UVI Drum Designer -- may be next gen of BPM?

[mhschmieder]

Released this week, UVI Drum Designer has a nice interface but didn't appeal to me on an already-blown budget as I've moved away from synth drums and have so many already.

But then I read more details today at GS and there has been a suggestion that this might be a follow-on to BPM, so I thought I'd at least alert people here that it might be worth looking at (especially during its introductory sale) as I didn't know BPM was done by UVI (at least the samples) vs. MOTU and so those who may have been waiting for an eventual v2 of BPM might be interested in the new UVI product.

[Michael Canavan]

Released this week, UVI Drum Designer has a nice interface but didn't appeal to me on an already-blown budget as I've moved away from synth drums and have so many already.

But then I read more details today at GS and there has been a suggestion that this might be a follow-on to BPM, so I thought I'd at least alert people here that it might be worth looking at (especially during its introductory sale) as I didn't know BPM was done by UVI (at least the samples) vs. MOTU and so those who may have been waiting for an eventual v2 of BPM might be interested in the new UVI product.

It should be noted that the M53 to Raven discount should be the same sort of thing here. It might require some emails, but UVI did step up and offer a substantial discount to M53 users after some initial prodding.

[Voodooboom]

Released this week, UVI Drum Designer has a nice interface but didn't appeal to me on an already-blown budget as I've moved away from synth drums and have so many already.

But then I read more details today at GS and there has been a suggestion that this might be a follow-on to BPM, so I thought I'd at least alert people here that it might be worth looking at (especially during its introductory sale) as I didn't know BPM was done by UVI (at least the samples) vs. MOTU and so those who may have been waiting for an eventual v2 of BPM might be interested in the new UVI product.

Drum Designer sounds incredible good! Really good sound. But the worklflow is completly different to BPM. Drum Designer is more a "first idea" tool. I drag this first 'idea' via MIDI into my daw. Then I can work on.

But the possibilitis to design your own kick and snare...fantastic! And the tempo so design it your way. This is sooo fast. Really good tool.

It's just the first step to a BPM 2.0. It can be the fundament of a BPM 2.0. I hope it will be. I hope theres coming more. This complexitiy in a BPM like tool...wow.

[Michael Canavan]

Yeah looking at it, it's an UVI Workstation / Falcon instrument, a scripted instrument not unlike the hundred or so people have designed for Kontakt. Not anything like BPM really, and only four instruments, no toms??

[MIDI Life Crisis]

The demo sounded terrible.

[mikehalloran]

...only four instruments, no toms??

Yea...

The demo sounded terrible.

That's putting it mildly.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

That's putting it mildly.

I was being kind... it really sucked.

[mhschmieder]

I guess the only commonality then is that several at GS said UVI did the samples for BPM. But even so, maybe this new UVI Drum Designer is a first step towards a BPM 2, given that this is how UVI has been operating of late, to put out a smaller product first and then use it to seed an update to a bigger legacy product.

It's getting pretty good reviews overall for its workflow. I never got around to buying BPM, but always admired its design.