UVI’s new Synth Anthology 5 offers 300 hardware synth emulations in total

UVI has launched a brand new version of its hard synth software collection, Synth Anthology 5, now boasting a total of 300 hardware synths within it.

The brand describes it as “the largest and most complete edition” of the collection thanks to an additional 100 synths from its previous iteration, spanning “every era, manufacturer, and method of synthesis” in a single software instrument.

The sounds within this new version are all curated directly from the original hardware they digitally emulate. Each machine has been sourced, serviced, and captured through “high-end signal chains” before being programmed and edited by the UVI sound design team.

Users can experiment with over 1,000 sound layers, over 16,000 samples, and 300 presets. The software also features controls for analogue drift, a hardware-modelled ladder filter and VCF4023 filter, as well as a polyphonic sequencer mode and per-step sequencer note repeat.

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At the heart of Synth Anthology 5 is new dual-layer architecture that combines any two of the 300 synths into one hybrid voice, with the blend itself fully modulatable. There’s also a built-in proximity explorer that analyses each sound loaded and presents eight related voices to audition and remix.

In other UVI news, earlier this year it unveiled Vintage Casio Legacy, offering software versions of classic Casio synths. As these original synths were often launched at premium prices, the suite was made to bring them into an affordable digital realm.

The package includes six classic Casio machines and is Casio approved. UVI had access to the original hardware and recorded them in multiple sessions to capture their unique characteristics, like tonal variations, voicing, and signal path colour.

Synth Anthology 5 is available now for $89 / 89€ (regularly $149 / 149€) until 20 July. Users of Synth Anthology 4 can upgrade for $49 / 49€ until this date also. Find out more via UVI.

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