Arturia or Cherry Audio may make an emulation eventually. In fact perhaps it would be good for people to send suggestions to the correct email addresses for either company about this. But UVI for now is generally content with doing their classic, usually dual layer sampled instruments; and continuing to develop Falcon. Falcon has some of the most fun midi/event generator designs I've ever seen. Very impressive tool, and it may be best that UVI focus on whatever big plans they might have for version 3.0 rather than try to compete with all the companies making synth emulations already.
Great review. as you mentioned, this synth was out of reach for many people. I never had the pleasure play with Andromeda, but thanks to UVI we all can try it out. I am big fan of UVI software, thanks, Paul.
I bought an A6 mint, used from a Los Angeles Guitar Center, oddly enough, before prices went crazy. It’s still working perfectly. Except for those effects, the signal path is fully analog. Note that oscillators, lfos, and envelopes are micro processor-controlled. Because of this, sometimes things very occasionally can die, even the entire board (which happened to me once) due not to faulty analog components but to a processor/firmware bug or whatever. A hard reset and calibration procedure brought it all back to life. It’s certainly my flagship in the studio. Many say a Summit/Peak are modern comparisons. But I’ve tried neither, so I’m not sure how close they are. 😊
UVI’s stuff is mainly based on sampled sounds with tweakable parameters, so the sound should essentially be a 1-1 likeness with the only variation being what you would find between 2 actual side-by-side A6’s.
Nice review, I have the real thing but I was always curious what the Mission 6 sounded like. It does sound like they captured the character of some of the sounds but the Andromeda is a modulation monster and they obviously don't have that. The Andromeda effects are known for not being terribly good and most people seem to ignore them, I suspect this is an area where the UVI is superior. One trick they've missed is poly unison - the Andromeda lets you stack voices so you can play a 5 note chord and have 3 voices per note, this give amazing ensemble sounds that I've never heard elsewhere. OTOH The real thing also has its problems, the gain staging is a complete mess, but once you understand it you can get very Moog and Oberheim like sounds, and more besides, but being so complex it does takes some work - that is, when the controls aren't jumping all over the place!
Eeexactly, controls jumping all over the place and other issues... I'm waiting for a real VST recreation for this synth and I believe Cherry Audio could make it happen.
A VA version of the Andromeda sounds interesting. My guess would be either Arturia or Cherry Audio could make it happen, since they do more VA stuff and not sampling like UVI does.
Thanks for the review! UVI does not overpromise, and delivers a very solid product in my experience. On a side note, nice choice of gear in your studio (I have many of the same synths). Question: Look like the Summit on the left under the DM12? I went with the OB-6, but ALMOST pulled the trigger on the Summit instead. Your impressions of the Summit?
Oookie, dokie! What do you think about Mission 6? Did you ever have a chance to play original Andromeda? Let me know in tha kommentz!
Arturia or Cherry Audio may make an emulation eventually. In fact perhaps it would be good for people to send suggestions to the correct email addresses for either company about this. But UVI for now is generally content with doing their classic, usually dual layer sampled instruments; and continuing to develop Falcon. Falcon has some of the most fun midi/event generator designs I've ever seen. Very impressive tool, and it may be best that UVI focus on whatever big plans they might have for version 3.0 rather than try to compete with all the companies making synth emulations already.
Great review. as you mentioned, this synth was out of reach for many people. I never had the pleasure play with Andromeda, but thanks to UVI we all can try it out. I am big fan of UVI software, thanks, Paul.
Thanks, Johnny, see you soon again!
I bought an A6 mint, used from a Los Angeles Guitar Center, oddly enough, before prices went crazy. It’s still working perfectly. Except for those effects, the signal path is fully analog. Note that oscillators, lfos, and envelopes are micro processor-controlled. Because of this, sometimes things very occasionally can die, even the entire board (which happened to me once) due not to faulty analog components but to a processor/firmware bug or whatever. A hard reset and calibration procedure brought it all back to life. It’s certainly my flagship in the studio. Many say a Summit/Peak are modern comparisons. But I’ve tried neither, so I’m not sure how close they are. 😊
UVI’s stuff is mainly based on sampled sounds with tweakable parameters, so the sound should essentially be a 1-1 likeness with the only variation being what you would find between 2 actual side-by-side A6’s.
My favourite synth along with the Matrix 12
Nice review, I have the real thing but I was always curious what the Mission 6 sounded like. It does sound like they captured the character of some of the sounds but the Andromeda is a modulation monster and they obviously don't have that. The Andromeda effects are known for not being terribly good and most people seem to ignore them, I suspect this is an area where the UVI is superior. One trick they've missed is poly unison - the Andromeda lets you stack voices so you can play a 5 note chord and have 3 voices per note, this give amazing ensemble sounds that I've never heard elsewhere. OTOH The real thing also has its problems, the gain staging is a complete mess, but once you understand it you can get very Moog and Oberheim like sounds, and more besides, but being so complex it does takes some work - that is, when the controls aren't jumping all over the place!
Eeexactly, controls jumping all over the place and other issues... I'm waiting for a real VST recreation for this synth and I believe Cherry Audio could make it happen.
A VA version of the Andromeda sounds interesting. My guess would be either Arturia or Cherry Audio could make it happen, since they do more VA stuff and not sampling like UVI does.
Yep, Cherry Audio would be an amazing dev to make it happen!
Thanks for the review! UVI does not overpromise, and delivers a very solid product in my experience. On a side note, nice choice of gear in your studio (I have many of the same synths). Question: Look like the Summit on the left under the DM12? I went with the OB-6, but ALMOST pulled the trigger on the Summit instead. Your impressions of the Summit?
This is Rev2, sir :) Many thanks and hope to hear from you soon again :D
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Better by one for 5k bro!! 😂
Very easy choice if you have £2500 spare.