LITTLE FERRY, NEW JERSEY, March 16, 2005 -Eventide announced today the shipment of the new Version 4.5 software for the flagship H8000 and H8000A Ultra-Harmonizer® effects processors. The updated software enables new or existing users to draw new functionality out of the already powerful unit with new Custom Scale pitch shifting, MIDI Virtual Racks, effects stacking, and the most comprehensive offering of 5.1 algorithms available. The H8000 is the culmination of Eventide's over 33 years of effects making; a veritable cornucopia of effects now with nearly 1,600 preset algorithms.
"When a customer invests in an Eventide product, we want to make certain they get more magic than they could have dreamed of for years to come," said Ray Maxwell, Eventide vice president of sales and marketing. "The release of V4.5 software opens new doors for H8000 users. From the added pitch shifting options to evolved versions of our classic effects, V4.5 gives our customers more to play with and more to create with."
The additional features brought to the flagship Ultra-Harmonizer are extensive. The Custom Scale pitch shifting overrides the strict math rules of chromatic pitch shifting and expands beyond the musical possibilities allowed by diatonic pitch shifting. With V4.5 you can create your own scales, comprised of five to twelve notes, and choose the exact amount of pitch shifting applied to each single note in your custom scale, opening up territories like counterpoint, hybrid harmonies, poly-tonality, ethnic harmonies, and much more. This powerful algorithm gives you the possibility to create up to twelve custom scales and apply up to eight voices of pitch shifting to each scale with up to two seconds of delay per voice. You can also micro-tune each voice in one percent increments and add pitch modulation via LFO. Manual settings and MIDI modulation of parameters allow the transposition of stored scales. Calibration provides adjustment of pitch detection parameters for optimizing pitch shifting results for different source material.
The H8000's new MIDI Virtual Racks enable users to combine up to five stereo effects processors, allowing up to 50 individual parameter settings to be linked to ten preset changes, all within a single preset-algorithm, without any program change latency. A master tweak parameter recalls each of the ten internally stored settings. Eight presets with different effects combinations are available, each with ten carefully crafted tweaks, allowing 80 variations to be stored and recalled via MIDI. A single MIDI continuous controller message is all you need to control these powerful effects arrays. The user can program which effect will be on or off, what its parameter values will be, and how the MIDI pedal board will drive the changes. Included in V4.5 is a library of presets including single effects block already set up for MIDI control. V4.5 also includes MIDI Virtual Racks building blocks, featuring a MIDI Custom Scale Shifter where all musical aspects can be changed in real time; these building blocks can be assembled to create your own custom MIDI Virtual Racks using VSIGFILE™ editor.
V4.5 offers a new bank of preset-algorithms devoted to Multiple Machines, including previously unavailable combinations of classic Eventide presets from the H3000, DSP4000, and Orville™. Each preset includes 3 or 4 parallel stereo effects processors, featuring different effects combinations or highly specialized groups of choruses, delays, and reverbs, designed specifically for mixing, tracking, and FOH applications. V4.5 also offers the largest variety of 5.1 algorithms available in any product on the market today. The new presets include a 5.1 Frame-Rate Converter for post-production applications which supports both 48 and 96kHz sample rates, Remix Beat "Freezers," Eventide classic Black Hole reverb, 5 mono reverb units for 5.1 single channel optimization, ring modulators, Quad Custom Scales Shifters, Reso_Machines, Band Delays, Comb Delays, Chorused Diffusors, Reso_Chords, Ring_Mod Delays, Diffused Echoes, Mangling Delays, Loops and Freeze FX, Soundscapes, Surround Distortion, Tremolos, Quad, and 5.1 Three-Band Compressors.
V4.5 delivers new effects and fresh approaches to classic Eventide effects, including Digi Degrader, Delay Matrix, Comb Distortion, 4-Band Reverb, MIDI Modulator, AmbiClouds, EchoMatic, to name a few. V4.5 software for the H8000 brings the number of preset-algorithms to an unprecedented 1,588 and continues to expand the universe of tonal and control capabilities of Eventide's most powerful processor yet.
According to Maxwell, this new software illustrates Eventide's commitment to further development to enhance the potential of the H8000 platform. "Purchasing Eventide hardware is a long-term investment. We don't quickly abandon products in a mad dash to the newest flavor. We design our hardware with subsequent upgrades in mind. It is our goal to continue to provide enhanced functionality to solve problems and provide creative sparks for our loyal customer base. The addition of V4.5 simply takes the H8000 to the next level of performance and functionality."
Founded in 1971 in New York City, Eventide is a leading developer and manufacturer of digital audio processing products for recording, broadcast and live performance, as well as avionics instrumentation, and digital communication products for public safety. Headquartered in Little Ferry, NJ, Eventide introduced the H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer® effects processor in 1989. Visit Eventide on the Web at www.eventide.com.
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