UJAM Pop Bundle (Solid, Amber)

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Virtual Drummer Solid

Always sound your best

A myriad of flexible tonal shaping options are presented to ensure you can find the right sound, regardless of your mix, style or genre. Five distinctive drum kits have been carefully chosen to help deliver the power and punch that contemporary drum production requires. Each of these kits can be mixed and matched using up to four different kit pieces, allowing you to create a hybrid setup, stamping out a sonic signature for your productions. Encompassing a wide range of advanced kit editing, mixing and mastering sections to help further sculpt and shape your tone, Solid is every producer's dream. Easily tweakable FX let you add compression, saturation, ambience and reverb to individual parts of the kit or the entire drum bus for a more global impact on your sound design. For experienced sound designers, and mixing and mastering engineers, Solid offers multi-out capabilities, letting you process your tracks independently using third party plug-ins and processors to get the exact sound you're after. Conversely, less proficient engineers and producers can take advantage of one of the six onboard mix presets, curated by industry professionals to add extra punch, weight and sheen to your drums with one click.

The gold-standard

Getting the sound right at the source is the key to achieving professional mixes that sound radio-ready. Using a collection of the highest quality drums, recording studio, recording equipment and drummers, Solid delivers a sophisticated sound that's ideal for all popular styles, genres and moods. Only the best in class was used for the recording of this session, using what many would call the 'desert island' drums of choice, capturing each hit with incredible detail and nuance. Ideal for songwriters, musicians or producers, Solid will instantly unlock the sound of professional recordings, helping you to carve a name for yourself in the industry to drive your career forward.

The only substitute for a world-class drummer

Recording and engineering drums come with their own unique set of challenges. The space, noise levels and equipment needed all create difficulties for most musicians without access to a professional recording studio 24 hours a day. Knowing this, the UJAM's Virtual Drummer Solid has been meticulously recorded to provide you with a plethora of different beats and phrases to cover a wide range of commercial genres. Helping you to get your ideas recorded faster than ever, Solid comes with over 1380 patterns and rhythms in 60 unique styles, spanning everything from jazz, blues, pop, indie and much more. Encompassed within the phrases included with UJAM Solid, there are independent sections for common song structures, including intros, verses, choruses, fills and endings to help you quickly identify the right groove to build the foundation of your song.

Frustration-free design

No matter your skillset or production knowledge, Virtual Drummer Solid has been designed to let you get studio-ready results in a matter of minutes. No deep menu diving, complicated non-musical terms or clustered interfaces, just a simple layout that offers easy tweaking to get the sound you want fast.

Providing you with only a few key controls, you are awarded the flexibility to customise the performance of your Virtual Drummer to get realistic results quickly. Huminsation controls are presented as micro timing parameters, including Feel and Humanize, injecting the signature 'push and pull' of a live drummer performing in front of you. Employing an intuitive drag-and-drop system, you can import phrases from your Virtual Solid Drummer into your DAW to edit individual notes to customise the performance to the exact needs of your project.

Virtual Guitarist Amber

The quintessential sound of guitar

Instantly recognisable and arguably the most used instrument in recorded music history, the acoustic guitar holds a special place for many musicians. Often their first instrument and the one that starts your musical journey. Nothing quite feels or sounds the same as a beautifully strummed acoustic guitar. For this reason, UJAM sought to find the perfect example of an acoustic guitar to use for Amber. Resulting in the use of a boutique, hand-made vintage American dreadnaught-style guitar paired with a legendary German-made vintage large-diaphragm condenser microphone for recording. This combination came from rigorous testing of dozens of combinations to find the right sound. Throughout a wide range of over 50 different styles and 600 phrases, Amber offers the flexibility to cater to any style of acoustic strumming piece.

The digital reality

Getting the right sound from an acoustic instrument starts in the room. It's a combination of the instrument and microphone that are used to capture the nuance of the sound. When brought into the studio, this sound can only serve to be enhanced by digital effects and processes. With Amber, UJAM provides you with a huge range of tonal control to fit the context of any mix with ease. From adjusting the physical components of the performance to the timbre of the instrument, Amber can do it all.

Dial in the hand strumming position of the performance using the Position dial, dynamically morphing between neck and bridge to alter the response. When a position has been found, using the five-way Tone selector, you can change the timbre of the instrument, from full-bodied and warm to crisp and articulate. Two sources have been captured for Amber, both a microphone and pickup have been recorded simultaneously and are available to mix and match using the Source selector.

Aside from the characteristics of the performance, Amber comes with a wide range of processing to take your production to the next level. A proprietary Shimmer control adds a smooth top end while cutting midrange to cut through dense mixes with a glassy sound. Other onboard effects give space, width and depth to your sound such as the delay, chorus, reverb and doubling controls.

Get realistic results faster than ever

No matter your skillset or production knowledge, Amber has been designed to let you get studio-ready results in a matter of minutes. No deep menu diving, complicated non-musical terms or clustered interfaces, just a simple layout that offers easy tweaking to get the sound you want fast.

Providing you with only a few key controls, you are awarded the flexibility to customise the performance of your Virtual Guitarist to get realistic results quickly. Two simple Swing and Feel parameters let you hone in on the groove to sit within the pocket of your composition with ease. Taking it one step further, Virtual Guitarist Amber also allows you to tweak the Play Position and Fret Noise level for an added layer of realism and depth in your sound.

Features

Virtual Drummer Solid

• Gold-standard studio-quality drums for all modern music production styles and genres
• Authentic professional performances in a snap
• Intuitive drag-and-drop interface lets you edit notes and phrases in your DAW
• Powerful mixing capabilities for independent channels with multi-output routing
• Over 650 new grooves in over 30 styles offer a wide range of performances to suit any genre, style or tempo
• Total of 200 presets, 1380 grooves in almost 60 styles with independent sections (intro, verse, chorus, fills and endings) to build the foundation of your tracks
• Over 100 presets let you explore the sonic potential of Solid
• Advanced kit editing, mixing and master sections including tuning and decay parameters
• Five distinct interchangeable drum kits, all carefully chosen to fit into contemporary productions
• Designed by industry professionals, six mix presets let you complete your sound design
• Easily tweakable FX lets you customise your tone, comprised of compression, saturation, ambience and reverb
• Frustration-free design ensures musicians of every level can get radio-ready tones instantly
• Recorded in a prime acoustic space using a collection of premium quality drums

Virtual Guitarist Amber

• Boutique steel-string acoustic guitar delivers stunning tone and clarity
• Choose between more than 50 Styles and 600 Phrases of traditional acoustic strumming
• Alter the response of your guitar for next-level realism using the Position control to adjust the hand position when strumming
• Five-way Tone switch lets you transform the tone of the guitar from full-bodied to cutting and articulate
• Mix and match the recording source from microphone to pickup using Source control
• Proprietary Shimmer control dynamically boosts high-frequencies whilst subduing midrange for a glassy timbre
• Onboard effects allow you to customise the sound of your acoustic guitar
• Time and spatial effects including Delay and Reverb help add atmosphere and ambience
• One-button doubling feature lets you widen the stereo image of your sound
• One-button Fret Noise function adds realism to your sound
• Sit in the pocket of your composition by adjusting the Swing and Feel parameters for a natural ebb and flow
• Low Tune switch lets you lower the pitch of your guitar tones to better suit the composition or melody

Specifications

System requirements

• Operating system:
  • Mac: OS X 10.11 / macOS 10.12 or later - 64-bit only
  • Windows: Windows 8 or later - 64-bit
• Format:
  • Mac: VST, AU and AAX
  • Windows: VST and AAX
• RAM: 4GB recommended
• Disk space: 2.9GB

General

• Product code: POPBUNDLE