The Sound: Due to the massive range of the Ultra-Harmonizer unit, it’s actually very difficult to pin down the specific sound of it. To top it all off, it includes 1100 presets, some of which are completely new, the others of which come from the H3000 and DSP 4000 units.Įventide have since released the Orville, which contains double the processing power of the DSP7000 and is designed primarily for multichannel use (great for post-production) and the H8000FW featuring 8000 (!) presets algorithms!įinally, ever since the H3000, each machine is midi-programmable, not just changing the program, but fully customisable for each parameter. Of course, these kinds of improvements were to expected as the H3000 which really set the ground work was already close to ten years old when this series was released.
Obviously this allowed the user such a vast array of effects that the DSP4000 proved itself to be more than just an upgrade to H3000! Various upgrades from here were released, the DSP 7000 featured four times the processing power, had an improved sample rate at 96kHz and 24-bit converters. The DSP4000 Series came next, introducing user-programmable algorithms! This meant that you could create your own settings comprising of 40 different modules (similar to Max/MSP, for those familiar) from over 130 different modules. Eventually, the H3000 series was released, becoming industry tools due to the massive range of uses they possessed all at 16-bit resolution at 44.1kHz sampling rate captured at a frequency response of 5Hz to 20kHz. The History: The timeline of the Ultra-Harmonizer is a long one ,dating back to 1975 as the first commercially available Harmonizer from Eventide was released, the H910 followed by the H949. The Ultra-Harmonizer samples the audio signal that you feed into it and then analyses this signal to create delay effects, pitch effects, flangers and other modulations. What it does: The Ultra-Harmonizer does a variety of things, thanks to its many different algorithms that process the sound to your heart’s delight.
It’s a full Digital Signal Processor in one box. It’s comb-filter, phaser, compressor and more. What it is: The Eventide Ultra-Harmonizer unit is a device that actually belongs to a whole family of products. This week I’m going to introduce you to the Eventide Ultra-Harmonizer unit.