MOTU MachFive 3 - Universal Virtual Sampler (Competitive Upgrade)

What's New

User Interface

• Delivers configurable part list and a full-screen envelope editor, designed to spur creativity while delivering state-of-the-art virtual instrument technology in a streamlined, efficient environment
• Full-screen operation expands window to fill the entire computer monitor
• Allows for surgical precision editing, from editing a loop point, to sculpting the perfect filter envelope curve

Scripting Engine

• Scripted virtual instruments are like the difference between a simple guitar preset and a real guitar player
• The sophisticated instruments model not only the sounds of an instrument in minute detail, but also the playing characteristics
• For example, the Telematic electric guitar instrument models strumming and picking techniques, which can be dialed up as desired allowing for strumming chords with proper fingerings, up/down-strokes, and other authentic playing techniques

Instruments, Loops, Phrases

• 45GB of included instruments, loops and phrases
• Scripted instruments include the basic necessities for any studio - drums, bass, guitar, piano, and percussion
• Includes thousands of loops and phrases, from break-beats to mixed choirs
• Xtreme FX bonus library from UltimateSoundBank.com delivers 5,000 creative sound effects, Foley effects and ambient textures suitable for both music production and sound design

Powerful Synthesizer Engine

• Features 12 synthesizer engines, from modular analog pioneered in the 50's, to milestone breakthroughs like FM and wavetable synthesis making it a powerful multi-synthesizer in its own right
• When combined with the multi-sample instrument capabilities and extensive effects, the possibilities for hybrid synthesis and sound design are limitless

IRCAM Technology

• Licensed granular synthesis, time-stretching, and pitch-shifting technology from the IRCAM research institute in Paris, France
• Granular synthesis can be seamlessly incorporated into sound design efforts, side by side with the other synthesis models
• IRCAM algorithms produce pristine audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting results, even when applying extreme tempo changes or pitch intervals
• Results that are so usable at extreme values, they can be used as powerful sound design tools

Automation and Modulation

• Almost every setting can be automated, modulated, or both
• Modulation architecture is open-ended and flexible, delivering an unlimited number of internal sources (LFOs and envelopes) and completely flexible external assignments
• Two filters, eight LFOs, six envelopes and a variety of additional modulation and filtering features are available for each MachFive object
• Making assignments is easy - just control-click
• The architecture allows for unlimited modulation connections, available at every stage of the synthesizer section
• Includes standard AHD and DAHDSR envelopes, along with multi-envelopes with unlimited control points
• Rhythmic step envelope applies discrete steps to whatever it is modulating - pitch, cutoff frequency, resonance and more
• All envelopes will sync to tempo

Flexible Effects Architecture

• Apply effects at any level, from individual oscillators to the master output
• 47 real-time effects including reverb, tempo-synced delay, tremolo, chorus, filters, guitar amplifier simulation, CPU-efficient convolution reverb, and many others
• Effects can be applied to presets as insert effects, or throughout the mixing architecture (as bus effects)

Xpander Filters

Based on the venerable Oberheim Xpander filters, and provides no less than 37 modes, each a separate filter effect in its own right

Order 4 Moog ladder-style filter with built-in saturation and oversampling

Convolution Reverb

• Enhanced IR Verb is highly CPU efficient allowing for multiple instantiations
• Dozens of new impulse responses, including classic high-end studio reverbs from the last 30 years
• Impulse responses of vintage spring and plate reverbs from the 50's, 60's and 70's
• Many sound design presets included, or drag and drop to load custom IRs and then edit the IR waveform directly

Enhanced Sample Library Support

• Load anything directly, with no conversion
• Reads all major 3rd-party hardware/software sampler formats, including KONTAKT, Giga, EXS24 and HALion, plus legacy formats from Kurzweil, Akai, Roland, Ensoniq, Sample Cell, and many others

Event Processors

• Event processors add an exciting element to performances and sound design.
• Includes an extensive arpeggiator and Micro Tuner

Preset Browsing and Searching

• Type a word into the search field and up pops a list of all related presets
• Multi-column browser allows for loading sounds into multiple parts without having to close and reopen it

LoopLab Beat Slice Editor

• Updated and expanded
• Modify REX, ACID, UFS and Apple Loops, or create custom loops by simply dropping the loop into the Loop Lab, even if the loop has not yet been sliced
• Instantly maps slices, and finds or sets the tempo
• Perform destructive or non-destructive sample-level editing
• Apply time-stretching with no artifacts
• Trigger the loop via playback from the host software, or trigger each slice from a MIDI controller
• Drag audio files from Loop Lab to the desktop or audio tracks in thehost sequencer
• Drag a loop into a MIDI track, where the loop appears as MIDI notes that trigger individual slices

Other Features

• Unique, unified design provides instruments, loops, phrases, synthesis and FX in one easy-to-use window for simple operation
• Graphic mixer with faders, FX inserts, and unlimited channels
• Unlimited parts allow for combining instruments and tempo-synced loops (layer synthesizers and sample-based parts)
• Mapping Editor provides an intuitive, graphic environment for mapping keygroups, which makes it easy to build custom multi-sample instruments
• Tree Editor gives instant access to every element of any sounds, displayed hierarchically in an intuitive scrolling list that brings order and understanding to potentially complex signal routings, modulations, and other elements of any sound
• List Editor presents a clear, well-ordered representation of all sounds, with every detail listed for inspection and tweaking
• Performance View turns MachFive into an expressive, multi-layered instrument that dynamically responds to key switches from a MIDI controller, delivering dynamic control over switching, layering, and blending of multiple sounds
• Macro controls provides direct, instant access to the sound's most crucial and interesting parameters
• Dedicated noise oscillator with eleven different types of noise
• Dozens of filters with adjustable filter resonance, which can be automated and modulated
• Layer rules add dynamic and expressive behaviors for switching between layers using a dedicated and simple to use interface
• Script Processors perform advanced, customized transformations and analysis of a MIDI data stream with many useful presets are provided
• 3rd-generation UVI Engine delivers superb sound quality
• Multiple outputs - sub mix to 17 stereo output pairs
• Disk streaming conserves RAM and quickens load times
• Unlimited polyphony with ultra-low software latency

Compatible Library/File Formats

• AIFF
• ACID
• Apple Loops (.aif)
• REX
• SDII
• WAV
• Akai MPC
• Akai S Series
• E-mu
• Ensoniq ASR
• EXS24
• GarageBand
• GigaSampler 1/2/3
• KONTAKT 1/2/3/4.0
• Kurzweil K2xxx
• MOTU Symphonic and Ethno Instruments
• Roland S700 Series
• SampleCell
• SoundFont
• UVI UFS