Ugo Releases Ironhead And Tunguska VSTs For Windows

September 26, 2006

Ugo has released Ironhead Morphing Percussion Synth and Tunguska Morphing Multi Effect VST plug-ins.

Ironhead v1.0 Morphing Percussion Synth

Easy Interface
Ironhead's interface has been built to provide a simple set of controls that make it fast, easy, and fun to use. With Ironhead, you can get to a cool and interesting percussion sound quickly, without having to get too caught up in all the synth programming details of how to get there. Ironhead is a synth that does not require you to be a master sound designer to create your own cool synthetic percussion sounds.

Synthetic Junkyard Percussion
Ironhead has been designed to provide sounds that will likely be different from the other percussion sources you have, increasing the chances of you finding something that will spice up your tracks, while minimizing the chances of overlap with your existing synths and samples. This lets Ironhead work well not just as a primary percussion source, but also as a secondary source for layering with loops and other drum synths. Ironhead's sound is best thought of as synthetic junk percussion and the 15 instruments in Ironhead's kit are named after the types of sounds they produce. Ironhead can go from familiar drum/percussion sounds to wild sweeps, thumps, knocks, smacks, clangs, and bangs...and always with its own unique character.

Morphing & Variance
To add further life and movement to your grooves, Ironhead offers two types of modulation: Morphing and Variance.

Ironhead's morphing allows you morph, or switch, between two different control states for each instrument. The results can be anything from just a quick jump to a different sound, to subtle shifts and sweeps, to wild experimental sounds. Morphing can be turned on or off individually for each drum and the morphing can be controlled via BPM synced LFO, the mod wheel on your keyboard / midi CC, VST automation, or just with your mouse.

The Variance feature allows you to set an adjustable degree of random variation in the sound. This feature is independently available for each instrument in the kit and, with this function turned on, each hit to that drum will sound randomly different. Lower settings provide subtle variations that are useful for making grooves feel less repetitious, while higher settings can provide dramatically different sounds that are fun for fills and experimental purposes.

Outputs
If you require more sound shaping than what is provided onboard, Ironhead also has 4 stereo outputs that are assignable per instrument...allowing you to run specific pieces of the kit through whatever external processing you want. To help get you rolling with extra effects, Ironhead comes bundled with Tunguska, a morphing multi effect that was built especially for use with Ironhead.

Tunguska v1.0 Morphing Multi Effect

Tunguska's two key components are its granulator and filter, both of which can be morphed between two states, allowing you to bring additional movement to your grooves.

Tunguska may be a small effect, but the effect it can have over incoming audio can range from subtle tweaks to your sound, to mutating it into something completely different from the original...and all with the same fast and easy interface style of Ironhead. Tunguska can be useful as a master effect for the whole kit, or on specific percussion sounds sent to Tunguska from Ironhead's additional outputs.

Ironhead Features:

Fast, fun, and easy interface
15 unique sounding percussion instruments
Morphing (controled by LFO, VST automation, MIDI)
Variance
Dual delay (BPM sync with dotted notes)
Kit randomizer
172 preset kits

Tunguska Features:

Easy interface style of Ironhead
Pitch shifting granulator (morphable)
Resonant filter (morphable)
Distortion
Downsampling
Dual delay (BPM sync with dotted notes)
Morphing (controled by LFO, VST automation, MIDI)
Envelope follower
Stereo signal path
32 presets

Ironhead and Tunguska are sold together for $40 USD and are available from www.ugoaudio.com. Ugo also offers a bundle that, in addition to Ironhead and Tunguska, also includes the powerful multi effect Metallurgy for a total of $50.

Additionally, current registered users of Metallurgy will receive a discount offer via email for Ironhead+Tunguska.

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For more information, visit their web site at http://www.ugoaudio.com/.

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