulation, the circuit found in classic hardware units like the Dimension D and Juno-6. Where the digital engine is clean by design, this one gives users the natural imperfections of hardware: aliasing, resonance, pumping compression, hiss, and per-voice variation, with the parameters normally sealed inside the circuit opened up and made shapeable. It brings vintage weight and motion to guitars, electric pianos, and polysynth pads.
Thorus XT for Windows and Mac (VST3, AU, and AAX) is on sale for the launch price of $49 USD / €49 EUR until September 7th, 2026 (regular 79 USD/EUR). Owners of the original Thorus can upgrade for 29 USD/EUR.
