YMMV of course, but for me, this was a big selling point. Helps that 99% of it is a sweet spotĪnd IMO, this has the best overall factory presets of any U-he synth. The other thing I'm enjoying is how fast it is to get a good sound of this synth.
I've been playing around with the wavetable position using the shape sequencers and function generators, mod matrix curves, etc. It's going to take some experimenting to really unearth the potential - but even just a few minutes of use makes the potential clear. The modulators seem simple on their own, but once you start getting them to interact, some pretty magical stuff starts happening. The new modulation system really opens up the synth. Hive 2 is stupidly good! I had pretty much ignored v1, but v2 is awesome.
Hive 1.x serials won't work, hence all owners of Hive 1.x should check out this PDF which also comes with the download: Being a paid upgrade, it uses a new serial number. Hive 2.x overwrites and replaces Hive 1.x. Once the AAX toolkit supports Apple's M1 processor architecture, we will provide a new AAX version for macOS, with support for Big Sur and both Intel and Apple M1 CPUs.We just released a pretty substantial update. If you're a Pro Tools user on macOS, please do not update but continue using the previous version of The Dark Zebra for the time being. We are therefore not able to provide an updated AAX version on macOS, neither for Intel CPUs, nor for Apple M1. The current version of Avid's toolkit for building AAX plug-ins is not compatible with the Apple SDK needed to build plug-ins for Apple's new ARM/M1 processors. Windows/ Linux: Intel Nehalem or newer, AMD Bulldozer or newer