I've been a "techie" all my life and was in at the beginning of the development of synths. I have an Arp Odyssey, a Sequential Pro One and a DX7 from the "early days" playing rock music, but my life changed and I've been doing Blue Grassy Gospel music for the last 25 years so I don't use synths in that music. But I'm still a musician and love to experiment. With all the free synth plugs out there (DEXED is amazing) I never thought I'd pay for a plugin but ran across the U-he free plugs, zebralette and tyrell and they sounded so good I thought I'd down load the trial of Diva. I was blown away. I paid for it the next day to get rid of the static that is in the demo. Since then I now have Hive and Zebra along with the Sequential package of the pro one and five. These synths are just almost too good to be true. U-he is a special company unlike anything else I have found. Today's software is so close to the hardware the difference no longer matters. Not to mention the ease of use within a DAW makes life easy in the fast lane lol! But I particularly love Diva. It's a bit like having all those great early synths in one package except they are multi timbrel among other enhancements while retaining the original vibe in the sound! Tons of patches for the non programmer, but not that hard to learn to tweak.
Finally. I was waiting for years now that you are reviewing Diva. This vsti was a massive game changer when it came out and has the possibility to be a classic in software reproduction.
I've been using diva for about 6 years. It's incredible. Coming from an analog hardware background, I can honestly say that its sound is undeniably hugh quality and it's nearly limitless in the sounds you xan get out of it. My favorite vst ever.
Awesome to see Ujiie do a video on Diva! I absolutely love Diva, it's currently my favourite VSTi along with Reveal Sound Spire VSTi (would be awesome to see Ujiie do a demo on Spire, such an amazing VSTi for pads, I really hope he will consider it one day). I'm blown away by how good Diva sounds, especially when you go for Jupiter-8, Juno-60 and Oberheim sounds (but avoid using PWM, it will only end up sounding like a Jupiter-8, only stick for the sawtooths). TAL Chorus is also great to use for Juno-60 sounds, you'll get pretty close to the real deal. The Minimoog modules are also impressive. In my opinion, Diva is currently the best analog style VSTi to get and you get a lot for the money.
I compare this in a way to arturias v collection. Not the sampled stuff, of course. I much more like working with diva, having everything in one, and it sounds amazing. Something different in uhe stuff, hive is also really cool. Like a vintage va
Oddly I just can't get on with Repro-5. I was really excited about it before its release but all it did in the end is help me realise that Diva is still the king. Maybe I'm just a Roland analogue guy I don't know. I have the real Prophet and I like it but Diva still gets a lot of use. I suspect it's the exponential envelope curves in those Roland envelopes. I had Repro since it's been released but it almost never gets used. Repro-1 gets a little bit of use and I think that's probably the success story of Repro (not the 5). For me anyway.
Such a great demonstration of the Diva ! By the way I was wondering: how did you set up the knobs of your Arturia keyboard to control Diva's parameters ? In advance thank you 🙂
What don't you like about it? The sound is unrivaled if you want analogue style sounds in the box. The company is great. Synth's been around since 2011 and in that time every update has been free. Including things like whole new oscillator sections (JP8000) and the SEM filter (all free). Any other company would have charged you 10 times by now. Especially for new features like new oscillator modules etc. U-he's been extremely generous. The lifespan of this thing has reached hardware status now as well (it's over 10 years old). Will Avenger be here in 10 years? I guess we'll see.
@@Ad_acta1989 we're Development driven, not marketing driven. This leads to sustainability. That's why we support our 20 year old products just the same as our latest releases. Which in the long term is better for our users and us - but which may be something traditional companies with investors and focus on short term gains might see differently. So yes, we're certainly "capitalistic" in the sense that we use markets and stuff, but we do think we follow a different mindset than "capitalists".
@@Ad_acta1989 I've been on your channel uploads . . .and saw all this . . ,Hurgh . . Bluurrgghhhh . . HurUUUUUAAAAAGHAGH, . . .and now I'm very concerned . . Are you OK ?
Diva買うか迷って初めて動画みたけどすんごいなこの人
音の使い方魅せ方が上手いしめちゃくちゃジャンルの幅が広い
I've been a "techie" all my life and was in at the beginning of the development of synths. I have an Arp Odyssey, a Sequential Pro One and a DX7 from the "early days" playing rock music, but my life changed and I've been doing Blue Grassy Gospel music for the last 25 years so I don't use synths in that music. But I'm still a musician and love to experiment. With all the free synth plugs out there (DEXED is amazing) I never thought I'd pay for a plugin but ran across the U-he free plugs, zebralette and tyrell and they sounded so good I thought I'd down load the trial of Diva. I was blown away. I paid for it the next day to get rid of the static that is in the demo. Since then I now have Hive and Zebra along with the Sequential package of the pro one and five. These synths are just almost too good to be true. U-he is a special company unlike anything else I have found. Today's software is so close to the hardware the difference no longer matters. Not to mention the ease of use within a DAW makes life easy in the fast lane lol! But I particularly love Diva. It's a bit like having all those great early synths in one package except they are multi timbrel among other enhancements while retaining the original vibe in the sound! Tons of patches for the non programmer, but not that hard to learn to tweak.
Finally. I was waiting for years now that you are reviewing Diva. This vsti was a massive game changer when it came out and has the possibility to be a classic in software reproduction.
I've been using diva for about 6 years. It's incredible. Coming from an analog hardware background, I can honestly say that its sound is undeniably hugh quality and it's nearly limitless in the sounds you xan get out of it. My favorite vst ever.
良い音を生かしてるのが素晴らしい演奏
Awesome to see Ujiie do a video on Diva! I absolutely love Diva, it's currently my favourite VSTi along with Reveal Sound Spire VSTi (would be awesome to see Ujiie do a demo on Spire, such an amazing VSTi for pads, I really hope he will consider it one day). I'm blown away by how good Diva sounds, especially when you go for Jupiter-8, Juno-60 and Oberheim sounds (but avoid using PWM, it will only end up sounding like a Jupiter-8, only stick for the sawtooths). TAL Chorus is also great to use for Juno-60 sounds, you'll get pretty close to the real deal. The Minimoog modules are also impressive.
In my opinion, Diva is currently the best analog style VSTi to get and you get a lot for the money.
Oberheim synths are nothing but a jupiter 8
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When?
Fantastic special thanks to the translated 😊
I compare this in a way to arturias v collection. Not the sampled stuff, of course. I much more like working with diva, having everything in one, and it sounds amazing. Something different in uhe stuff, hive is also really cool. Like a vintage va
Diva色んな所で使いやすいので重宝してます
究極のハイブリッド・モジュール
アナログモデリング・シンセ
って感じですよね〜
驚異的ですネ😆
Those Waldorf racks... *drooling*
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I bought my Diva in 2012 just after it came out. To this day it's my main VST. I don't use anything else.
Awesome. I wonder if he’ll do Repro-5 and A/B it w/ Prophet 5
Oddly I just can't get on with Repro-5. I was really excited about it before its release but all it did in the end is help me realise that Diva is still the king. Maybe I'm just a Roland analogue guy I don't know. I have the real Prophet and I like it but Diva still gets a lot of use. I suspect it's the exponential envelope curves in those Roland envelopes. I had Repro since it's been released but it almost never gets used. Repro-1 gets a little bit of use and I think that's probably the success story of Repro (not the 5). For me anyway.
@@Screaming-Trees You have no soul ; ) Meanwhile, some of Repro 5's beautifulness here: ua-cam.com/video/j0Atx0U20Uw/v-deo.html
Such a great demonstration of the Diva ! By the way I was wondering: how did you set up the knobs of your Arturia keyboard to control Diva's parameters ? In advance thank you 🙂
Great review as always, how did you manage to resize it bigger?
氏家さんが、u-he紹介してるぅぅ。(驚愕)
自分がu-he で買ってないのが、zebura2だけです。Hiveも紹介して欲しいな。ガチで一番使える。
awesome, could oyu demo u-he hive 2?
Nice to see a nihonjin do one of these demos! Yorishiku onegaishimasu!
If i had to choose a single pure VA synth it would be Diva. And here you hear and see why..
Yep. Very versatile and sounds amazing.
Does this come included with ultimate collection from native instruments
4:16 gave me olo garb vibes
If only it had a VCO from Oberheim.
YMO
I don't like this VSTi. Try to present new Avenger with Italo Disco style pack and other factory presents. It is fantastic VSTi.
What don't you like about it? The sound is unrivaled if you want analogue style sounds in the box. The company is great. Synth's been around since 2011 and in that time every update has been free. Including things like whole new oscillator sections (JP8000) and the SEM filter (all free). Any other company would have charged you 10 times by now. Especially for new features like new oscillator modules etc. U-he's been extremely generous. The lifespan of this thing has reached hardware status now as well (it's over 10 years old). Will Avenger be here in 10 years? I guess we'll see.
@@Screaming-Trees That is only capitalistic 💩💩💩💩
@@Ad_acta1989 we're Development driven, not marketing driven. This leads to sustainability. That's why we support our 20 year old products just the same as our latest releases. Which in the long term is better for our users and us - but which may be something traditional companies with investors and focus on short term gains might see differently. So yes, we're certainly "capitalistic" in the sense that we use markets and stuff, but we do think we follow a different mindset than "capitalists".
@@Ad_acta1989 I've been on your channel uploads . . .and saw all this . . ,Hurgh . . Bluurrgghhhh . . HurUUUUUAAAAAGHAGH, . . .and now I'm very concerned . . Are you OK ?