Commentaires sur le test : Hive : attention, ça pique !

I'll also bring on a quick recap of findings that led to the new concepts:

• More waveforms is the top feature request for Hive, always was. Whether you need them or not, they were always gonna come, it hasn't ever been a secret, we always said so.
• "Wavetable Synth pls" is the top request for future products at u-he
• Hive is "too simple and overpriced" is the top criticism on Hive
• adding Wavetable Synthesis is a solution for all 3 points. I hope I do not need to explain that, it's utterly obvious.
• however, in my view, Wavetable synthesis has always been flawed (artifacts, editors available). Making your own is frustrating - it should not be a necessity. People are commonly better off with a thorough, high quality factory library.
• using third party apps to create such a library has proven flawed and tedious, just like it is for end users. There's great stuff there, but it doesn't let us do the things we wanted
• furthermore, a large library of .wav based wavetables adds hundreds of megabytes to the download
• developing a wavetable creation language in .uhm scripts has made it easy for us to produce a factory library which meets our quality goals (adding WT export to Zebra too, but that ain't the big issue here)
• .uhm scripts work exactly like .wav files, but commonly produce better results for wavetable synthesis than other means (editors available, sample conversion)
• .uhm scripts are furthermore hundreds, if not thousand times smaller than corresponding .wav files

Now. Without *any* change in Hive's concept, hardly any change in UI anyway, we're adding sonic worlds you usually only get from much more complex synthesizers, some of which in a quality that even they can not reproduce.