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UVI Falcon 2026 – Flagship Synth Receives Major Update

16 Oct in Synths

UVI's stunningly capable software synth becomes Falcon 2026, gets a big chunk of updates and is still a free update to existing owners!

London Contemporary Orchestra Producer Strings

LCO Producer Strings, Deep Felt Piano and Augmented Choirs – Sounds and Presets

01 Oct in Synths

This week's Sounds and Presets features classical samples, including LCO Producer Strings, a felt piano from Soniccouture and a new choir package from UVI.

Gretsch Professional Collection: Three Classic Hollow Bodies

25 Oct 2024 in Guitar

The Gretsch Professional Collection includes the revamped Tennessean, Nashville, and Falcon

UVI Falcon 3 – UVI’s Flagship Instrument Gets Bigger Wings

19 Oct 2023 in Synths, Studio

UVI Falcon 3 delivers a significant upgrade to their flagship instrument with new features, workflows, effects and a revamped preset library

Gretsch Double Platinum Collection: 140 years of “Great Gretsch Sound”

18 May 2023 in Guitar

To celebrate their 140th birthday, six new swanky guitars arrive in the Gretsch Double Platinum Collection. Let's take a closer look...

UVI Vintage Vault 4: All the synths in one download

10 Feb 2022 in Synths

UVI has updated the Vintage Vault synth collection to version 4 which now includes 36 UVI products, 800,000 samples and over 14,000 presets.

Guitar sustain: Do heavier guitars really sustain for longer?

30 Nov 2018 in Guitar

Heavier guitars sustain for longer - don't they? Or is this one of the biggest myths about electric guitar? YouTuber Darrell Braun has made a little video to help you decide if it's true - or not.

UVI lets you become a Drum Designer by layering synths and samples

22 Sep 2018 in Studio

With a concept reminiscent of NI's Drum Lab Kontakt instrument, Drum Designer is an elaborate tool for layering synthesized and sampled drum sounds into hits as subtle or as monstrous as you'd like them to be.

Washburn Idol range makes a comeback in 2018

27 Jun 2018 in Guitar

At the tail end of the last millennium, the Washburn Idol range was born and now it is back and just in time for Summer NAMM 2018 with two new models announced today.

UVI USQ-1 recreates the vintage digital sounds of 1986’s ESQ-1 workstation

06 Apr 2018 in Studio

A very technically accomplished synth for its time, the ESQ-1 has a very lush, distinct sound that you can find on many synth-pop and industrial records from that era. The Ensoniq is a true treasure!