UVS-3200 is a software emulation of a legendary and extremely rare Japanese Korg PS-3200: a programable polyphonic synthesizer perfect for your music production journey. It captures the heart and soul of a perfectly restored Korg PS-3200. Experts thoroughly sampled the original hardware with an impressive library of over 220 presets. These, in turn, cover a great range of sound/instrument types.
The Big Tone of Classic Korg 3200
The classic analog Korg sound of the Korg PS-3200 synth is a beast that brings back the synthesized sound of the 70s. In terms of resources and consumption structure, the UVS-3200 is an efficient product. The sounds that produces are fat and their responses are fast. Moreover, its interface brings the same tab structure with everything familiar—and in the place where it has to be in the first place.
Unboxing the UVS-3200
When opening the UVS-3200, you will find the main tab that displays the two oscillators. The first oscillator adds 24 sounds. In contrast, the second adds 69 sounds, which include basic waveforms from the original hardware. Both oscillators sport ADSR envelope, signal volume and pan, but velocity switches on and off separately. Filter modules are present with four filter modes: cutoff, resonance, velocity depth, and ADSR envelope. Additionally, the edit tap separates the controls for each oscillator. Furthermore, it has a pitch module with octave and semitone selectors, depth and time for portamento, and a stereo mode with spread, detune, and color parameters.
The Last Module
The last module is for modwheel assignments where you can set the rate and depth of vibrato and tremolo. In particular, the step modulator has configurable steps (max. 16 steps per oscillator) and controls for speed, delay, rise, and smooth. At the bottom, you can adjust the volume amount and filter depth (of course separately for each oscillator). On the right hand, there is one LFO per oscillator that you can assign to volume filter and pitch. You can sync the LFO’s with four waveforms: sine, square, triangle, and a sample/hold shape. Near this, we find selectors for speed, retrigger switch, and legato.
UVS-3200: the Effects
The effect section of UVS-3200 welcomes five effect modules: drive, chorus, phaser, delay, and reverb, each with basic controls. Regardless, each is powerful enough to enrich the global sound. Arpeggiators is the fifth and the last tab. It has an individual arp for each of the two oscillators. They feature an on/off switch, steps and octave selectors, and speed and gate. Not only that, but there’s also the selector for arpeggiator direction with three modes: up, down, and up/down.
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