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    Hive 2

    Sep 24, 2019 4 minutes
    By Si Truss

    Si Truss is the Editor of Electronic Musician and Future Music magazines

    $189 u-he.com

    Strengths

    + Wavetable engine adds scope
    + Shape Sequencer and Function Generators are powerful creative tools
    + Great balance of depth and ease of use
    + NKS support and lots of new presets
    + CPU-friendly

    Limitations

    - Most new stuff added in v1.2

    The original Hive was a potential Sylenth1 killer – a slick, easy-to-use virtual analog synth that struck a great balance between depth and accessibility. Four years later, much has changed. LennarDigital’s softsynth is no longer the ‘must-have VST’ benchmark it once was and, with the recent addition of a wavetable oscillator,

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