There are many presets and you’re able to save your own. The Preset menu has choices for the overall settings, which include whatever kit and pattern that was saved with it. On the right side are a few menus to choose from among the many choices for Presets, Kits and Rhythms. Two are dedicated to a reverb effect and two more are for the delay effect. There are four sends for each part of the kit. On the right of those settings are decay and high-pass filter settings. Using the edit page for the Rhythm section, you can mute or solo a part of the kit (snare, kick, etc.) and adjust levels, pitch and panning. On the main page there are individual sliders to adjust the levels for each part of the drums/percussion. Once a preset is loaded you’ll see the Main page (unless you selected a single instrument preset). There’s also a Single Instruments category (loads one instrument versus an arrangement of them) and many other category types. There are many categories: Electronic Pop, Synthwave, Future Funk, etc. You double-click in the field at the top of the display to browse what’s available. Once I got my hands on the final release, auditioning the many other presets that UVI included was at the top of my to-do list. I had access to a pre-release copy of Super-7 and enjoyed making some presets, several of which found their way into the factory lineup for the release. To edit any of those parts in more detail, you just click on its power button to open the corresponding editing page. Each of the parts can be soloed, muted and their volume levels can be adjusted as well. The individual parts can be enabled or disabled, so if you don’t need the drum track or bass part they can be switched off. All you need to do is load one of the included arranged presets, play a chord (or even a single note) and it helps you out by playing most (or all) of the parts. For instance, maybe you need a bass line, drums and some keyboards with a few effects added for good measure. This new UVI product carries on with the tradition of Program-24, as you can arrange and play nearly a complete track from this single plugin. Most of the popular plugin formats are supported.
You’ll get three activations for each license on any combination of machines or iLok dongles. A free iLok account is needed (dongle not required) and you’ll need an internet connection for the license activation.
It requires Windows 8 (or higher) 64-bit and Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks to OS X 10.15 64-bit. Super-7 can be loaded into the free UVI Workstation v3.0.17+ and Falcon v2.1.4+. There is 4+ GB of FLAC encoded sample content (original size was nearly 10 GB in WAV format) and over 260 presets are included. For the synth sounds, UVI has recorded every sample in three ways from the rack-mount unit: normal (no chorus), with the chorus switched on, and with the noise enabled. On top of all those, other sounds were created from UVI’s Drum Designer product. Super-7 goes a step further, with additional drum samples from hardware units such as the 5o5, 6o6, 626, 8o8 and 9o9. The MKS-7 included PCM sounds from the 7o7 drum machine. It had an analog structure much like the Juno 106. Super-7 is mainly about the sound of the 1980s and is inspired by the MKS-7 which was an 8-voice rack-mount synthesizer. In this issue we will take a look at their latest product: Super-7. They also have several effects in their catalog, such as Shade, Relayer, Sparkverb and others. UVI has a long list of quality products including soundware created from samples for all types of instruments: acoustic and electric pianos, orchestral instruments, synthesizers, world instruments, classic samplers and many others. In past issues of our magazine we have had the pleasure of reviewing many of their creations. UVI are the prolific developers who have created many sample-based products and the synth/sampler plugin Falcon.