Eventide announces the availability of UltraTap — inaugurating its H9 Plug-in Series as a unique multi-tap effects plugin capable of rhythmic delays, glitchy reverbs, pad-like volume swells, and modulation derived from its TEC Award-winning H9 Harmonizer effects processor.
UltraTap is for creating drum fills, vocal choruses, swelling guitar chords, and other evolving effects — everything from reversed reverbs to a massed church choir singing Gregorian chants in Notre-Dame Cathedral. Creatively, it is also optimized for live use; UltraTap’s unique HotSwitch and The Ribbon features facilitate programming any combination of the controls and morphing from sound to sound.
Says Eventide director of Marketing Communications Nalia Sanchez: “We’re finding that, increasingly, audio engineers have an H9 stompbox sitting on the console to take advantage of the nearly 50 algorithms that we’ve crammed into that box. In response to requests for plugin versions of many of our H9 effects, we’ve decided to develop a new family of plug-ins — the H9 Plug-In Series. UltraTap comes bundled with 150 presets tailored for the needs of audio professionals and a novel feature for DJs — The Ribbon.”
UltraTap operates like an Echoplex, but with the flexibility to add many ‘tape-heads’ and expressively control their positions and levels.
Features include:
— Over 150 presets designed by Chris Carter, Colin Newman, Sasha, and many more.
— Manipulate effects in realtime using The Ribbon to morph between two settings of any combination of controls.
— Create changes in effect and sound by assigning the HotSwitch to an alternate version of the current settings.
— Smear taps together or modulate them into unheard reverbs by using the innovative Slurm parameter.
— Use up to 64 taps to create simple repeats or morph delays into chorus and reverb.
— Speed up or slow down the rhythmic space between taps by altering the Spread knob.
— Use the onboard LFOs and envelopes to Chop up the sound source into tremolo’d rhythms.
— Modify the stereo image of taps to alternating from hard-panned to mono.
— Sync the Length and/or Chop LFO Speed to the DAW session.
— Use Mix Lock to scroll through presets while keeping the wet-dry mix constant.
— Optimized for live use with MIDI control of The Ribbon and Tap Tempo for quick meta control on the fly.
UltraTap is available now (as an AAX/AU/VST plug-in for Mac OS X 10.7+ and Windows 7+) at an introductory price of $49.00 USD (rising to an MSRP of $79.00 USD thereafter) from Eventide dealers and its website. (A fully-functional 30-day demo version is available; UltraTap is also available as part of Eventide’s Ensemble Subscription bundle.)
