Electronic Musician

Shade

$129

uvi.net

Strengths

+ Very extensive set of filter types

+ Good choice of modulators

+ Dynamic trigger options

+ Decent set of presets

+ External side chain

+ Intuitive graphic interface

Limitations

- Not much

UVI is best known for the Workstation and Falcon hybrid synth, which collectively deliver an impressive array of sample and synth-based sounds. The company is perhaps less well known for its effects, which include the excellent Relayer delay and Sparkverb algorithmic reverb. Up for review is Shade (VST, AU, AAX), the latest addition to this effects range. UVI describes it as a creative filter and EQ, and a

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