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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI’m kind of interested in the switching of MOOG, Roland and Korg bits to make hybrids. That’s a fun thing, but not unique. It does tend to be a game of recognition (ooh that’s a JUNO that bit) that whiles away an hour or so. But when making music I don’t really care. Making a bass sound I don’t tend to go ‘I need a software MOOG mixed with a JUNO to go here’ – more likely I’d think of the sound and attempt to craft it in any of many available tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I never really lusted after DIVA<\/em>, happy to use the cheaper Brand X over the years. Now it’s tending to Brand X and in need of a rethink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hive<\/em> is newish thing – well at least compared to DIVA<\/em>. It’s funny to see the 2015 review<\/a> which positions it as ‘a Sylenth1<\/em> slayer’. Who? What? Again it’s a case of ‘things have changed alright’. There’s a whole host<\/a> of good faux-analogue<\/a> plugins. Cheap and cheerful, or expensive and expansive – they’re all pretty good and once you pick one you just have to get adept at using it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hive<\/em> is perfectly good machine. If you master it you have plenty of range and you are probably in the same ballpark as the hardware Viru<\/a>s<\/a>. That’s a complement. But even with wavetables added in the more recent version I’d say that Vital<\/em> <\/a>could give it a real run for its money. It’s not like Zebra<\/em>, which is a thing in itself. Or Bazille<\/em>, which we will look at elsewhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DIVA There was a time when DIVA was one of the few software synthesisers to sound like ‘the real thing’. In fact several of ‘the real things’ and furthermore ‘real things’ that had got into a muddle with each other’s trousers and coats. So if you could not afford an actual MOOG in 2012 you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[11,8,4,6],"class_list":["post-1940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-fm","tag-modular","tag-virtual-analogue","tag-wavetable"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}HIVE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n