Unity DS-1

The Professional Digital Sampler

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  • Realtime Response
  • Studio Quality Audio
  • Completely Programmable
  • Built-in Digital Audio Editor
Unity DS-1 turns your computer into a full- featured, professional digital sampler. With Unity DS-1, you can recreate the sounds of acoustic instruments or any other audio source with stunning realism and control. Unity DS-l has all the features of dedicated hardware samplers. Extensive MIDI implementation allows real-time control of all parameters and easy integration into existing MIDI setups.

Unity DS-1 is designed by musicians, for musicians. We know you need a synthesizer that gives you layers, splits, and full MIDI continuous control. We also know that you want speed, and we give it to you with lightning fast note - on response time and the ability to load huge samples in seconds instead of minutes. So whether you use Unity DS-1 as a multi-timbral sound module with your favorite MIDI application or a live performance synthesizer, it has power to spare.

With the same renowned synthesis engine as Retro AS-1 (our breakthrough software analog synthesizer), your sampled instruments can be performed with a high degree of expression and/or manipulated beyond recognition to create new sounds of your own.

Use the full featured arpeggiator to trigger the notes you want automatically. You can even write the sampler’s complete multi-timbral stereo output to disk as an audio file for use inyour favorite digital audio applications. And of course, it’s fully polyphonic and multi- timbral, all at a fraction of the price of hardware samplers. Try Unity DS-l today at your favorite music store or download a free demo version on the internet at www.BitHeadz.com. Find out how easy it is to have the sounds and features you want, at a price you can afford, for the inspiration you deserve.

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Realtime Programmable
Multitimbral
Digital Sampling Synthesizer

  • Imports CD-Audio. DLS, WAVE, 24-bit Sound Designer I / II, AKAI, SoundFont 2.0, AIFF SampleCell I / II. & 'live' audio
  • True phase-locked stereo signal path throughout
  • Full synth engine with multiple
  • filters & modulation routings
  • 4 true stereo effects processors, and 10 effects types
  • 250 MB of sounds including loops & GM set
  • Loads samples from disk while sounds are playing
  • Built in digital audio editor
  • $449.00 suggested retail price

System Requirements

  • Minimum 32 megabytes RAM (64MB or higher recommended)
  • 250 MB free hard disk space (full install)
  • Compatible CD-ROM
  • 800x600 or higher resolution monitor with 256 (8bit) or more colors

Mac OS

  • 120 MHz or faster PowerPC processor
  • Operating system software version 7.6.1 or higher
    (OS 8 or higher recommended)

PC

  • 200 MHz or faster PentiumTM processor
  • Windows 95 or Windows 98 operating sytem
  • DirectSound supported sound card (multiwave card preferred)

Package Contents

  • Registration card
  • CD-ROM

CD-ROM contains

  • Installer
  • User documentation

Recommended Additions

  • MIDI controller and interface
  • Quality stereo sound monitoring system or headphones
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Finally, you can use your computer just like a hardware sampler.

Unity DS-1 plays phase-locked stereo (and mono) multisamples resulting in the stunning realism only digital sample playback can provide at a fraction of the cost of expensive hardware modules.

Unity DS-1 combines the functionality of hardware samplers and analog synthesizers with the operational and visual ease and integration your computer provides. Unity DS-1 represents the next step on the cutting edge of computer music technology.

General Features

  • Full featured professional sampling synthesizer in software
  • No additional hardware required
    (windows version requires soundcard)
  • Outstanding 24-bit, 48 kHz sound quality
  • Up to 64 note polyphony (CPU dependent)
  • General MIDI support
  • True phase locked stereo signal path throughout

User Interface

  • 100 percent programmable
  • Drag and drop sample importing. exporting & keymap placement
  • Selectable graphic or slider views for envelope modulators
  • Parameter values displayed in Hertz or milliseconds where appropriate

Samples

  • Imports 24-bit Sound Designer I & II, AIFF, CD-Audio, and WAVE files
  • Imports and maps Akai S1000, DLS, SoundFontTM 2.0, and SamplecellTM I & II instruments automatically
  • Option to automatically split samples (great for audio sampling CD’s)
  • Built-in digital audio editor includes stereo record function with level controls
  • DSP functions include Normalize, Gain. Fade, Reverse, Crossfade Loop. EQ & more

Multisamples (Keymaps)

  • Up to 128 samples per MIDI note selectable via velocity or controller cross-switching
  • Per-sample volunie, tune, pan. sample start, FX send, envelope and mute grouping.

Oscillators

  • 2 stereo oscillators (niultisamples) per voice
  • 8-octave range per oscillator
  • Selectable interpolation: linear, quadratic. Lagrange, or none
  • Frequency modulation from any oscillator or filter

Filters

  • 2 assignable stereo filters per voice
  • 13 filter types, including 4-pole resonant lowpass. highpass, bandpass. allpass, notch, & state-variable
  • Multiple inputs allow parallel and/or serial filtering
  • Per-filter cutoff, resonance, cutoff modulation source/amount, and overdrive controls
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Mixer

Oscillators & Filters Page


Oscillator screen

Multisample Page


toolbar screen

Toolbar


keyboard screen

Onscreen Keyboard


MIDI screen

MIDI Processor

Modulation

  • Modulators and routings limited only by CPU power
  • Most parameters available as a modulation source and/or destination
  • 6-stage envelope modulators (delay, attack, decay. sustain, sustain decay, release)
  • Selectable linear or exponential curves for envelopes
  • Six low frequency oscillator (LFO’) waveform shapes
  • LFO’s can be synchronized to MIDI clock
  • Four continuous MIDI controller modulation sources are available simultaneously

Effects

  • 2 stereo insert effects processors per program
  • 2 additional stereo global (parallel) effects processors
  • Parametric and shelf equalizers
  • Multiple stereo reverb and reflection algorithms
  • Stereo delays, chorus, phaser. and flange
  • Overdrive and distortion effects
  • Delay times can be synchronized to MIDI clock

Output

  • Supports output directly to digital audio file on disk in 8, 16, or 24-bit format
  • Discrete audio outputs per MIDI channel with Digidesign digital audio hardware (Mac OS only)

MIDI

  • Full control of layers. splits, and arpeggiator
  • 16 simultaneous MIDI channel multitimbral
  • Realtime control of all parameters simultaneously via NRPN’s
  • On-screen keyboard, no MIDI controller required
  • Full simultaneous MIDI application compatibility
  • Mac OS version includes QuickTime 3.07, OMSTM and FreeMIDITM drivers
  • Windows version includes Unity DS-l Device Driver

Unity DS-1 is capable of generating up to 64 simultaneous voices. Available polyphony is dependent upon clock and bus speed, voice complexity, and other applications that are running concurrently. CPU processing resources can be reserved or limited, and polyphony can be restricted for use on slower systems.

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